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From YouTube: English for Immigrant Entrepreneurs Showcase
Description
Allston's Gardner Pilot Academy offers an evening Adult Education Program for immigrant entrepreneurs who want to improve their English communication skills. Mayor Walsh stopped by to see how the program helped equip ten graduates with the tools they needed to follow their dreams.
A
Evening
we
really
appreciate
that
Liz
Riordan
for
joining
us
as
well
and
Kevin
Conan
and
his
aide
Oscar
Lopez,
had
to
leave,
but
they
were
here
for
our
program.
So
I
would
just
like
to
begin
by
giving
a
little
background
about
who
we
are.
The
adult
education
program
is
housed
by
and
operates
in
partnership
with
the
gartner
pilot
Academy,
a
full
service
community
help
school
serving
nearly
400
students
in
grades
K
through
8,
with
the
YMCA
of
Greater
Boston
as
its
head
lead
agency
through
active
partnerships
with
local
universities
and
community
organizations.
A
Our
GPAs,
the
SOL
program,
was
established
in
2004,
with
sole
funding
from
env
today,
thanks
to
continual
support
from
eme,
along
with
Harvard
University
Rockland
trusts,
statelessness
hospital
and
local
community
members
in
the
form
of
donations.
We
serve
over
one
hundred
and
five
participants,
ten
of
whom
are
here
with
us
tonight.
A
A
The
principle
goals
of
our
program
is
to
promote
adult
literacy,
to
connect
adults
to
the
workforce
and
community
resources
and
to
empower
adults
to
advocate
for
themselves
and
their
families
in
keeping
with
GPAs
full
service
community
hub
school
model.
The
adult
education
program
provides
significant
wraparound
support
services,
and
this
is
really
what
makes
us
unique.
We
have
childcare
on-site
that
serves
approximately
40
children
per
night.
My
parents
are
studying
English
35
percent
of
our
population,
our
GPA
parents,
who
have
children
at
the
school.
A
In
addition
to
that,
we
provide
270
meals
per
week,
one
take
or
two
or
three,
depending
on
how
many
meals
our
students
need
thanks
to
our
partnership
with
Blue
for
free,
very
important.
In
addition,
we're
very
fortunate
to
be
in
Austin
where
we
have
fantastic
community
partners,
one
of
which
is
Charles
view
Inc.
We
partner
with
Charles
YouTube,
to
offer
summer
ESOL
classes
to
offer
support
for
lots
of
different
immigrant
initiatives
in
our
community
and,
most
recently
Charles
view
has
agreed
and
accepted
our
proposal
for
immigrant
voices
project.
A
We
also
partner
with
your
Charles
River
Community
Health
Center,
to
offer
screenings
health
screenings
and
health
education
to
each
of
our
participants.
Every
year
we
partner
with
Cambridge
Savings
Bank,
and
we
have
any
here
representing
the
bank.
He
also
came
to
do
a
workshop
with
our
immigrant
entrepreneur
class.
This
fall.
They
come
to
do
financial
literacy
classes.
For
us,
we
partner
yearly
with
Andrew
long
who
is
a
professor
at
UMass
Boston,
also
hard
as
the
pear
project.
He
comes
and
does
know
your
rights
workshops
with
us
each
year
and
is
here
tonight.
A
B
C
I
think
we
let
you
know
that
we
work
with
you
on
this
event
a
week
ago.
So
thank
you
and
thank
you
to
Natalia
and
to
council
meeting
and
to
Yousefi
Valley,
the
director
of
the
mayor's
atmospheric
and
advancement.
So
thank
you
all
for
being
here
and
in
like
they
are
a
couple
of
our
board
members
from
Santander
and
State
Street
that
are
here
with
us
tonight
and
supporting
this
program
so
I
we're
so
happy
to
be
here.
C
To
say
a
word
about
English
for
new
Bostonians,
so
these
are
two
programs
were
posted
here
by
the
gardener
pilot
Academy
and
also
the
YMCA
International.
Learning
Center
is
represented
here
and
has
a
group
of
students
here,
and
they
are
here
because
they've
been
running
this
English
for
immigrant
entrepreneurs
program.
But
these
are
two
of
20
programs
that
English
burn
across
lunians
supports
and
I
wondered
a
that.
C
English
for
new
wife's
toenails
was
actually
founded
by
the
city
of
Boston,
with
our
the
city's
largest
foundations
immigrant
community
groups,
to
address
the
need
that
ever-present
is
the
city
for
the
poor
English
classes,
because
our
immigrant
communities
are
always
growing
and
people
don't
always
have
the
opportunity
to
learn
at
you
know
because
they
might
be
working
in
a
couple
of
different
jobs
and
but
yeah.
But.
C
Businesses
across
the
city,
in
order
to
expand
opportunities
for
people
to
learn
at
work
so
anyway,
these
are
two
of
20
programs.
We
support
over
40
classes
around
1,100
students
every
year.
This
particular
program
that
we
wanted
to
highlight
for
you
to
me
is:
this
is
English
for
immigrant
entrepreneurs.
We
do
a
lot
of
work
with
businesses
here
in
the
city
of
Boston,
asking
them
about
their
immigrant
workforce
in
their
their
language
needs
and
little
by
little,
as
we've
been
talking
to
smaller
and
smaller
businesses.
C
What
we
heard
was
from
owners
that
they
to
meet
English
classes,
it's
not
just
their
workers,
but
it's
the
owners
themselves,
and
so
we
developed
a
curriculum.
That's
all
about
learning
English,
but
in
the
context
of
financing
and
marketing,
communications
management
and
a
couple
of
other
topics
which
are
slipping
my
mind
tonight.
But
it's
so
they're,
really
custom
classes
are
customized
to
very
busy
entrepreneurs
who
don't
always
have
time
to
get
to
a
class
because
there
are
and
businesses,
but
so
we
run
them
at
night
and
they're.
C
You
know
very
much
on
topic
for
what
people
need
there's
usually
shorter
than
typical
year-round
ESL
classes.
So
we
wanted
to
to
have
you
hear
from
these
businesses.
So
a
word
about
or
thinking
the
plan
for
tonight
as
soon
as
I
get
done,
which
will
be
in
a
minute
and
we're
going
to
hear
from
six
I
believe
businesses,
some
from
the
gardener
pilot
Academy
and
some
from
the
YMCA
I'm
happy
to
see
the
folks
who
graduated
from
the
class
at
the
YMCA
here
tonight.
C
Thank
you
for
being
here
and
so
you'll
hear
from
them,
and
then
we
want
to
kind
of
what
I
think
will
just
be
the
most
meaningful
part
of
this.
It's
just
time
for
you
to
have
a
dialogue
without
asking
some
questions
and
for
them
to
ask
questions
of
you
and
then
we're
going
to
transition
to
the
know,
your
rights,
the
rights
workshop
to
have
you
address
them.
D
C
F
F
F
Just
not
organizing
we
clean
with
the
knives
Kakui
we
created
sponges,
which
they
are
passes,
every
team,
so
I,
inaudible,
I,
didn't
know
that
I
liked
so
much
to
to
clean
house
because
I
realized.
That
was
a
good
thing
to
put
way
to
make
us
money.
But
you
learn
in
English
because
in
their
houses
they
talking
to
people
too.
So.
G
I
Thank
you
from
Venezuela
and
I'm
very
grateful
with
this
product
in
GTA,
because
I
found
me
friend
talked
to
to
grow
about
my
my
business.
Okay
I
think
did
you
for
more
than
seven
year,
like
each
different
disciplines
like
to
bottle
our
body
conditioning
yoga
for
kids
and
adults,
and
I
continue
working
and
each
for
seniors
and
for
kids
M
as
the
preneur
is
chilly
I'm
here
about
personal
finance,
business
finances
to
marketing
a
night
for
sure
business
card,
I'm,
marketing,
website
social
media,
I
grow
my
vocabulary.
I
J
J
From
Haiti
and
the
Boston
area,
when
I
listen
to
the
news,
people
try
to
imagine
eyes
those
communities
like
it
but
America
the
sisters
in
what's
believed
as
a
tension
or
as
black
people
are
yes
most
believe
on
these
communities
are
black
people
I'm
saying
whether
being
discriminated
popularly
imagine
eyes.
