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Aboriginal Business Financing Program - Private Project
Native Commercial Credit Corporation
Get a non-refundable contribution of up to $99,999 for business start-up or expansion, marketing, project management, professional advisory services, and development of a business plan, marketing plan or feasibility studies.
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Aboriginal Business Financing Program — Community project
Native Commercial Credit Corporation
Get a non-refundable contribution of up to $1 million for businesses owned by a First Nation, the Native Alliance of Quebec, or by one of their members. Funds can be used for business start-up or expansion, marketing, project management, professional advisory services, and development of a business plan, marketing plan or feasibility studies.
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Accélérateur d'opportunités - Soutien à la productivité (in French only)
Ville de Laval
Get support and a grant of up to $125,000 for your Laval company's digital transformation project.
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Advisory Services Program – stream 2
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec
You could get 75% of expenses up to $3000 (per project) to partner with other local agri-businesses to market and find co-development opportunities.
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Aide au fonctionnement pour les radios autochtones locales (in French only)
Ministère de la culture
Receive up to $10,000 in financial assistance to help you carry out your mission and activities.
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Arts Abroad — Circulation and Touring
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $200,000 to cover up to 50% of eligible costs related to touring and exhibition activities of Canadian artists, artistic groups and arts organizations which build international exposure and increase the visibility of Canadian artists and their works abroad.
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Arts Abroad — Representation and Promotion
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $30,000 for travel linked to the international promotion of Canadian artists and artistic works internationally, establishing a place for Canadian arts practice in the global arts market.
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Arts Abroad — Residencies
Canada Council for the Arts
Get up to $20,000 to cover eligible costs when you are invited to participate in an artistic or cultural exchange involving creative research, creation or networking activities within the context of an international residency.
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Arts Abroad — Translation
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $20,000 to cover costs associated with the translation of Canadian literary works or dramatic works for international presentation or publication.
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Arts Abroad — Travel
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $30,000 to cover travel costs associated with presentations, exhibitions, artistic collaborations, networking or building market opportunities outside of Canada, to build an international presence.
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Arts Across Canada — Arts Festivals and Presenters
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant covering up to 60% of your total annual revenues when you present and exhibit quality art and literary works to Canadian audiences.
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Arts Across Canada — Public Outreach
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $100,000 for activities including live events, publications and other initiatives that build connections between artists and diverse audiences.
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Arts Across Canada — Representation and Promotion
Canada Council for the Arts
If you represent a Canadian artist, get a grant of up to $30,000 to cover travel costs related to promotion and the development of new markets for Canadian artists and artistic works.
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Arts Across Canada — Travel
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $30,000 to cover travel costs associated with presentations, exhibitions, artistic collaborations, networking or building market opportunities as an artist, arts professional or arts organization.
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Atlantic salmon habitat enhancement, development and restoration program (in French only)
Fondation de la faune du Québec
You could obtain financial assistance to fund your initiatives to conserve, improve or restore Atlantic salmon habitat.
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CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
If your SME or non-profit is working on a project to become more environmentally friendly, improve productivity, strengthen commercialization or integrate with regional and global supply chains, you could get a contribution to help with some of the costs.
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CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative — Indigenous stream
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
If your SME or non-profit is working on a project to become more environmentally friendly, improve productivity, strengthen commercialization or integrate with regional and global supply chains, you could get a contribution to help with some of the costs
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CED Tourism Relief Fund - Quebec
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
If you’re working on a project to enhance tourism experiences in your region or helping the community attract more visitors, you could get a $100,000 non-repayable contribution for up to 50% of your project’s costs or a $500,000 repayable contribution for up to 75% of the costs.
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CED Tourism Relief Fund — Indigenous stream
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
If you’re working on a project to enhance tourism experiences in your region or helping the community attract more visitors, you could get a maximum $100,000 non-repayable contribution for up to 50% of your project’s costs or a maximum $500,000 repayable contribution for up to 75% of the costs. If you’re also a non-profit, the contribution is most likely non-repayable.
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Canada Council of the Arts — Initiatives
Canada Council for the Arts
Get support in the form of one-time or recurring initiatives that allow you or your arts group or organization to take advantage of special funding, perform or exhibit work, take part in learning opportunities, network at conferences or showcase at events.
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Canada Pavilion Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If your export-ready company features products from the agriculture and agri-food sectors, you can get funding to offset the cost of booth prices on a show-by-show basis when you exhibit at trade shows.
