Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law aka, BCNL is a non-profit public benefit NGO based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our mission is to support the development of an enabling civil society framework so that people can enjoy their right of association and be able to actively collaborate for a better world. We are let by our strong belief that NGOs are key leaders of change towards independent, inclusive and prosperous communities.
Established in 2001, BCNL supports the development of society that is built on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. In the last 10 years, BCNL has been developing a Social Entrepreneurship Program that aims to inspire innovative cause-related business initiatives of NGOs as a way to expand their financial and capacity sustainability. Within the Program so far we managed to support more than 170 NGOs’ teams to develop their social business ideas and plans. We had accumulated more than €150,000 euro private funding and invested it in 40 initiatives that bring social added value across various sectors. We reached out to more than 300,000 people across Bulgaria and made them familiar with inspiring stories of change and impact. We love to support meaningful ideas and efforts in a very practical way and we do that through our online and offline tools for shared resources with social enterprises and NGOs - the online platform DarPazar that promotes cause-related products and services of social enterprises and the NGO House co-working space.
BCNL works nationally but also invests efforts in building strong trans-border partnerships with peers and like-minded organizations and companies. We believe that cross-border exchange shapes the next level for inspiration, innovation and community change thus we are convinced that this is of crucial importance for the successful development of the social entrepreneurship eco-system in Bulgaria.