Searching for Self-employment / Entrepreneurship

• Operates a women's enterprise centre
• Develops programs and research to advance women's access to a sustainable livelihood
• Provides educational programs, and peer lending for women to start-up and accelerate expansion of their micro enterprises

Offer the following programs for new entrepreneurs and businesses:

• Making a Difference
• Building Bridges-Breaking Barriers
• Enterprise Centre
• PARO Circles
• PARO Presents Store
• PARO on Wheels

Offers the following programs for entrepreneurs and businesses who are ready to expand their business

• Enterprise Centre
• PARO Circles
• PARO Presents Store
• PARO on Wheels
• Women's Enterprise Initiative

Offers the following program for all entrepreneurs who want to make new connections:

• Mentoring Program
• Connecting to the Contracts
• Leadership
• PARO Glow and Grow e-newsletter
• Peer Circles

Functions as a regional development organization

Delivers three key programs in Northern Ontario:

Northern Ontario Development Program

• Assists with community economic development, business growth and competitiveness, and innovation activities, resulting in long-term benefits for local communities
• Provides repayable and non-repayable contributions to non profit organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises
• Priorities include:
  • Community Economic Development
  • Business Growth and Competitiveness
  • Innovation

Community Futures Program

• Supports 24 Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) in Northern Ontario, providing an array of business and counselling services, as well as financial assistance to not-for-profit corporations and small and medium-sized businesses in Northern Ontario

Economic Development Initiative

• Provides support to Francophone communities for their economic development projects

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario

Skills training and financial support for laid off workers

• training program must demonstrate good job prospects
• financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Operates a community information resource centre where anyone seeking employment and/or training can access services

Job Seekers:
Provides the following for job seekers:

• Assessment of skills and experience
• Information about different careers and occupations
• Local labour market, employment, and training opportunities
• Information about all Employment Ontario programs and services
• Referral to other community services
• Resumé preparation assistance
• Intensive assistance and support to prepare for employment
• On-the-job training and/or work experience support

Employers:
Offers the following services to employers:

• Posts employment opportunities
• Identifies human resource skill requirements
• Matches position and workplace requirements to a participants' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Information on financial incentives to offset some of the costs of providing on-the-job training and work experience

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario

Skills training and financial support for laid off workers

• training program must demonstrate good job prospects
• financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment services, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

• Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

Provides business and economic development services to First Nations communities and majority-owned Aboriginal businesses in Northern Ontario

Offers the following services:

• Appraisal Services
• Bookkeeping Training
• Business Support Services
• Community Planning
• Due Diligence Services
• Financing (Loans and Grants)
• Workshops

Operates as a Client Services office providing business and economic development services to First Nations communities and majority-owned Aboriginal businesses in Northern Ontario

Offers the following services:

• Appraisal Services
• Bookkeeping Training
• Business Support Services
• Community Planning
• Due Diligence Services
• Financing (Loans and Grants)
• Workshops

• Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community
• Provides information, training and educational workshops to enhance employability skills
• Posts employment opportunities in office
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
• Maintains local business directory
• Responsible for development of plans for the use of traditional lands for community members

Current economic initiatives Cat Lake First Nation is involved with include:

• Liaison with Musselwhite Mine for employment opportunities
• Joint ownership of Wataynikaneyap Power with 22 other First Nations and Goldcorps, to reinforce transmission lines to Pickle Lake and Musselwhite Mine and to construct new transmission lines north of Pickle Lake to service remote First Nation communities
• A signed business partnership (2014) with North Star Air Ltd along with its affiliate Cargo North
• Assistance with administration for $12.8 million in federal funding announced in Feb 2019 for housing projects in community
• Advisory capacity for private businesses in community

• Provides assistance and information to all levels of entrepreneurial endeavours and run by senior business students with faculty supervision

Services provided include:

• Business plans
• Business plan amendments
• Feasibility studies
• Financial planning
• Information Technology services (IT)
• Government funding applications
• Marketing research and plans
• Marketing surveys
• New venture proposals

Partners with Anishinabek Employment & Training Services (AETS) to ensure training and employment support services are available to community members

