Welcome to Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region
- We offer a wide range of services to entrepreneurs, not-for-profit organizations and communities in the Grande 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 youth.
- Entrepreneurial Learning Center (ELC) - Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region is one of 32 video conferencing endpoints in Alberta. Clients may access training and information via Brown Bag presentations and seminars hosted from The Business Link in Edmonton. To find out more about the sessions being offered via the ELC, click here.
Video Conference equipment can also be booked for meetings, employment interviews and anything else that might otherwise involve travel. For more information on booking the system or to attend a session or seminar, click here.
Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region serves the following municipalities:
- Beaverlodge
- Elmworth
- Grande Prairie (including county)
- 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.
