CT Innovation Voucher Program

The Skill Advance Colorado Job Training Grant helps businesses and nonprofits create customized job training for employees. The Colorado First (CF) Job Training Program provides funds for net new hire training and focuses on new and expanding businesses in Colorado with a need to train workers with the skills necessary to increase their productivity, to increase their wages, and to reduce their need for public support. The Existing Industry (EI) Job Training Program provides funding for incumbent worker training and supports established Colorado businesses with adapting to new technology and preventing layoffs. Per learner maximum annual funding (based on total training funds approved factored against number of unduplicated learners): Standard CF and EI Grants: CF - $2,800, EI - $2,500 / CF and EI Mini Grants for Micro Businesses: CF - $3,800, EI - $3,500

Applications for all three programs are reviewed on a quarterly cycle, with City staff reviewing submissions and recommending funding awards to the Covington Board of Commission for final approval. Award and approval processes typically take six to eight weeks. Applicants must be in compliance with Covington's Good Standing Ordinance (current on loans, fines, liens, and other obligations to the City) and meet all zoning, building, and health code requirements. The Rent Subsidy Incentive provides reimbursement of up to half of a business's monthly rent (or $500 per month, whichever is less) for up to 12 months within the first 18 months of business, with a maximum total benefit of $6,000. The program is designed to help new businesses launch or existing businesses expand, and requires a minimum two-year lease, at least one full-time equivalent employee whose wages are reported to the City of Covington, and set operating hours of 30 hours per week or more. New businesses must have been open for less than 120 days at the time of the application deadline, while existing businesses can qualify as a "substantial expansion" by occupying more than 150 percent of their current space, incurring at least $5,000 in tenant improvements, and creating at least one additional full-time equivalent employee. Businesses renting in publicly owned buildings, check cashing businesses, vape shops, home-based businesses, businesses where ownership also owns the real estate, and accelerator, incubator, or coworking operators are not eligible. The Façade Improvement Forgivable Loan provides commercial property owners with a 50 percent matching forgivable loan of up to $10,000 to update their building's façade. Applicants can pursue one of two options: an Exterior Only option, which reimburses the owner's investment on a $1-to-$1 basis up to $20,000 in total project cost (with City funds spent only on the street-facing façade), or an Interior and Exterior option (available for vacant buildings being prepared for a tenant), which allows the private match to go toward interior "white box" renovations while City funds are still spent exclusively on exterior improvements. Eligible improvements include painting, storefront restoration, exterior lighting, windows, signage, awnings, tuck-pointing, and cornice repairs. Roofs are not eligible, and projects focused exclusively on signage or awnings do not qualify. A Certificate of Appropriateness from the City's Historic Preservation Specialist is required, even for non-historic buildings. Property owners must hold the property for at least three years following the improvement, with full repayment required if the property is sold within that period. The Historic Electric Sign Program provides commercial property owners (or businesses with the property owner as a co-applicant) with an 80 percent city / 20 percent owner matching forgivable loan of up to $10,000 to help restore existing projecting signs or install refurbished historic signs on their building's façade. The program is designed to enhance the aesthetic appeal of Covington's commercial districts, generate foot traffic, and improve businesses' curb appeal by bringing historic electric signage back into use. A Certificate of Appropriateness from the City's Historic Preservation Specialist is required, and face changes to existing signs are not eligible. Recipients must sign a covenant protecting the sign from removal, sale, or demolition for 25 years following reimbursement, with full repayment required if the sign is voluntarily removed or destroyed in violation of the covenant. Bonus consideration is given to signs that are documented to be at least 50 years old.

Driving organic traffic from search engines can be a meaningful way to support or grow your business because it can consistently deliver people interested in your products or services to your website…for free. We will help. This program aims to support Black-owned or minority-owned (BIPOC) businesses by providing free SEO evaluations and advice. There is currently no cap on the number of possible marketing grant recipients per month. Grantees will be selected on a rolling basis. There is no application deadline. This grant provides free marketing services only. There is no longer a cash component to this grant.

The Bluegrass State Skills Corporation’s Grant-in-Aid Program reimburses businesses in specific industries for the cost of training their employees. Businesses can get a cash grant reimbursement for up to 50% of eligible training costs, up to $75,000.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications that propose to use mouse models to conduct rigorous preclinical testing of drugs or drug combinations currently used for other conditions, as well as investigational drugs at various stages of clinical development, predicted to be efficacious in AD/ADRD. This initiative will also support preclinical testing of repurposable or investigational drug candidates in combination with non-pharmacologic interventions leading to robust translational outcomes. The central goal is to establish robust proof of concept that will enable rational drug repurposing and combination therapy development for the treatment and prevention of AD/ADRD.