Community Readiness and Opportunities Planning (CROP)

The CROP fund is intended to improve the economic development capacity of Aboriginal communities and increase economic development in the three territories. It achieves this by providing financial support to First Nations and Inuit communities so they can improve their capacity and prepare to plan for, pursue, and participate in economic opportunities.

• The goal of CROP is to: Increase community employment; Enhance the use and increase the value of resources under the control of the community; Generate more community government revenue from economic development; Enhance community economic and other infrastructure; Develop more and better arrangements to access opportunities from resources that are not under the control of the community; Generate more investment in the community; Create a better climate and environment for community economic development; Generate more and larger community businesses; Produce more contracts and sales for community businesses; and Increase the capacity within the community government to seize future economic opportunities.

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