Success stories
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PPP Funding Paired with SBA Emerging Leader Experience Helps Air Quality Engineering, Inc. Pivot to Meet Navy Needs
Started in 1973 by the parents of Heidi Oas under the name SmokeMaster, Air Quality Engineering has a long history of focusing on the design, manufacture, and sale of air cleaners. Over the years...
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Detroit Chiropractor Provides Healing and Hope to Community During Pandemic, Through PPP Loan
Some people are born with a keen sense of purpose--a passion to heal and help their communities. Dr. Cecil Forbes is one of those people. A highly respected and established community leader in Detroit...
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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...
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The Studio Looking Good, Doing Good!
In 2005, Lisa Cochran started “The Studio”, a beauty salon in Laurel, MS. Lisa’s passion lends itself well to this chosen venture given her extrinsic and intrinsic care for her clients. The salon...
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AGJ Systems and Network
AGJ Systems & Networks, Inc. is a veteran-owned small business that specializes in network solutions and integration, hardware and software computer sales, and Web site design and hosting, founded as...
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Got Juice Mama Nature’s Juice and Salad Bar
T’Keyah Williams is the owner of Mama Nature’s Juice and Salad Bar. The small business was started in November 2016. Williams’ mom went vegan in April 2016 to help with health issues. Williams began...
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Scape Group, Inc. Keeps Making Dirt Pretty with the Help of SBA’s Covid-19 Relief
The pandemic impacted small businesses everywhere, creating an economic slowdown few had seen before, and Scape Group, Inc. was not immune to the effects. President and CEO DeLynne Ano started Scape...
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Vera Hall of Innovative Performance Construction Co.
With guidance from the SBA Mississippi District Office and her local Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Vera Hall positioned her small business to better compete for government contracts. Vera...