- The Colorado Tourism Office seeks to serve as the extended strategy and implementation team for Colorado destination organizations through Destination Blueprint. Program outcomes include increased alignment between local tourism stakeholders and completion of one or more priority tourism projects. Up to 10 destination organizations will be selected to participate.
- The consultant can answer questions you may have about becoming an employee-owned company.
- Available resources and educational programming to support Colorado business owners on their journey to becoming an employee-owned company.
- This tax credit covers up to 50% of a qualified business’ conversion costs to employee ownership (up to $150,000.00). Check the program page to learn more about the recently expanded program.
- The Employee Ownership Tax Credit to Strengthen and to Thrive program is available to newly established Colorado-headquartered employee-owned businesses to offer financial support through a tax credit program to ensure ongoing success
- This tax credit helps businesses invest in commercial vehicles and parts for vehicles.
- This tax credit encourages investment in distressed areas of the state.
- This tax credit encourages businesses in economically distressed communities to offer health insurance coverage to their employees.
- This tax credit encourages enterprise zone businesses to invest in business personal property.
- This tax credit helps businesses develop a skilled workforce in distressed communities.
- This tax credit helps businesses in distressed communities add employees to their workforce.
- This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
- This tax credit helps businesses invest in research and development through a tax credit.
- This tax exemption expands the Manufacturing Sales and Use Tax Exemption.
- This tax credit helps businesses redevelop commercial property and rehabilitate vacant buildings.
- 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.
- This grant funds the creation, documentation, presentation, and/or teaching of folk and traditional arts.
- The Freight Rail Tax Credit incentivizes freight dependent businesses’ use of certain rail lines in Colorado.
- 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.
- OEDIT is seeking stakeholder input on HB22-1418 Extension Of Certain Unused Tax Credits concerning the extension of the period for which unused and expiring colorado Job Growth Incentive (JGTIC) and Enterprise Zone (EZ) income tax credits may be carried forward to subsequent years.
- 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.
- This program helps address Colorado’s housing shortage by supporting the development and expansion of the state’s innovative housing manufacturing businesses through grants and loans.
- The program helps organizations and tourism businesses advertise to consumers through tour operators in other countries to promote their destinations.
- These trade shows provide an opportunity for destination marketing organizations to join the Colorado booth.
- 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.
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This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.
This bond financing program can assist those looking to develop middle income workforce rental housing throughout Colorado. - National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW) is an annual tradition to celebrate the U.S. travel community and travel’s essential role in stimulating economic growth, cultivating vibrant communities, creating quality job opportunities, inspiring new businesses and elevating the quality of life for Americans every day.
- 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.
- The Regional Talent Summits Act was created by House Bill 24-1365 to strengthen talent pipeline needs through seven collaborative regional summits. The summits aim to enhance regional economic development by prioritizing business needs to create stronger alignment between educational programs and in-demand industries. These convenings will ultimately result in two and five year tactical plans that develop career pathways in specified fields facing regional workforce challenges.
- The Opportunity Now Tax Credit was created by House Bill 24-1365 to encourage workforce development in industries impacted by IIJA, IRA and/or CHIPS. This refundable tax credit provides financial assistance for facility improvements and/or equipment acquisition costs associated with training programs designed to alleviate workforce shortages.
- This program helps communities that would like to plan for development of their outdoor recreation economies.
- This program supports outdoor recreation business development through research, partnerships, trade shows, and trade and investment missions.
- The Partner Outreach Program supports our initiative to ensure that everyone in the state learns about and has access to the various capital and technical assistance programs available from OEDIT. In addition to the committed outreach conducted by our established partners, OEDIT partners with smaller community organizations that have strong ties to members of historically underserved communities in urban and rural Colorado.
- This directory is Colorado’s most comprehensive database of certified minority-owned businesses.
- This national competition helps high school students learn about poetry by memorizing and performing it.
- This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.
This program supports affordable housing development throughout Colorado by providing grants, loans and equity investments to local and tribal governments, for profit and non-profit developers. - 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.
- 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.
- The Small Business Navigator can answer questions you may have about federal, state, and local licensing requirements.
- This program helps communities convert buildings into affordable living and work spaces for creatives.
- This grant helps small businesses expand internationally by funding international business development activities.
- This program provides support for initiatives led by nonprofit entities pertaining to key industries or regional development.
- This cash incentive is a five-year program for competitive business expansion or relocation projects.
- This page explains local government's authority to waive business personal property taxes and provides a list of state sales tax exemptions.
- This program helps businesses and tourism partners advertise on Colorado.com by creating free and/or paid articles, business listings, maps, and events.
