Przyczyny rozwoju spółdzielczości socjalnej na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 2006-2012

This article is an attempt of understanding relations between financing a social cooperative from public funds and the dynamic of its growth in Lower Silesia. In the period 2006-2012 there was consistent but irregular development of this form of enterprise. A lot of privileges connected with running a social cooperative are the encouragement of taking the risk of its establishment. Social character of social cooperatives is normative development of a social enterprise concept. There is no doubt that this concept though normatively right, is not fully consistent with contemporary competition. In this paper there is a thesis that the dynamics of development of social comperative in majority depends on additional founds assigned to activate entities that can be potential founders. This work uses authors’ research and analysis of projects financed from structural funds.