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Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If you’re a not-for-profit or Indigenous organization working towards sustainability and competitiveness by adopting new technology or building capacity, get up to $1 million per project in cost-shared funding to cover up to 50% of eligible project costs in most cases, and up to 75% for high-priority projects for the sector.
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Community Futures Network of Canada
Community Futures
If your business is located in a rural community, and doesn’t qualify for the federal wage subsidy or other supports, you may be eligible for financial assistance through your Community Futures Network Canada to help continue your operations, including paying your employees, and to prepare for a successful recovery from the effects of COVID-19.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Indigenous Organizations
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant to cover some of your costs (amounts vary by category) when you engage in contemporary, customary or traditional artistic and cultural activities, including collaborations with non-Indigenous organizations.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Long-Term Projects
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $300,000 for 1–3 year projects involving creating (research/writing), knowing (mentorship, training) or sharing (exhibitions, presentations, collaborations) — including those with non-Indigenous artists.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Short-Term Projects
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $100,000 for projects up to 12 months involving creating (research/writing), knowing (mentorship, training) or sharing (exhibitions, presentations, collaborations) — including those with non-Indigenous artists.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Small-Scale Activities
Canada Council for the Arts
Get up to $3,000 to cover costs for activities like training, getting expert advice, and purchasing materials to advance your artistic career or practice.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Travel
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $30,000 to support travel costs to attend events within Canada or abroad that offer professional development or access to new markets if you are a First Nations, Inuit or Métis artist/organization, or artist's representative.
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Créavenir
Desjardins
If you are under 35 years of age and starting a business or developing a business that is less than 3 years old, obtain financial assistance in the form of a line of credit of up to $15,000 at a preferential rate of 0.5% and a grant of up to $5000.
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Dairy Farm Investment Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If you’re a dairy farmer (cow’s milk), get up to $100,000 to cover up to 50% of the costs to improve your productivity by upgrading your equipment.
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Dairy Processing Investment Fund - Access to Expertise (For-profit)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Contributions of up to $250,000 per year to access expertise to improve productivity and competitiveness of dairy processors.
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Dairy Processing Investment Fund - Capital Investment (Not-For-Profit)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Contributions of up to $10 million per year for capital investments to improve productivity and competitiveness of dairy processors.
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Dairy Processing Investment Fund — Capital Investment (For-Profit)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Contributions of up to $10 million per year for capital investments to improve productivity and competitiveness of dairy processors.
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Digital Strategy Fund — Digital Literacy and Intelligence
Canada Council for the Arts
Get between $50,000 and $250,000 to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the digital era as an artist, group or arts organization by building digital knowledge, skills and capacity.
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Digital Strategy Fund — Market Access Strategy
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $60,000 for activities that directly support a market access and development strategy if you are an artist, group or arts organization who identifies as belonging to an official language minority community (OLMC) where that language is not the majority language in your province or territory (e.g. Angolophones in Quebec and Francophones outside of Quebec).
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Economic Diversification Fund — Central Quebec and La Mauricie
Investissement Québec
Contributions or loans for business development projects in central Quebec or the Mauricie.
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Engage and Sustain — Artistic Catalysts
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant covering up to 50% of your total revenues, if your organization facilitates interactions among artists and connections with the public.
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Engage and Sustain — Artistic Institutions
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant covering up to 25% of your total revenues, if you carry out activities that encourage and promote the work of creators, strengthening their relationships with the public.
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Explore and Create — Artist-Driven Organizations
Canada Council for the Arts
If you’re an artistic organization, you could get a grant equal to 60% of your total annual revenues, averaged over the last 3 years, to pay for research, creation, and production through to dissemination.
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Explore and Create — Research and Creation
Canada Council for the Arts
If you’re an artist, curator, writer, or part of an artist group or collective, you could get up to $25,000 to pay for creative research, creation, and product development.
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Farm Credit Canada — Loans and lending options
Farm Credit Canada
You could access flexible financing options for your farming, agri-food or agribusiness operation.
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Financial assistance for music production and variety programming (in French only)
SODEC
Do you own a music, entertainment-production, or artist management company? If so, you could get a grant for your commercial activities.
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Fonds Entrepreneuriat commercial
PME MTL
Receive up to $25,000 in financial assistance to develop your business in the retail sector.
