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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The</span> <b>BC Rural Dividend</b> program (intended for communities under 25,000 people) has updated guidelines to include eligibility for not-for-profits as well as First Nations and Local Governments<span style="color:black">
</span> for<span style="color:black"> cultural</span> infrastructure – both new construction and renovation<span style="color:black">.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Under Community Capacity project categories, one example given is “restoring cultural building for multi-purpose community use”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Only </span> online applications <span style="color:black">
accepted. Sole intake period is from</span> <b>October 3 to 31, 2016</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/economic-development/developing-your-community/community-partners/rural-advisory-council/rural-dividend">http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/economic-development/developing-your-community/community-partners/rural-advisory-council/rural-dividend</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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