Shyam is a strong proponent of Corporate Social Responsibility. He established Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, whose efforts are directed towards community development with focus on Primary Education, Basic Healthcare services and Livelihood generation programs.

He is also deeply involved in ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award - India’, a joint initiative of Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, with an objective of recognising promising and successful social entrepreneurs in India.

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation is a not for profit organization established in 2007 with the vision, to bring progressive social change through strategic multi-stakeholder partnership.

And develop multi-stakeholder sustainable models to bring about ‘social change’ involving knowledge generation & sharing, experiential learning and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation follows 4P model (Public-Private-People-Partnership) for empowering communities and believes that for sustainable social intervention, the people themselves would have to be the drivers of these projects. The Foundation's role is to play as a catalyst and facilitate the process.

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation focuses on conceptualizing and implementing the Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives for the Jubilant Bhartia Group as well as its other corporate entities and channelize resources for bringing measurable social change in the society.

Primarily, the activities of the Foundation are focused on four key initiatives