WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) announced at a ceremony in West Hartford on July 1 that it has given away grants to small and medium sized businesses across the state worth more than $10 million since 2020. The WBDC provides access to support and funding for businesses across the state, primarily, but not exclusively, those owned by women....
- For Hillary Kenyon, nature is the most complicated thing there is. A nearly $10,000 grant should help make understanding it a little easier. The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) visited Kenyon at Foundry 66 in Norwich on Thursday, to award her business, Applied Watershed Sciences LLC, the $9,989 needed to purchase continuous monitoring sensors for her water quality gear, and a GNSS GPS positioning system to increase the accuracy of her work and expand into some land use management pl...
- Other recent corporate initiatives include committing $5 million to the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC), a groundbreaking organization that removes barriers that, for too long, have prevented women’s full participation in Connecticut’s entrepreneurial ecosystem....
- For small business leaders searching for capital is about more than locating a sum of money at the best interest rate. That is important to be sure, but success is built off of more than numbers alone....
- Something sweet is returning to downtown Seymour later this year. Wildflour Confections will be reopening on 16 Bank Street after a three-year absence. The bakery’s owner, Alyssa DeMatteo, announced the return in a Facebook post April 13....
- The Stamford office of the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) received the 2024 Women’s Business Center of the Year award for Connecticut from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). WBDC was officially honored at the Small Business Resource Expo and Award Ceremony in partnership with CBIA May 2 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut. The award specifically recognizes WBDC’s Southwestern Business Center in Stamford. Since opening its doors in 1997, it has been offering tr...
- Q&A talks with Erin Mercede, program director of the Southwest Women’s Business Council....
- Two local businesses received grants for expansion projects last week. City officials and the Women’s Business Development Council stopped by the establishments May 6 to hand over the Torrington/WBDC Small Business Grant Program checks....
- WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — In his first state of the city address since taking office in December 2023, Waterbury Mayor Paul Pernerewski pitched his plan Thursday for a better Brass City....
- The strength and humility of Connecticut small businesses outshone the greens at TPC River Highlands May 2 when hundreds of business leaders gathered to celebrate small employers. ...
Press Releases
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) served 2,291 clients in 2023, a 30% increase over 2022 and a 260% increase since before the pandemic. In its recently published...
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors for 2024. Erin Kang (Chief Underwriting Officer, Regional and Specialty at Gen Re), Nichelle Waddell (Owner at Watch Me Grow Daycare and Preschool), and Michael Weinstock (Regional President, Hartford at M&T Bank)....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) visited a pair of local women entrepreneurs in the City of Groton on Wednesday, November 15. Both Angelique Cyriaque of Angelique Aesthetics and Adrienne Kneeland of Curls by Adrienne were recently awarded a grant through the WBDC Launch Pad Grant Program. Senator Heather Somers and Cierra Patrick, Economic Development Manager for the City of Groton, City leaders and local elected officials joined representatives from WBDC and Wells Fargo, a lead funder of the program, to recognize these local small business owners....
- The Women’s Business Development Council recognized and honored women entrepreneurs throughout Connecticut at the 2023 Women Rising Gala and Awards Celebration on Friday at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich....
- The Women’s Business Development Council officially opened the doors to its brand-new office in downtown Waterbury on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring many prominent government officials and community leaders, including Senator Joan Hartley, Representative Ron Napoli, Representative Geraldo Reyes, Board of Aldermen President Paul Pernerewski, Alderwoman Kelly Zimmerman, SBA Deputy District Director Moraima Gutierrez, and others....
- The gala will recognize several business leaders and entrepreneurs, presenting awards to a pair of Impact Award honorees, the Patricia Billie Miller Award for Outstanding Community Service, and several Women Rising Award recipients....
- The gala will recognize several business leaders and entrepreneurs, presenting awards to a pair of Impact Award honorees, the Patricia Billie Miller Award for Outstanding Community Service, and several Women Rising Award recipients....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is announcing the additions of Joy Braddock and Annya White-Brown to its team of Business Advisors. Specifically, Braddock will serve as Torrington Business Advisor, focusing on supporting emerging and existing business owners in Torrington, as well as other areas; and White-Brown, as Marketing Business Advisor, will use her own experience to guide Connecticut women entrepreneurs looking to expand their business through marketing. ...