Jose Alvarez is the vice president of Prospera-North Carolina, Florida-based nonprofit focused on providing bilingual support and assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs looking to start or expand their business. With Propsera-North Carolina, Alvarez is managing the first office outside of Florida as part of a national expansion plan to provide the statewide Latino community with culturally focused and in-language business support to help increase economic opportunities through entrepreneurship. His current responsibilities include running statewide operations in North Carolina, including fundraising, designing programming, and handling community and government relations. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Alvarez’s professional experience and passion during the last two decades have been focused on the multicultural small business and marketing fields.
