The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

FedDev Ontario’s 1st Anniversary Open House Celebrating the FEDDEV Agency’s anniversary of delivering economic and community development programs throughout Southern Ontario with the Minister of State, Gary Goodyear. Have the opportunity to talk with local community leaders and local business plus learn about some of the projects that have been funded throughout the region. Gain [...]

Additional Credit for Export Development

Export Development Canada in partnership with Mercantile Finance Services Ltd., can provide unsecured loans of up to $50,000 for a two year term to support Canadian companies with export business development goals. My clients have enjoyed these funds to assist them with increase production capacity for exporting, attending trade shows or new marketing efforts for [...]

Update Hiring Co-op Students for eBusiness Intiatives

The coop hiring program has received significant interest this year – it is called SBIP. Here is the link to my post: http://mentorworks.ca/canadian-business-coaching-blog/hiring-coop-student/. Follow the links on this and other hiring mechanisms  – but the projects that are eligible for co-op hire is geared to your website only. Getting your site rankings improved, improve conversion traffic from website, press [...]

Graduate Internship Program for Business Growth

Another hiring program,  and probably the most popular, is the Accelerate Ontario program. As Ontario’s Graduate Research Internship Program, the goal is to connect high-quality expertise from the province’s universities with Ontario businesses.  The partner company contributes $7,500 and the funds are matched by Accelerate Ontario through Government Canada. The benefits to the company are [...]

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FedDev Commercialization Initiative

Partnerships with SMEs & Universities/Colleges To encourage post-secondary institutions in southern Ontario to increase partnerships with SMEs and undertake pre-commercialization and applied research development expertise projects, the Federal Economic Development Agency (FedDev Ontario) have provide up to $15 million in funding to accelerate the collaboration. The greater collaboration will enhance innovation, improve productivity and competitiveness [...]

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