We are always glad to share some great news and funding opportunities with you. This week we would like to inform you about the extension of Yves Landry Foundation Achieving Innovation and Manufacturing Excellence (AIME) Global initiative.

The AIME program has been established by The Yves Landry Foundation with an intention to offer manufacturers in south, central and eastern Ontario up to $100,000 to offset the costs of training expenses related to supporting innovation and achieving a competitive advantage.

This week Yves Landry Foundation received an $11 million investment to extend its Achieving Innovation and Manufacturing Excellence (AIME) Global initiative into 2021, with a focus on support for companies that are adopting clean technologies and those providing training opportunities for Indigenous peoples, women and youth. Some of the examples of eligible training opportunities include but are not limited to:

• ERP training
• Lean manufacturing training
• Software training
• Advanced equipment skills training

Knowing how popular those areas of training are among our clients, we recommend you to check your eligibility and start application process today.

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In these past few weeks of the summer I wanted to share with you the wisdom of navigating the Canadian funding landscape captured in my book Get Funded! There is still enough time to do the funding homework before the kids return to school and the fall’s busy weeks start.

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• How to navigate the variety of the funding options in Canada – government, bank and private funding, and how not to get lost
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Month of August is quickly approaching and I would like to give you heads up on the great program in the Agri-Food sector, that will begin accepting applications starting August 15.

Place to Grow: Agri-Food Innovation Initiative provides cost-share funding opportunities to agriculture and food-value chain partners, which encourages greater collaboration to identify opportunities and address challenges in the sector.

The Place to Grow program will allow organizations to apply for projects in key priority areas, including:

• Labour supply and training challenges (new category).
• Economic development in the agri-food and agri-products sectors.
• Environmental stewardship to enhance water quality and soil health.
• Protection and assurance to reinforce the foundation for public trust in the sector through improved assurance systems in food safety and plant and animal health.

The new programming will encourage interest from outside the agri-food sector to participate on broad-impact projects that will benefit from different kinds of expertise. It’s expected such projects will see new partners engaged to further drive innovation in areas such as advanced manufacturing and the greater use of data available to the sector.

All program details including the program guide and application forms will be available online in August 2019.

Eligible applicants can apply for cost-share funding from August 15 to September 27, 2019 at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Check eligibility of your company and your project for the government funding by submitting eligibility check form.

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