This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.
This event brings top industry leaders in film, television, and digital media to visit high school and college classrooms across the state.
This credit enhancement helps small and medium-sized businesses in Colorado access loans that they would otherwise not get because they do not have enough collateral.
This program provides eligible semiconductor companies access to specific types of Enterprise Zone income tax credits; Colorado municipalities and counties must establish a CHIPS Zone through application to the EDC before companies can access these benefits.
This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.
This grant finances various projects across the state that create or revitalize mixed-use commercial centers.
This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.
This program certifies communities that contribute to our state’s economy through creativity, culture, and the arts.
This annual event is for Colorado creatives to connect, learn, and be inspired.
This credit enhancement is for businesses that typically struggle to get access to a bank loan.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This federal program encourages long-term investments in designated low-income communities by giving investors tax incentives for investing in real estate projects.
This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.
SBDC TechSource helps Colorado companies by providing commercialization assistance and cybersecurity and risk management education.
The Colorado Startup Loan Fund provides loan capital to mission-based lenders to provide loans to Colorado entrepreneurs and small business owners needing capital to start, restart, or restructure a business, and those who are not able to obtain a loan from traditional lenders.
As a part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the federal government passed the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) bill to fund small business credit support and investment programs.
This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied commercial properties.
This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.
This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.
Connect2DOT helps small businesses in the transportation industry bid and contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and other local transportation agencies.
This program places creative arts therapies in the Pikes Peak region for veterans, service members, and their families and caregivers.
An annual day-long event for businesses to learn about cybersecurity and risk management.
This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
This series of events addresses the need for community engagement and education during COVID-19 by providing webinars to the creative film and media community.
These awards honor community members for civic leadership and volunteerism in creative industries.
These scholarships help high school students pay for educational and experiential film programs.
This program supports HUBZone-certified small businesses in designated areas of the State by providing them with preferential treatment in awarding federal contracts.
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 supports an annual workshop that helps motivate and inspire native students who are struggling to find a passion in high school.
This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments.
The Professional Pathways Program program is a tier based professional networking and development program for film students across the state.
These partners share expertise with filmmakers and help attract productions to their communities.
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.
This grant and tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
Our consultants and partners can assist with disaster loan applications, long-term planning, insurance navigation, physical and economic loss estimations, business preparedness, and more.
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.
This program offers small businesses a free, one-hour consultation with a lawyer.
The following lenders are possible sources of funding for small businesses in Colorado.
The Small Business Navigator can answer questions you may have about federal, state, and local licensing requirements.
These free resources help small businesses by providing checklists, templates, tips, and questions to consider.
Free and low-cost training workshops to help existing and new businesses grow and prosper in Colorado.
This program helps communities convert buildings into affordable living and work spaces for creatives.
