Needs and Challenges of Social Entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most innovative ways to achieve a better quality of life, independence and inclusion in society of persons from vulnerable groups. The paper discusses an analysis made under the SESBA project on what extent the concept of social entrepreneurship and the role of social enterprises for socio-economic development of Bulgaria is developed and adopted by exploring opportunities to promote social entrepreneurship in the country through government policy, NGOs, business initiative, training and counseling. The study presented provides important implications on the state of the social entrepreneurship and ways of its encouragement putting a special accent on the needed support and the role of training and advisory organizations in building capacity.