Asbury Park youth who will begin fifth grade this year are invited to attend a free, week long summer music camp. The Jazz Arts Project, a nonprofit organization, will run their 2013 Asbury Park Summer Music Camp for beginning instrumental music students at the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County starting Aug. 26. Initiated […]

Kula Café has successfully graduated and placed their first group of students in Asbury Park restaurants. Situated in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue, the restaurant is both a community café and a job training program. Local youth who face “profound obstacles to employment,” like lack of education and having children of their own, are […]

A new community restaurant is opening on Monday and the general public is invited to partake in the festivities. Kula Café will offer food at low prices [including pork sliders, pictured at right] and serve as a training ground for unemployed and underemployed adults. The participants will learn how to work in the restaurant industry, […]

The city’s Business Development Center [BDC] has partnered with SCORE Monmouth to beef up their offering of business mentors. The BDC provides training to the area’s prospective entrepreneurs in the form of workshops, inexpensive office space and business mentors. Most of their services are low-cost, and those participating in workshops receive refunds upon completion. Their […]

The city council approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program for the Springwood Center at the Nov. 19 council meeting. The program allows local nonprofit group Interfaith Neighbors to pay 5.5 percent of their annual gross revenue from the building for the first 15 years of the center’s existence. After that, payment will increase incrementally over 20 years […]

A new café is on its way to the west side — and it’s not just any eatery. Kula Café will function as a training ground for the city’s youth and a healthy eating hub in the Springwood Center [above]. The restaurant will train area young adults who want to work in the restaurant industry, […]