FedNor supports projects that help communities and organizations create the right conditions for economic growth, including community efforts to organize resources, enhance business development, and take advantage of strategic opportunities.
Grow your community's economy
Identify priorities
Support for community economic development planning.
Implement priorities
Financing for identified community priorities.
Regional collaboration
Funding for initiatives that go beyond community boundaries.
Planning and delivery expertise
Support for smaller communities to identify and capitalize on opportunities.
Set the stage for business growth
Growing our innovation ecosystem
Funding for communities and organizations that support the transfer of leading-edge innovation into high-growth firms.
Accelerating business growth
Funding for organizations that support the growth, scaling-up or market expansion of businesses.
Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII)
Funding available to bring new technologies to market and help accelerate AI adoption in critical sectors.
Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative for Northern Ontario
Funding available to enhance the local housing supply chain and advance innovation in the residential construction sector.
Regional Tariff Response Initiative
The Regional Tariff Response Initiative aims to support tariff impacted small and medium-sized enterprises and sectors to boost productivity, catalyze growth, and diversify markets, through projects that can be executed successfully within the timeframe of this initiative (between March 21, 2025 and March 31, 2028).
Strengthening Francophone communities
Economic growth through linguistic duality
Support for projects that encourage growth in Northern Ontario's Francophone communities.