Forestry Resiliency Resources

• WorkBC Wage Subsidy Program

• WorkBC – is a full-service all encompassing employment program for people that are unemployed or at risk of losing their jobs and are legally entitled to work in Canada and not full-time students. Provides many services, including wage subsidy, occupational skills training, job search skill development, access to technology, disability supports, assessments, short-term certificate training, direct marketing to employers, and more. Provides outreach services to Houston. Job seekers need to apply for services via https://apply.workbc.ca

• My Community Fturues is a membership platform providing professional support to businesses, not-for-profits and individuals exploring entrepreneurship throughout British Columbia. Membership includes valuable resources, training opportunities and one-on-one professional support through your local Community Futures office.

• Whether you are a start-up or looking to expand, Community Futures can provide business advice and training at any level.

• Futurpreneur provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.

• This is a government-funded business startup program for technicians and tradespeople affected by BC mill closures and curtailments.  The program is free for eligible participants.

• BC’s leading resource for women entrepreneurs through business resources, financing and mentorship.

• The Community Workforce Response Grant program provides approximately $10 million a year in funding for communities and sectors to support short-term skills training. This training must lead to sustainable employment for British Columbians who are training-ready and seeking to re-enter the labour force or to change their employment status.

• MJF will invest up to $180 million in manufacturing projects to support high-value industrial and manufacturing projects to drive clean and inclusive growth in rural, remote and Indigenous communities. 

• This grant provides funding to small, medium and large enterprises to support skills training for their workforce, including perspective new hires.  Employers can apply as often as they need and receive 80% of the cost of training up to $10,000 per employee, with a maximum annual amount per employer of $300,000,

Community Futures Nadina Business Loans

Whether your business is in the start-up phase or in a position of expansion, Community Futures gives businesses access to small business loans when traditional financial institutions are unable to help.

• The Competitiveness Consulting Rebate program provides a rebate to small and medium-sized businesses in eligible industries for customized consulting services. A rebate of up to 50% to a yearly maximum of $30,000 can be recovered for the cost of external business consulting projects. Projects must focus on increased resiliency, productivity, revenues, profitability and/or job creation.

• This program is designed to help businesses reduce the barrier to accessing professional expertise and recover the costs of third-party consulting projects. These types of projects must focus on ways to sustain business operations and recover business health and profitability to pre-event levels. The SBR Consulting Rebate will reimburse small and medium-sized businesses (operators) for contracted consulting services.

• The Northern Industries Innovation Fund (NIIF) program provides incremental funding to support innovation projects that increase the competitiveness of local businesses in traditional industries across Northern B.C. The program is also intended to support economic diversification and/or viability of businesses to mitigate the economic impact of the pine beetle epidemic. NIIF supports applied research and development, new or improved products and services, and testing of innovative equipment or technologies to support capital investment decisions.