Community Futures Program
FedNor's has a Community Futures (CF) Program; This program helps to support sixtyone Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs), throughout Ontario. In the North there are twenty-four corporations, leaving the remaining thirty-seven to help serve Eastern and Southern Ontario. CFDCs provide an assortment of different programs and services which are for assisting in the community economic development and small business growth. These programs are able to provide help in: Strategic community planning and socio-economic development; Support for community-based projects; Business information and planning services; and Access to capital for small and medium-sized businesses and social enterprises. These community-based, not-for-profit organizations are staffed by professionals and are each governed by local volunteer boards of directors familiar with their communities' needs, concerns and future development priorities
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