Did you know that the word “company” has its roots in the Latin expression “CUM PANIS”, which means “someone whom I am sharing bread with”?!
For the past 7 years we, the team of the Bread Houses Network, inspired by this millenary tradition and universal symbol of cooperation, have been developing various innovative services, products and programs, which solve different social problems by using social entrepreneurial approaches.
Our Social Enterprise School offers Bulgarian and international trainings on social entrepreneurship.
Our mission is to offer you training and equip you with specific, practical skills how to create and develop step by step a sustainable social business model. We believe that this is the best way to achieve long-term social change.
We rely on our previous experience in the creation of:
- the first “social franchise” model in Bulgaria, which consists of social enterprises – bakeries for sour-dough bread and employs people from vulnerable groups.
- social and cultural community centers, which offer free Bread therapy for people with disabilities, traumas and other special needs.
The bread houses are the first Bulgarian social innovation that has become popular worldwide and has already spread to more than 18 countries on 5 continents.
In our trainings we apply approaches and concepts from the fields of social entrepreneurship and social change, studied by the founder of Bread Houses Network Dr. Nadezhda Savova-Grigorova during her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Princeton University. Nadezhda has participated in trainings with world famous entrepreneurs organized by The Keller Center for Innovation as well as in seminars at Harvard University.