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Financing Programs

	FEES – Social Economy Enterprise Fund The Social Economy Enterprise Fund supports the financing of social economy businesses at the start-up, consolidation and expansion phases. Financial assistance is allocated by business project in the form of non-repayable contributions. Part of the commercial sector, social economy businesses are keyed to social accountabilities while ensuring their own economic viability. The field as a whole encompasses activities and organizations born of collective entrepreneurship, which operates in compliance with the following principal rules: the common good, management autonomy, democracy, the primacy of the person and participation.
	FJP – Young Promoters Fund The aim of this program is to assist young entrepreneurs to create a business or to implement an entrepreneurial succession solution by offering them technical and financial support. The financial assistance is allocated per business project in the form of non-repayable contributions.
	FLI – Local Investment Fund It’s good to have an idea. It’s better to find financing so you can move from planning to realization. The CLDEM administers a local investment fund to finance businesses in the start-up, expansion and succession phases. Sizeable assistance is granted in the form of a loan, which will give you additional financing to achieve your projects. In operation since 1999, the FLI has taken a leading role in the financing of working capital.
	F2D – Sustainable Development Fund The focus of ecological, social and economic concerns, sustainable development is increasingly shaping the business environment. To encourage business leaders to commit to sustainability, the CLDEM offers financial assistance to support businesses that want to obtain certification or accreditation in a standard related to sustainable development and granted by a recognized organization.
	FIER – Les Moulins Regional Economic Intervention Fund An initiative of the CLDEM, based on a Québec government measure, the Regional Economic Intervention Fund –Les Moulins (FIER) is an opportunity to share highly profitable skills. This risk capital fund is administered by private investors who have agreed to put their expertise at the service of the projects in which they invest. Together, these seasoned entrepreneurs have a wealth of experience in such diverse fields as manufacturing, distribution, retail sales, construction and technologies. Much more than simple financing, the FIERLes Moulins, intended primarily for businesses in Terrebonne and Mascouche, is a unique way to make your projects prosper.
	STA Program – Support for Self-Employment Dreaming of running your own business? The CLDEM and Emploi-Québec offer the STA program, Support for Self-Employment. The helping hand you’re waiting for to successfully enter the business world.
	CYBF – Canadian Youth Business Foundation Thanks to the partnership agreement between the Centre local de développement économique des Moulins (CLDEM) and the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CBYF), the region’s young people from 18 to 34 years of age have access to anadditional source of start-up financing for their businesses. This program is intended to be a lever that allows young entrepreneurs to find other sources of capital to supplement the financing of their business plan.

Composée des villes de Terrebonne (regroupant Lachenaie et La Plaine depuis 2001) et Mascouche, la MRC Les Moulins est la porte d’entrée de la région de Lanaudière. Au cœur de la couronne nord, près de Laval, elle fait également partie de la Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal. Les Moulins occupe ainsi une position enviable tant sur le plan régional que national à l’échelle du Québec et du Canada.