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Manage Sales to Governments

Learn how to sell to the federal, provincial, territorial and foreign governments.

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Agricultural Innovation Program
If you have an agricultural business, you can apply for funding to help you research and develop or market your new agricultural product or technology.
   
AgriInvest
As an agricultural producer, if you set aside savings to protect against small income declines, you can get matching contributions from the governments.
   
AgriMarketing Program
Do you have an agricultural business? You can get money to advertise and market your agricultural products, and go on trade missions.
   
AgriProcessing Initiative
If you are a Canadian processor of agricultural products, you could receive money for new machinery to help you update your manufacturing processes.
   
AgriStability Program
If you are a Canadian farmer, you can receive money to help cover costs when you bring in at least 15% less than you do in an average year. It's like an insurance against financial losses.
   
Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit
If you hire an eligible apprentice, you can receive a tax credit equivalent to 10% of their salary.
   
BDC Growth Capital for Aboriginal Business
Financing to help aboriginal business people start or grow their business
  Aboriginals     
BDC Market Xpansion Loan
Financing to help you explore new domestic or foreign market opportunities.
   
BDC Subordinate Financing
An alternative way to finance the growth of your profitable business
   
BioTalent HeadStart
Your biotechnology business can get help with simple projects from a post-secondary student.
   
Business Assistance – Immigrant Investor Program
Investments made by immigrant investors generate funds that may benefit your business.
  Cultural communities    Immigrants     
Buying a business
Find out how you may get financing to buy an existing business.
   
Canada Book Fund
Financial assistance for your Canadian book publishing business.
   
Canada Feature Film Fund - Development, Production and Marketing Programs
If you are an incorporated Canadian film producer, you can receive money to develop, produce and market your movies in English or French, if they are fiction.
   
Canada Media Fund
If you are a Canadian television or digital media producer, you could get financial assistance to produce television shows and interactive digital media, like digital games.
   
Canada Periodical Fund
You could get money to help you publish your Canadian magazine or non-daily newspaper.
   
Canada Summer Jobs
If you hire a student for the summer, this subsidy could help you cover 50% of their wages.
   
Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program
If you are a Canadian farmer, you can receive money for projects that solve problems other Canadian farmers face or that help them grow or market their products.
   
Canadian Executive Service Organization - Aboriginal Services
Are you a small aboriginal company that is looking for advice on business start-up?
  Aboriginals     
Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program
Access opportunities to sell your innovative products and services to federal government departments.
   
Capitalization of Social Economy Companies
You could obtain a capitalization loan or benefit from the purchase of preferred shares for your social economy company.
  Cooperatives    Social entrepreneurs     
Career Focus
This wage subsidy could help you pay part of the salary of college or university graduates, if you provide them with relevant work experience.
  Youths     
Clean Energy Technology Demonstration Program
This financial support could help you develop or redesign processes and technologies that help limit and correct environmental damages.
   
Co-operative Development Initiative - Advisory Services
Find out how you can get help to establish or manage your co-operative.
  Cooperatives     
Co-operative Development Initiative - Innovative Co-op Projects
Are you interested in testing the co-operative model in innovative ways? If so, your project may qualify to receive up to $75,000 per year until 2013.
  Cooperatives     
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
You can get a university to help you with your research project in natural sciences or engineering if you contribute half the costs of the project.
   
Duty Deferral Program
Have import duties on goods waived, postponed or refunded under certain circumstances.
   
ECO-FINANCING
You may obtain a loan or loan guarantee for a minimum amount of $50,000 to institute environmentally friendly business practices within your business.
   
ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative
Does your business research and develop technology that produces cleaner, more efficient energy? You could get money to cover up to 75% of your costs.
   
Employment Integration - Wage Subsidies
Do you need financial support to hire employees? If so, this measure can help you.
   
Employment Integration Program for Immigrants and Visible Minorities (PRIIME)
You could receive a subsidy to hire immigrants and members of visible minorities to help them integrate into the labour market.
  Immigrants     
Enabling Accessibility Fund - Small Project Component
Your small business may qualify for a grant of up to $50,000 to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.
  Persons with disabilitie     
Energy Loan
Financing to help your agricultural or agri-business produce its own renewable energy.
   
