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		<title>Maple Leaf Angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maple Leaf Angels is Ontario’s largest and most active angel investor group. Since its founding in 2007, Maple Leaf Angels has invested $6m in start-ups. ]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/maple-leaf-angels</link>
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		<title>Green Innovation Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Toronto along with the Toronto Community Foundation have created the Green Innovation Award - $50 000 in seed funding for innovative businesses offering green products or services. ]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/green-innovation-award</link>
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		<title>Kickstarter.com – Funds for Creative Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kickstarter.com is an awesome social networking site that uses the power of crowd sourcing to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.
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		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/kickstarter</link>
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		<title>Business Incubators Help Entrepreneurs Reach the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Business Incubator helps grow start-up businesses that demonstrate potential by supporting them with a dynamic program that involves mentoring from business leaders, marketing help, strategy coaching,  introduction to valuable business contacts, funding and assistance with product development.]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/business-incubators</link>
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		<title>Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) : Venture Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Development  Bank of Canada  (BDC) offers venture capital to Canadian pioneering entrepreneurs and start-ups.]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/bdcventurecapita</link>
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		<title>Non-Profit Fundraising: A Holistic Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A holistic fundraising approach is a strategy that aligns fundraising, financial management, communications and organizational polices.]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/fundraising-strategy</link>
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		<title>Business Plan Writing: Imagination to Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Business Development Consultant, I am often asked questions and advice regarding writing a Business Plan. In this article, I share answers to common questions]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/mywork/businessplanwriter</link>
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		<title>Rogers Ventures – Funding for Tech Start-Ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Launched in late 2009, Rogers Ventures is a “venture capital like” firm focusing on seed funding and early stage investment for Canadian technology start-ups. ]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/rogers-ventures-funding-for-tech-start-ups</link>
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		<title>Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ontario Emerging Technology Fund (OETF) is a $250 million ($50 million a year, over 5 years, 2009 - 2014) program where the Ontario government co-invests alongside venture capital firms, private investors (angel investors) and investment corporations (i.e. pension funds) towards clean technology, life sciences/health care and digital media/telecommunications.]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/featured-articles/oetf</link>
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		<title>ArtReach Toronto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ArtReach Toronto is an innovative youth focused and youth driven program with a mandate to support arts initiatives that engage youth who have experienced exclusion in under-served areas of Toronto.]]></description>
		<link>http://jorgeleclair.ca/blog/grants-fundraising/artreachtoronto</link>
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