WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) announced at a ceremony in West Hartford on July 1 that it has given away grants to small and medium sized businesses across the state worth more than $10 million since 2020. The WBDC provides access to support and funding for businesses across the state, primarily, but not exclusively, those owned by women....
- For Hillary Kenyon, nature is the most complicated thing there is. A nearly $10,000 grant should help make understanding it a little easier. The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) visited Kenyon at Foundry 66 in Norwich on Thursday, to award her business, Applied Watershed Sciences LLC, the $9,989 needed to purchase continuous monitoring sensors for her water quality gear, and a GNSS GPS positioning system to increase the accuracy of her work and expand into some land use management pl...
- The Women’s Business Development Council, an organization that helps support, fund, and develop women-owned businesses across Connecticut, recently reached a remarkable grant milestone. ...
- 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....
Press Releases
- 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 ...
- WBDC offers no-cost or low-cost business development training, consulting, and education to women at all stages of entrepreneurship. Programs for aspiring, emerging and established ent...
- 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....
- STATEWIDE, CT — The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is pleased to announce the hiring of five new staffers, including three new business advisors specifically committed to ...
- The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is pleased to announce the hiring of five new staffers, including three new business advisors specifically committed to supporting home- and center-based child care businesses in Connecticut. The child care industry has been particularly hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many providers closing their doors due to factors such as severe revenue losses, increased health compliance costs, and staffing shortages. This situation has wider ramifications for the economy as a whole, as a lack of available child care has forced millions of parents — primarily working women — to pause or stop their careers to care for young children....
- Applications are now being accepted for a new round of an innovative grant program administered by the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC). Since the program’s launch in 2020, WBDC’s Equity Match Grant program — which offers grants of up to $10,000 to qualified women-owned small businesses in Connecticut — has awarded grants to 129 businesses, totaling $1.2 million, and counting....
- The Women’s Business Development Center’s (WBDC) Central Connecticut Regional office has been named Women’s Business Center of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)....