La Louve is a cooperative and participative supermarket which has been able to reproduce in Paris the method of the New York Park Slope Food Coop born in 1973. If you want to know more about this supermarket in Brooklyn you can watch this video. The founders of La Louve
The Paris region has taken many initiatives to improve social and economic life in its area. For some time now, it has been paying close attention to products designed to improve short distribution channels For example, the region, municipalities and towns are ready to invest in projects that enable residents
Les Cafés Joyeux (Happy Coffee Houses), where 70% of the employees have Down’s syndrome or cognitive disorders, has been awarded the social entrepreneurship prize by the Boston Consulting Group in France in 2022! The founder’s idea is clear: to make disability visible and encourage encounters. To do this, he wants
A project of the ‘Art Angel’ Foundation envisages opening of an art and training centre and a bakery shop for healthy baked products in the Pazardzhik prison of Bulgaria. Тhe profit will be used in support of victims of violence and disadvantaged people and the occupational therapy will help the
‘Garden of Wonders’ is a project of ‘St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker’ Foundation in Dobrich. It employs people with intellectual disabilities and aims at their socialization. In the enterprise they are active in real work environment where they do not feel isolated and left out. And the demand for their locally-grown
‘Flower City’ greenhouse in Gotse Delchev Municipality, Bulgaria handles landscaping of public spaces, yards of municipal, health and social establishments, alleys as well as landscaping around buildings, children’s and sports grounds. The greenhouse also offers flowers and plants for sale to citizens and companies. The community enterprise employs 31 people
“Blagichka – ZERO WASTE” is the first zero-waste restaurant in Bulgaria employing disadvantaged young people. This is a place where love for quality and delicious food meets faith that young people are the most important asset of community. Values and principles of Blagichka’s restaurant: – REFUSE – Give up things
Having turned 18, young people with disabilities in Bulgaria struggle to find a job. Some of them can only do specific work assisted by teachers, social workers and/or psychologists. In response to this problem ‘Joy’ Bakery was established in 2018 in Varna, Bulgaria and has since provided permanent jobs to
Resonance believes that one day, aligning profits with social impact will be the norm. It is one of the UK’s leading social impact investment companies. Since 2002 its team has worked with over 165 social enterprises and charities, enabling them to raise capital to grow their impact, and make a
One possible response to this scenario are Community Enterprises. They are socioeconomic entities that rely on the production of benefits for the reference communities through the involvement of citizens in the planning, production, financing and exploitation of activities. The CEs are therefore ideal places where renewed participation and responsible citizenship
The ComEnter&RC Project is funded with the support of the European Union’s ERASMUS+ Programme. All views expressed are those of the authors and not of the European Commission.
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