COMMUNITY CAPACITY FUND

Objective

The Community Capacity Fund supports not for profit organizations, Municipalities & Indigenous Communities to advance planning and/or strategic capabilities related to rural development initiatives. To be eligible, projects must demonstrate a clear and direct economic impact for Prince Edward Island. Areas of cosideration include:

1. Strategic Planning & Capacity Building
● to support communities to identify, develop and execute on strategic opportunities to support strategic investments and align priorities;
● to ensures that investments are grounded in systematic planning;
● to support sustainable communities;
● to mobilize and engage stakeholders around a common purpose and strengthen partnership opportunities

2. Sector Development
● to promote the development of competitive and productive strategic industry sectors;
● to help mobilize individual communities and organizations to act collectively;
● to support planning and capacity building that lead to business investments/activities

3. Community Competitiveness & Infrastructure
● to ensure sustainable communities by enabling economic activity to support infrastructure planning and needs assessment;
● to support communities/regions to create an environment for business;
● to support strategic planning and capacity building targeted towards strategic priority sectors, innovation and productivity as a catalyst for further economic activities