WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- 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....
- 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
- The Women’s Business Development Council and the National Organization of Italian-American Women Connecticut Region in conjunction with the Ferguson Library invite the public to meet CNN New Day Co-Anchor, Author and Connecticut resident Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday, December 12 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Ferguson Library, One Public Library Plaza in Stamford....
- The Women’s Business Development Council will host its 20th Anniversary Gala Luncheon on Friday, October 20th at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, 1800 East Putnam Avenue, Old Greenwich. The event will begin at 11:00 a.m. with networking followed by lunch and an awards program at noon....
- On April 25th, 2016, the Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC), of Connecticut, and Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) Ancell School of Business officially opened the WBDC Danbury office on the WCSU West Side Campus at 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury....
- On Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 7:30am at the Stamford Marriott, the Women's Business Development Council (WBDC) will celebrate the passage of HR 50/50, the historic federal law that made it possible for women to access capital for commercial purposes without having a male relative co-sign a loan....