Enhance Your Community Stream

Up to $2,000,000 is available for eligible Northern Ontario communities to support economic development, training, capacity-building and infrastructure investment.
  • Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation
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.
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