Enhance Your Community Stream

Overview of the Enhance Your Community Stream program:

The Enhance Your Community Funding Stream is designed to support the priorities of northern communities and organizations that contribute to a healthy and strong community.

Benefits of the Enhance Your Community Stream program:

• The implementation of priority economic development initiatives that respond to an economic opportunity and / or contribute to improved quality of life for a community and/or region, such as:
• Business retention and attraction strategies
• Projects identifying and implementing investment opportunities
• The construction and/or renovation of capital assets that support community economic development
• Implementation of community economic development projects, including non- capital costs, technical expertise, incremental project-related human resources
• Projects aligned with NOHFCs strategic initiatives, as identified by the NOHFC Board of Directors, that address an economic priority in a region or sector
• The NOHFC Board of Directors may consider exceptions to these eligibility criteria for projects that address a priority need in Northern Ontario.

Eligibility criteria of the Enhance Your Community Stream program:

• Municipalities, Indigenous communities, not-for-profit organizations, and Local Services Boards located in Northern Ontario.
• Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria:
• Identification and alignment with a planning process such as community or organizational plan.
• Support for the sustainability and well-being of communities.
• How the project builds on and optimizes the capacity and efficiency of existing infrastructure.
• Strength of project plan that identifies the technical, managerial and financial capacity for implementing the project and sustaining the facility.
• Applicant should demonstrate how an NOHFC investment is necessary to make the project viable.