List of national, state and local resources on funding opportunities. New resources are added as information becomes available.
NCRLF provides small business loans in the six counties of northeastern Colorado. Loans are made to benefit communities, through new or existing services or products and job growth. The underlying funding for these loans originates as either CDBG funds or revolved funds (also known as direct loans). Underwriting requirements and restrictions vary for both loans.
Area served: ogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties, Colorado Audience: Small Business Owners
LEAF provides financing for food cooperatives that create jobs and give access to healthy food in rural and urban communities across the US. Food co-ops promote environmental stewardship, small-scale farmers and local economies.
Area served: Colorado Audience: Small Business Owners, Non-profits
The BLF is an alternative (gap) financing method designed to help finance business projects that will positively impact the economic health of the communities within Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero and Prowers counties. Individuals who meet eligibility requirements may apply.
Area served: Colorado Audience: Small Business Owners
The purpose of the Fruita Small Business Emergency Assistance Fund is to assist qualifying Fruita small businesses who are facing financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund is a partnership between the City of Fruita and the Business Incubator Center. Loans from this fund will provide gap funding for small businesses located within the city limits of Fruita to cover up to two month’s cost of operations.
Area served: Colorado Audience: Small Business Owners
Certifiably Green Denver's Equity Funding helps women and minority-owned small businesses fund their sustainability projects. Applicants for this program must meet the following requirements as a business:
Area served: Denver, Colorado Audience: Small Business Owners
The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds provide a substantial infusion of resources to help turn the tide on the pandemic, address its economic fallout, and lay the foundation for a strong and equitable recovery.
Audience: Small Business Owners
The Halstead Grant is an annual award for emerging silver jewelry artists. The experience is designed to help jewelry entrepreneurs create a strategy to kick-start their careers.
Audience: Small Business Owners
This grant opportunity will provide Tribal Nations, communities and organizations as an investment in Indigenous power and a means to foster equity and inclusion, and to reframe decision-making with those most impacted. Applications open May 29, 2024.
Audience: Small Business Owners
When IFundWomen brokers a grant with a partner, IFundWomen matches the partner’s grant criteria to those businesses who have applied through their Universal Grant Application. If you’re a match, they may request that you apply for that partner’s specific grant program, and you will be notified.
Audience: Small Business Owners
Any Etsy seller who has experienced a federally declared disaster within the past year may apply for a grant, as long as they’ve been an active seller on Etsy for at least one year, and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing. The amount and frequency of grants will depend on the amount of money available in the fund at any given time.
Audience: Small Business Owners
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