WBDC In The News
Media Mentions and Press Releases
Media Mentions
- The Women’s Business Development Council is celebrating a major milestone. Since 2020, the organization has given more than $10 million in grant funding to small businesses in Connecticut. Many of WBDC’s grants and programs are geared toward women-owned businesses and entrepreneurs....
- The Women’s Business Development Council has now distributed more than $10 million in grant funding to Connecticut small businesses in the past four years. The announcement was made at the conclusion of a three-day statewide road show during which representatives from WBDC visited nine recent recipients of the Ignite Grant Program....
- A Hebron business has been granted some dough. The Flour Girl Bakery and Cafe has received $10,000 from the Women’s Business Development Council’s Ignite Grant. The funding will be used for the continuation of the business’s expansion on Main Street....
- A Stamford-based women’s business organization said it has distributed $10 million in funding to women-owned small businesses from three grant programs launched during the pandemic year of 2020....
- 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....
Press Releases
- Nina Burleigh, National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek, will speak on Women at the Tipping Point: From the 19th Amendment to Title IX to #metoo at the second annual Behavior Analyst Leadership Council Conference (BALC) during the Leadership Forum Networking Luncheon on Thursday, March, 15, 2018, 12:00-1:30pm, at the Omni Hotel New Haven. The luncheon sponsor is the Women’s Business Development Council, of Connecticut....
- 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 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....