(NNPA)—A Black-owned Prince George’s County firm recently got a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract, with the help of a Baltimore-based African-American financing company, to screen people who have traveled to regions in Africa that are plagued with the deadly Ebola virus.
Staffing Etc., located in Lanham, Md., got a $15 million-$18 million contract in early November from the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to monitor travelers from Ebola-affected countries at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, John F. Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica, N.Y., and the Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Staffing Etc., led by president and CEO Hope Porter, supplies health care professionals and workers at such institutions as government agencies, hospitals and school systems.
However, the contract had to become operational within a month so the company needed quick financing. The firm’s leadership turned to Baltimore’s Meridian Management Group Inc., who manages the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
Meridian was established in 1995 and its president, CEO and co-founder is Stanley W. Tucker. Tucker has decades of experience in helping socially and economically disadvantaged businesses get financing.
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