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 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.
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.
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.
Colorado Tourism in partnership with Tourism Exchange USA
This grant provides funding to support projects that develop, enhance or better manage visitor experiences.
This grant provides funding to support tourism marketing and promotional campaigns.
This program helps Colorado tourism partners maximize their advertising and marketing dollars through group purchasing of media buys.
These promotions help tourism partners and small businesses take advantage of public relations connections to help them market themselves.
This program helps promote content through Visit Colorado's social media pages to help share your destination with residents and visitors.
These missions promote foreign investment into Colorado and help Colorado companies become more globally competitive.
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.
