(FOX40.COM) — The Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has launched a brand-new program aimed at helping street vendors in the city learn how to launch their business safely and properly. It’s called the “Street Vendor Bootcamp.”
David Contto, a business consultant with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said it all began after they realized the huge need and absence for this type of resource in the community.
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“60% of our country’s economy is driven by a small business owners,” Contto said.
Now, Sacramento is the first city in Northern California to have a program like this.
“This is people’s main source of income, and a lot of them that we met, this is what they’re doing to survive,” Contto said. “We realized that there is a lot of lack of understanding. We wanted to come in the middle and help them with the language, with the paperwork.”
Each 5-hour workshop provides the tools and information needed to start their own vendor cart business. The workshops are modeled after similar ones done in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.