Grants and Funding

Business Loans

Links to Financial Institutions in the Slave Lake region.

Arts & Culture:

Collective Initiatives │ The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR)

Documentary Heritage Communities Program

Individual Micro Grant | Alberta Music

Media Arts Equipment Acquisition Fund │ Canada Council for the Arts

Museums Assistance Program (MAP)

Music Business Innovation Micro Grant | Alberta Music

Summer School Project Funding │ Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Young Canada Works (YCW)

Employment:

Alberta Jobs Now Program

Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement

Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA)

Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)

Canada-Alberta Job Grant

Canada's COVID Economic Response Supports

Career Launcher Internship Programs │ Colleges & Institutes Canada

Career Launcher Supportive Care Assistant Program │ Colleges & Institutes Canada

Career Ready Program | TECHNATION

Digital Skills for Youth program (DS4Y) │ Eco Canada

Driving Back to Work Grant Program

EDGE UP 2.0 program

Edmonton Launch │ Foresight

Growth Catalyst program

Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program (HASCAP)

Innovation Employment Grant

Next 36

Science Horizons Youth Internship Program | Government of Canada

Skills and Partnership Fund

Small and Medium Enterprise Relaunch Grant (SMERG)

STEM Youth Awareness Program │ Scale AI

Student Work Placement Program │ Eco Canada

Young Canada Works (YCW)

Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP) | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Energy & Environment:

Alberta Petrochemicals incentive Program (APIP)

Clean Energy Improvement Program | Made-in-Alberta PACE program

Clean Fuel Fund

Cleaner Hydrocarbon Production | Alberta Innovates

Climate Action and Awareness Fund

Energy Innovation Program (EIP): Clean Energy Innovation | Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Energy Savings for Business| Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) | Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN)

Natural Gas Innovation Fund - Innovation Challenge

Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD) | Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Site Rehabilitation Program

Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program

Export:

Accelerated Investment Incentive

Alberta – Jalisco │ Alberta Innovates

Alberta Export Expansion Program │ Government of Alberta

CanExport Associations

CanExport Community Investments (CECI)

CanExport Innovation │ Government of Canada

CanExport SMEs Program | Government of Canada

Collaborative research and development projects – Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP)

Creative Export Canada

EUREKA

Export Readiness Micro-Voucher Program | Alberta Innovates

Foreign Exchange Facility Guarantee | EDC

Going Global Innovation (GGI)

Mitacs Entrepreneur International

Pan- Canadian AI Strategy

Partnership development activities (PDA) – Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP)

Soft Landing Program | Canadian Digital Media Network

Startup Global │ StartUp Canada

Food & Agriculture:

Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program

Food Waste Reduction Challenge

Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP) | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Housing:

Home Depot Canada Foundation Orange Door Awards

Seed Funding for Affordable Housing New Construction Stream

Seed Funding Program Preservation Stream

Special Needs Assistance for Seniors (SNA) Program | Alberta Seniors and Housing

Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness Initiative (SFRPHI)

The Home Depot Canada Foundation Community Impact Grants

The Home Depot Canada Foundation The Orange Door Project Grant Program

Indigenous:

50 – 30 Challenge

Community Opportunity Readiness Program | Indigenous Services Canada

Health Facilities Program

Métis Entrepreneurs’ Assistance Program (MEAP) │ Apeetogosan (Métis) Development Inc. & Pinnacle Business Services Ltd

Professional and Institutional Development Program | Indigenous Services Canada

Skills and Partnership Fund

Infrastructure

Green and Inclusive Community Buildings │ Infrastructure Canada

Healthy Communities Grant Program

Western Innovation Initiative (WINN) | Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)

Community Buildings Retrofit (CBR)

Recreation Energy Conservation Program

Municipalities:

Asset management grants for municipalities │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Canada Healthy Communities Initiative │ Community Foundations of Canada

Climate Action and Awareness Fund

Climate Adaptation Program │Municipal Climate Change Action Centre

Community-Based Justice Fund

Electric Vehicles for Municipalities Program | Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (MCCAC)

Family Violence Initiative | Department of Justice

Green and Inclusive Community Buildings │ Infrastructure Canada

Green Municipal Fund’s (GMF) Sustainable Affordable Housing │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Housing Supply Challenge │ Impact Canada

Municipal Asset Management Program

Municipal Asset Management Program │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Municipal Energy Manager Program

Municipal Stimulus Program

Municipal Sustainability Initiative

Pilot project: Local home-energy upgrade financing program │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Pilot project: Signature initiative │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Pilot projects: Stormwater quality, community project │ Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Recreation Energy Conservation Program │Municipal Climate Change Action Centre

Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program – Community Airport Program

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program – Local Municipal Initiatives (LMI)

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program – Local Road Bridge Program

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program – Resource Road Program

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program (STIP)

Water for Life Funding

Watershed Resiliency and Restoration Program

Western Innovation Initiative (WINN) | Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)

Non-Profit:

Climate Action and Awareness Fund

Community Facility Enhancement Program – Large Funding Stream

Community Facility Enhancement Program – Small Funding Stream

Other:

Alberta Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credit | Alberta Ministry of Finance and Enterprise

Allard Foundation

Canada Book Fund (CBF)

Canadian Benefit for Parents of Young Victims of Crime

Economic Development Initiative (EDI)

Futurpreneur Canada

Mineral Exploration Tax Credit (METC)

Post-Production, Visual Effects and Digital Animation Grant

Regional Relief and Recovery Fund

Scientific Research and Experimental Development

Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program | Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

Strategic Innovation Fund

Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program – Grants

Tax Savings for Industry | Natural Resources Canada

Software/Technology:

Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Concepts Program │ Alberta Innovates

Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Validate Program │ Alberta Innovates