Women-Owned Business Grant is sponsored by Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). Women-Owned Business Grant is a grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) that funds women entrepreneurs in Colorado looking to start or grow their businesses.

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.

* ### Accessible Travel Program 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.

* ### Accessory Dwelling Unit Finance Program The Accessory Dwelling Unit Finance Program supports lenders who will directly support the construction and conversion of new accessory dwelling units across Colorado through low-interest loans, interest rate buy-downs and credit enhancements.

* ### Advanced Industries Collaborative Infrastructure Grant This grant helps teams of Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses and nonprofits develop new large-scale projects. * ### Advanced Industries Early-Stage Capital and Retention Grant This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses develop and commercialize advanced technologies that will be created or manufactured in Colorado.

* ### Advanced Industries Export Grant This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses who want to export or are currently exporting. * ### Advanced Industry Investment Tax Credit This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.

* ### Advanced Industries Proof of Concept Grant 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. * ### Art in Public Places This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.

* ### Brand USA Marketing Program 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. * ### Call Yourself Creative Program This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.

* ### Cannabis Business Loan 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.

* ### Cannabis Business Pitch Competition 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.

* ### CannaBusiness Growth Technical Assistance 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. * ### Care for Colorado Coalition 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.

* ### Career Connections Panels This event brings top industry leaders in film, television, and digital media to visit high school and college classrooms across the state. * ### Cash Collateral Support 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.

Certify Colorado is a new program led by the Minority Business Office (MBO) that helps small and diverse business owners in Colorado cover the cost of obtaining nationally recognized business certifications. * ### CHIPS Refundable Tax Credit Program This program allows eligible semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies in Colorado to take a refund on specific types of earned credits.

* ### CHIPS Zones Program 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. These loans provide up to $250 million in working capital loans to Colorado small businesses negatively impacted by adverse economic conditions.

* ### Colorado APEX Accelerator This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments. * ### Colorado Change Leader Program This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.

* ### Colorado CHIPS Community Support Program 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. * ### Colorado Community Revitalization Grant This grant finances various projects across the state that create or revitalize mixed-use commercial centers.

* ### Colorado Community Revitalization Tax Credit 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. * ### Colorado Creates Grant This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.

* ### Colorado Creative Districts This program certifies communities that contribute to our state’s economy through creativity, culture, and the arts. * ### Colorado Creative Industries Summit This annual event is for Colorado creatives to connect, learn, and be inspired.