Environmental Technology Verification
Find out how you can get your new environmental technology accepted, both nationally and internationally.
   
Export Distribution Centre Program
If you provide limited value add to goods at the processing or distribution stages, find out if you could be exempt from paying Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax on certain purchases or imports.
   
Export Guarantee Program
An export guarantee could increase your chances of obtaining financing.
   
Exporters of Processing Services Program
As a Canadian manufacturing service company, you might qualify to import certain goods without paying Goods and Services Tax or Harmonized Sales Tax if they are later exported.
   
Farm Credit Canada Products and Services
Access capital for your farming or agri-business operation.
   
Fashion Design Tax Credit
If your business operates in the fashion or textile industry, you could receive a tax credit for payroll expenses.
   
Fiducie du Chantier de l'économie sociale
Do you need funding to start a business or develop new social economics projects?
  Cooperatives    Social entrepreneurs     
Financing for an Equipment Purchase
Learn how to get financing to buy new or used equipment or commercial vehicles for your business.
   
Financing for an Equipment Purchase
Learn how to get financing to buy new or used equipment or commercial vehicles for your business.
   
Financing for Information and Communications Technology
Do you need financing for your technology projects? Find out how you could get a loan to pay for information and communications technology for your business.
   
Financing for Land and Building Purchase
Find out how to get financing to buy land or commercial buildings or to build or expand your existing commercial facilities.
   
Financing for starting a business
Learn how you could get money to start or buy a business or to buy property or equipment to set up your business.
   
Financing for working capital
Find out how you may get a loan to grow your business.
   
Fondation du maire : le Montréal inc. de demain
Offers grants and services to young Montreal entrepreneurs.
All of Montreal       
Fonds afro-entrepreneurs
Investment fund for black business people of Quebec.
  Cultural communities    Immigrants     
Fonds Bio-Innovation
Do you need funding for your technological innovation development project?
   
Fonds d'investissement de la culture et des communications
Are you a Quebec business owner seeking funding to create, produce and distribute cultural content?
   
Fonds de développement des entreprises d'économie sociale
Do you have a social enterprise? If so, this development fund can help you.
  Social entrepreneurs     
Fonds de développement Emploi-Montréal inc.
Development capital fund for the creation or retention of local jobs.
   
For Industry: Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
If you manufacture, import, distribute or sell products, find out what you need to do to ensure that your products are safe.
   
French in the Workplace Program
Get a tax credit by offering your employees free on-site French courses right in your workplace.
   
Going Global Innovation
Funding to help you find foreign partners for research and development collaboration.
   
Grant Programs for Writers and Publishers
As a professional writer, collective or publisher, you can apply for various grants through the Canada Council for the Arts.
   
Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism
Learn how to enhance your tourism business through developmental training programs.
   
Group Entrepreneurship: Funding Social Economy Enterprises
You can obtain funding for your social economy enterprise.
  Cooperatives    Social entrepreneurs     
Hiring Credit for Small Business
Are you an employer who is paying more Employment Insurance premiums in 2011 than you did last year? You can get a tax credit for up to $1,000.
   
Housing Internship Initiative for First Nations and Inuit Youth
Your housing-related Aboriginal business may qualify for wage subsidies of up to $10,000 to hire and train First Nations or Inuit youths.
  Aboriginals     
Industrial Design Tax Credit
This tax credit helps your Quebec-based business carry out industrial design to improve product competiveness.
   
Industrial R&D Fellowships Program
You could get help to hire a PhD graduate to work on a research project in natural sciences or engineering for your business for 2 years.
   
Industrial Research Assistance Program - Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program
Find out how you can add digital technologies to your business operations to increase productivity.
   
Industrial Research Assistance Program: Youth Employment Program
Obtain financial assistance to hire a skilled post-secondary graduate to work on your innovative project.
   
Industry Partnership Programs
You could get help with your Canadian research and development projects in natural sciences or engineering from colleges and universities in Canada.
   
Interconnection Program
Meet qualified, experienced newcomers with skills in your field.
  Immigrants     
International Events and Convention Services Program
Helps you identify border requirements related to your event in Canada.
   
International Science and Technology Partnerships Program
Access funding that could help you collaborate with international partners on research and development projects in science and technology.
   
