WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- 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....
- 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 administratio...
- A new women’s business center opened on Monday in Hartford...
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) launched its newest women’s business center in Hartford on Monday morning...
- A nonprofit organization in Connecticut officially opened a new office in Hartford on Monday in its quest to help women start and succeed in business...
Press Releases
- 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...
- STAMFORD, Conn. — Leyla Dam is just one proprietor of a women-owned enterprise in Connecticut who was able to pivot, survive, and then thrive during the pandemic — largely through the ...
- STAMFORD, Conn. — In honor of the 8th WBDC Women-Owned Business Day, the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) will host a virtual event Thursday, April 21, 2022, celebrating 25 ...
- The opening of the application window — May 23 through July 3 — marks the fifth round for the grant program. Recently, WBDC announced the grant recipients from round four, 30 in total....