The rural dividend encourages economic diversification, innovation, sustainability and collaboration, and recognizes the diverse needs of individual communities.

Ecotrust Canada is being awarded $100,000 for the North Coast Innovation Lab in Prince Rupert, a place-based program to generate and implement innovative community-designed and driven ideas for a vibrant and inclusive local economy. It will build on Re:Design Rupert, which received earlier rural dividend funding.

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