{"id":363619,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=363619"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:29","slug":"yorman-nunez","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/yorman-nunez\/","title":{"rendered":"Small business owners need an advocate in big cities. Yorman Nu\u00f1ez is helping the Bronx spread the wealth."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-363619 \">Program Manager, Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative<br \/>\nBronx, New York<br \/>\nAge: 28<\/aside>\n<p>Yorman Nu\u00f1ez began community organizing at 13, and at 15 co-founded the Urban Youth Collective, a New York City youth group pushing for education reform. Now he\u2019s making a mark with the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, where Nu\u00f1ez works with small businesses, community leaders, and residents to build economic power. To do this, he and his team have created a training program that covers local economic policy, labor unions, and worker cooperatives via a series of lectures and slides.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote]&#8221;We have the world\u2019s largest food distribution center. We have the city\u2019s third largest commercial corridor. We have all these things and more.\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez also helps individual business owners overcome logistical hurdles. \u201cYou can have Do\u00f1a Mar\u00eda making the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/nyregion\/30pastel.html\">pasteles<\/a> ever, and the Montefiore medical center wants to contract her for catering, but can\u2019t because she doesn\u2019t process credit card transactions,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez says. His program aims to provide the technology to fill that gap. The initiative\u2019s end goal: develop the full economic potential of the Bronx\u2019s poor people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Even Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s hobbies are political. In his spare time he does spoken word. \u201cIt\u2019s the sweetest tool used in the community to politicize us, mobilize us, and move us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bronx community organizer is spreading the wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490285,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-363619","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-cities","grist-50-economy","grist-50-13","grist-50-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Small business owners need an advocate in big cities. 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