Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region is a non-profit organization guided by a volunteer board of directors and staffed with business professionals, who together are actively engaged in helping to develop and implement community-based economic development strategies. Community Futures organizations are user-friendly business development centers that control and manage investment funds from which they make fully repayable loans (up to a maximum of $150,000) to community members who are interested in starting or expanding their own businesses. Community Futures organizations are entrepreneurial development centers that provide one-on-one business training to assist individuals who are interested in self-employment or in expanding their business. Community Futures organizations are proactive, progressive community organizations dedicated to strengthening both their community’s entrepreneurs and their community’s economy as a whole.