Programs and Funding

  • 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 credit helps businesses redevelop commercial property and rehabilitate vacant buildings.
  • This grant funds the creation, documentation, presentation, and/or teaching of folk and traditional arts.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 registration tool is the official filing tool for the State of Colorado and the fastest way to register and manage a business.
  • This national competition helps high school students learn about poetry by memorizing and performing it.
  • This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This program provides support for initiatives led by nonprofit entities pertaining to key industries or regional development.
  • The VCA partners with professional fund managers to make seed and early-stage equity investments in Colorado startups to grow Colorado's innovative ecosystem and to create quality job opportunities.