Community Business Development Corporation (CBDC) Blue Water First-Time Entrepreneur Loan
$150,000.00
In-Kind Support, Loan
Description:
CBDC Blue Water created the First-Time Entrepreneur Loan to help people who are starting a business for the first time. It also offers counselling and training services to help them become a profitable, self-sufficient, and successful businessperson.
Comments on Funding:
Funding is a loan of up to $150,000.
Continuous Intake
Eligibility:
Applicants must:
1. be a new, first-time entrepreneur living in a rural area of Halifax Regional Municipality;
2. have both seasonal and year-round businesses;
3. be seeking financing for:
a) business start-up, or to help buy an existing business;
b) covering start-up costs, fixed assets, working capital, buildings and land, furniture and fixtures, machinery or other types of equipment, and possibly vehicles used strictly for business operations.
5. Franchise purchases and Leasehold improvements are also eligible.
Application Steps:
For details about application processes, applicants must reach out to CBDC Blue Water team through:
Phone: (902) 827-5564
https://bluewatercbdc.ca/pages/staff
Documentation Needed:
For details about documentation requirements, applicants must reach out to CBDC Blue Water team through:
Phone: (902) 827-5564
Online Contact Form
Other Things to Note:
- All
- and Dartmouth.
- and Middle Musquodoboit
- Beaverbank
- Bedford
- Business Purchase or Transfer
- but excluding the metro areas of Halifax
- covering the rural areas between Ecum Secum and Hubbards
- Eastern Passage
- including communities such as Tantallon
- Lower Sackville
- Non-profit Organization
- Nova Scotia
- Old Halifax
- Old Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)
- Porters Lake
- Sheet Harbour
- Start a Business
- The Prestons
- Timberlea
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