Welcome to Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region
Community Futures was nominated and was a finalist for the Employer of Choice - Over 10 Employees award for the 2009 Small Business Week Awards!
We offer a wide range of services to entrepreneurs, not-for-profit organizations and communities in the Grand Prairie Region.
Our services include:
- Business counselling
- Business loans and business development programs to kick start or expand your enterprise
- Self-employment programs and entrepreneur training
- Community economic development – helping communities find local solutions to complex social and economic issues.
- Specialized programs for young entrepreneurs.
Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region serves the following municipalities:
- Beaverlodge
- Elmworth
- County of Grande Prairie
- City of Grande Prairie
- Grovedale (including county)
- La Glace
- Sexsmith
- Valhalla
- Hythe
- Wembley
What is Community Futures?
Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region is a non-profit organization guided by a volunteer board of directors and staffed with business professionals, who together are actively engaged in helping to develop and implement community-based economic development strategies.
Community Futures organizations are user-friendly business development centres that control and manage investment funds from which they make fully repayable loans (up to a maximum of $150,000) to community members who are interested in starting or expanding their own businesses.
Community Futures organizations are entrepreneurial development centres that provide one-on-one business training to assist individuals who are interested in self-employment or in expanding their business.
Community Futures organizations are proactive, progressive community organizations dedicated to strengthening both their community's entrepreneurs and their community's economy as a whole.