Programs and Funding
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- 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.
- Participants in the Accessible Travel Program will receive up to 23 accessibility site assessments and free listing for all Wheel The World Verified sites on the Wheel The World website.
- 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.
- Colorado Creative Industries Arts for All 2030 Strategic Plan.
- This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
- 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 Pitch Competition is a mentorship and funding opportunity for social equity cannabis businesses who have reached critical business development milestones and have demonstrated a readiness to seek external investments.
- 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 program is made up of a coalition of partners across the state that share important messaging about preserving and protecting our state’s natural resources.
- 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 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.
- The CLIMBER archives include annual reports from previous years along with past meeting minutes
- These loans provide up to $250 million in working capital loans to Colorado small businesses negatively impacted by adverse economic conditions.
- This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments.
- This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.
- 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.
- The Community Revitalization Tax Credit is a Colorado State income tax incentive designed to support capital improvement projects that bolster creative industries and mixed-use spaces accessible to the public.
- 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 toolkit helps your community or business install and promote electric vehicle charging stations along Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways.
- This directory helps our state's film industry workforce showcase their skills and services to producers who are considering filming here.
- This incentive encourages film production in Colorado with a performance-based rebate for up to 20% of qualified expenses.
- This database of filmable locations across Colorado allows filmmakers to search by town, county, and type of location.
- The Colorado for All - Business Showcase and Resource Fair is a community-based event showcasing small businesses and recipients of OEDIT resources. This day-long event will provide a platform for small businesses to share their success stories, access additional resources, and participate in networking opportunities.
- 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.
- The Colorado Quantum Fund (CQF) for Shared Facilities provides 100% refundable tax credits to applicants making qualifying investments in fixed capital assets intended to create a shared quantum lab.
- The Quantum Investment Tax Credit (QITC) improves access to capital for quantum companies by encouraging lenders to make favorable loans to companies by registering up to 15% of the loan in a pooled loan loss reserve. The reserve is accessible with a 100% refundable tax credit should the lender incur losses associated with those loans.
- This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.
- 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.
- Participants in the Colorado State Parks Dark Sky Certification Mentor program will receive 20 hours of free consulting, webinars, and toolkits from DarkSky Colorado to implement activities that reduce light pollution and protect access to Colorado’s incredible night skies.
- 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.
- The Colorado Tourism Climate Champions Program, a pilot program in partnership with the Travel Foundation aims to provide education and expertise to Colorado destination organizations seeking guidance on climate action planning for the tourism industry.
- This program allows organizations to submit brochures about their business or other travel information to display at Colorado Welcome Centers.
- This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic and commercial properties.
- 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 program contributes to effective economic development in Colorado communities and regions through a place-based, regionally driven economic development planning process.
- This program helps Colorado artists by highlighting their work through rotating art exhibitions to the State Capitol building.
- 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 discounted subscription gives tourism partners access to a visual content marketing software called CrowdRiff.
- This free certification helps frontline workers become Colorado experts and grow their Colorado-style hospitality.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.