Digital Main Street offered a $10,000 grant to BIA’s for extra social on line focus. There is only 300 of these, $10K grants, we applied, and we got it, yeah for us! In the meantime, get a jumpstart and apply for the, 2,500 – business Digital Main Street Grant. The Digital Transformation grant provides $2,500 to each qualifying small main street Ontario business to purchase and adopt digital tools and technologies. There are ONLY 2000 grants available until March 2020, to start the process to apply for a Digital Transformation Grant as a Downtown Carleton Place BIA business, visit the
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The next Downtown Carleton Place BIA Board Meeting of Directors meeting is on Wednesday September 11th, 2019, at 6:30 pm at the Carambeck Community Center, 351 Bridge Street. All BIA members are uninvited to attend. If you wish to speak at the meeting, please email BIA Coordinator, Kate Murray, [email protected] The Board meets monthly, except for August and December, unless stated otherwise. Agenda PDF
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The next Downtown Carleton Place BIA Board Meeting of Directors meeting is on Wednesday July 10th, 2019, at 6:30 pm at the Carambeck Community Center, 351 Bridge Street. All BIA members are uninvited to attend. If you wish to speak at the meeting, please email BIA Coordinator, Kate Murray, [email protected] The Board meets monthly, except for August and December, unless stated otherwise. Agenda PDF
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The next Downtown Carleton Place BIA Board of Directors meeting will be on Wednesday, February 20, 2018, at 6:30 pm. at Carambeck Community Centre, 351 Bridge Street.
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It was announced today that more than 1,000 Ontario small main street businesses have started the qualification process for a Digital Transformation Grant. Through the recently announced Digital Transformation Grant Program, there are 2,000 Digital Transformation Grants of $2,500 being awarded until March 2020 to qualifying main street small businesses to help them invest in digital technologies and training to compete and grow. Eligible Costs Digital Marketing Hiring a consultant/agency/person to execute Digital Marketing initiatives Website Redesign, Improvement of existing website Development of new website Software Graphic design software Productivity Software (LastPass, Hootsuite, Dropbox, etc.) Social Media Software (Hootsuite, Buffer,
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DEADLINE: JANUARY 25, 2019 Canada Summer Jobs is an initiative of the Youth Employment Strategy, which is the Government of Canada’s commitment to helping young people between the ages of 15 and 30, particularly those facing barriers to employment, get the information and gain the skills, work experience and abilities they need to transition successfully into the labour market. The program provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations, the public sector, and private sector organizations with 50 or fewer full-time employees, to create quality summer work experiences for young people aged 15 to 30 years. In delivering on these
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