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National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation: Building Brighter Futures
Bursary and Scholarship Awards for First Nations, Inuit and Métis students – The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation has evolved into the largest non-governmental funding body for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis post secondary students across Canada. Bursary and scholarship awards are provided to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students annually across a diverse range of disciplines. In total, NAAF has disbursed over $42.7 million to over 11,500 recipients since its inception. NAAF offers financial assistance (scholarships and bursaries) through four major categories: Post-Secondary Education, Fine Arts, Health Careers, and Oil & Gas Aboriginal Trades & Technology.
ABOUT NAAF: The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation’s mission, working in partnership with Aboriginal, private and public sector stakeholders, is to promote, support and celebrate the achievement of Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.
Bursary and Scholarship Awards for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Students
Ready for Business: Canada’s Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Businesses as Equal Partners
Canada’s businesses recognize the importance of Aboriginal peoples. Over the past three years, delegates representing the 420 chambers of commerce and boards of trade belonging to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce have adopted policies they believe will provide additional economic development options to Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Improving Aboriginal peoples’ economic development potential is desirable not only for them, but also for Canada’s mainstream businesses and our nation’s economy. Canada’s Aboriginal peoples are young and their numbers are growing quickly compared to other Canadians. This Canadian Chamber of Commerce explores the context for moving forward with Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal business partnerships.
Ready for Business Canada’s Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Businesses as Equal Partners
Aboriginal Business Canada & You
Aboriginal Business Canada & You
Aboriginal Business Canada is a program of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. Working with clients and partners, they provide a range of services and support that is helping to promote the growth of a strong Aboriginal business sector in Canada. Their support varies depending upon the needs of the client, the availability, and sources of funding, the eligibility of costs, the economic benefits, and the reasonableness and timing of financial returns on investment.
They can:
• Help you determine whether your proposed project is eligible for Aboriginal Business Canada assistance before you submit an application.
• Help you develop your business plan by providing you with advice as well as financial support.
• Help you access the lenders you will need for the commercial financing requirements of your business.
This publication provides a step-by-step description of what’s involved when you apply for assistance for your business proposal.
Aboriginal Business Canada & You
Ontario: Aboriginal Business Development Toolkit
If you’re an Aboriginal person thinking about starting or expanding a business, this toolkit has been developed with you in mind. While many helpful guides exist, this document includes considerations that may be of particular interest to you, your family and your community. Whether you live on-reserve, in a small town, or in a large city, this toolkit provides business development supports, tools and information to help you start and operate a successful business.
This toolkit is designed to help you explore the many things you need to think about, research and undertake when starting a business. In each chapter, you’ll find helpful information, checklists and questions for you to consider. If you’re thinking about starting a business, begin with Chapter One. If you already own a business, you could refer to the table of contents and determine which chapter focuses on your particular area of interest.
Ontario – Aboriginal Business Development Toolkit
Community-Led Development
The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept and practice of community-led development. It is an approach to tackling local problems that is taking hold throughout the world. While its expression may vary depending upon the community and the specific area of focus, there are nonetheless some common principles that hold it in place. ‘Community’ is a broad term that can refer to both physical places and groups of people with common interests or concerns. For the purposes of this discussion, the notion of community is used only in its geographic sense. Community-led development in this paper focuses on initiatives undertaken in physical places – be they neighbourhoods, cities or towns, rural or remote regions of the country, or First Nations reserves.
Caledon Institute of Social Policy: Community – Led Development
Reforming First Nations Education: From Crisis to Hope
Report from the Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples which acknowledges that the process of renewal and reform of First Nations education will undoubtedly be challenging, but the willingness and commitment from all parties to undertake reform is there. The time is now upon us to act boldly, says the report, to replace an antiquated system of education with a modern system, fostering real hope for the future.
