WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- This fall, the YWCA in New Britain opened its “Childcare Incubator Project,” a first-of-its-kind model that supports child care entrepreneurs as they launch and build their businesses....
- In the wake of severe flooding in August, 278 Connecticut small businesses and nonprofits received $5.9 million in emergency state funding, according to the Lamont administration. The program was overseen by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and administered by the Women’s Business Development Council. ...
- STAMFORD — The Women’s Business Development Council has added three new members to its team....
- (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that over the last several months his administration has distributed a total of $5.9 million in emergency state funding to 278 small businesses and nonprofit organizations in western Connecticut to support their recovery from the August 18, 2024, historic rainfall and severe flooding event that devastated the region....
- CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Over the last few months, around $5.9 million in emergency state funding was distributed to 278 small businesses and nonprofit organizations in western Connecticut, Gov. Lamont announced on Thursday....
- Laureen Haynes had a successful, yet hectic, career in corporate America. Now she’s all about chocolates....
- Today, Lizbeth Marquez-Flores sells her hair care products to customers across the U.S. But the Connecticut-based business started nearly a decade ago with a two-person clientele: Marquez-Flores and her daughter....
- Over the past decade, immigrants settling in Connecticut have contributed to the state’s economy by boosting the labor force, paying taxes and spending money....
- Before a crowd of 250 Ridgefield-based entrepreneurs and business owners pitched their ideas to a panel of corporate leaders and notable entrepreneurs on Monday, October 28 at the Ridgefield Playhouse, organized by the Ridgefield Economic & Community Development Commission (ECDC)....
- Some 875 “beautiful women entrepreneurs and men of taste,” as Connecticut’s Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz put it, gathered Friday, Oct. 25, at the newly renovated Hyatt Regency Greenwich to raise $650,000 for the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) – which has been spurring women entrepreneurs, and their communities, for 27 years....
Press Releases
- Both the Ignite Grant Program and the Child Care Opportunity Fund opened on August 12. WBDC is now accepting applications from eligible Connecticut businesses. ...
- A groundbreaking partnership between the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) and the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) has been extended through June 2027. ...
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors. ...
- 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....