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Fonds d'initiative et de rayonnement de la métropole (in French only)
Affaires municipales et Habitation
Receive financial support of up to $500,000 to implement a project that aims to improve the development, promotion and influence of Montreal and the metropolitan region in terms of economic, cultural, environmental and social development.
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Growth Investment program — Agri-Environmental Enhancement of Cultivated Land
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $20,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $200,000 from La Financière agricole for on-farm agri-environmental projects, or ones that will enhance the value of your cultivated land.
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Growth Investment program — Growth Support
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $30,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $300,000 from La Financière agricole for agribusiness projects related to supply-managed production or maple syrup production.
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Growth Investment program — Growth Support Plus
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $60,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $600,000 from La Financière agricole for all projects except those related to supply-managed production or maple syrup production.
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INNOGEC - Relance Fund (in French only)
Filaction
Get up to $10,000 to cover the fees of experts who will help your collective business assess the situation following the health crisis and up to $30,000 for them to assist you with your change management plan, recovery or business model adjustment.
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INNOGEC Fund (in French only)
Filaction
Get up to $15,000 to cover a portion of the service fees of management and governance consultants employed by your group company.
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Invest-AI (in French only)
Vooban
Have you started your digital transformation and have one or more projects with an AI component? You could receive a grant to cover up to 50% of your activities.
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Lac-Mégantic Economic Assistance Fund
Investissement Québec
Whether your business operates inside or outside of Quebec, you can obtain a loan, loan guarantee or non-repayable contribution towards an investment that contributes to the economy of Lac Mégantic.
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Metropolitan Initiative and Outreach Fund – Stream 1
Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation
Receive financial support to carry out operations aimed at improving the development, promotion and outreach of Montreal and the metropolitan region.
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Metropolitan Initiative and Outreach Fund – Stream 2
Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation
Access funding to address theme-based calls for projects in the economic, cultural, environmental and social fields to improve the quality of life in the metropolis and the metropolitan region of Montreal.
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Museums Assistance Program — Indigenous Heritage
Canadian Heritage
Maximum funding per fiscal year of $200,000 for projects related to the preservation, management and presentation of Indigenous cultural heritage in Canada.
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NGen Cluster Building Project
NGEN - Next Generation Manufacturing
You can get a funding of up to $150, 000 to cover a maximum of 50% of eligible costs if you work within an industry-led, membership-based organization to enhance capabilities and growth through the application of, or access to advanced manufacturing technologies, best practices and principles.
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NRC Pandemic Response Challenge Program
National Research Council
If your organization offers its capabilities and expertise to help fight against COVID-19, you could get financing to cover the costs of collaborative R&D projects. The program is focused on 3 main research areas: rapid detection and diagnosis, therapeutics and vaccine development, and digital health.
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National Trade Corridors Fund — Continuous Call
Transport Canada
Get a financial contribution for projects that improve access to overseas markets, in particular ones that add capacity or address bottlenecks near major ports, airports, or along road and rail corridors in Canada.
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Plateforme d'innovation panneaux (in French only)
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs
Get a grant of up to $375,000 for your wood-to-panel project.
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Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program — Stream 1
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Get a non-repayable contribution to cover up to 70% of the costs of on-farm investments in modernizing operations, increasing efficiency, biosecurity, environmental sustainability, and meeting changing consumer demands, retroactive to March 19, 2019.
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Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program — Stream 2
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If you were 35 years old or younger on January 1, 2021, get a non-repayable contribution to cover up to 85% of the costs of on-farm investments in modernizing operations, increasing efficiency, biosecurity, environmental sustainability, and meeting changing consumer demands, retroactive to March 19, 2019.
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Program of assistance to the digital adaptation of the companies of the written information press (in French only)
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications
Do you operate a print media enterprise? If so, you may be eligible for financial assistance to initiate or continue with digitalization.
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Programme Compétitivité et environnement 2022-2024 (in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Obtain financial assistance for the contribution of expertise, the improvement of competitiveness and the realization of structuring projects in your company in the dairy and meat processing sectors.
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Programme de soutien financier aux orientations gouvernementales en action communautaire et en action bénévole (in French only)
Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
Obtain financial support of up to $400,000 for the research and implementation of projects that support government orientations in community action.
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Programme de soutien à l'économie sociale - volet 3: Projets structurants de mutualisation (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Obtain support for projects involving the sharing or pooling of resources, services or activities between social economy enterprises in order to optimize access to these resources and ensure the economic viability of the enterprises.