Reforming First Nations Education: From Crisis to Hope
Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship: Success Factors and Challenges
Northern Development Ministers Briefing Paper 2010 – The literature review conducted by the Aboriginal Economy Working Group involved an examination of pertinent literature to determine success factors and challenges faced by Aboriginal youth when opening and operating a business, the barriers to expansion of businesses owned by Aboriginal youth, the training opportunities and business financing available to Aboriginal youth and the value of mentoring to Aboriginal youth entrepreneurs. As there is a paucity of literature devoted primarily to Aboriginal youth entrepreneurship in the north, the literature search was expanded to include a general review of materials related to Aboriginal entrepreneurship.
Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship 2010
Journey to Economic Independence
Through the New Relationship, the Province and First Nations leaders are working together to achieve strong governments, social justice and economic self-sufficiency for First Nations. The Journey to Economic Independence Report is the result of an extraordinary and significant collaboration between the First Nations Leadership Council and the Ministry of Economic Development. Our goal for this project was to gather information from the participant First Nations on approaches to creating successful economic development in their communities.
Journey to Economic Independence (Adobe PDF, 4 MB)
Aboriginal Philanthropy in Canada
The time is ripe to develop Aboriginal philanthropy in Canada – to foster the involvement of philanthropic organizations in Aboriginal communities and to develop Aboriginal support for and involvement in philanthropic organizations. Both these goals require learning and change for both parties – Aboriginal Peoples and philanthropic organizations. This report sets out the opportunities and challenges for Aboriginal philanthropy in Canada and makes recommendations for how it might be done well. The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (CPAPC) partnered with United Way of Winnipeg to commission AMR Planning and Consulting (AMR) to produce this research paper. Innovative research is an important element of United Way of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Relations Strategy. The strategy is designed to build knowledge, relationships and capacity within and between the Aboriginal community, United Way of Winnipeg and the broader community. CPAPC has a National Steering Committee that provides strategic guidance and input to develop and implement its goals and objectives.
Aboriginal Philanthropy Canada
Minding Our Own Businesses: How to Create Support in First Nations Communities for Aboriginal Business
Authored by John McBride and Ray Gerow, the purpose of the project was to investigate what other First Nations have done to support their small business operators, and to create a process to look at what could be done in your community. We hope you will be inspired by what others have done. We expect that the community assessment tool with its interview questions, beginning on page 42, will help you assess what you can do in your First Nation.
Minding our own Businesses Workbook
First Nations Communications Toolkit
The First Nations Communications Toolkit is a unique resource jointly developed by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, BC Region, and Tewanee Consulting Group. This Toolkit was designed explicitly for First Nations communicators and is based on input from First Nations communicators and administrators working for First Nations organizations. It offers information on many topics, including communications planning, publications, events and media relations, from a First Nations’ perspective. The best practices and practical lessons learned that have been included in the toolkit are drawn from Tewanee Joseph’s experience working on communications projects with over 30 First Nation communities. Input into the toolkit came from rural, remote and urban First Nations throughout British Columbia and included a survey as well as research on First Nation communications initiatives. Additional input on the Toolkit was gathered at a First Nations communication conference in March 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, which was attended by individuals from First Nations in British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon.
First Nations Communications Toolkit
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) – Creating the Future Planning Handbook
The purpose of this handbook is to introduce a strategic planning process that links directly to the governance role and responsibilities of the board. This process of planning strategically coordinates the board’s mandate, mission, vision, values, goals, and policies. The reader is guided, from start to finish, through one board’s development of a governance action plan. This is the second in a series of handbooks written to assist board members and administrators of First Nations boards with strategies to improve their board’s effectiveness. The first handbook, Effective Board Governance: A Handbook For Board Members and Administrators of First Nations’ Boards, defined the governance role and the seven key governance responsibilities of a board, and explained how these differ from the role and responsibilities of the organization’s executive director.
Creating the Future Planning Handbook
Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada (AUCC) – Answering the call: The 2010 inventory of Canadian university programs and services for Aboriginal students
On January 28th and 29th, 2010, fifteen university presidents attended a workshop on Aboriginal higher education, convened by AUCC in Toronto. Both AUCC and university presidents recognize there is a critical window to address the challenges of Aboriginal access to higher education and all have a widely shared commitment to improvement. The day-and-a-half workshop attracted more than 30 participants including Assembly of First Nations’ National Chief, Shawn Atleo, CEO of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Roberta Jamieson, and President of Environics Research Group Limited, Michael Adams. The group considered several case studies and discussed the challenges of Aboriginal access to higher education incorporating the experiences of colleagues and visitors. The workshop produced a broad perspective of the most difficult issues and strengthened participants’ commitment toward additional steps to increase accessibility and improve Aboriginal success. The present inventory is one more tool to assist in improving access to higher education for Canadian Aboriginals.
