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The Community Futures Lesser Slave Lake office is a community driven, non-profit organization staffed by business professionals and guided by a volunteer Board of Directors. We provide a wide range of small business services and business management tools for people wanting to start, expand, franchise or sell a business. We also run a number of specialized business programs, organize exciting business events and actively work with community and business leaders to foster rural economic growth.
Funded in Western Canada by Western Economic Diversification Canada, Community Futures has been supporting small business and rural economic diversification since 1986. There are 27 Community Futures offices in rural communities throughout Alberta, and a total of 269 across the country.
Established in 1986 by Employment and Immigration Canada (now named Service Canada), Community Futures has been responsible for establishing 90 Community Futures organizations (CFs) throughout rural Western Canada, including 27 offices in Alberta.
Since then, Community Futures has been assisting rural communities to plan and restructure to meet the demands of a changing economy and labour market.
Through Community Futures, the private and public sectors form partnerships with non-metropolitan and smaller communities in transition. Community Futures participates in a local process to assess economic problems and opportunities and to achieve long-term employment stability, growth and adjustment.
Today, with core funding assistance provided by Western Economic Diversification Canada, the CFs in Western Canada are actively engaged in a wide array of community economic diversification activities in their respective regions.
Given the importance of small business to Canada's changing economy, one of the primary focuses of the CFs is to foster entrepreneurial development by providing both financial and technical support to new and existing small businesses. CFs utilize their loan investment funds to achieve the strategic objectives established by their Boards with inputs from the communities they serve.
At Community Futures Lesser Slave Lake Region, our focus is lending to new and existing small businesses. When traditional Finanical Institutions step back from small business, Community Futures steps foward.
Community Futures is where many small business receive their 1st Business Loan.
We help businesses to succeed. Period. Come by and see for yourself.