Small businesses and entrepreneurs

An overview on choosing your business name and registering your business in the NWT.

Community-based economic initiatives delivered in each region by Community Futures Development Corporations.

Find information on contract opportunities, procurement rules, submitting invoices, and getting paid.

This program provides funding to allow businesses in the NWT to connect with conferences, tradeshows, and seminars that are needed to build the business.

This program provides funding to entrepreneurs and small businesses to help with start-up funding, capital asset acquisition, market and product development, operational support, and film support.

Funding for licensed artists, crafters, filmmakers, commercial renewable resource harvesters, and small businesses to support small projects.

A program to fund business in sectors identified as important for tourism, sustainability, import replacement, and E-commerce.

This funding supports businesses that will diversify and grow the NWT economy and create jobs in the NWT.