Maybe
something
is
listening.
J
Talk
in
transition,
what
coffee
management,
ocean
and
social
equation?
That's
the
main
purpose
of
TG
I&C
is
not
just
the
poetry
but
to
see
if
you
can
help
new
industry,
because
in
Haley,
when
you
are
able
to
look
to
go
to
school,
you
have
to
go
to
school,
not
only
by
an
8-pin
go
to
school,
not
everybody
in
heavy
heavy
job
and
in
Boston
or
in
American
I
can
see.
We
have
Haitian
folks,
patient
kids
on
the
street,
begging
people
for
money
as
a
no,
it's,
not
our
culture.
J
K
K
My
parents
came
from
another
country
became
Ireland,
so
English
was
not
the
primary
language
spoken
in
my
house,
Gaelic
was
when
I
was
growing
up
as
the
same,
not
saying
part
of
our
house
but
concentrate
this
room
Ireland
as
well.
She'd
immigrant
who
came
to
this
country,
my
father,
worked
construction
in
the
construction
field,
never
sought
his
own
business,
but
he
worked
construction
every
day.
My
mother
was
a
homemaker.
K
She
she
as
a
young
young
person,
she
used
to
clean
houses
and
and
be
a
babysit
kids
and
then,
when
we
retired
after
a
while,
when
we
were
growing
up
and
then
when
I,
when
my
brother
went
to
high
school,
actually
Island
high
school,
my
mother,
one
backside
cleaning
that
number
at
the
Union
Club.
She
was
a
homemaker,
so
she
worked
there.
So
the
work
that
a
lot
of
immigrant
communities
do
certainly
very
familiar
with
when
I
think
about
Boston.
K
So
everyone
here
knows
because
the
young
man's
talking
about
80
and
the
connections
between
80
in
Boston.
It
is
a
strong
connection
in
Mattapan
and
other
parts
of
Boston
as
well
bought
page
eight,
the
Haitians
inbox
of
the
third
largest
Asian
population
in
the
United
States
of
America
here
in
Boston.
When
you
think
about
that
no
importance
but
I,
think
about
celebrating
cultures
of
us
and
when
I
think
about
Boston.
We
have
700,000
people
that
live
in
our
city,
28%
of
those
700,000
people.
K
Boston
and
I
had
a
conversation
today
where
the
gentleman
used
to
represent
his
neighborhood
at
the
Statehouse
Brian
golden,
and
we
talked
about
the
impact
of
immigrants
on
America
and
the
impact,
at
least
until
you
still
have
an
America,
because
the
immigrants
built
this
country
and
I'm,
proud
of
in
Boston
that
we
have
very
pro-immigrant
see,
unlike
that,
it's
the
the
rhetoric
coming
out
of
Washington.
Congratulations
on
becoming
citizen.
Thank.
K
Yeah,
but
when
I
think
about
being
man
and
before
that
the
state
represented
when
I
was
a
state
representative
representative
dorchester,
one
of
the
things
that
I
fought
for
all
the
time
was
adult
education
funding,
and
there
was
a
state
representative
is
name,
was
Dan
Bosley
from
Bud
Adams
and
he
fought
really
hard
to
make
sure
adult
education
funding
gets
awarded
because
there
was
a
lot
of
need
for.
There
still
is
a
lot
of
need
for
today
when
I
became
mayor
a
couple
things,
we
did
right
off
the
bat.
K
We
created
an
office
of
economic
development
and
we
did
it
because
economic
development
with
all
over
the
city.
It
was
in
different
offices.
There
wasn't
a
central
focus
tree
and
we
brought
that
on.
I'll
come
back
to
that.
In
a
minute,
we
had
not
just
called
office
to
new
Bostonians
and
when
that
office
was
created,
it
was
created
because
was
welcoming
new
boss,
Tony
and
savasana,
and
when
I
became
the
mayor
and
we
started
think
about
the
office.
K
We
went
and
did
a
kind
of
a
change
of
the
office,
and
we
can
we
change
the
name
of
the
office
in
the
missionary
office.
