Funding & Grants for BC Businesses

Agriculture Grants

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• Agriculture Environment Initiatives

• Investment Agriculture Foundation

• BC Buy local program

• Growing Forward 2

• Dairy Processing Investment Fund
   

Grants for Business and the Arts
 

• Strategic Innovation Fund

• Venture Capital Programs

• Employee Share Ownership Program

• Labour Sponsored Funds Program

• The British Columbia Arts Council

• ARTS BC

• Canada Council for the Arts Grants

• City of Vancouver Cultural Services, Grants, Awards & Support Programs

• Northern Development Competitiveness Consulting Rebate 

• Canada Periodical Fund

• Film Incentive BC Tax Credit

• Production Services Tax Credit
   

Grants for Environmental Initiatives
 

• Canada’s funding programs for the Environment and Climate Change

• Northern Development Forest Innovation Fund

• Sustainable Development Tech Fund

• NextGen Biofuels Fund

• Program of Energy Research and Development (PERD)
   

Export Support Grants
 

• CanExport Grant

• Canadian International Innovation Program
   

Research and Technology Grants
 

• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

• National Research Council Canada – Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)

• Concierge Service – Your Guide to Innovation

• Mitacs
   

Trades Grants
 

• Government of Canada support for apprentices

• Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

• Apprenticeship Completion Grant

• Women in Trades Training
   

Grants for Indigenous Entrepreneurs
 

• Aboriginal Business and Entrepreneurship Development

• Business Equity Fund

• Grant writing support through Northern Development Initiative Trust

• Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business

• Aboriginal Financial Institutions by Province
   

Grants for Wage Subsidies
 

• Province of BC – Targeted Wage Subsidies employment program

• Province of BC – Job Creation Partnerships employment program

• Province of BC – Labour Market Partnerships employment program

• Douglas College – Career Focus Wage Subsidy Program

• Get Youth Working Program

• Connect Canada Internship 
   

Other Grants
 

• Canada-BC Job Grant

• Federal Government – Employee / Skills Subsidy or Grant Programs

• Vancouver Foundation Grants