Social entrepreneurship as a promoter of social development

The government, private institutions, and the third sector have difficulties to solving social problems that affect certain parts of the population. It was for this that social entrepreneurship was born, since it is a thematic that emerged from the empirical universe for the scientific universe. With the objective of analyzing the Bairro da Juventude social enterprise, from the theories of social entrepreneurship and local development, this study presents a case study, with information collected from in-depth interviews. The entity is a promoter of social transformation, due to the attention it provides for cases of social vulnerability. The results also showed that the team of managers is concerned with maintaining a solid, lean and objective organizational structure, where each sector is aware that the activity performed is crucial to maintain the quality and effective of the organization.