Programs and Funding
- This program is a 6-month mentoring program to help small minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses understand and win government bids.
- This complete guide helps anyone start and run a business in Colorado.
- This program is a series of recovery programs that support Colorado tourism destinations and tourism industry associations negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 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 helps tourism professionals grow their careers through an executive leadership program.
- 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.
- This tax credit provides funds up to 50% of a qualified business' conversion costs to employee ownership. Eligible structures include employee stock ownership plans, worker-owned cooperatives, and employee ownership trusts.
- This four-month training program helps minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses develop and implement their global trading strategy.
- This award honors Colorado-based companies that have exported products or services for at least two years.
- These awards celebrate six individuals and organizations that improve and innovate Colorado’s tourism industry every fall at the Governor's Tourism Conference.
- This award recognizes minority-owned for-profit businesses that contribute to the economic diversity and success of minority communities in Colorado.
- The program helps organizations and tourism businesses advertise to consumers through tour operators in other countries to promote their destinations.
- This tax credit is an eight-year job creation incentive to support competitive, multi-state, or country relocation and expansion projects.
- 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 December 31, 2022.
- Minority-, women- or veteran-owned businesses can receive free one-on-one consulting services to help you understand all of the certifications available to you.
- 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 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 cash incentive is a five-year program for competitive business expansion or relocation projects.
- This award honors a frontline tourism worker from each of Colorado’s eight travel regions.
- This grant helps nonprofits, destination marketing organizations, municipalities, and counties market themselves to increase traveler spending in Colorado.
- This program helps Colorado tourism partners maximize their advertising and marketing dollars through group purchasing of media buys.
- This cooperative or co-op allows tourism partners to participate in upcoming photography shoots.
- This program helps promote content through Visit Colorado's social media pages to help share your destination with residents and visitors.
- This toolkit helps communities spur Coloradans’ interest in exploring both urban and rural adventures to drive recovery.