Rwanda Bean Coffee
Rwanda Bean Company (RBC) was founded Portland, Maine, by Mike Mwenedata, with a mission to support coffee farmers in Rwanda,…
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Falafel Time
Qutaiba Hassoon grew up in the restaurant business, helping out as a teen at Haggarty’s, a popular Portland, Maine, neighborhood…
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GSD Home Improvement
In the midst of a global pandemic that has many small business owners focused on saving their existing businesses, there…
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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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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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Taste the World Event
In November 2016, PROPEL, CEI, Fork Food Lab, Maine Access Immigrant Network, and the Maine Public Health Association collaborated to…
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Niyat Catering
In November 2016, PROPEL, CEI, Fork Food Lab, Maine Access Immigrant Network, and the Maine Public Health Association collaborated to…
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Mariama's Beauty Supply
[caption id="attachment_6866" align="alignright" width="200"] Mariama's Beauty Supply located on Forest Avenue in Portland[/caption] In January 2012, when Mariama Jallow arrived…
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Fork Food Lab
Inside Fork Food Lab, Portland’s first food incubator, the members representing 27 specialty food companies who rent out the shared…
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