AUCC Inventory of Canadian University Programs and Services for Aboriginal Students 2010
Aboriginal Tourism BC Performance Indicator Report March 2011
This report describes AtBC’s activities related to the implementation of its Aboriginal Blueprint Strategy for the period 2006 to 2010. It then describes changes in the performance of the industry over this same period, as well as some projections for anticipated growth to 2010. The report is based on a review of data provided via reports, survey data, and interviews with government organizations (Stats BC, Ministry of Tourism Culture and the Arts tourism personnel, travel trade operators, Aboriginal tourism business operators, AtBC staff members, as well as other economic organizations providing data tourism industry performance an and prospects). Collectively, the information they supplied formed the foundation for what is presented in this progress report.
AtBC Performance Indicator Report March 2011 FINAL
TD Economics Special Report – Estimating the Size of the Aboriginal Market 2011
Special Report – The combined income of Aboriginal households, business and government sectors will reach $24 billion in 2011 and could eclipse $32 billion by 2016. If achieved, this income would exceed the level of nominal GDP in N. & L. and PEI combined. The report estimates show that Aboriginal people are increasingly leaving their economic footprint on the national picture. Aboriginal population has been beneficiaries of the booms in the resource sector, since the past decade. They also contributed to the surge by filling what would have been labour shortages. Further income gains appear in store if commodity prices remain buoyant. Businesses in particular have been increasingly leaving their mark on total purchasing power. The Aboriginal segment of the economy represents a rapidly growing consumer market and a potentially lucrative one for all Canadian businesses. Significant challenges remain on tap. of the overall Aboriginal market is being recorded within the business sector.
TD Economics – Estimating the Size of the Aboriginal Market 2011
Community Futures British Columbia Aboriginal Engagement Toolkit
The Community Futures Toolkit was developed with the objective of supporting relationship and partnership development between Community Futures, which supports local and regional economic development, and Aboriginal Peoples in BC. This toolkit provides information requested by Community Futures Managers, to assist them in better understanding the history and current environment impacting BC’s Aboriginal peoples and to provide guidelines, proven effective by their peers, for relationship building. The toolkit also includes community economic development project best practices, which have been undertaken by Community Futures in partnership with Aboriginal peoples. It was developed with the knowledge and wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples, and the practitioners who serve them. The goal is to create a greater understanding that will support relationship development and lead into working partnerships that will improve the economy of BC for ourselves and our children.
CFDA Aboriginal Engagement Toolkit
Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) Summit on Aboriginal Education 2009 Report
Ministers of education and of Aboriginal affairs; First Nations, Métis, and Inuit leaders; and federal government officials came together in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on February 24 and 25, 2009, for the CMEC Summit on Aboriginal Education: Strengthening Aboriginal Success. CMEC leaders came together for the first-ever national dialogue to discuss priorities for moving forward on eliminating the gaps between the educational achievement of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students in Canada. This report is a record of that event. The summit agenda included small-group discussions and plenary sessions for over 200 invited participants. This interactive format ensured that everyone’s contributions were considered in the spirit of working together.
CMEC Aboriginal Education Summit 2009 Report
Chartered Accountants of Canada – Financial Reporting by First Nations
This 2008 report is the result of the Study Group’s deliberations on financial reporting by First Nations. The Study Group consisted of volunteers with the necessary experience and professional qualifications to guide the development of the report. Study Group members were recruited to serve as individuals, not as representatives of their respective organizations. This allowed for a full and open debate on all issues. As First Nations representation was essential to this project, the Study Group included four First Nations accountants as well as a First Nations lawyer. It should be noted this report does not promulgate accounting standards as it is being published independently of the CICA’s standard-setting boards.
