Social entrepreneurship is a special form of entrepreneurship that pays great attention to employees, the community, but also, very importantly, special attention is paid to the environment. Social entrepreneurship is one of the newer forms of entrepreneurship that has a great potential for development at the global level, at the same time, it is not known how developed social entrepreneurship is and what is the potential for its development in the future in the Republic of Croatia. It can be seen that social entrepreneurship is actually emerging in response to the situation in global markets in recent decades, and there is a particular need for it in times of global economic crises such as the potential economic crisis that may result from the current corona virus that has caused significant difficulties. globally. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the level of development of social entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia (which will be presented primarily through available statistics) and will give an overview of the development of social entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia. . In the theoretical part of this paper, the concepts of socially responsible business and social entrepreneurship are presented, since these two concepts are intertwined. The empirical part of the paper presents a social enterprise, ie the social cooperative Humana Nova, which has branches in Čakovec, Zagreb and Labin and is also considered one of the largest social cooperatives in the Republic of Croatia. The importance of the social cooperative is especially emphasized due to the employment of 50 people, most of whom are hard-to-employ people. The social cooperative has a significant impact on the environment as it significantly reduces the amount of textiles that end up in landfills and in addition, it has a significant impact on society as citizens are able to buy used clothes at affordable prices (leaving them free money to buy other products and services), but also the purchase of items made from recovered materials.