Frontenac Business Services provides a range of support for businesses including flexible commercial financing up to $300,000.
There are a number of grant and funding opportunities available to businesses in Frontenac County. The programs below are ongoing, however there are also a number of provincial and federal opportunities that open and close on a regular basis.
Ontario Trillium Foundation grants help many types of organizations and communities deliver programs and services with direct community benefit for the people of Ontario.
Purpose: Equipment, renovations, installations, repairs, building structures
Recipients: Business, Municipal, Not-for-Profit
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Rural Economic Development Program provides funding to help create strong businesses, boost economic growth, protect jobs and improve infrastructure in small communities.
Purpose: Create diversified business climates, long term jobs, local approach to economic development, creation of alliances and partnerships, develop information, tools and resources to enhance rural economic development.
Recipients: Municipal, Not-for-Profit
Federation of Canadian Municipalities offers grants for municipal environmental projects. Loans are also available to municipalities at competitive rates, and most recipients receive an additional grant of up to 15 percent of their loan amount. Municipal partners may apply for competitive, long-term financing.
Purpose: retrofitting, construction, replacement, expansion or installation of fixed assets or infrastructure that will improve environmental performance in municipal energy, transportation, waste, or water
Recipients: Municipalities
Application Deadline: Project specific
The Eastern Ontario Development Fund is open to businesses, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations for economic development in Eastern Ontario.
Community Improvement Plans (CIP) can help communities address challenges that prevent optimization in certain areas. Through CIPs, municipalities can provide financial support to property owners for improvements that fit the critera of the plan. Municipalities can also acquire, rehabilitate, and dispose of land, and improve infrastructure and public spaces. CIPs are proven to encourage change, improve community development, and foster economic growth.
CIP program details are available from Township of North Frontenac, Township of Central Frontenac, Township of South Frontenac, and Township of Frontenac Islands.
The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a five-year commitment by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments to support Canada’s agri-food and agri-products sectors.