WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- Eight Connecticut women-owned businesses will compete for a combined $100,000 in grants during the Women’s Business Development Council’s inaugural Catalyst Symposium later this month....
- In a recent opinion piece, Susan Rietano Davey portrayed women leaving corporate America to start their own businesses as taking a step backward — a fallback plan that threatens their financial futures and deprives companies of leadership pipelines. As the Founder and CEO of the Women’s Business Development Council for the last three decades, I can say with certainty: this view misses the mark....
- Connecticut’s child care industry is marking a milestone as the Women’s Business Development Council recently released its five‑year impact report and opened the next round of early childhood business grant applications....
- The Women’s Business Development Council has awarded $8.4 million in grants since 2020 to support almost 500 childcare businesses in Connecticut....
- The nonprofit Women's Business Development Council is offering grants of up to $25,000....
- The "Member of the Year" was also announced. Honorees will be recognized during the Chamber's upcoming annual meeting and awards ceremony....
- At the Dutch Epicure Shop in Litchfield, Ber and Beverly Welp filled up their basket in no time. Dutch breakfast crisp breads — beschuit as they are known. Two “for now,” Ber says, quickly adding a Dutch breakfast cake and a box of the chocolate sprinkles known as hagelslag that the Dutch eat on bread slathered with butter....
- Ines Deseroux, who is French, has shopped at the Dutch Epicure Shop for more than 10 years to get the quality foods she knows from Europe. She says she’ll keep coming for that quality even if tariffs drive prices higher....
- Wilma Joas - owner of the Dutch Epicure Shop in Litchfield - is a trained chef who specializes in baking. But her shop also stocks hundreds of products, almost all of which are imported from Europe. That means she could be facing stiff Trump tariffs shortly. Joas has pivoted in the face of challenges before, and she says she'll do it again....
- Women across Connecticut are marking the 62nd anniversary of the enactment of the Federal Equal Pay Act. However, they are not exactly celebrating the anniversary....