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Programme de soutien à l'économie sociale - volet 4: Approvisionnement auprès des entreprises d'économie sociale (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Get financial support for promotional and outreach activities that allow your company to access government, municipal and private markets.
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Programme de soutien à l’économie sociale – volet 2: Développement de secteurs stratégiques en économie sociale (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Obtain support for concerted initiatives and the deployment of structuring activity programs.
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Programme d’appui au développement des secteurs stratégiques et des créneaux d’excellence (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Receive a grant of up to 50% of the cost of eligible expenses for the implementation of departmental and governmental strategies for the development of strategic sectors and niches of excellence.
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Programme d’appui financier au développement du secteur des pêches et de l’aquaculture commerciales - Volet 1 - Appui au développement [PDF](in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Obtain financial assistance of up to $1,000,000 for the development of products or the implementation of innovative processes aimed at increasing your company's production and sales.
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Programme d’appui financier au développement du secteur des pêches et de l’aquaculture commerciales - Volet 2 - Amélioration de la compétitivité des entreprises de transformation des produits [PDF](in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Receive up to $300,000 in financial assistance to improve the productivity, food safety and security of your products in order to strengthen your company's competitiveness.
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Quebec Economic Development Program
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Find out about financial and other resources that can help you develop your Quebec business.
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REGI — Business Scale-up and Productivity — CED (QC) — Private sector
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Get a financial contribution to help you scale up and expand, adopt and commercialize innovative technologies and processes, or diversify your markets.
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REGI — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Your organization could get a financial contribution to assist businesses at all stages of development in scaling up and becoming more globally competitive. Investments will focus on enhancing business support networks for under-represented groups — including women, Indigenous peoples and young entrepreneurs — and supporting regional strategic clusters, accelerators and incubators, and projects that attract foreign investments.
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REGI — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — CED (QC) — Private sector
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Your organization could get a financial contribution to assist you in scaling up and becoming more globally competitive. Investments will focus on enhancing business support networks for under-represented groups — including women, Indigenous peoples and young entrepreneurs — and supporting regional strategic clusters, accelerators and incubators, and projects that attract foreign investments.
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SME In Action Program — Support for SME productivity
Investissement Québec
Non-repayable contribution of up to $50,000 for supply chain optimization, implementation of management systems or customer relationship management systems, applying production standards or implementing a cost accounting system.
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Scale AI (in French only)
Vooban
Have you started your digital transformation and have a project or projects with AI components? You could receive a grant covering up to 50% of your activities to integrate artificial intelligence into your supply chain?
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Soutien aux initiatives de développement économique dans l'arrondissement d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville (in French only)
Ville de Montréal
Get financial assistance to propel your collective economic development initiatives.
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Strategic Innovation Fund — Stream 1
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Get a contribution of up to 50% of eligible expenses to conduct R&D that will accelerate technology transfer and commercialization of innovative products, processes and services.
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Support for innovation projects
Investissement Québec
Get up to $350,000 to cover 50% of the costs of project planning, R&D, technology validation and technological showcase activities relating to the development of innovative products or processes.
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Supporting Artistic Practice — Literary Publishers
Canada Council for the Arts
If you’re a Canadian publisher supporting Canadian authors, you could get up to $250,000/year if you publish Canadian books, $120,000/year for Canadian magazines, or up to $300,000/year if you publish both.
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Supporting Artistic Practice — Literary Publishing Projects
Canada Council for the Arts
If you’re a Canadian literary book or creative writing magazine publisher, you could get up to $30,000 for activities that develop and promote Canadian literary writers through the publishing process.
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Supporting Artistic Practice — National Arts Service Organizations
Canada Council for the Arts
If you’re a national arts service organization, you could get funding equal to 60% of your annual revenues to support representation, promotion, and exchange through networking, shared learning, research, and other ongoing services.
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Supporting Artistic Practice — Support Organizations
Canada Council for the Arts
You could get funding equal to 60% of your annual revenues if you’re an artist-run centre, own an art/literature magazine, or operate an agency or service organization that supports the development of a particular artistic practice.
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
Telus
Get funding for your innovative projects in health, education, agriculture and the environment.
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Transformation numérique des entreprises collectives (in French only)
Conseil québécois de la coopération et de la mutualité
Get funding of up to $20,000 and training for the digital transformation of your collective business (cooperative or NPO).