Prince George, B.C. - Prince George City Council has deferred to the budget process a request from the Aboriginal Business Development Centre and the Aboriginal Community Development Centre.

ABDC President Ray Gerow, outlined to Council how there is a need for a new project to help community non profit groups find and secure funding.  He says  too often an organization's ability to  attract and secure funding rests with an individual and when that person moves on, the organization loses the ability to get funding.

"Either you have a volunteer writing the grant proposal, or a professional, and neither is correct.  What you really need is a merger of the two."

His organization proposes to offer assistance to those non profits, but in order to do so there is a need for funding.

Gerow says $75 thousand dollars this year, a further $60 thousand in  each of the next four years.  That kind of  financial commitment says Gerow would  allow the organization to leverage more funding from other areas.