Kootenay Aboriginal Business Advocates Society

RECOMMENDED SITES

2010 Commerce Centre

  The 2010 Commerce Centre site was established to inform, educate and connect BC businesses to Olympic Games-related opportunities. This site is a place for the business community to access news, information, resources and business opportunities related to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Aboriginal Business Canada (ABC) 

    ABC provides financial assistance, information, resource materials and referrals to other possible sources of financing or business support.

Aboriginal Business Services Network (ABSN)

    The purpose of this website is to provide interactive business information and services to Aboriginal entrepreneurs in B.C. This site contains a searchable database of Aboriginal entrepreneurs in B.C. If you would like to have your business included in this database, absolutely free, make sure you visit their site and click on the “Join the Marketplace” heading.

Aboriginal Canada Portal

    This very easy to use gateway website links you to all things Aboriginal in Canada and beyond, from conferences and news headlines to business services, training, education, and national issues.

Aboriginal International Business Development (AIBD)

  Who is the AIBD?

  The AIBD is an interdepartmental Committee made up of 21 federal government departments and agencies who are working collectively to promote the success of Aboriginal small- to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in export markets.

  The AIBD is co-chaired by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Aboriginal Business Canada)

Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia

  The Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia (ATBC) is a non-profit, membership-based organization that is committed to growing and promoting a sustainable, culturally rich Aboriginal tourism industry.

Aboriginal Youth Network

All Nations Trust Company (ANTCO) 

    Their mission is to promote Native Self-sufficiency through marketing financial resources and advisory services. They offer some First Citizen Fund grant/loan combinations.

Business Development Bank – Aboriginal Entrepreneur

Canada / British Columbia Business Services Society

Canada Council Grants, Aboriginal Peoples Secretariat

Community Futures

    Association of BC

    Cranbrook

    Nelson

    Trail

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples

Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO)

    CANDO is unique because it is the only national organization that focuses on education and professional development for Economic Development Officers working in Aboriginal communities or organizations.

First Business.ca (B.C.'s Meeting Place for Aboriginal Entrepreneurs)

    The First Business website is BC's very own Aboriginal Entrepreneurship website service with lots of specific and helpful information on starting and expanding a business, sample business plans, mini-workshops, funding and support links and all the other information you might need to get going with anew or expanding business opportunity.

First Nations Agricultural Lending Association (FNALA)

    This capital lending corporation has a broad definition of agriculture and offers some First Citizen Fund  grant and loan combinations, along with a youth loans and youth grant funds programs.

First Nations Statistics

First Nations Bank of Canada

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)

    In general, INAC has primary, but not exclusive, responsibility for meeting the federal governments constitutional, treaty, political and legal responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Northerners. To fulfill this mandate, INAC must work collaboratively with First Nations, Inuit and Northerners, as well as with other federal departments and agencies, provinces and territories.

Interactive Business Planner

Ktunaxa Nation Council

Metis Nation British Columbia (MNBC)

National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association (NACCA)

    The NACCA has contact information for all Aboriginal Capital Corporations in Canada.

Native Investment & Trade Association

New Relationship Trust

  In the Spring of 2005, leaders from the First Nations Summit, the BC Assembly of First Nations, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the Province of BC jointly agreed to a new relationship, one "based on respect, recognition, and accommodation of aboriginal title and rights."

  One year later, the New Relationship Trust Corporation was created to help realize this joint vision by providing financial support to First Nation communities, organizations and individuals in BC.

Royal Bank Aboriginal Services

Youth Path

Women's Enterprise Society of BC

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