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• WBDC to Receive $9.8 Million in DECD Funding to Support Women-Owned Businesses in Connecticut

  https://ctwbdc.org/press-releases/wbdc-to-receive-9-million-in-decd-funding-to-support-women-owned-businesses-in-connecticut/

  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. 

• WBDC’s Equity Match Grant program reopens for new round of applications

  https://ctwbdc.org/press-releases/equity-match-program-reopens-for-new-round-of-applications/

  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.

• SBA names WBDC New Haven office Women’s Business Center of the Year

  https://ctwbdc.org/press-releases/sba-names-wbdc-new-haven-office-womens-business-center-of-the-year/

  The Women’s Business Development Center’s (WBDC) Central Connecticut Regional office has been named Women’s Business Center of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

• WBDC to celebrate 25th anniversary with 8th Women-Owned Business Day

  https://ctwbdc.org/press-releases/wbdc-to-celebrate-25th-anniversary-with-8th-women-owned-business-day/

  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 years of igniting ideas and empowering women.