Support for businesses

Whether you're looking to start or expand your business, reach new markets, develop an innovative new product or improve your productivity, FedNor can help you access the business financing, information or connections you need to make it happen.

Grow your business

Business Growth and Competitiveness

FedNor can assist your business to access capital, modernize processes, increase trade, exports, and access to new markets.

Business Scale-up and Productivity

FedNor can assist your business to grow and adopt or adapt new, innovative technologies to become more competitive in both domestic and global markets.

Targeted Manufacturing Initiative for Northern Ontario - Productivity improvements

FedNor can help upgrade and improve capital equipment used in your manufacturing processes to improve your competitiveness and productivity.

Targeted Manufacturing Initiative for Northern Ontario - Operational assessments

Funding available to help you better plan, prioritize and implement changes to improve efficiency, quality, and profitability.

Youth internships

Funding to enable businesses to hire recent post-secondary graduates.

Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII)

Funding available to bring new technologies to market and help accelerate AI adoption in critical sectors.

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).

Regional Defence Investment Initiative

The Government of Canada is strengthening Canada’s defence industrial base with the Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII). The initiative supports the Government of Canada’s efforts under the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) to enhance national defence capabilities and contribute to Canada’s commitment to spend 2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence as part of its NATO obligations.

Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative for Northern Ontario

Funding available to enhance the local housing supply chain and advance innovation in the residential construction sector.

Black Entrepreneurship Program

Black Canadian business owners can grow their businesses and succeed now and into the future.

Our delivery partners

Collaborating partners

FedNor supports and collaborates with organizations that are dedicated to the success of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Northern Ontario.

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Export and trade

Services to help businesses reach new domestic and international markets.