Directory

Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade (OEDIT)

Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media

This office attracts and facilitates content creation through the film, television, and media industries to generate economic growth. 

Regional Film Liaisons
These partners share expertise with filmmakers and help attract productions to their communities.

Colorado Film Location Directory
This directory is a database of filmable locations across Colorado that filmmakers can search by town, county, and type of location.

Colorado Film Incentive
This incentive encourages film production in Colorado with a performance-based rebate for up to 20% of qualified expenses.

Colorado Film Crew and Support Services Directory
This directory helps our state's film industry workforce showcase their skills and services to producers who are considering filming here.

Colorado Tourism Office

This office helps increase traveler spending through the promotion of Colorado as a four-season, four-corner, world-class travel destination. 

The Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) is a division of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade. The mission of the CTO is to empower the tourism industry by inspiring the world to explore Colorado responsibly and respectfully. We accomplish this goal through a statewide collaboration with destination marketing organizations, local communities, and private businesses. The Colorado Tourism Office seeks to advance the strength and resilience of the entire industry through collaboration, inclusivity, innovation and leadership. 

The Colorado Tourism Office fields "Come to Life" marketing campaigns targeting national and international travelers. We manage Colorado.com and print the Official State Vacation Guide and the Official State Highway Map. In collaboration with public and private partners, we operate 10 Colorado Welcome Centers at major gateways to the state.

Tourism is one of the most powerful drivers of Colorado’s economy, creating jobs faster than any other industry. It fuels business income and tax revenues that support everything from schools to transportation to municipal services, through the tourism departments and programs below. 

Programs and Funding 

• Brand USA Marketing Program

• Care for Colorado

• Colorado.com Advertising Opportunities - creates free and/or paid articles, business listings, maps and events

• Colorado Dark Sky Certifictionmentor program

• Colorado Electric Byways Tourism Toolkit

• Colorado Governor's Tourism conference and professional scholarship and student sponsorship

• Colorado Welcome Center Brochure Advertising

• Crisis Communications and Recovery Toolkit

• CrowdRiff Visual Content Marketing Subscription

• CTO Learning Labs

• International Tourism Marketing Opportunities

• Internaltional Tourism Trade shows

• Meeting and Events Incentive Cash rebate and Direct Support Grant

• Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship Scholarship - This scholarship pays for tourism entrepreneurs and small businesses to attend a Small Business Leading Edge Training. 

• Tourism Management grant

• Tourism Marketing Matching Grant

• Tourism paid media co-op

• Tourism Print Marketing promotion

• Tourism Public Relations Promotion

• Tourism Recovery Marketing Grant

• Tourism Social Media Co-op

• Welcome Center Digital Advertising

Rural Opportunity Office

This office supports rural communities across Colorado with a focus on supporting manufacturers. 

The Rural Opportunity Office (ROO) supports Colorado’s rural communities, economic development offices, business support organizations, and small businesses by connecting them to relevant OEDIT and State Partner programs to work toward a resilient future. The office consists of a director, program manager, data analyst, and three rural opportunity representatives that directly serve Colorado's eastern, western, and southern regions. Each representative lives within the region of the state that they support. 

Reps:

Programs and Funding marked for Rural Places (see above in yellow and below)

• Colorado Credit Reserve

This credit enhancement is for businesses that typically struggle to get access to a bank loan.

• Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor Program

Participants in the Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor program will receive 50 hours of free consulting from the IDA-Colorado to implement activities that reduce light pollution and protect access to Colorado’s incredible night skies.

• Colorado Opportunity Zone Program

This federal program encourages long-term investments in designated low-income communities by giving investors tax incentives for investing in real estate projects.

• Colorado Revolving Loan Fund

This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.

• Commercial Historic Preservation Tax Credit

This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied commercial properties.

• Community Development Block Grant Business Loan

This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.

• Community Development Block Grant Planning and Feasibility Studies Grant

This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.

• Economic Development Organization Action Grant

This grant supports Colorado-based Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) in their economic development, programming, and advancement efforts in service to their local business communities.

• Enterprise Zone Commercial Vehicle Investment Tax Credit

This tax credit helps businesses invest in commercial vehicles and parts for vehicles.

• Enterprise Zone Contribution Tax Credit

This tax credit encourages investment in distressed areas of the state.

• Enterprise Zone Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Tax Credit

This tax credit encourages businesses in economically distressed communities to offer health insurance coverage to their employees.

• Enterprise Zone Investment Tax Credit

This tax credit encourages enterprise zone businesses to invest in business personal property.

• Enterprise Zone Job Training Tax Credit

This tax credit helps businesses develop a skilled workforce in distressed communities.

• Enterprise Zone New Employee Tax Credit

This tax credit helps businesses in distressed communities add employees to their workforce.

• Enterprise Zone Program

This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.

• Enterprise Zone Research and Development Tax Credit

This tax credit helps businesses invest in research and development through a tax credit.

• Enterprise Zone Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Manufacturing and Mining

This tax exemption expands the Manufacturing Sales and Use Tax Exemption.

• Enterprise Zone Vacant Commercial Building Rehabilitation Tax Credit

This tax credit helps businesses redevelop commercial property and rehabilitate vacant buildings.

• Film Festival Rural Technical Assistance Program

The Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media’s Rural Technical Assistance Program helps communities create new film festivals with expert guidance and small dollar grant awards.

• Just Transition Community Funding

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.

• Location Neutral Employment Community Marketing Grant

This grant provides marketing funds to help rural areas attract out-of-state companies to create new jobs in their communities.

• Opportunity Zone Video Spotlight Grant 

• Outdoor Recreation Industry Office Regional Alliances

Regional partners are committed to growing Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, conserving public lands and waters, and connecting with local communities.

• Rural Jump-Start Program

This grant and tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees

• Rural Technical Assistance Program

This program provides free technical assistance, consulting, and funding to help rural communities create economic development strategies.

• See also Main Street Revitalization Program

• Venture Capital Authority

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.

Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA)

Local Community Funding Guide

Division of Housing

Division of Local Government

State Demography Office

Colorado | Department of Transportation (CDOT)

Grant Applications deadline:  Wednesday, May 31, 2023

• 2023 Awards to Collorado communities

• June 2022:  Grant awards to Colorado communities' transportation projects

• See map of all awards