About us

Creating and maintaining jobs while respecting the principles of sustainable development

Mission: To support and stimulate job creation and maintenance in the D’Autray and Joliette MRCs, using a sustainable development approach.

Means of intervention: business financing, advisory role, development and implementation of activities promoting socio-economic development, in partnership with the community, and management of structuring projects.

Our Vision

The SADC de D’Autray-Joliette is an organization focused on the creation and maintenance of quality jobs, recognized for its concern for sustainable development, and enjoying a high profile:

For its contributions and initiatives in community development projects, while prioritizing structuring projects;
As a complementary financing organization for viable SMEs, meeting their specific needs according to their stage of development;
As a consulting resource for small businesses and organizations.

History

Following an agreement under the Community Futures Program (CFP), the Comité d’Aide au Développement de la Collectivité (CADC) was created in 1987 and chartered the following year. In 1989, the CADC set up the Centre d’aide aux entreprises de D’Autray (CAE), which was legally incorporated on September 28, 1990. Each of these two organizations, dedicated to creating and maintaining jobs, used different and complementary approaches to fostering the region’s economic development.

Following a merger, the Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) came into being in 1996. Since then, they’ve been busy delivering the CFP promoted and supported by the Government of Canada. More recently, the SADC de D’Autray signed an agreement with CED to offer its services in the MRC de Joliette, thereby becoming the SADC de D’Autray-Joliette.

Our services

The SADC operates in its community along three business lines:
business financing, consulting and local economic development.

Business financing
The SADC supports businesses in the D’Autray-Joliette region by offering financing tailored to their needs, whether for start-up, acquisition, growth, recovery or business succession.

Consulting services
Consulting services, accessible to all local entrepreneurs, are at the heart of our action. Whether starting up, buying, expanding or modernizing a business, or in the midst of a crisis, our advisors guide entrepreneurs through the strategic decisions they need to make.

Local economic development
The SADC de D’Autray-Joliette is active in a number of areas of local economic development. It can animate, initiate, accompany and even take charge of the realization of a collective approach or a project, be it individual, collective or corporate.

The SADC de D’Autray-Joliette is therefore involved in structuring projects for its territory, i.e., projects that embody a development vision and are at the root of achievements that will take shape over the medium to long term.

Our work

The SADC de D’Autray-Joliette has been involved in its community since 1988. Since its creation, the SADC has granted over $23 million in financing to entrepreneurs in the D’Autray and Joliette MRCs, generating more than $125 million for the local economy. In terms of local economic development, the SADC has initiated or contributed to over a hundred projects to support the creation and maintenance of jobs on the territory.

Annual reports

Learn more about SADC de D’Autray-Joliette in our latest annual reports.

Strategic planning 2023-2028

Consult our planning detailing our major orientations.

D'Autray-Joliette territory

The territory covered by the SADC de D’Autray-Joliette extends over two MRCs: the MRC de D’Autray and the MRC de Joliette. The two MRCs have a total population of 10,8739, spread over 25 municipalities. The territory includes a great deal of agricultural land, as well as dynamic urban areas such as Joliette and Lavaltrie. There are numerous parks and industrial zones, many of them close to Highway 40.

Close to Montreal, the area is criss-crossed by the Chemin du Roy tourist route along the St. Lawrence River. It’s also an area that stands out for innovation, thanks to the presence of incubators such as the Living Lab de Lanaudière, the Technocentre de Lavaltrie and the Boîte à start up.