Digital Main Street

Digital Main Street – Ontario Grant Programs

The Province of Ontario and the Ontario BIA Association, Digital Main Street is offering a grant to help small main street businesses across Ontario strengthen their digital and online capabilities.

Digital Transformation Grant Program

The Digital Transformation grant provides $2,500 to each qualifying small main street Ontario business to purchase and adopt digital tools and technologies.

To be eligible, you must be a main street business that:

• Is within the Downtown Kingston BIA, Portsmouth Village or Williamsville area;
• Is employing 1-99 employees;
• Is paying commercial property tax (commercially assessed), either directly or through commercial rent;
• Is a registered business in Ontario and/or is incorporated;
• Is NOT a business supplying digital services to other businesses (e.g., website design/ development, SEO, programming);
• Is NOT a franchise;
• Is NOT a not-for-profit/charitable organization;
• Is NOT renting office space on a temporary basis (month-to-month);
• Is NOT a shared workspace such as a hot desk or a dedicated desk; and
• Is NOT a purely online business

There are ONLY 2000 grants available, with the last day to apply being December 31, 2019.