Home chefs and budding entrepreneurs with the goal of producing that craft bottled beer, hot sauce, or family recipe for breads, pies, or cookies, Interfaith Neighbors Business Development Center wants to help move that goal from concept to fruition. “Creating a successful food business is more than just having a good idea or recipe,” BDC […]

Interfaith Neighbors’ Food Entrepreneur program returns Nov 15. Designed for those home brewers, hot sauce gourmets, keepers of the family’s pastry recipe,  the Interfaith Neighbors Business Development Center [BDC] walks budding entrepreneurs through the steps. “Creating a successful food business is more than just having a good idea or recipe,” BDC Director and program creator […]

Kula Urban Farm will expand this season, spreading along Springwood Avenue. The Turf, a farm without borders concept produced by manager Lisa Bagwell at right], will take root along with public interest in the project, according to a written statement. “The initial plan is to plant the garden and maintain [it] for the public to […]

With a goal to build a community for an under served population while attracting a high tech skilled population at the city’s southern gateway, Junction Hall came into fruition this past year. Behind the scenes, the collaboration between Second Life Bikes’ owner Kerri Martin and Cowerks owners Bret Morgan, Danny Croak and Gregory Edgerton was […]

Fifteen Asbury Park sixth, seventh and eighth graders are signing on to participate in Interfaith Neighbors’ new Junior Entrepreneur Training (JET) program that will begin in February. The 15-session course will see students collaborate as they learn business-related skills that can help them with their current studies and future plans to graduate from high school […]

Kula Café has received one of the 2014 Excellence in Housing and Economic Development awards from the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, according to a release from café owners. The café, a community restaurant and job training program  in Asbury Park, was one of two winners in the category of Leading Public-Private Economic […]

Interfaith Neighbors’ plan to put an urban farm on a lot adjacent to the Kula Café was approved Tuesday by the Asbury Park zoning board of adjustment. The Kula Urban Farm Project will consist of a 20 x 84 square foot greenhouse with hydroponic and aeroponic growing systems and 15 raised beds built on the […]

The Business Development Center [BDC] will host a series workshops aimed to get business owners better grounded in the ever-expanding world of internet technology beginning this month at the Kula Café. The BDC is headquartered in the Springwood Center and is owned by Interfaith Neighbors. The center provides training to the area’s prospective entrepreneurs in the form […]

The sounds of deep blues music have returned to the west side of Asbury Park, once the city’s stronghold of influential blues, soul and jazz music. Kula Café, located in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue and owned by Interfaith Neighbors, now hosts “Deep Blue Blues Night” on the first and third Thursdays of each month. […]

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 […]