Outreach is very much part of what we need to do to make sure they're aware of the opportunity to receive our investments. We are strong on outreach. We also use website information for people to understand our priorities.
In addition, we have a network, the Community Futures organizations. Several of them, actually 15 of them, are aboriginal in nature. We use them to get the word out on the opportunity. As a result, we've had some $13 million in investment in the last two calls or intakes that we've had for investment. We have a number of projects on the go with those communities and we're supporting as well others that we do through what we call the strategic partnerships initiative. There's another $7 million in investments there.
Since we've really put a focus on this in the last two years, we're seeing stronger and stronger uptake each time. It's growing. We're also engaging aboriginal groups to talk about business opportunities. In particular, we had a large engagement in Saskatchewan that drew a number of first nation leaders in Saskatchewan and Manitoba to talk about even opportunities in the defence procurement world and some of the practices happening through to the Maritimes engaging aboriginal business.