Think you know hot dogs? Wait til you try Perros Paisas, the national hot dog of Colombia. It has everything..including pineapple chunks! "JP & Me" asks five questions of Andres Jaramillo, whose new food truck, also called Perros Paisas, has Boston's Colombian community lining up for more. K: So, Perros Paisos? Not your typical ball [...]
“Equality” is we all get the same. But when you’ve suffered the impacts of racism, getting the same is not enough. We have to change the paradigm and make it about equity." From the Jim Crow South to Harlem and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, from Outward Bound to the JP Neighborhood Trauma Team, [...]
"We literally went home and started gathering things from around the house, and asking our parents for items." Small businesses have probably never faced as difficult a time as they do today. Rose JP, a consignment store owned by Carina Lopez and her husband, is adapting to face these challenges and can't wait to [...]
"This is a hot topic and a lot of people want to be in it. I just felt like I could do it. I know the city, I know the neighborhood." Tomas Gonzalez reconnects with Jamaica Plain as he prepares for the opening of its first cannabis store in 2020. Their first job fair [...]
‘Mi hijo está en lo más alto de su clase.’ Para una educadora—y para JPNDC—esa noticia hace que todo valga la pena. Argentina Ulloa es una de las 45 educadoras en el hogar, dueños de negocios con licencia independientes, en el sistema de cuidado infantil familiar de JPNDC. Juntos, atienden a 250 niños de [...]
Patience, sense of humor, and whispering instead of shouting. That's the advice of Patria Guerrero to anyone who wants to work with children! Today we're speaking with Patria, one of 45 JPNDC educators -- home-based business owners who together care for 250 children a day, all over Boston. Based in JP, Patria has 20 [...]
Is Instagram a great marketing tool? What if I can't get a loan? Do I really need to plan? Carina Lopez (right) with Marie Michl of JPNDC Voices of experience answered these and other questions on March 21st, when five small business owners and experts formed a panel at the #SheMeansBusiness pop-up [...]
Who was a Food Network addict? Who studied architecture? And who abandoned the world of high finance? Javier Amador-Peña, Gerly Adrien, David Lindsey and Kelsey Munger all took unique paths to business ownership. And what they are building together is also unusual. Daunted by high commercial rents in Jamaica Plain, they’re combining forces in [...]
“I saw kids running around outside when they should have been in school. I thought, what is this? And so, I wanted to do something about it.” Sometimes JPNDC's work goes to unexpected places. Anne St. Juste took a business class at JPNDC to strengthen her non-profit. Now she's doing more than ever to [...]
“My dad and I kind of butted heads. So when he told me, “All you need is scissors and a comb and you can go anywhere and make money,” I told him that I would never do hair!” (Lena Vinnitsky, right) The owners of Vinndio Salon are passionate about making people look their best. Today [...]
