Colorado First Grants

Colorado knows successful businesses rely on well-trained employees. Colorado's pride is a customized training program, offering incentives for new or expanding businesses in Colorado.

Authorized by the General Assembly in 1984, the Colorado FIRST Customized Training Program assists basic industry employers with short-term, fast-track training. More than 325 companies of all sizes have benefited from the program, which has trained over 22,000 Coloradans for newly created jobs in manufacturing and business services.

The program is administered jointly by the Colorado Office of Economic Development (OED) and the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System (CCCOES). This partnership strengthens the Colorado FIRST Customized Training Program goal: to promote and encourage the expansion of existing Colorado companies or location of new businesses in Colorado by providing training assistance.

Existing Industry Training Grant

Maintaining the competitiveness of the existing industrial base and job security for workers is important to Colorado.

The Colorado General Assembly initiated the state's first training program specifically for existing Colorado employers in 1989, recognizing this essential part of Colorado's economy the Colorado Existing Industry Training Program was designed to help companies affected by major technological change, and to retrain their workers in the new skills mandated by that change. The job-specific skills training provided by the Existing Industry program helps to enhance job security for workers and competitive standing for their employers. It also fosters relationship building between private industry and the state's training institutions.

The program is administered jointly by the Colorado Office of Economic Development (OED) and the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System (CCCOES).

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