Success stories
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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...
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How Customers, Contacts and Caring Can Build a Paragon Force
In the early 2000s, Sherri Davis owned a small restaurant just off Crane Naval Station in Bloomfield, Indiana. It was a popular place, so she knew everyone on and off base and what they did for a...