The
office
of
great
advancement,
because
it
was
about
welcoming
new
Bostonians,
was
about
advancing
immigrants,
advanced
immigrants
in
different
areas
of
society
and
one
of
those
areas.
When
we
did
the
Office
of
Economic
Development
was
in
business
of
small
business.
There
are
40,000
small
businesses
in
Boston
40,000,
but
third
of
those
small
businesses
are.
K
Everybody
knows
when
you
think
about
the
impact
that
immigrant
businesses
have
on
our
economy
in
Boston
oftentimes.
We
think
about
when
we
think
about
business.
You
think
about
the
big
companies
and
we
always
spend
so
much
time,
but
the
big
companies,
but
really
where
the
strength
in
our
economy
comes
in.
Boston
is
in
our
small
businesses,
because
you
employ
tens
of
thousands
of
people
and
you
think
about.
K
There
are
more
people
employed
by
small
businesses
in
Boston
than
anyone,
big
business
in
Boston,
the
largest
one
we
have,
which
is
I,
think
it's
Mass
General
Hospital,
which
is
which
employs
about
95,000
people,
our
small
business
and
employment.
So
we
put
a
big
focus
on
that,
because
immigrants
have
this
entrepreneurial
spirit
that
some
of
you
came
from
very
difficult
places
and
tough
times.
I
was
in
Haiti
in
2009
you're,
absolutely
right,
there's
not
a
lot
of
work
there
and
the
people
that
I
work
in
they
are
making
a
dollar
a
day.
K
The
people
that
work
there
walk
miles
to
work
every
day.
It
is
an
educated
country
and
then
just
old
a
lot.
A
lot
of
challenges.
People
in
Haiti
have
both
people
come
here
to
this
country.
They
have
an
opportunity
that
you
know
said
they
have
an
opportunity
to
take
your
hard
work
and
determination
and
put
it
into
something.
That's
positive,
I
have
a
cousin,
my
mother's
cousin,
first
cousin
is
a
priest
and
presented
and
he
went
down
there.
K
He
talked
about
the
poverty
in
his
town
and
he
talked
about
used
to
bring
things
from
here
to
Brazil,
but
the
fact
that
you
came
to
this
country
and
been
doing
what
you
do
I
commend
you
for
that.
I
commend
you
for
starting
up
a
business
and
both
of
you
not
just
one
and
I-
commend
you
stinky
to
avoid
fall.
The
other
businesses
in
the
room,
whatever
the
business
I,
the
fitness
there's
an
opportunity
that
we
came
from
Venezuela
right,
yeah.
L
K
As
well,
if
you
think
about
the
opportunity
coming
evil
side
of
business
there
is
it
mean,
there's
a
need
to
every
single
business
that
you
have
you're,
creating
your
style
that
we
want
to
be
helpful
to
you.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
you're
successful,
because
you
apply
to
our
economy,
your
planet,
our
city,
you're
part
of
our
state
you're
part
of
moving
up
moving
everything
forward.
So
I'm
excited
about
being
here
tonight
and
openings
new
questions.
K
K
But
all
of
us
connected
most
of
us
connected
to
another
place
in
somewhere
in
our
body
machine,
probably
what
we
and
that
that
gives
us
the
spirit
of
entrepreneurship
Waterfall.
Just
my
father,
my
father,
used
to
talk
about.
He
works
how
to
be
dead,
and
he
talking
to
talk
about.
We
do
the
kid
going
to
school,
he'd,
walk
five
miles
to
school
and
back
from
school
with
no
shoes,
and
we
heard
that
story.
So
many
packs.
B
J
J
This
is
my
biggest
challenge
in
my
world.
The
strategy
dancing
out.
My
god
is
like
finally,
please
to
help
Iommi's,
because
we
are
officially
business,
but
we
model
it.
We
can
cover
the
world,
but
to
do
that,
we
have
to
have
in
place
like
this
like
we
can
welcome
you
or
people
any
type
of
people,
even
though
we
call
it
a
tie.
Maybe
it's
because
we
have
a
country
which
is
backward,
so
we
try
to
put
it
backwards
so
that
we
can.
We
can
chop
transform
it.
