The Cannabis Business Office is excited to offer a pilot program entitled Access to Experts. Qualifying subject matter experts will provide services in compliance, marketing, and financial consulting at low or no cost to Social Equity Licensee cannabis businesses.
This grant helps teams of Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses and nonprofits develop new large-scale projects.
This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses develop and commercialize advanced technologies that will be created or manufactured in Colorado.
This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses who want to export or are currently exporting.
This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.
This grant provides funding to help Colorado research institutions with applied research in advanced industries and to commercialize products and services in the private sector.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This program is a 6-month mentoring program to help small minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses understand and win government bids.
Brand USA is the destination marketing organization for the United States which works closely with the travel industry to maximize the economic and social benefits of travel.
This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.
The Cannabis Business Loan Fund is an opportunity for social equity licensed cannabis businesses to receive lending capital to build and improve their current business operations.
The Cannabis Business Office is excited to announce a new educational program that offers vertical specific content to social equity cannabis businesses at no cost.
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 allows eligible semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies in Colorado to take a refund on specific types of earned credits.
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.
These loans provide up to $250 million in working capital loans to Colorado small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This suite of three grants provides Colorado communities funding to develop their semiconductor and advanced industry ecosystems. The three grants can be used to fund market studies, projects and programs, and marketing activities.
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.
Participants in the Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor program will receive 70 hours of free consulting support from DarkSky Colorado to implement activities that reduce light pollution and protect access to Colorado’s incredible night skies.
This directory helps our state's film industry workforce showcase their skills and services to producers who are considering filming here.
This database of filmable locations across Colorado allows filmmakers to search by town, county, and type of location.
This is an annual three-day event for tourism professionals and industry leaders to learn and network.
This scholarship helps tourism professionals attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
This scholarship helps college and university students attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
This position recognizes and supports Colorado musicians whose public service improves Colorado economically, socially, and culturally.
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 annual event consists of networking, idea sharing, and expert discussions to build and sustain the outdoor recreation industry in Colorado.
The laureate advocates for poetry, literacy, and literature by participating in readings and other events at the state capitol, schools, libraries, and literary festivals.
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 program offers free help, through English and Spanish speaking consultants, to start or expand a business in Commerce City.
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.
Este programa ofrece servicios gratuitos de asesoría personalizados para ayudarle a conocer todas las certificaciones puestas a su disposición como propietario de un negocio de minorías, de mujeres o de veteranos.
This program places creative arts therapies in the Pikes Peak region for veterans, service members, and their families and caregivers.
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.
An annual day-long event for businesses to learn about cybersecurity and risk management.
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.
The consultant can answer questions you may have about becoming an employee-owned company.
This tax credit encourages investment in distressed areas of the state.
This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
This tax exemption expands the Manufacturing Sales and Use Tax Exemption.
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.
This program helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses expand into other countries.
This award honors Colorado-based companies that have exported products or services for at least two years.
These awards honor community members for civic leadership and volunteerism in creative industries.
This award recognizes minority-owned for-profit businesses that contribute to the economic diversity and success of minority communities in Colorado.
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.
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 directory is Colorado’s most comprehensive database of certified minority-owned businesses.
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.
Este programa ofrece consultas en inglés y español a todos los pequeñas negocios sobre una variedad de temas que incluyen cómo iniciar un negocio, financiamiento, desarrollo de negocios, certificaciones gubernamentales, además de ser esa conexión para usted con nuestra comunidad local.
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 is dedicating 40% of funds to the Affordable Housing Support Fund administered by the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and 60% to the Affordable Housing Financing Fund overseen by OEDIT to fund housing programs
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.
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.
Our consultants and partners can assist with disaster loan applications, long-term planning, insurance navigation, physical and economic loss estimations, business preparedness, and more.
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.
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.