Abstract

IBARRA, Miguel Rodrigo González. Social entrepreneurship for community development in Mexico: the case of The Center for Sustainable Community Development (CEDECOSU) of CREFAL in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020071.  Epub Mar 31, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n0id1465.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the importance of social entrepreneurship for community development and highlight the experience of CREFAL's Center for Sustainable Community Development (CEDECOSU), located in Pátzcuaro state of Michoacán, Mexico, for the construction of community projects. entrepreneurship and educational participation. Through a qualitative research approach through theoretical analysis and empirical systematization of the projects Grow your community, Community Development Management and Sustainable Organic Production between 2012 and 2014, it follows that CEDECOSU was instituted as a motor to promote initiatives from the community to face the problems of social and educational exclusion based on the principles of social and solidarity economy.

Keywords : Social Entrepreneurship; community development; Sustainable Community Development Center; CREFAL-Michoacán.

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