This annual trade show helps businesses showcase their goods and services to local and state government agencies.
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.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This grant funds projects that help arts organizations and artists find solutions to civic and social challenges facing Colorado communities.
This tax credit helps create new jobs at businesses that do aircraft manufacturing, maintenance, repair, completion, or modification.
This toolkit can be used to promote safety practices to tourists and communities when exploring the backcountry.
This program is a 6-month mentoring program to help small minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses understand and win government bids.
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.
This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
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.
These loans provide up to $250 million in working capital loans to Colorado small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This toolkit helps visitors find their way to our state's less-visited destinations and enjoy famous places during off-peak times and seasons, through travel itineraries.
The Colorado Artist Relief Fund supports artists experiencing economic distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This complete guide helps anyone start and run a business in Colorado.
This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.
This program helps businesses and tourism partners advertise on Colorado.com by creating free and/or paid articles, business listings, maps, and events.
This free certification helps frontline workers become Colorado experts and grow their Colorado-style hospitality.
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.
This certification is given to businesses that are already offering employee ownership to 20% or more of their employees.
This road show hosts events across the state to premiere Colorado Experience episodes in communities where the historical documentary series was filmed.
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.
These loans help start-ups and small businesses that are underserved by traditional debt markets.
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.
This directory provides listings of outdoor recreation businesses 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.
This program is a series of recovery programs that support Colorado tourism destinations and tourism industry associations negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.
This program provides 50 hours of free consulting and technical assistance for tourism-related entities and communities that want to advance a specific tourism-related goal or strategy.
This program provides training and facilitated discussions for tourism destinations that want to advance a tourism-related strategy.
This is a four-month program and grant opportunity that supports destinations that are in the early stages of the place lifecycle.
This 6- to 8-month program that gives customized support for communities or regions to identify tourism priorities and work with a mentor on a specific tourism-related goal or strategy.
These toolkits help tourism partners grow in specific areas to attract more visitors to their destination.
This program offers technical assistance for communities to strengthen their economic resilience strategy.
SBDC TechSource helps Colorado companies by providing commercialization assistance and cybersecurity and risk management education.
This program helps tourism professionals grow their careers through an executive leadership program.
This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
This program allows organizations to submit brochures about their business or other travel information to display at Colorado Welcome Centers.
This program offers free help, through English and Spanish speaking consultants, to start or expand a business in Commerce City.
This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied 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.
Connect2DOT helps small businesses in the transportation industry bid and contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and other local transportation agencies.
This program helps Colorado artists by highlighting their work through rotating art exhibitions to the State Capitol building.
This grant helps Colorado mid-career creative entrepreneurs and artists to grow their commercial creative business.
This program places creative arts therapies in the Pikes Peak region for veterans, service members, and their families and caregivers.
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.
An annual day-long event for businesses to learn about cybersecurity and risk management.
This toolkit helps your community or business install and promote electric vehicle charging stations along Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways.
The consultant can answer questions you may have about becoming an employee-owned company.
This loan gives businesses the funds to offset transition costs for Colorado businesses converting to an employee ownership structure.
The peer network connects businesses considering employee ownership with already converted companies.
This grant reimburses businesses the funds to offset transition costs for Colorado businesses converting to an employee ownership structure.
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 event brings top industry leaders in film, television, and digital media to visit high school and college classrooms across the state.
This grant helps local colleges, universities, and high schools fund a specific film project for students.
This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
This initiative provides technical assistance to help communities attract film production and prepare them for production activities.
This series of events addresses the need for community engagement and education during COVID-19 by providing webinars to the creative film and media community.
This program helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses expand into other countries.
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.
These awards honor community members for civic leadership and volunteerism in creative industries.
This award recognizes minority-owned for-profit businesses that contribute to the economic diversity and success of minority communities in Colorado.
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.
These scholarships help high school students pay for educational and experiential film programs.
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.
This toolkit provides resources and information on employee ownership to introduce you to the various business models.
This tax credit is an eight-year job creation incentive to support competitive, multi-state, or country relocation and expansion projects.
This grant provides marketing funds to help rural areas attract out-of-state companies to create new jobs in their communities.
This toolkit helps promote Colorado by allowing people to share their favorite parts of our beautiful state.
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.
This directory is Colorado’s most comprehensive database of certified minority-owned businesses.
This registration tool is the official filing tool for the State of Colorado and the fastest way to register and manage a business.
This grant supports an annual workshop that helps motivate and inspire native students who are struggling to find a passion in high school.
This grant provides up to $2,000 to help communities develop opportunity zone projects.
This grant provides up to $10,000 to help communities develop opportunity zone projects.
This program supports outdoor recreation business development through research, partnerships, trade shows, and trade and investment missions.
Regional partners are committed to growing Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, conserving public lands and waters, and connecting with local communities.
Identify which certifications will help your small minority, veteran- and women-owned business bid on and win contracts with local, state, and federal governments.
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.
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.
This program helps economically distressed communities attract new businesses and jobs.
This tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
This program provides free technical assistance, consulting, and funding to help rural communities create economic development strategies.
These conferences support rural tourism development, education, and training opportunities for partners across rural Colorado.
This scholarship pays for tourism entrepreneurs and small businesses to attend a Small Business Leading Edge Training.
This scholarship provides up to $500 to help rural tourism professionals learn and improve their skills.
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 program allows screenwriters to submit one original screenplay, television pilot, or short script per year for a free critique.
This toolkit provides campaign materials that can be used to support shop local efforts.
This event projects short works from Colorado filmmakers onto exterior walls and other city surfaces in Denver's RiNo neighborhood for eight days.
This grant helps businesses and nonprofits create customized job training for employees.
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.
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 toolkit can be used by communities to promote Colorado's ski industries and winter destinations.
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 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 provides funding for the technical development of tourism in rural Colorado and projects that develop the statewide tourism industry.
This toolkit helps tourism partners meet with their legislators to discuss tourism and its economic benefits.
This grant helps nonprofits, destination marketing organizations, municipalities, and counties market themselves to increase traveler spending in rural Colorado.
This program helps Colorado tourism partners maximize their advertising and marketing dollars through group purchasing of media buys.
The Colorado Tourism Office produces and distributes two print publications called the Official Colorado State Vacation Guide and Love, Colorado magazine.
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.
These funds invest in early-stage startups headquartered in Colorado outside of the front range.
This program allows your organization to showcase tailored advertising messages on a digital screen within the interior walls of Colorado Welcome Centers.
This toolkit helps communities spur Coloradans’ interest in exploring both urban and rural adventures to drive recovery.
This directory includes resources available in Colorado to help locals and visitors safely get outdoors in the winter.
