WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- 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. ...
- On a recent weekday at La Stella Pizzeria, tucked into a flatiron building at Main Street and Market Street in Norwich, lunch hour was buzzing. Many of the city’s other historical storefronts...
- More than 200 people convened here Monday for the second annual CT Small Business Summit, headlined by keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, who touted efforts by the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress to help lower the cost of prescription drugs for both employers and employees....
Press Releases
- 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....
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) will honor Connecticut business leaders and celebrate 25 years of advocacy and support for women entrepreneurs at the 2022 WBDC Women Rising Gala and Awards Celebration — taking place this year on Oct. 28 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. The event will feature an awards ceremony recognizing several individuals and entrepreneurs from throughout Connecticut for their contributions to women’s economic empowerment....
- 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...