APPENDIX II

ENABLING VEHICLES FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  1. GOVERNMENT
    1. Federal Funding and Advisory Services
    2. Provincial Advisory Services
  2. BANKING INSTITUTIONS
    1. Chartered Banks
    2. Credit Unions
    3. Non-Traditional Credit Unions (Community Congress for Economic Change)
  3. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES
    1. Free Trade Zones
    2. Special Economic Zones
    3. Co-operative Development Zones
  4. LARGE BUSINESS INCUBATION/NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
    1. Community Advisory Services (Scotbic: Scottish Business in the Community)
    2. Intrapreneurship (semi-autonomous renewal within a business Mac-Blo Chemainus)
    3. Employee Hive-Off (assisting employees to establish their own business and contract back to former parent)
  5. COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
    1. Non-Profit Societies
    2. Education-based Non-profit Corporations
    3. Native Band Corporations
  6. SPECIAL ECONOMIC PROJECTS
    1. Alternate Economic Initiatives (Work Against Recession Campaign)
 
1 A community-based initiative to create new enterprises through venture capital accounts over a two-year period firstly in Victoria, then in other parts of B.C., by tax-deductible voluntary weekly subscriptions of $2.00 per head from fully-employed persons and other contributors. April 1985 start-up. (For more information contact: RobRoy MacGregor, Chairman, Work Against Recession Society, 207 - 2067 Cadboro Bay Road, Victoria, B.C. V8R 5G4 Telephone: 592-WARS.)

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