Investissement-Femmes-Montréal
Investment fund for businesses predominantly owned and controlled by women in the Montreal area.
  Women     
Investment Cooperation Program
Receive financing that can help your business invest in developing countries.
   
Jeunes Promoteurs
If you want to start up your first business and you are between the ages of 18 and 35, you may be eligible to obtain financial assistance.
  Youths     
Local Investment Fund
Obtain financing to start or expand a business in Quebec.
   
Marketing Booster Program
Find out how to market your small business and get up to 40 hours of individual business coaching when you participate in these interactive marketing workshops.
   
Marketing information system training
Learn how to understand, plan and develop a marketing information system in order to better analyze your business' environment and markets.
   
MITACS-Accelerate
Learn how you can expand your R&D potential by acquiring a university graduate to research your technology project.
   
MUSICACTION
Financing to support the French language recording industry and its artists.
   
NextGen Biofuels™
If your business produces biofuel (ethanol or biodiesel) using the latest technologies, and your product has been successfully tested, you can get money to help market it.
   
NEXUS
You can use this card to help you cross the Canada-U.S. border faster when you travel for business.
   
NORTHSTAR Trade Finance Inc.
Your foreign customer can get financing to purchase your products and services.
   
Opportunities Fund - Funding for Employers and Organizations
If you are a person with disabilities who wants to start a business or an employer who would like to hire someone with a disability, you could qualify for funds.
  Persons with disabilitie     
Price Pooling Program
If you are a Canadian farmer or a member of a marketing agency, you can get a guaranteed price for your products, so you can still receive credit from your bank, when the market price is down.
   
Production of Multimedia Titles
This tax measure supports the production of multimedia titles in Quebec.
   
Programme ClimatSol - Montréal
Vous pourriez recevoir une aide financière pour la réhabilitation des terrains contaminés intégrant des mesures de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et d'efficacité énergétique des bâtiments.
Montreal       
Programme d'aide aux études - Études de besoins et de faisabilité
Cette aide financière pourrait vous aider à effectuer des études préalables à vos projets de réaménagement ou de construction si vous êtes un organisme culturel professionnel de Montréal.
Montreal       
Programme d'aide financière aux OBNL locataires œuvrant dans les domaines de l'art et de la culture, du développement social et communautaire et des loisirs
Obtenez du financement pour vos projets touchant les domaines de l'art et de la culture, du développement social et communautaire, et des loisirs, en tant qu' organisme à but non lucratif montréalais locataire dans un immeuble non résidentiel imposable.
Montreal      Non Profit Organizations     
Programme d'aide municipal (PR@M) – Commerce
Si vous êtes propriétaire immobilier commercial, vous pourriez obtenir une subvention pour moderniser l'aménagement de votre entreprise et favoriser une meilleure rentabilité.
Montreal       
Programme d'aide municipal (PR@M) – Industrie
Vous êtes propriétaires de bâtiment industriel de Montréal? Vous pourriez obtenir un remboursement de la taxe foncière générale reliée à l'augmentation de la valeur foncière suite à la construction, à la reconversion ou à l'agrandissement de votre bâtiment.
Montreal       
Programme d'aide à la mise en valeur des forêts privées
If you are a recognized forestry producer, you could obtain funding to conduct forestry activities in private forests.
   
Programme de partenariat culture et communauté
Vous êtres un organisme culturel professionnel ou un organisme communautaire montréalais? Vous pourriez développer un partenariat pour réaliser vos projets culturels et communautaires.
Montreal       
Programme de soutien aux collectes de fonds - Organismes culturels professionnels
Vous êtes un organisme culturel professionnel montréalais ? Vous pourriez recevoir du financement pour l'organisation d'une campagne de collectes de fonds.
Montreal      Non Profit Organizations     
Programme de soutien aux festivals et aux événements culturels
Cette aide financière vise à appuyer votre organisme à but non lucratif dans la promotion des festivals et des événements culturels qui se déroulent sur le territoire de la Ville de Montréal
Montreal      Non Profit Organizations     
Programme de soutien à la diffusion du patrimoine montréalais
Si vous êtes un organisme en patrimoine de Montréal, vous pourriez recevoir une aide financière pour vos activités de diffusion visant à sensibiliser, informer et familiariser le public à la diversité du patrimoine montréalais.
Montreal       
Programme montréalais d'action culturelle
Vous êtes un organisme culturel professionnel? Vous pourriez recevoir une aide financière pour vos initiatives visant une plus grande accessibilité des Montréalais aux arts et à la culture.
Montreal       
Programme UBIFRANCE/QUÉBEC
You can request reimbursement of travel and hospitality expenses incurred in France, if you have agreed to a Quebec-France partnership to carry out an industrial project.
   
