Business Resources

To help build, grow, and promote your business

Get The Support Your Business Needs To Grow In The Lethbridge Region

Business loans, tools, mentoring, guidance, and support for rural small business owners and entrepreneurs in Alberta.

FREE Business Advice and Consulting

You can get access to a wide range of business supports from our advisors who know rural business like no one else, including FREE business advice and consulting. Community Futures also offer additional business coaching, business plan help, training programs and technical assistance.

Starting A Business

Growing a Business

Buying a Business

Selling Business

Learn how to Market your Business

Digital Marketing Training Training

Accounting, Recruitment & Human Resource Training

Succession Planning for Businesses, Farms and Nonprofits.

FREE Training, Workshops & Programs

Want to expand your skill set? We offer a wide range of business training programs and upskilling opportunities, from health and safety training to quick-start business intensives.

Learn how to market your business, understand basic accounting, and explore how to attract and retain talent as a rural business.

Our small business programs provide training and support for rural businesses across Lethbridge. Our goal is to help your company thrive by offering you access to specialized services like accounting workshops, marketing seminars, and so much more. We’re here for entrepreneurs just like you – take advantage of our programs today and learn the skills you need to succeed.

Loan Programs

Get the financial support you need to grow your business with one of our flexible business loans. We’re known for saying ‘yes’ when everyone else says ‘no’. If you can’t get a loan from traditional banks, we can help.

Loans up to $150,000

Lines of Credit

Micro Loans

Youth Loans

Coaldale Business Improvement Programs

The Business Improvement Loan Program with Lethbridge Community Futures provides loans to make small improvements to your business. An attractive business front means a lot to customers. You’d be amazed what fresh paint, great window dressing and new landscaping can do to help improve your bottom line. Through a partnership with the Town of Coaldale, funds are available to cover the interest on these loans of up to $25,000. No other municipality in the region provides a loan program of this value, or covering this wide a range of possible improvements!

Eligible Improvement

Repair or replace storefront windows and doors

Eligible Improvement

Design and installation of awnings and signs

Eligible Improvement

Exterior lighting of building and signage

Eligible Improvement

Interior window display areas, lighting, painting, shelving, counters, display cases

Eligible Improvement

Removal of exterior materials that cover building’s architectural details or to add new architectural details

Eligible Improvement

Creation of new retail bays in an existing building

Eligible Improvement

Addition of patio areas & permanent landscaping elements

Eligible Improvement

Removal of barriers to access for mobility challenged individuals

Growing Communities One Idea At A Time

Phone: 403-320-6044 | cflethbridge@albertacf.com