Success stories
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Adjusting the Lens
Black entrepreneur starts media mogul journey with help from an SBA-backed small business loan and makes it his mission to increase multicultural perspectives and storytelling to the newsroom After...
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The Domino Effect
Construction contractor explains how her company used federal contracting and infrastructure dollars to build local economies and create jobs CMS Corporation is an award-winning general construction...
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Travelling All Over The World
A tale of two moms spreading nutritious and delicious bNutty goodness around the globe and how the U.S. Small Business Administration helped Once upon a time Carol Podolak and Joy Thompkins’ kids...
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Empowering Solutions
Situation: Professional Management Enterprises, Inc. (PME) CEO Haskell D. Portee founded his Indianapolis-based company in 2006 after retiring from the U.S. Army. PME is a Minority Business Enterprise...
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A clear path forward
Situation: Donte Wilburn grew up in Lafayette, Indiana where he and his family fought racism and poverty as the only Black family in his neighborhood. In his youth Wilburn did illegal things to...
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Everything is better sunny side up
Situation: Dr. Klein Ileleji grew up in Nigeria where he saw first-hand the impact food insecurity has on developing communities where electricity is scarce. Through a research project at Purdue...
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SBA Provides Clean Patch for Growth & Expansion
Situation Jesse Camacho came to the U.S from Puerto Rico with his family in 1968. They settled in the South Bronx. His family had an entrepreneurial spirit…his dad had a grocery store in PR, and when...
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Building memories for today, tomorrow and beyond
Rahila Robinson took over her family's marble memorial products company in 2008. Robinson & Sons Enterprises of America Inc. was known throughout the funeral services industry in the United States for...