Workforce Development and Undocumented Entrepreneurship
Name of Long Beach’s free cart and vending support program
Sidewalk to Success
Total number of participants across cohorts 1 through 4
84 participants
This interactive method allowed participants to walk around the room and respond to ELP data.
Gallery Walk
This California law allows individuals to legally make and sell food from their homes.
Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO)
Most common type of business that participants want to start
Food vending
This qualitative method created space for deeper dialogue about participant experience in small-group conversations.
Focus group
Percent of the labor force in Long Beach made up by immigrants
28 percent
The #1 success factor reported by participants as important to their completion of the ELP program (Hint: It is a service provided by ELP)
Childcare
This framework explains how and why ELP believes change happens at both the participant and systems levels.
Theory of Change
Percent of immigrant business owners in the U.S. that are women
39 percent
Percent of participants that had a business before starting ELP
46 percent
These tools were used to measure shifts in knowledge, confidence and business readiness before and after ELP completion.
Pre and mid point surveys
Percent of surveyed businesses in LA county that were negatively impacted by federal immigration enforcement.
82 percent
Most common motivation for starting a business
Desire to make a higher income
This is what P.O.W.E.R. stands for.
Prosperity, Opportunity, and Worker Equity Reimagine