Indigenous Entrepreneurs - Small Business Hub

Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Resource Centre

The Indigenous Entrepreneurs Resource Centre, powered by the CanadianSME Small Business Magazine, is your one-stop hub for building and growing Indigenous businesses in Canada. We provide comprehensive resources, expert startup guides, valuable partnerships, and upcoming event information tailored to support Indigenous entrepreneurs. Connect with experienced small business advisors to navigate your unique entrepreneurial journey with confidence.

Holistic Support

This point emphasizes the comprehensive nature of your services. You’re not just providing resources for starting a business but also for maintaining and growing it successfully. This could be visualized with diagrams or an infographic that maps out the entrepreneurial journey, highlighting where your resources fit into each stage.

Expert Guides

Highlight the quality and experience behind your startup guides. A section of the webpage might be dedicated to featuring these guides, with images of the experts who created them and short, engaging summaries of what each guide contains.

Events Calendar

A calendar or list of upcoming events for Indigenous businesses in Canada is an excellent way to keep your community engaged and connected. This could be made interactive, allowing users to click on each event for more details and the option to add it to their personal calendars.

Business Advisors

This section could introduce each advisor with a photo and short bio, as well as testimonials from businesses they’ve helped. You might include an easy way to contact or schedule a consultation with each advisor.

Partnerships

Showcase your partners and the special offers they provide. This could include logos, brief descriptions of each partner’s services, and specifics of the offers they’re providing for Indigenous businesses.

Indigenous Business Spotlight

Consider featuring profiles or case studies of successful Indigenous businesses. This can serve as inspiration for budding entrepreneurs. Each feature could include photos, a brief history of the business, and tips or advice from the business owners.

Easy Navigation

This should be a foundational element of your webpage design. Ensure that your website’s navigation is simple and intuitive, with clearly labelled sections, a logical structure, and a search function for easy access to specific resources. This can involve using headers, dropdown menus, and a site map if necessary.

Explore the Best Available Resources for

Indigenous SMBs and StartUps

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)

At BDC, we know business owners. We’ve been working with them for more than 75 years. We know their challenges and we understand their needs. And we want them to grow and succeed.

Futurpreneur Canada

Futurpreneur has been fueling the entrepreneurial passions of Canada’s young enterprise for over two decades. We are the only national, non-proﬁt organization that provides ﬁnancing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39. Our internationally recognized mentoring program hand matches young entrepreneurs with a business expert from a network of more than 2,600 volunteer mentors.

Indigenous ACE

The I-ACE Program provides prospective entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and mentorship needed to successfully start and manage a business, serve the community with confidence, and foster economic development, by enhancing and leveraging Indigenous values.

Canadian Centre for Aboriginal Entrepreneurship (CCAE)

Over the past 25 years, The Canadian Centre for Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, Inc. (Indigenous) and The Canadian Centre for Accelerated Entrepreneurship (Non-Indigenous) has assisted over 3,500 entrepreneurs in Canada and the Caribbean on the road to successful self-employment. Come on inside and discover how we can assist you or your organization in creating self-employment training that is successful, sustainable, easy to understand, and FUN.

Pow Wow Pitch

Pow Wow Pitch is a grassroots community of Indigenous entrepreneurs across Turtle Island, purpose-built to provide a safe, collaborative, supportive and empowering platform for inspiration, education, mentorship, celebration, and reconciliation through entrepreneurship.

National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association

NACCA, the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association, is a network of over 50 Indigenous Financial Institutions (IFIs) dedicated to stimulating economic growth for all Indigenous people in Canada. The IFI network has provided 50,000 loans totaling $3 billion to businesses owned by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. NACCA supports the network by building IFI capacity and fostering Indigenous business development.

Small Business BC

Small Business BC is an independent non-profit organization that exists to elevate every BC business. Whether we offer the service you need or connect you to another source, our goal is the same – to help you succeed. Our core services are provided in partnership with Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) and the Ministry of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation.