This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.
This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.
This toolkit offers a variety of crisis communications preparedness and recovery assets for communities and organizations impacted by natural disasters and tourism crisis situations.
This free certification helps frontline workers become Colorado experts and grow their Colorado-style hospitality.
This grant provides funding to Colorado businesses that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and did not receive meaningful access to federal loans and grants under the CARES Act.
This tax credit encourages investment in distressed areas of the state.
This tax exemption expands the Manufacturing Sales and Use Tax Exemption.
This program is eight sessions, each lasting 2.5-3 hours, where a professional filmmaker works with high school teachers to cover scriptwriting, production, filming, and editing.
This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
These scholarships help high school students pay for educational and experiential film programs.
International Trade Readiness for Small Businesses online training course provides a peek into resources available through our partners at the World Trade Center Denver to reach international markets.
This tax credit is an eight-year job creation incentive to support competitive, multi-state, or country relocation and expansion projects.
The Colorado Just Transition Action Plan provides more information on the Just Transition communities themselves, and it provides recommendations on supporting coal transition workers who are or will be laid off by connecting them with job and training opportunities, local, state, and federal resources, quality jobs, and more.
This grant provides up to 50% of eligible direct support costs, not to exceed $200,000 for hosting events in Colorado that take place on or before June 30, 2024.
This grant supports an annual workshop that helps motivate and inspire native students who are struggling to find a passion in high school.
This program will provide one-time scholarships to 2024 high school graduates and equivalent completers that reside in Colorado for use in the 2024-2025 academic year, and will prioritize those who pursue an in-demand or high-priority postsecondary pathway as indicated by Colorado’s labor market index data.
This program supports outdoor recreation business development through research, partnerships, trade shows, and trade and investment missions.
This national competition helps high school students learn about poetry by memorizing and performing it.
The Professional Pathways Program program is a tier based professional networking and development program for film students across the state.
El Programa entrega recursos para negocios en Colorado que fueron desproporcionadamente impactados por la pandemia de COVID-19 y no han tenido un acceso significativo a programas de préstamo o subsidios a nivel federal o estatal bajo los recursos de CARES Act.
This program helps fund large tourism projects to attract new visitors from out of state after the 2008 Great Recession. This program has awarded all funds.
Cannabis Business resources that include banking options and pro bono legal support
This grant and tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
This program provides free technical assistance, consulting, and funding to help rural communities create economic development strategies.
This scholarship pays for tourism entrepreneurs and small businesses to attend a Small Business Leading Edge Training.
This scholarship provides up to $500 to help rural tourism professionals learn and improve their skills.
This grant helps businesses and nonprofits create customized job training for employees.
Free one-on-one consulting services to help you build a successful business at 15 community-based full-time centers and more than 70 part-time centers across Colorado.
The following lenders are possible sources of funding for small businesses in Colorado.