Funding by Economic Region and Regional District

The following table shows Community Development Trust funding to workers and projects in each of the province’s eight economic regions up to August 31, 2009:

Economic Region Transitional Assistance Tuition Assistance Job Opportunities Total
Vancouver Island / Coast $20,723,714 $4,315,000 $4,322,759 $29,361,473
Mainland / Southwest $6,475,387 $540,000 $1,405,259 $8,420,646
Thompson Okanagan $9,500,419 $845,000 $6,965,347 $17,310,766
Kootenay $9,514,414 $1,125,000 $8,283,336 $18,922,750
Cariboo $13,047,619 $5,917,151 $18,034,,765 $36,999,535
North Coast $1,395,024 $135,000 $5,479,853 $7,009,877
Nechako $3,606,584 $355,000 $3,482,204 $7,443,788
North East $597,074 $410,000 $3,074,783 $4,081,857
Outside B.C. $270,738 $30,000 - $300,738
Approved BC projects with provincial scope - - $8,250,000 $8,250,000

Total
$65,130,973 $13,672,151 $59,298,308 $138,101,431
         

Here is a breakdown of funding that has gone to workers and projects in each Regional District in B.C., as of August 31, 2009:

Regional District Transitional
Assistance
Program
Tuition
Assistance
Program
Job
Opportunities
Program
TOTAL $
Alberni - Clayoquot $3,788,256 $310,000 $520,800 $4,619,056
Bulkley - Nechako $3,606,584 $355,000 $3,482,204 $7,443,788
Capital $556,926 $50,000 $0 $606,926
Cariboo $3,551,482 $1,890,000 $8,558,701 $14,000,183
Central Coast $57,916 $0 $0 $57,916
Central Kootenay $4,066,638 $410,000 $2,322,817 $6,799,455
Central Okanagan $1,121,502 $55,000 $766,976 $1,973,478
Columbia Shuswap $2,435,557 $85,000 $1,051,681 $4,142,238
Comox Valley $1,205,909 $725,000 $0 $1,930,909
Cowichan Valley $4,736,507 $545,000 $606,180 $5,887,687
East Kootenay $1,507,484 $120,000 $4,495,908 $6,123,392
Fraser Valley $1,393,531 $130,000 $293,701 $1,817,232
Fraser Fort George $9,496,137 $4,027,151 $9,476,064 $22,999,352
Greater Vancouver $4,383,739 $350,000 $0 $4,733,739
Kitimat - Stikine $1,126,667 $90,000 $5,194,670 $6,411,337
Kootenay - Boundary $3,940,292 $595,000 $1,464,611 $5,999,903
Mount Waddington $609,157 $65,000 $1,105,494 $1,799,651
Nanaimo $7,173,788 $1,035,000 $0 $8,208,788
North Okanagan $2,003,353 $105,000 $849,914 $2,958,267
North Rockies $89,757 $355,000 $418,967 $863,724
Okanagan - Similkameen $1,340,356 $105,000 $243,747 $1,689,103
Peace River $507,317 $55,000 $2,655,816 $3,218,133
Powell River $625,752 $110,000 $442,202 $1,177,954
Skeena - Queen Charlotte $268,357 $45,000 $285,183 $598,540
Squamish - Lillooet $424,038 $35,000 $214,786 $673,824
Strathcona $1,969,503 $1,475,000 $1,648,083 $5,092,586
Sunshine Coast $274,079 $25,000 $896,772 $1,195,851
Thompson - Nicola $2,599,651 $495,000 $4,053,029 $7,147,680
Outside B.C. $270,738 $30,000   $300,738
Approved BC Projects with a provincial scope   $8,250,000 $8,250,000
TOTAL $65,130,973 $13,672,151 $59,298,308 $138,101,431

For more information on how the Community Development Trust is benefitting workers, their families and their communities, see the CDT Facts page. See also media factsheet [PDF].

For more information about the Community Development Trust:

  • 1-877-238-8882 from B.C. communities outside Victoria
  • 250-387-5349 from Victoria
  • email: cdt@gov.bc.ca