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


Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP)


Entrepreneurial Investments | Alberta Innovates


ImplementAB.digH │ Alberta Innovates


Internet of Things: Quantum Sensors Challenge program


Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) Supercluster Projects


Regional Innovation Ecosystems (RIE)


Technology │ Protein Industries Canada


Tourism:

Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)


Stabilize Program – Phase 2



Universities:

Climate Action and Awareness Fund


Health Innovation Talent Development │Alberta Innovates


John R. Evans Leaders Fund


Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF)



Women:

Global Fund for Women


Status of Women Grant Program – Innovation | Status of Women


Women in Trade – Export Development Canada (EDC)


Workplace opportunities: Removing barriers to equity