Value-Added Program

💡What Is This Program?

🎁What Benefits Are Offered?

Grants for value-added projects aimed at diversification, innovation, growth, and prosperity in Alberta's food and bio-industrial sectors. Funding supports activities like processing capacity expansion, food safety improvements, new product development, and market access, paid on a reimbursement basis with specific cost-sharing requirements.

📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?

📄What Documents Are Required?

💰What Expenses Are Eligible?

🧾Eligible ExpensesSource

• Eligible Capital Expenses
• Eligible Non-Capital Expenses

🚫Ineligible ExpensesSource

• travel expenses not in compliance with the Sustainable CAP Travel Expense Policy
• expenses not incurred by the Eligible Applicant
• purchase or construction of real property or structural works
• activities associated with aquaculture, aquaponics, or seafood processing
• shipping costs
• costs of lease of office furniture, space, and equipment
• fixtures that are not an Eligible Capital Expense
• costs of equipment for storage purposes
• costs associated with the building
• on-going business operational activities and overhead expenses
• staff or consulting expenses for product sale activities
• advertising expenses
• sponsorship
• donation of product
• listing fees, distribution fees or shelf stocking fees
• website hosting, domain registration or ongoing website maintenance
• vehicles of any kind
• expenses related to non-specific activities
• Goods and Services Tax (GST)
• an expense arising from a non-arm’s length transaction
• costs incurred outside of the Project Term

📏Expense CapsSource

Eligible Non-Capital Expenses shall be cost-shared at 50% grant and 50% Applicant up to a maximum total amount of $50,000.

💳Payment ModelSource

reimbursement

⏪Retroactive Expenses EligibleSource

No

🤝Is Matching Funding Required?

📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?