Northern Ontario - Economic Development Initiatve
The EDI is a Government of Canada initiative that is part of the Action Plan for Canada’s Official Languages (2018-2023) which reaffirms our government's commitment to official languages.
Grant Deadline
2025-01-21
Funding Amount
$31,500 Up to 90% of eligible project costs
Type of Grant
Hiring, Funding
Sectors
Demographics
Incorporation
For Profit, Non Profit
Perks
Region Restriction
This grant is restricted to whole of Canada
Keywords
Age Restriction
This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100
Eligibility and Requirements
Eligible Recipients
Eligible recipients include Francophone or other organizations that undertake project activities in both official languages, provide programs or services in French, and are located in Northern Ontario. This would normally include, for example, community economic development corporations, not-for-profit organizations, sectoral associations, post-secondary institutions that offer full-time programs of study in French and municipalities that serve the Francophone community.
Eligible Activities
The EDI is an incremental programming initiative that supports economic development activities and approaches that respond directly to related priorities of OLMCs and/or that address linguistic duality issues.
OLMC projects that meet the current priorities of the Northern Ontario Development Program ( NODP ) will continue to be administered by FedNor under the NODP .
EDI activities are anticipated to include, but are not restricted to activities designed to:
Strengthen governance and leadership capacity in OLMCs , such as providing support for youth interns as management trainees or to assume professional roles with not-for-profit OLMC cultural enterprises, festivals and events;
Enhance the capacity of the OLMC cultural sector, festivals and events to generate broad-based economic impacts and become sustainable;
Support service delivery models and economic development infrastructure that build critical mass, strengthen the vitality of OLMCs and generate economic opportunities (e.g., cooperatives, one-stop multi-service centres, virtual platforms);
Support networking and collaboration to achieve tangible economic results or enhanced services to citizens;
Develop other OLMC niche sectors and products (e.g., Québec-Ontario collaboration on business opportunity; economic opportunities through adoption of digital tools and new media);
Help SMEs capitalize on economic opportunities through linguistic duality (e.g., access new market); and
Support results-oriented OLMC business or community economic development ( CED ) research/planning initiatives to advance economic opportunities.
Eligible activities include incremental business and economic development activities such as those:
undertaken in French by, or for the benefit of, a Francophone client group; and
that encourage SMEs to provide their products or services in both official languages (e.g., to expand into Francophone markets).
For Youth Internships, the work experience must also meet one of the following criteria:
For Francophone internships, French is to be used substantively in project activities; and
For bilingual internships, the use of English and French is required to implement project activities.
Grant Application website
Contact
Please call 1-877-333-6673 to discuss your proposal with a FedNor Officer in your area or begin your application process.