social workers; social enterprise; cooperation

Most of social service providers are dealing with a challenge of becoming self-reliant, sustainable and free of donor dependency. It is not unusual for the providers to establish social enterprises. It seems that social workers employed in social entrepreneurship gained the territory where they can make changes in lives of their clients (micro level) and community and in the area of work force integration, as well as getting an opportunity to influence sense of social responsibility (macro level). It also seems that while the social workers are hired to provide case management, individual counselling and help with administrative tasks, other professionals create the main structure of the enterprise that has an effect at macro level. This speach aims at feflecting this situation with help of specialized literature and partial results of qualitative research conducted within the scope of Student grant competition in Ostrava University.