Small Business Services
Small Business technical assistance means providing ___________ to address the unique, yet common challenges that small businesses face
What is coaching?
JPNDC set a precedent in Boston with our new Brookley Flats condos because it is the first affordable housing project in the city with a _______________ preference.
What is First Generation homebuyer?
Which beloved IT provider has left GDS and left JPNDC in shambles? (Kind of a joke)
Who is Roberto Powers?
This coalition, with JPNDC as its fiscal sponsor, focuses on supporting families, children, and youth in Jackson Square by connecting them to resources, empowering resident leaders, and increasing access to youth programming.
What is LSJS (Living Safely in Jackson Square)?
The Data team uses this tool to centralize things in one place and to make communication about performance, challenges, and progress on goals easier to visualize and understand.
What is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management?
The Massachusetts Statehouse decreased the SBTA budget line item from 7.5 million to 5 million in 2024, but will be increased to ___________ in 2025
What is 7.5 million?
This plan is a document that says how you will select tenants, how you will market, type of subsidies, conduct the interview process and essentially lay out how all the different subsidies will be accommodated
What is tenant selection plan?
Operations is informed of and involved in every what that occurs at JPNDC?
What is event?
Resident leaders Willie Mitchell, Purple Reign, and Esther Belliard serve on this council, providing vital updates to their neighborhoods, the JS LOVS network, and the overall Jackson Square community.
What is the JPNC (Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council)?
The data team spends a good portion of their time, predicting ______ to anticipate _________.
What is problems/issues and solutions?
Since becoming a 1-person department, SBS has completely revamped their ________________, executed it 6 times, added two 3.5 hour in-person clinics as a supplement to the workshop, and trained Dorchester Bay to implement the same workshop series
What is 4-part introductory workshop series?
Hard costs in real estate development are the costs of construction. Name one of the soft costs.
What is acquisition, architecture, engineering, loan interests, developer fees, legal costs, clerk fees, or title fees?
Operations manages the daily operations of the organization, including stocking, equipment purchases, managing contracts for internal services like water and supplies, and _______.
What is IT?
This annual festival, celebrated in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, was founded in 1979 to commemorate a successful community protest against a proposed highway project, and now serves as a vibrant celebration of community, culture, and environmental justice.
What is Wake Up the Earth?
The Data team translates program structure and needs to a system that will help the team collect, analyze, and create workflows for this important task.
What is grant reporting?
It is best practice for non-profit SBTA providers to work with an average of ______ clients at a time with each client receiving 15 hours of individualized assistance.
What is 7-8?
When a project is really large over ____ square feet, you have to go through a special boston zoning process called article 80 large project review.
What is 50,000 square feet?
How many months of research, proposals, and advocacy did it take to make a final decision on TriNet?
What is 8 months?
This annual event organized by the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations brings together community leaders and advocates at the Statehouse to engage with legislators and push for policies that support affordable housing, economic development, and community empowerment.
What is MACDC lobby Day?
Since taking on the task of getting Salesforce up and running in December, Andrea and Enrique have collectively spent upwards of _________ hours on the CRM
What is 1,000?
For every hour Tia spends in an actual meeting with a client, she spends 2.5 hours prepping, planning, and following up with the client. But can sometimes spend up to how many hours planning for every 1 hour session with the client depending on the needs of the client?
What is 8 hours?
Since the 90s, JPNDCs legacy has always been ___________________ and has developed more of these units than any other developer in Boston
What is affordable home ownership?
Compliance reports, taxes, and provider ______ are also tasks that belong to operations.
What is PFMLA?
The coalition for a truly affordable Boston increased the IDP from 11% to ____?
What is 19%
The United Way Grant is one of the largest grants that the JPNDC has. How much time does it take to convert and pull data from different systems, clean it up, verify the information, and correct any issues?
What is 40 hours?