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This annual trade show helps businesses showcase their goods and services to local and state government agencies.
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This grant helps teams of Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses and nonprofits develop new large-scale projects.
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This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses develop and commercialize advanced technologies that will be created or manufactured in Colorado.
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This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses who want to export or are currently exporting.
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This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.
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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.
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This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
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This grant funds projects that help arts organizations and artists find solutions to civic and social challenges facing Colorado communities.
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This tax credit helps create new jobs at businesses that do aircraft manufacturing, maintenance, repair, completion, or modification.
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This toolkit can be used to promote safety practices to tourists and communities when exploring the backcountry.
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This program is a 6-month mentoring program to help small minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses understand and win government bids.
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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.
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This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.
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This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
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This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
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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.
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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.
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The Colorado Artist Relief Fund supports artists experiencing economic distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
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This complete guide helps anyone start and run a business in Colorado.
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This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.
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This program helps businesses and tourism partners advertise on Colorado.com by creating free and/or paid articles, business listings, maps, and events.
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This free certification helps frontline workers become Colorado experts and grow their Colorado-style hospitality.
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This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.
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This program certifies communities that contribute to our state’s economy through creativity, culture, and the arts.
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This annual event is for Colorado creatives to connect, learn, and be inspired.
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This credit enhancement is for businesses that typically struggle to get access to a bank loan.
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This certification is given to businesses that are already offering employee ownership to 20% or more of their employees.
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This road show hosts events across the state to premiere Colorado Experience episodes in communities where the historical documentary series was filmed.
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This directory helps our state's film industry workforce showcase their skills and services to producers who are considering filming here.
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This incentive encourages film production in Colorado with a performance-based rebate for up to 20% of qualified expenses.
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This database of filmable locations across Colorado allows filmmakers to search by town, county, and type of location.
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These loans help start-ups and small businesses that are underserved by traditional debt markets.
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This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
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This federal program encourages long-term investments in designated low-income communities by giving investors tax incentives for investing in real estate projects.
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This annual event consists of networking, idea sharing, and expert discussions to build and sustain the outdoor recreation industry in Colorado.
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This directory provides listings of outdoor recreation businesses in Colorado.
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The laureate advocates for poetry, literacy, and literature by participating in readings and other events at the state capitol, schools, libraries, and literary festivals.
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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.
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This program provides training and facilitated discussions for tourism destinations that want to advance a tourism-related strategy.
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This is a four-month program and grant opportunity that supports destinations that are in the early stages of the place lifecycle.
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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.
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These toolkits help tourism partners grow in specific areas to attract more visitors to their destination.
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SBDC TechSource helps Colorado companies by providing commercialization assistance and cybersecurity and risk management education.
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This program helps tourism professionals grow their careers through an executive leadership program.
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This toolkit can be used by communities to inspire both Colorado residents and visitors to protect Colorado's special places.
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This program allows organizations to submit brochures about their business or other travel information to display at Colorado Welcome Centers.
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This program offers free help, through English and Spanish speaking consultants, to start or expand a business in Commerce City.
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This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied commercial properties.
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This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.
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This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.
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Connect2DOT helps small businesses in the transportation industry bid and contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and other local transportation agencies.
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This program helps Colorado artists by highlighting their work through rotating art exhibitions to the State Capitol building.
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This grant helps Colorado mid-career creative entrepreneurs and artists to grow their commercial creative business.
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This program places creative arts therapies in the Pikes Peak region for veterans, service members, and their families and caregivers.
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This toolkit offers a variety of crisis communications preparedness and recovery assets for communities and organizations impacted by natural disasters and tourism crisis situations.
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This discounted subscription gives tourism partners access to a visual content marketing software called CrowdRiff.
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An annual day-long event for businesses to learn about cybersecurity and risk management.
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This toolkit helps your community or business install and promote electric vehicle charging stations along Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways.
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The consultant can answer questions you may have about becoming an employee-owned company.
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This loan gives businesses the funds to offset transition costs for Colorado businesses converting to an employee ownership structure.
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This grant reimburses businesses the funds to offset transition costs for Colorado businesses converting to an employee ownership structure.
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This tax credit helps businesses invest in commercial vehicles and parts for vehicles.
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This tax credit encourages investment in distressed areas of the state.
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This tax credit encourages businesses in economically distressed communities to offer health insurance coverage to their employees.
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This tax credit encourages enterprise zone businesses to invest in business personal property.
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This tax credit helps businesses develop a skilled workforce in distressed communities.
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This tax credit helps businesses in distressed communities add employees to their workforce.
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This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
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This tax credit helps businesses invest in research and development through a tax credit.
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This tax exemption expands the Manufacturing Sales and Use Tax Exemption.
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This tax credit helps businesses redevelop commercial property and rehabilitate vacant buildings.
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This award honors a frontline tourism worker from each of Colorado’s eight travel regions.
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This event brings top industry leaders in film, television, and digital media to visit high school and college classrooms across the state.
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This grant helps local colleges, universities, and high schools fund a specific film project for students.
