Program helps ‘plant the seeds’ for Indigenous-led businesses – TBNewsWatch.com

Eligibility requirements for the program require the business to be majority Indigenous-led (First Nation, Metis, Inuit) and either a new start-up business that was begun within the last year or a proposal of a new start-up business that will be launched within six months.

THUNDER BAY — Supporting Indigenous entrepreneurship and business growth is one of the pillars of the Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC) and for that reason, the Miinikaanan Badakidoon Grant Program has grown into its own entity.

Beginning as a funding stream of the CEDC’s successful Starter Company Plus Program, it has now become a permanent and independent program and is taking applications for its third cohort.

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