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This program offers a non-refundable financial contribution to partially cover professional fees related to the following themes:

  • Clean technology and sustainable development;
  • Innovation;
  • Integration of information technologies;
  • Corporate succession;
  • Operating procedure.

Financing offer :

  • Financial assistance, in the form of a non-repayable contribution, can reach a maximum of $5,000 per company, per project.

Essential criteria for processing a request :

  • The company must operate within the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC;
  • The Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est refuses to intervene financially in non-prioritized markets such as :
    • Catering;
    • Bar;
    • Cultural, sporting or tourist activities;
    • Health care;
    • Professional services;
    • Beauty care.

Priority sectors :

Company operating in one of the following fields:

  • 2nd and3rd transformation;
  • Technological;
  • Environmental;
  • Other trade and services (wholesale and retail).

Eligible projects :

  • Situation analysis;
  • Preparation of action plans;
  • Support in drawing up an action plan.

N.B. No capital costs are eligible.

Special conditions:

  • This financial contribution can only cover professional fees related to eligible project costs, billed directly to the SADC and paid by it on a pro rata basis;
  • The Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité (SADC) Lac-Saint-Jean-Est will not make a non-repayable contribution before ensuring that it is essential to the project and complementary to other sources of funding;
  • May not exceed a maximum contribution of 50% of the company's eligible project costs for activities of a commercial nature, excluding capital costs up to a maximum of $5,000.

Non-profit organizations are not eligible for this program.