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The story of Team Clean is a story about Donna Allie; college grad, single mom, founder of Team Clean and today; community benefactor, employer and mentor to more than 550 employees.

Originally unable to find employment in her chosen field after college graduation, Allie was a single parent determined to find a way to support herself and her child. In 1983 Ms. Allie accompanied a friend on a job cleaning a home, and quickly realized that there was an excellent income potential in cleaning houses. She answered newspaper advertisements for “cleaning ladies,” and began cleaning homes throughout Philadelphia’s suburban Main Line.

Allie formed Team Clean and began to respond to those newspaper ads by hiring women herself and sending them off in pairs to clean homes, establishing the burgeoning company’s “team” approach to cleaning. Two years later, in 1985, she took her first commercial contract with the Upper Main Line YMCA and concentrated on cleaning offices under 1000 square feet. Within ten years, the company was named one of Philadelphia’s "100 Fastest Growing Small Businesses" by the Wharton Small Business Development Center.

Team Clean founder, Donna Allie, with the management team and service employees in front of a historical Philadelphia Naval Yard building.

From these humble beginnings, Team Clean, Inc. continued to grow and prosper under Ms. Allie’s stewardship, achieving even greater benchmarks.

...for cleaning excellence:

	In 1994, the African American Chamber of Commerce honored Allie with their Entrepreneurial Spirit Award.
	Winner of the City of Philadelphia’s Supply Service and Equipment Award for 1994
	1995 she received the Business Acumen Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women.
	In 1996, Team Clean was selected as one of Philadelphia’s 100 Fastest Growing Small Businesses by the Wharton Small Business Development Center and the Philadelphia Business Journal
	1997 Allie was named one of Pennsylvania’s 50 Best Women in Business.
	Again 1997, Allie and Team Clean received the Special Recognition Award for Excellence of Service from the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
	In 2001, she was selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the "District Minority Small Business Person of the Year."
	In 2005, The fourth largest Black owned and operated enterprise (by revenues) in the city of Philadelphia.
	The Business Center at New Covenant Campus honored Allie in 2006 with their Harriet Tubman Trailblazer Award.
	The City of Philadelphia’s Supply, Service and Equipment Award.
	The Main Line Martin Luther King Jr. Association’s Business Leadership Award.
	In April 2007, she was honored by the Philadelphia Phillies with the inaugural Most Valuable Diverse Business Partner during ceremonies on Jackie Robinson Day at Citizens Bank Park.
	In 2008, as reported by the Philadelphia Business Journal, Team Clean is the largest* minority owned and operated business in the Philadelphia area. (Ranked by number of local employees*)

...and for community service:

	Member of the Board of the African-American Chamber of Commerce
	The Fund for Philadelphia, Board member
	Member of The Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board
	Member, Philadelphia Women in Business
	Member, Universal Charter School
	Member, The Business Center in Germantown, Philadelphia
	The Business Center at New Covenant Campus honored Allie in 2006 with their Harriet Tubman Trailblazer Award.
	The 62nd National Freedom Day Community Service Award

Among the highlights of Team Clean’s growth are clients such as the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, the landmark National Constitution Center, and the home of the Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park.

The company Allie founded on a shoe-string now offers cleaning solutions to clients across 5 core market segments including government, education, industry, commercial offices, sports and entertainment venues. With a market reach that extends well beyond the city limits of Philadelphia, in which it is based, Team Clean, as the largest minority owned businesses in the region, employs more than 550 employees, composed of a highly diverse group of people.

Many are economically and educationally disadvantaged individuals including a large mix of recent legal immigrants. Team Clean is proud of its ability to reach out and work through a broad range of government, religious and other socially responsible organizations to access, select and train the many talented people who are not only seeking employment opportunity but, like Donna Allie twenty-five years before, are seeking to improve themselves and establish economic footholds within their own communities.

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