The Small Business Administration named LGBT-owned Equator Coffees & Teas as its 2016 National Small Business of the Year award winner — marking a first for the nation's LGBT business…
After being judged best small business in California, Equator Coffees and Teas has now taken the national award given out yearly by the US Small Business AdministrationBusiness owners Brooke McDonnell…
For the first time in history an LGBT business has been awarded a national accolade.A Californian coffee shop has become the first LGBT business to be recognised as the National…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration recognized and awarded this year’s National Small Business Week national award winners including the Small Business Person(s) of the…
San Rafael’s Equator Coffees and Teas captured this year’s national Small Business Person of the Year award.Already the recipients of the California Small Business Person of the Year Award, granted in March,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The owners of Equator Coffees & Teas of San Rafael, Calif., are the first LGBT couple to win the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person(s) of the Year award.The…
One month after being named Small Business of the Year in California, San Rafael-based Equator Coffees & Teas was named Small Business of the Year for the entire country.It’s an…
The LGBT team of Brooke McDonnell and Helen Russell, co-founders of San Rafael, California-based Equator Coffees & Teas, were named SBA national Small Business Persons of the Year. Appearing with them on stage this Monday morning…
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was…
Equator Coffees and Teas is the first-ever LGBT-owned business to be named a Small Business of the Year in the U.S.Maria Contreras-Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration,…
San Rafael-based Equator Coffees & Teas has been named California’s Small Business of the Year, the first LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) company to win the award from the U.S.…
Of the more than 3 million small businesses in California, the Bay Area’s Equator Coffees and Teas has been named the state’s 2016 Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Small Business…