Regional Economic Intervention Fund (FIER)
This development fund can help your business access financing at the start-up, growth, succession or turnaround phase.
   
Réseau des SADC du Québec - SADC Network
If you live in a rural region of Quebec, you could access business counseling, financing and training to start or grow your business.
   
Réseau des SADC du Québec - SADC Network
If you live in a rural region of Quebec, you could access business counseling, financing and training to start or grow your business.
   
Réseau québécois du crédit communautaire
You can obtain microfinancing from this network to start a business in Quebec.
   
Science and Technology Internship Program
If your business is in the geomatics, geology, mining, forestry or energy sector, you could get money to hire recent graduates in science, engineering or business.
   
Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) - Tax Incentive Program
You can get a tax credit, if you spend money on industrial research and development in Canada.
   
Self-Employment Support
Receive financial and technical support to start or purchase a microbusiness.
   
Signature Experiences Collection
If your Canadian tourism business provides an experience for travellers, you could get a chance to market your product for free to key countries.
   
Skills Link
Need employees? You can receive money to hire and train young Canadians between the ages of 15 and 30 to work on your project.
  Youths     
Small Business Deduction
If you operate a Canadian-controlled private corporation, your business may be eligible for an annual tax credit.
   
Small Business Internship Program
Get funding to hire a student to help you implement e-business practices and technologies that can increase your sales or improve productivity.
   
SME Transfer Solution
These financial products and professional services facilitate the acquisition or sale of a business.
   
Soutien aux entreprises de la Métropole pour l'emploi et la relance
If you own a business in Montreal, you may be eligible for a staff training grant.
   
Strategic Support for Investment Program
Obtain funding for your major investment or new product development projects.
   
Support for hiring workers who have suffered employment injuries
You may be able to obtain a grant to hire workers who have suffered employment injuries.
   
Sustainable Development Technology Fund
Do you need money to develop and test a new energy technology? You can get funding for clean technology products that fight climate change.
   
Tax Credit for an On-the-Job Training Period
Does your enterprise need a trainee? If so, you could qualify for a tax credit.
   
Tax Credit for Technological Adaptation Services
This credit helps you gain access to strategic information about existing technologies, and invest in research and innovation networks.
   
Tax Holiday for Foreign Experts
This tax measure facilitates the recruitment of recognized foreign experts to work on your innovation project.
   
Tax holiday for foreign researchers
If your business does scientific research and experimental development, you could obtain financial assistance to recruit foreign researchers.
   
Tour Operator Partnership Program
Receive funding to market your Nova Scotia tour package product.
   
Training for Managers and Supervisors in the Tourism Industry
Boost your competitiveness and bottom line by getting your managers trained and certified.
   
Transition financing
If you are retiring or ready to sell your business, you could get money for succession planning.
   
UNIQ Financing - Capital Assets
You could obtain a loan, loan guarantee or quasi-equity financing to acquire assets for your business.
   
UNIQ Financing - Working capital
You could get a loan, a loan guarantee or quasi-equity financing to increase the working capital for your business.
   
Validation Certificate for Pre-Competitive Research Consortiums
Do you do pre-competitive research and want to create research consortiums? If so, this tax credit can help you.
   
Vehicle and Equipment Financing Partnership
Your small to medium-sized financing or lease company could access expanded financing options to provide vehicle and equipment loan or lease contracts.
   
VentureOne Program™ - Canada Post
You could save up to 8% on the distribution of your parcels and documents with this program.
   
Work-Sharing
If your business is going through a slow period and you don't want to lay off experienced workers, you can get income support to help you pay them.
   
Workforce training measurement
Your business could receive technical or financial assistance to define your training needs, to set up your project, and to assess its effectiveness.