WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that over the last several months his administration has distributed a total of $5.9 million in emergency state funding to 278 small businesses and nonprofit organizations in western Connecticut to support their recovery from the August 18, 2024, historic rainfall and severe flooding event that devastated the region....
- 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...
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....
- 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 ...