Keyword: «social entrepreneurship»

In this article the basic directions of development of social business, given its concept as an economic category. Presented by the development of elements of social business, their classification.

Author analyzed the relationship between social entrepreneurship and green economy through the operationalization of their definitions. The article provides actual case studies of successful international and domestic projects of social entrepreneurship in the field of ecology. The authors have done a synthesis of the main trends in the development of social entrepreneurship in the field of "green economy".

The relevance of the topic under study is due to the objective need for the government support for social entrepreneurship, which helps to solve serious social problems in the majority of regions of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to analyze the level of support for social entrepreneurship in the Sverdlovsk region. The article considers the infrastructure, types and measures of support for social enterprises and citizens planning to work in the field of social entrepreneurship in the Sverdlovsk region. An assessment of the level of support for entrepreneurship at the present stage is given. Recommendations are formulated for improving support measures and developing social entrepreneurship in the region.

The paper examines the provision of state grant support for social projects by the Presidential Grants Fund and the provision of social contracts for business development to low-income families with children. The statistics of grant receipts in recent years, as well as the results of the author's sociological research conducted in late 2021 and early 2022 are given. The social project "Your Business" is being considered in detail, aimed at advising and supporting families of applicants for social contracts and those who have already received them: the social significance of the project is considered, its description, goals and objectives, terms of implementation, target groups, project partners, project team, action plan, quantitative and qualitative indicators of implementation are given. The project manager is a public figure, entrepreneur, Candidate of Economic Sciences and member of the Board of the NGO "Union of Women of the Samara region" Makusheva Svetlana Vasilyevna.It is pointed out that the work on holding consultations in order to support citizens to obtain and successfully implement social contracts has been carried out in the Samara region for almost a year – since the spring of 2021. The project also assumes co-financing at the expense of sponsorship and partner funds in the amount of more than 9 percent of the total cost of the grant amount received.