WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- The Women's Business Development Council recently elected Trish Havey to its board of directors...
- Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff attorney Sara Sharp will be honored with the Patricia Billie Miller Award for Outstanding Community Service at the Connecticut Women’s Business Development Council’s (WBDC) Annual Gala...
- In August 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, Women’s Business Development Council founder and CEO Fran Pastore noticed something disturbing about the government financial aid being distributed to small businesses in Connecticut. That led to a conversation with Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz...
- Connecticut ranks as the seventh best state for female entrepreneurs, scoring a 8.34 on a scale of 10. The state boasts a notable business survival rate of 63.49%...
- The Women’s Business Development Council’s Small Business Grant application period is now open. These applications support the WBDC’s Ignite Grant, for established woman-owned businesses, and Child Care Business Opportunity Fund Grant, for established and aspiring child care businesses...
- Attendees will have the opportunity to meet representatives from the Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CT-SBDC), the Women's Business Development Council (WBDC), ...
- The Stamford based Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) and the State Office of Early Childhood are renewing their partnership to support growing child care businesses....
- The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood and the Women’s Business Development Council announced July 30 a three-year expansion...
Press Releases
- 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 ...
- 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....