WBDC In The News

Media Mentions and Press Releases

Press Releases

Media Mentions

  • Are you an artist? Love to create but love less running the business side of your creative venture? Check out some resources from the Women’s Business Development Council....
  • 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...

Press Releases

  • 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....
  • 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 support 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 98 businesses, and counting....
  • 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 not only have affected economic growth and job creation in that industry, but has also yielded positive outcomes for many of the state’s child care providers. The program is accepting new grant applications between March 23 and April 12....