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Accelerate public investment • Expand Denver Construction Careers Training and Apprenticeship Program • Increase city contract opportunities for small and MWBE businesses Bring back and enhance lost jobs. Create new jobs. • Workforce training and support • Invest in childcare • Invest in green projects that create trade jobs and contracting opportunities for small and MWBE business • Double down on attraction efforts Strengthen small business and nonprofit growth and resiliency • Expand funding to address challenges small businesses are facing • Provide a toolkit and professional training on worker-owned businesses • Extend outdoor patio expansion program until October of 2022 Revitalize Denver’s neighborhoods through targeted community support and placemaking • Provide neighborhood activation grants to use toward events and arts and cultural activities • Increase direct financial support to residents experiencing outsized economic hardship • Increase public Wi-Fi, internet subsidies, and laptop and hotspot temporary use program Make it easier to do business with Denver • Make licensing and permitting processes easier to navigate • Identify policy, regulatory, and other barriers to doing business in Denver • Hire agency process and program navigators DENVER “Our goal in recovery is to surpass where we were before COVID-19 set us back – to build back in a way that creates a broader foundation for more people to prosper and seize opportunities. We’ve faced these challenges before and come back stronger, and we can do it again.” MAYOR MICHAEL B. HANCOCK Denver’s Rebuilding for an Inclusive and Sustainable Economy plan, or RISE Denver, will focus our investments and those from the federal and state government around five strategic areas and tactics to provide relief for those businesses, workers and communities that have been hit the hardest, and to create an economy that works for everyone. Success = Creating 40,000 jobs for Denver residents by the end of 2022. EQUITY denvergov.org/economicdevelopment

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Page 1: Success = Creating 40,000 jobs for Denver residents by the

Accelerate public investment • Expand Denver Construction Careers Training and

Apprenticeship Program • Increase city contract opportunities for small and

MWBE businesses

Bring back and enhance lost jobs. Create new jobs.• Workforce training and support• Invest in childcare• Invest in green projects that create trade jobs and

contracting opportunities for small and MWBE business• Double down on attraction efforts

Strengthen small business and nonprofit growth and resiliency• Expand funding to address challenges small businesses

are facing• Provide a toolkit and professional training on

worker-owned businesses • Extend outdoor patio expansion program until October of 2022

Revitalize Denver’s neighborhoods through targeted community support and placemaking• Provide neighborhood activation grants to use toward events

and arts and cultural activities• Increase direct financial support to residents experiencing

outsized economic hardship • Increase public Wi-Fi, internet subsidies, and laptop and

hotspot temporary use program

Make it easier to do business with Denver• Make licensing and permitting processes easier to navigate• Identify policy, regulatory, and other barriers to doing

business in Denver• Hire agency process and program navigators

DENVER

“ Our goal in recovery is to surpass where we were before COVID-19 set us back – to build back in a way that creates a broader foundation for more people to prosper and seize opportunities. We’ve faced these challenges before and come back stronger, and we can do it again.”

MAYOR MICHAEL B. HANCOCK

Denver’s Rebuilding for an Inclusive and Sustainable Economy plan, or RISE Denver, will focus our investments and those from the federal and state government around five strategic areas and tactics to provide relief for those businesses, workers and communities that have been hit the hardest, and to create an economy that works for everyone.

Success = Creating 40,000 jobs for Denver residents by the end of 2022.

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denvergov.org/economicdevelopment