Story Categories: Financing

Empanada Club & Mariama's Beauty Supply

Coastal Enterprises, Inc., exemplifies how support from Wells Fargo’s Diverse Community Capital program can bring economic opportunity to underserved populations.…

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Ameera Bread

Ahmed Abbas had just woken up from a short nap. He had been pulling extra shifts making bread at night…

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A Behavioral Health Providers sits with two boys on a piece of playground equipment

Black Bear Support Services

What do you when your child needs support services to increase their independence, but there’s no one to provide them?…

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A pair of hands pull apart a freshly baked empanada

EMPANADA CLUB

Four years ago, Adrian Espinoza Garcia moved from Bolivia to Maine with his wife, a New England native. He quickly…

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Woods + Waters Gear Exchange

Q&A with Jenna Vanni, business owner Learn about how owner Jenna Vanni launched her outdoor apparel and gear consignment store…

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Eighteen Twenty Wines

CEI provides loans to start-up and existing small businesses, many of whom have been turned down by traditional lending institutions. …

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The Village Woodworker

As Brian Warren approached his retirement from the U.S. Air Force, his father-in-law Robert Roakes, the owner of The Village…

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Harvest Tide Organics

After years of farming in Maine, Bethany Allen and Eric Ferguson dreamed of owning and operating their own farm. When…

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Stevens School, Hallowell

On an eastern facing hill above Hallowell’s downtown, the Maine Industrial School for Girls was established by State officials as…

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Children's Odyssey

It was time to move. “After 25 years in a variety of locations that we “made work,” we hadn’t found…

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