So
we
would
like
to
have
it
please.
J
J
K
K
For
a
year
is
roughly
3.2
billion
dollars,
so
we
basically
find
schools,
police,
fire
and
picking
trash
shop.
Everything
that
you
can
imagine
we
also
have
about
600
million
dollars
of
that,
which
is
what
we
call
contracted
services.
Those
contracted
services
can
be
anything
from
cleaning
a
building
to
security
of
a
building,
foodservice
delivery
service
a
whole
bunch
of
different
pieces.
We
did.
We
did
an
assessment
of
our
money
because
of
our
city,
our
city,
as
I
said
earlier.
28
percent
of
the
people
that
live
in
our
city
were
born
on
the
country.
K
50
percent
of
the
people
in
our
city
are
people
of
color
52
percent
of
the
households
in
our
city
of
led
by
women.
So
when
you
think
about
diversity
as
a
city,
we
have
everybody.
When
we
looked
at
the
numbers
of
the
contracting
of
this
heading
to
628
8620,
we
looked
at
the
numbers.
First,
look
at
the
numbers.
Less
than
5%
of
that
money
was
going
towards
businesses
of
color.
We
have
used
to
see
from
our
office
and
they're
an
advancement
that
can
help.
We
have
patients
over
here.
K
We
have
corner
over
here,
at
least
over
here
from
our
neighborhood
services.
So
all
of
these
folks
want
to
be
helped.
So
if
there's
questions
that
even
that
come
up
just
get
one
of
their
cards
because
then,
if
we
don't
have
an
answer
to
it
or
don't
have
a
policy,
there's
a
good
chance
that
we
will
think
about
putting
one
in
whatever
my
horizon.
M
K
Someday
when
you're
ready
to
take
an
outside
and
go
into
a
space,
you
should
contact
us
because
we
will
help
you
with
maybe
putting
an
assign
on
the
building
and
awning
on
the
building.
You
know
when
the
thing
is
over
in
the
front,
we'll
help
you
with
that
cell
wall.
So
when
you're
ready
to
to
do
that,
if
you're
going
to
open
a
shop,
that's
gonna,
you
don't
do
the
solid
paint
you
want
to
do
some
stuff
like
that.
You
should
come
to
us
and
we
have
small
business
loans
that
we
try.
C
K
J
K
You
should
ask
us:
it's
not
progress
a
little
different,
but
we
do
have.
We
do
new
things
in
our
process
and
we
help
assist
with
nonprofits
the
assistance.
Finding
and
small
grants
mini
grants
depending
what
it
is
is
a
whole
bunch
of
things
we'll
be
doing
yeah
and
in
the
state
does
too,
but
it's
not
not
as
much.
They
used
to
Becca.
N
We
have
four
programs
that
we
run
out
of
our
office.
That
is
all
to
support
small
businesses.
The
first
is
technical
assistance.
So
if
you
need
legal
help,
marketing
support
accounting
help
building
a
website,
we
can
actually
pair
you
up
with
someone
totally
free
for
business
owners
and
we
pair
you
up
with
the
professional
who
will
do
the
service
for
you.
N
The
second
piece
of
the
mayor
mention
is:
we
do
signage
and
storefront
improvements,
so
if
you
have
a
brick
and
mortar
and
I
have
a
salon
we
can
whatever
brick
and
mortar,
we
can
actually
help
you
redo
the
signage
for
your
storefront,
so
it's
beautiful,
you
know
storefront
beautification.
The
third
program
that
we
run
is
the
Buffs
and
Main
Street
program.
So
there
are
20
different
districts.
So
if
you
move
into
one
of
those
districts,
you'll
have
a
director
on
the
ground
that
can
help
you.
N
You
know
with
a
small
business
support
and
then
finally,
last
year
the
mayor
launched
a
new
program
called
the
Economic
Development
Center,
where
we
are
taking
workshop
series
across
the
neighborhoods
all
over
Boston
for
different
topics.
So
if
you
want
to
open
a
restaurant,
we
handle
a
series
of
workshops
that
are
specifically
tied
to
that
we're
doing
one
on
commercial
space
actually
in
March,
starting
in
March.