WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- 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....
- 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....
- Four Connecticut women-owned businesses, including String Theory School of Music in New London owned by Amy Leigh, are receiving $25,000 grants from the Women’s Business Development Council through its new Accelerate Grant Program...
- Elaborating on the financial challenges, John said the company had applied for grants, competed in pitch competitions and offered workshops to garner funding, with Lauren Simone receiving to date a Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) grant and a Citizens Minority-Owned Small Business Champion grant...
- Female-owned businesses of Four of Connecticut are receiving grants of $25,000 through new Accelerate Grant Program from Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC)...
- The Women’s Business Development Council, which is administering the grants, has received hundreds of applications and distributed $3.8 million in grants so far...
- Four of Connecticut’s women-owned businesses are receiving $25,000 grants from the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) through its new Accelerate Grant Program...
Press Releases
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is announcing the hiring of Ronae Mason-Craig as Outreach Coordinator for its new office location in Waterbury — scheduled to open later this year. In this role, she will be responsible for expanding WBDC’s reach in the Waterbury area....
- The Women’s Business Development Council is encouraging child care businesses in Connecticut to apply for grant funding through the WBDC Child Care Business Support Program and Opportunity Fund. The program is supported by a partnership between WBDC and the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) and offers grants of up to $25,000 to qualified child care businesses. ...
- More than 300 registrants from 79 Connecticut cities and towns registered to celebrate Women-Owned Business Day on April 26. Women-Owned Business Day is WBDC’s signature event to honor and promote Connecticut’s robust community of women entrepreneurs and to connect them with members of the state’s leadership, 125 of whom joined the event’s Host Committee to show their support of women-owned businesses....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) was honored to receive the 2023 Outstanding Business Supporter of Arts & Culture at the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern CT Annual Meeting & ECTy Celebration. The Southeastern Connecticut Cultural Coalition presented the award in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut at the March 30 event held at Foxwoods Resort Casino. ...
- Four New London businesses have been selected by the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) to receive a combined $40,000 in the latest round of awards for the New London/WBDC Small Business Grant Program. The program, launched in October through a partnership between the City of New London and WBDC, makes available grants of up to $10,000 to eligible New London-based businesses....
- Applications are now being accepted for a new round of the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) Equity Match Grant Program. The program offers grants of up to $10,000 to qualified women-owned small businesses in Connecticut, and since its launch in 2020 has awarded grants to 167 businesses, totaling $1.5 million, and counting....
- Governor Ned Lamont recently announced the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) will be awarded $9.8 million in grant funding, distributed over a five-year period, through a business support initiative administered by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). In total, the DECD program is providing $46.6 million in funding to ten local nonprofit economic development organizations across the state. ...
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) officially opened the doors to its brand new office in downtown New London (61 Bank St.) with the announcement of a grant program offered in partnership with the City of New London. The New London/WBDC Small Business Grant Program makes available grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 to eligible New London-based businesses....