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Over the past year vacant storefronts in Jersey City have been filling with restaurants, art galleries and other small businesses. Ordinary people with big ideas have been fueling the local economy by adding jobs and increasing consumer business. This week, these and other entrepreneurs will flock to Jersey City to take part in the fourth annual Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Jersey City nonprofit Rising Tide Capital, which provides entrepreneurship training and coaching in underserved urban communities, is expanding beyond Hudson County and bringing its Community Business Academy (CBA) program to neighboring Essex County for the first time this fall. The CBA, which has been running in Jersey City for five years, is an 11-week course [...]

As a federal program that has brought $33.6 million to Jersey City over the past five years is facing significant cuts and even potential outright elimination in D.C., local advocates say either move will cripple city programs long dependent on the funding.

Some say the recession has been a boon to small business activity, with many formerly employed people ultimately deciding to take the plunge into entrepreneurship instead. And new numbers released by Jersey City’s Rising Tide Capital seem to bear that out: the nonprofit says graduates of its Community Business Academy program started 37 businesses in [...]

Author John Bredin, in the right corner wearing a striped tie, learns the fine art of brand excitement from Beatrice Johnston — seated in center with an orange dress. As an English professor and activist, my segue into the business world (as a freshly-minted real estate agent) is fraught with fears of entering a shallow [...]

The Friends of the Lifers Youth Corp. this week played host to “Entrepreneurship and the Formerly Incarcerated,” where attendees learned that starting a small business is sometimes a safer bet than looking for work if you have a criminal record.

City Hall will go green Saturday, as it plays host to the third annual Sustainable Cities Conference and the first ever Green Fair. The day of eco-activities has come together through a joint effort of the city, the Jersey City Food Co-op Initiative and Rising Tide Capital (in conjunction with its Global Entrepreneurship Week). There [...]

Local Jersey City businesses new, old and in the works will be in the spotlight this week, as the second-ever Make My City week runs concurrently with the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week.

The Healy administration announced today that Jersey City has received a total of $13,577,602 in federal grant money via the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The largest allocation is from a $7,105,628 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). The city says this will be used to fund about 60 nonprofit programs, and to fund [...]

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this week that New Jersey City University (NJCU) will receive $599,916 in the form of a Hispanic-serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) grant. The NJCU grant is part of $6.5 million being given to 11 institutions across the country. NJCU says it will use the funding [...]