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Renaissance provides the opportunity to promote and support the Latin community that wants to start its own business, anyone has access to the training and entrepreneurship process with just the identification number, so immigration status does not matter, what it does that any person, even undocumented, can start a business.
In the mobile unit of Peninsula 360 Press, Manuel Ortiz conducted an interview with Teresa Pérez, program manager of the organization Renaissance, broadcast during the Peninsula 360 Radio program in collaboration with Marcos Gutiérrez from «Hecho en California», where he explained that Renaissance is a nonprofit organization that has helped people facing economic barriers achieve financial self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship and create their small businesses for more than 35 years.
The organization seeks to mainly support low-income people, especially women and people of color, offering free services such as workshops, one-on-one guidance with instructors who have specialties, support to create web pages, a marketing plan, among other pComprehensive programs and skill development workshops, which help build solid businesses.
The form of financing is through the county and the cities where they offer their services, so government money is what allows them to continue working.
Thus, they focus on providing their services in the Bay Area, in the north and south of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and a few more places.
In East Palo Alto, specifically, there are in-person classes and also coffee hours, which is a space provided to the community to come and consult financial information, training or advice.
?Latin people are very enterprising, they always look for how to sell something to have extra money to support their family, but many do not realize that this is the way in which they can undertake and be the owners of their own business and leave to work for other people?, he commented Teresa Perez.
There are also immigrant people who do not have social security, and believe that their doors are closed, but no, they only need their identification number to open a business, learn about permits and licenses and thus begin providing for your family.
Teresa Pérez toHe added that, for a business to prosper, you need to know the structure of the business, make a business plan and be trained to carry it out, which is why the foundation gives them these tools to put them into practice.
Likewise, they have complete classes to implement a business plan, where you learn finance, marketing, licensing procedures, permits, human resources and more.
In addition, he commented that during the pandemic the services were carried out remotely so there was difficulty reaching the Latino community that was the most affected, because they did not have the resources for the new modality such as internet service or a computer.
"The most important thing is to realize that a business owner is not alone, there are more people who are on the same paths as you," he concluded. Teresa Perez.
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