• Coordinates training seminars and workshops
• Provides employment related services such as preparing and updating resumes and writing cover letters
• Assists members to find employment in their area of expertise and skills
• Works to establish programs and partnerships with organizations who provide employment training
• Offers financial assistance in various job-related areas
• Posts employment and training opportunities on website and in Band Office

Maintains current employment and training partnerships with:

• Confederation College
• Seven Generations Education Institute (SGEI)

Provides the following services for clients seeking employment opportunities:

• Guidance, assessment and career planning services including information on labour markets
• Assistance with purchase of training initiatives/courses for identified employment that requires specific training
• Referrals for employment/training workshops and sessions

Delivers Human Resources Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) related programs and services to members of the participating communities

• Assists Indigenous people to pursue education and employment opportunities
• Offers financial support/wage subsidies and opportunity through a number of client-based and project-based programs which are listed on website
• Partners with Supercom Industries LP (a six-community First Nations owned enterprise involved with the transmission line route of the proposed East West Tie) and delivers various training initiatives posted on website
• Holds status under the Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program (ISET)

Job Seeker services include:

• Career Planning
• Continuing Education Assistance
• Elder In Residence Support
• Employment Advising
• Job Development Support
• Life Skills Support

Employer Services include:

• Free online job posting board and internal office job posting bulletin board for employers looking for prospective employees
• Collection of applications and related forms and packaging/forwarding for employers if required
• Hosting employer briefings/information videos in boardroom for job seekers
• Assistance with booking and/or hosting interviews with prospective workers
• Referrals of qualified candidates to job postings
• Circulation of applicable job postings to the applicable applicants employer is seeking
• Wage subsidies for First Nation citizens to overcome labour market barriers
• Training programs for prospective employees
• Tailored Personality Dimensions Training workshops for employers and Indigenous communities

• Offers free and confidential small business counselling services to both new and existing small businesses
• Provides assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs, and stability in early stage growth support to existing small businesses in an attempt to improve their success rate
• Maintains a comprehensive walk-in resource library of business literature and advisory materials

Provides a public computer through ServiceOntario to obtain a variety of government information and online services for businesses including the following:

• Registering a business
• Updating business information
• Conducting business research

Starter Company Plus

• Provides a training program for people who what to start a new business, purchase an existing business, or expand their existing business
• Program Participants have the option to apply for a grant of up to $5000 upon the completion of a business plan

• Provides convention services, festival and events planning
• Promotes Tourism and Tourism Development
• Offers general marketing support
• Provides access to economic research data

Functions as a business assistance centre providing information related to starting and operating businesses including but not limited to:

• Business registration and incorporation
• Enterprise and empowerment zones for tax credits
• Small business loans

Offers the following supports and services:

• Access to government contracts
• Access to credit and financing resources
• Loan form preparation assistance
• Customized training
• Technical assistance on market research, marketing plans and business plans

Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community

• Provides information, training and educational workshops to enhance employability skills
• Responsible for development of plans for the use of traditional lands for community members
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
• Posts available jobs and details on website and at Band Office
• Maintains local business directory

Current economic development initiatives Flying Post First Nation is involved with include:

• Exploration Agreement (EA) with Augen Gold Corporation (in partnership with Mattagami and Brunswick House First Nations)
• Exploration Agreement with Lake Shore Gold Corporation (in partnership with Mattagami First Nation)
• A resource development agreement with Goldcorp for Goldcorp's existing and future mining operations in the Timmins area; the agreement includes provisions for training, employment, business and contracting opportunities, a consultation framework for regulatory permitting, and scholarship and bursary opportunities for youth

• Provides convention services, festival and events planning
• Promotes Tourism and Tourism Development
• Offers general marketing support
• Provides access to economic research data

Functions as a business assistance centre providing information related to starting and operating businesses including but not limited to:

• Business registration and incorporation
• Enterprise and empowerment zones for tax credits
• Small business loans

Offers the following supports and services:

• Access to government contracts
• Access to credit and financing resources
• Loan form preparation assistance
• Customized training
• Technical assistance on market research, marketing plans and business plans

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario

Skills training and financial support for laid off workers

• training program must demonstrate good job prospects
• financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment services, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

• Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario

Skills training and financial support for laid off workers

• training program must demonstrate good job prospects
• financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment services, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

• Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year