WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- 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...
- The state is also accepting applications for a $5 million micro-grant program to help small businesses rebuild...
- Four Connecticut women-owned businesses will receive $25,000 grants from the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC), and included is one from Guilford...
- The Women’s Business Development Council officially moved into Hartford...
- The Women’s Business Development Council is set to officially unveil its fifth women’s business center on Monday, Sept.16...
- The women’s business development council (WBDC) has a new office in Hartford. This new 2,500-square-foot space was funded in part by a $150,000 grant from the US small business administration....
Press Releases
- 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....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is hosting a pop-up shopping event in Stamford on October 20, providing an opportunity for residents of Stamford and its surrounding towns an opportunity to support local women-owned businesses....
- A partnership between the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) and the CT Office of Early Childhood (OEC) began in 2020 to support child care businesses through the WBDC Child Care Business Support Program and Opportunity Fund. In its first two years, the program — powered by this first-of-its-kind partnership — has distributed 366 grants to 219 child care businesses, totaling $4.19 million in funding to Connecticut’s child care providers — an industry devastated by the pandemic....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is hosting two pop-up shopping days in Stamford on September 14 and October 20, providing an opportunity for residents of Stamford and its surrounding towns an opportunity to support local women-owned businesses....
- Fashion icon and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg will be the keynote speaker at the Women’s Business Development Council’s (WBDC’s) Annual Women Rising Gala and Awards Celebration, to be held Oct. 28 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. Annie Lamont, First Lady of Connecticut and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, will serve as the event’s Honorary Chair....
- STAMFORD, Conn. — A program designed to support, sustain, and grow child care businesses in Connecticut — an industry devastated by the pandemic — has shown in its first two years to n...