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Building businesses. Building skills.

CVIIC’s entrepreneurship and digital literacy program helps immigrants in the Central Valley start and grow small businesses and build digital skills. CVIIC staff teach free, Spanish-language courses in person in five Valley counties, with Kern County coming soon, and on Zoom for immigrants in all eight San Joaquin Valley counties.

In brief
Freeand taught in Spanish by CVIIC staff
5 countiesin person, Kern County coming soon
8 countieson Zoom, across the San Joaquin Valley
Graduation celebration of a CVIIC Immigrant Entrepreneurs course cohort
01The program

Free courses, taught in Spanish.

01

Immigrant entrepreneurs

Helps immigrants start or grow a small business. Offered in person in five counties and on Zoom.

02

Digital literacy

Helps adults build everyday computer and online skills for work, business and family life.

Women practicing typing on laptops during a free CVIIC digital literacy course in a classroom
A CVIIC digital literacy class
A CVIIC instructor leads an orientation session for a new entrepreneurship course, with a presentation titled Orientación on the screen
Course orientation
Students seated around tables in a CVIIC classroom listen to a guest presenter in front of a Programa Inmigrantes Emprendedores banner
A guest presenter speaks to an entrepreneurship class
Students work on laptops during a CVIIC digital literacy class on an introduction to Google Drive
Digital literacy: introduction to Google Drive
Students with laptops at classroom tables follow a CVIIC course session
Students in a CVIIC course

Para estudiantes  Current courses and registration are listed in Spanish on CVIIC’s community website, ValleCentral.org →

02Impact
A large group of course graduates and CVIIC staff hold certificates of completion
Graduates of a CVIIC course cohort with their certificates
Hundreds

of graduates since 2020

2024

Immigrant Entrepreneurs Expo and a published study of the program

2022–24

Executive Director Jesus Martinez served on the State of California’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Mobility Task Force. Our history →

03Where we teach

Five counties in person. All eight on Zoom.

In-person courses run in Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Madera and Merced counties, with Kern County coming soon. Spanish-language entrepreneurship courses on Zoom are open to immigrants anywhere in the eight-county San Joaquin Valley.

  • FresnoIn person · Zoom
  • TulareIn person · Zoom
  • KingsIn person · Zoom
  • MaderaIn person · Zoom
  • MercedIn person · Zoom
  • KernIn person coming soon · Zoom
  • San JoaquinZoom
  • StanislausZoom
04 · Learn at your own pace

Online business courses with MOBI

Since 2021, CVIIC has collaborated with Santa Clara University’s My Own Business Institute (MOBI). Through this collaboration, CVIIC students can also use MOBI’s online learning platform to take business courses at their own pace, in Spanish or English.

About MOBI →
05Our team
Five members of CVIIC's Immigrant Entrepreneurship team standing together in front of a CVIIC logo banner
CVIIC Immigrant Entrepreneurship team, 2026

Taught by CVIIC staff.

CVIIC’s own staff teach every entrepreneurship and digital literacy course, in Spanish.

06Other opportunities for entrepreneurs

CVIIC also shares outside programs that can benefit Central Valley immigrant entrepreneurs. These are run by other organizations, not by CVIIC.

For funders and partners

Help more immigrants start a business

Grants and partnerships let CVIIC open new cohorts and reach new counties, starting with Kern.

Talk to us about funding →

Every service is free. Help keep it that way.

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