What
We Do
Creating opportunities to learn, create, gather, and be seen.
Programs
& Projects.
JPD supports students, artists and community organizations with the resources, spaces and opportunities they need to pursue their work and potential. Rooted in Washington Heights, our work spans education, arts and culture, and community—while carrying forward a deep connection to Dominican heritage.
Education & Opportunity
Scholarships, mentorship and educational programs that help students pursue opportunities that might otherwise remain out of reach.
Arts & Culture
From Festival del Boulevard to Un Chín Art Project, JPD creates platforms for artists, traditions and ideas to be seen, shared and celebrated.
Community
JPD provides space, resources and partnerships that help community organizations and neighbors gather, learn, create and connect.
Education & Opportunity
Rosario's Initiative.
Launched in 2025 by JPD in collaboration with Ambassador Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, Rosario’s Initiative helps young women in Salcedo, Dominican Republic, pursue higher education. Since its inception, approximately 20 students have received more than $20,000 in university grants. The initiative also supports the maintenance of buses that transport students to campuses across the area, extending its reach to more than 300 young people and helping remove transportation as a barrier to education.
ROSARIO'S INITIATIVE
20+
STUDENT GRANTS
$20K+
DISBURSED
300+
STUDENTS REACHED
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Arts & Culture
Making space for culture
Arts & Culture
Un Chín Art Project.
Inside the JPD Community Space at the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in Washington Heights, Un Chín Art Project brings contemporary Latin American art into the everyday life of the neighborhood.
The gallery grew out of a partnership between the Juan Pablo Duarte Foundation and Un Chín Media, founded by Ramón Veras, bringing together two organizations committed to culture, community and expanding whose stories are seen and heard. At the heart of the project is a simple idea: contemporary art should not be confined to traditional cultural institutions. It should also live where people live.
Chín's exhibition window opens onto the public interior of the terminal, placing contemporary art directly in the path of commuters, neighborhood residents and visitors, while giving artists from New York's Latin American diaspora and across Latin America a highly public setting in which to show their work.
Chín opened in 2026 with CONTINUUM, a group exhibition curated by Ezequiel Taveras that brought together twelve artists from across Latin America and its diaspora. Exploring origin, identity, memory and displacement, the exhibition helped establish Chín as a space for contemporary Latin American art that is accessible, experimental and connected to the community.
Under the idea Small Space, Big Stories, Chín is building a program of exhibitions, conversations and interdisciplinary activities that bring artists, art and community into dialogue.
Small space. Big stories.
From Continuum.
CONTINUUM · 2026
Curated by Ezequiel Taveras
12 artists from Latin America and its diaspora exploring origin, identity, memory and displacement.
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Art Belongs To The Community
VISIT CHÍN ART PROJECT
Juan Pablo Duarte Foundation
GWB Marketplace
4211 Broadway, Suite 23A
Washington Heights, New York
Community
DUSA TECH.
Through its partnership with Dominicanos USA, JPD's Community Space provides a home for DUSA Tech programming in Washington Heights.
DUSA Tech works to expand access to the digital economy through coding education and mentorship, pathways to employment, and the development of opportunities in technology and gaming—particularly for communities that have traditionally been underrepresented in the sector.
EDUCATION
Coding training & mentorship
EMPLOYMENT
Connections to career opportunities
MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Building a more inclusive technology and gaming sector
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