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The federal government will spend $1 for every $2 contributed by the private sector for projects that help English-speaking youth, seniors and immigrants in Quebec, the Quebec Community Groups Network announced Thursday.

The funding comes from a $4-million national Community Innovation Fund, financed by Employment and Social Development Canada, to help official language minority communities, with up to $1.4 million from that fund going to programs to help anglophones in Quebec.

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The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), which brings together 48 English-language community organizations across the province, will use about $400,000 of that funding to manage the program here in Quebec. That money will be used to hire a coordinator, pay an outside consultant, create a website and promote the program among community groups and private sector partners.

To be eligible for one-third federal funding, a project must have a private sector partner willing to fund two-thirds. So the program could result in up to $3 million worth of spending to help Quebec anglophones.