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This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
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This initiative provides technical assistance to help communities attract film production and prepare them for production activities.
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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.
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This program helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses expand into other countries.
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This four-month training program helps minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses develop and implement their global trading strategy.
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This award honors Colorado-based companies that have exported products or services for at least two years.
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These awards celebrate six individuals and organizations that improve and innovate Colorado’s tourism industry every fall at the Governor's Tourism Conference.
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These awards honor community members for civic leadership and volunteerism in creative industries.
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This award recognizes minority-owned for-profit businesses that contribute to the economic diversity and success of minority communities in Colorado.
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This is an annual three-day event for tourism professionals and industry leaders to learn and network.
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This scholarship helps tourism professionals attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
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This scholarship helps college and university students attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
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These scholarships help high school students pay for educational and experiential film programs.
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The program helps organizations and tourism businesses advertise to consumers through tour operators in other countries to promote their destinations.
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These trade shows provide an opportunity for destination marketing organizations to join the Colorado booth.
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This toolkit provides resources and information on employee ownership to introduce you to the various business models.
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This tax credit is an eight-year job creation incentive to support competitive, multi-state, or country relocation and expansion projects.
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This grant provides marketing funds to help rural areas attract out-of-state companies to create new jobs in their communities.
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This toolkit helps promote Colorado by allowing people to share their favorite parts of our beautiful state.
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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.
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This directory is Colorado’s most comprehensive database of certified minority-owned businesses.
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This registration tool is the official filing tool for the State of Colorado and the fastest way to register and manage a business.
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This grant supports an annual workshop that helps motivate and inspire native students who are struggling to find a passion in high school.
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This grant provides up to $2,000 to help communities develop opportunity zone projects.
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This grant provides up to $10,000 to help communities develop opportunity zone projects.
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This program supports outdoor recreation business development through research, partnerships, trade shows, and trade and investment missions.
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Regional partners are committed to growing Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, conserving public lands and waters, and connecting with local communities.
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Identify which certifications will help your small minority, veteran- and women-owned business bid on and win contracts with local, state, and federal governments.
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This national competition helps high school students learn about poetry by memorizing and performing it.
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This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments.
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These partners share expertise with filmmakers and help attract productions to their communities.
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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.
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This program helps economically distressed communities attract new businesses and jobs.
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This tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
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This program provides free technical assistance, consulting, and funding to help rural communities create economic development strategies.
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These conferences support rural tourism development, education, and training opportunities for partners across rural Colorado.
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This scholarship pays for tourism entrepreneurs and small businesses to attend a Small Business Leading Edge Training.
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This scholarship provides up to $500 to help rural tourism professionals learn and improve their skills.
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Our consultants and partners can assist with disaster loan applications, long-term planning, insurance navigation, physical and economic loss estimations, business preparedness, and more.
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This program allows screenwriters to submit one original screenplay, television pilot, or short script per year for a free critique.
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This toolkit provides campaign materials that can be used to support shop local efforts.
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This event projects short works from Colorado filmmakers onto exterior walls and other city surfaces in Denver's RiNo neighborhood for eight days.
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This grant helps businesses and nonprofits create customized job training for employees.
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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.
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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.
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The following lenders are possible sources of funding for small businesses in Colorado.
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The Small Business Navigator can answer questions you may have about federal, state, and local licensing requirements.
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These free resources help small businesses by providing checklists, templates, tips, and questions to consider.
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Free and low-cost training workshops to help existing and new businesses grow and prosper in Colorado.
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This program helps small manufacturers across Colorado in all stages of business.
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This toolkit can be used by communities to promote Colorado's ski industries and winter destinations.
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This program helps communities convert buildings into affordable living and work spaces for creatives.
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This grant helps small businesses expand internationally by funding international business development activities.
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This cash incentive is a five-year program for competitive business expansion or relocation projects.
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This grant provides funding for the technical development of tourism in rural Colorado and projects that develop the statewide tourism industry.
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This toolkit helps tourism partners meet with their legislators to discuss tourism and its economic benefits.
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This grant helps nonprofits, destination marketing organizations, municipalities, and counties market themselves to increase traveler spending in rural Colorado.
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This program helps Colorado tourism partners maximize their advertising and marketing dollars through group purchasing of media buys.
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The Colorado Tourism Office produces and distributes two print publications called the Official Colorado State Vacation Guide and Love, Colorado magazine.
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These promotions help tourism partners and small businesses take advantage of public relations connections to help them market themselves.
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This program helps promote content through Visit Colorado's social media pages to help share your destination with residents and visitors.
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These missions promote foreign investment into Colorado and help Colorado companies become more globally competitive.
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These funds invest in early-stage startups headquartered in Colorado outside of the front range.
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This program allows your organization to showcase tailored advertising messages on a digital screen within the interior walls of Colorado Welcome Centers.
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This toolkit helps communities spur Coloradans’ interest in exploring both urban and rural adventures to drive recovery.
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This directory includes resources available in Colorado to help locals and visitors safely get outdoors in the winter.