Indigenous Governance Database

Minding Our Own Businesses: how to create support in First Nations communities for Aboriginal Business

Author
Ray Gerow
Year

The purpose of the project was to investigate what other First Nations have done to support their small business operators, and to create a process to look at what could be done in your community...

business plans
citizen entrepreneurship
citizen-owned businesses
community development
cultural match
cultural values
entrepreneurs
entrepreneurship training
financial education
First Nations
jobs
youth development
Native Nations
Canada
Resource Type
Other Papers & Reports
Topics
Economic and Community Development
Leadership
Small Business
Citation

McBride, John and Ray Gerow. "Minding Our Own Businesses: how to create support in First Nations communities for Aboriginal Business."  The Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University. Burnaby BC. September 2004. Paper.

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