The student will be able to:

1. Discover their strengths related to entrepreneurship
2. Identify skills, experiences, and assets to help build an entrepreneur mindset
3. Develop a business vision and purpose
4. Define and discover a business product
5. Identify differences between business structures
6. Identify strategies to approach a business plan
7. Identify the importance of a business plan and the business tools available to develop a plan
8. Develop a business plan

1. Discover your strengths related to entrepreneurship
   1. Complete and discuss the "Identify your Strengths and Values" exercise
   2. Develop a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to starting a business from the undocumented perspective
2. Identify skills, experiences, and assets to help build an entrepreneur mindset
   1. Complete a skills mapping exercise to identify the current skills and experiences
   2. Learn about Immigrants Rising, an organization that provides resources and support for undocumented communities who want to start their own business
   3. View and examine "Understanding What It Means to Work for Yourself" webinar
   4. Listen to immigrant entrepreneur stories using Immigrants Rising stories (https://immigrantsrising.org/stories/) and local guest speakers to learn about their immigrant entrepreneurship journey
   5. Develop a resume outlining skills and experiences
3. Develop a business vision and purpose
   1. Create a student profile account with Immigrants Rising to access online entrepreneurship resources (https://spark.immigrantsrising.org/) and Spark Training to learn about financial resources
   2. Review tools such as design thinking or a business model canvas (https://www.designkit.org/methods)
   3. Draw a business model canvas to define the problem your business will solve
4. Define and discover a business product
   1. Practice delivering a business purpose and identify what individual or community problem the business is going to help solve
5. Identify differences between business structures
   1. View Immigrants Rising's webinar on “Sole Proprietorship, Corporations, LLC, Independent Contractor, Cooperative Corporation” for undocumented individuals
   2. View Immigrants Rising's webinars on “Legal Permits including the ITIN Guide" (https://immigrantsrising.org/resource/individual-tax-identification-number-guide/) and legal considerations, legal contracts and forms related to starting a business
6. Identify strategies to approach a business plan
   1. Review tools such as design thinking or a business model canvas (https://www.designkit.org/methods)
   2. View Immigrants Rising's webinar on "Business Model Canvas" (https://immigrantsrising.org/resource/business-model-canvas-and-design-thinking-webinar/) to learn about strategies that will test your business ideas
7. Identify the importance of a business plan and the business tools available to immigrant communities to develop a plan
   1. Discuss funding opportunities, including seed funding for your business and/or non-profit using the Spark Entrepreneurship training
   2. Complete Spark training to seek possible business funding opportunities
8. Develop a business plan
   1. Review the step-by-step process to build a business plan using Centro Community Partners' resources and Immigrants Rising's webinar on "Business Plans" (https://immigrantsrising.org/resource/business-plans-webinar/)
   2. Create a business plan profile using the "Centro Business Planning Tool" phone app via iTunes and Google Play (https://www.centro-mobile.org/)

Not applicable.

Participation in class discussions, activities, individualized work, small group work, and teamwork
Writing assignments, journaling
Demonstration, role modeling, and practice

Lecture
Discussion
Demonstration
Group work

No course materials.

1. Example of a class assignment: Discuss and identify skills, experiences, education, and training to develop a resume
2. Example of a class assignment: Independent Contractor Brainstorming Worksheet - Self Assessment and Work Exploration; identify, skills, training, and education needed to perform that work