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Colorado Capital Congress

In a joint venture with the Institute on the Common Good, the Sullivan Chair hosts the Colorado Capital Congress — a citizen led public forum on improving how Colorado businesses obtain money to fund new job creation. Ideas on improving the quality of investment opportunities, reducing regulations and matching investors with businesses, are being developed into action initiatives with volunteer task forces. Citizens of Colorado are invited to engage in this dialogue, vote and participate in positive change. Join the Colorado Capital Congress MeetUp Group.

In general, the CO Capital congress seeks to:

  1. Improve the quality of opportunities to invest in Colorado businesses so as to attract investment from around the world and off the sidelines
  2. Leverage the Internet to more efficiently and effectively facilitate matchmaking between sources of capital and businesses that need it
  3. Remove or reduce existing and outdated legal and regulatory barriers to capital formation

The Colorado Capital Congress represents a unique opportunity to act democratically to identify, develop and implement change to improve our community and our economy. Over 110 volunteers are now working within Task Forces to move ideas into initiatives for action.

To become a member visit: www.ColoradoCapitalCongress.com

Any questions about the Congress should be addressed to:

Karl Dakin, Executive Director, Sullivan Chair for Free Enterprise
Regis University, 3333 Regis Boulevard, B-12, Denver, CO 80221
kdakin@regis.edu
720.296.0372

Initiatives/ Task Forces

In the Congress forums several initiatives are identitfied and broken down to form task forces having different organizations chairing them. Volunteers are invited to sign up and review the initiatives and work to develop and support action. The aim of these initiatives is to improve access to capital for businesses. They are as follows:

  • Community Investments Funds (Colorado Limited Registration Offerings)
  • Colorado Capital Agents (Issuer Agents)
  • International Funding of Colorado Businesses
  • Colorado Investment and Investor Scoring
  • Incentives for Colorado Businesses
  • Dynamic/Econometric Modeling
  • Alternative Banking
  • Optimizing Specialty Funds
  • L3Cs in Colorado

We invite you to join these groups and not only share your experiences in these areas, gain more information on what they entail but also come up with policies that can be adopted by the relevant authorities in helping streamline the processes. For more information on each initiative please visit: Initiatives_Briefs_06_20_2012[2]

Remember, one can be a member to one or more initiatives. To join please email your details to sullivanchair@regis.edu

Co-Host Organizations

We are honored to have the support of the following Co-hosts in the 2nd Annual CO Capital Congress:

U.S Senator Michael F. Bennet
Phone: 303.455.7600
http://www.bennet.senate.gov/

Dave Anderson
Phone: 719.425.9230
http://www.daveandersonforcongress.com/?source=action-header

South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 303.795.0142
http://bestchamber.com/

City of Littleton Chamber of Commerce

Phone: 303.795.3700
http://www.littletongov.org/

John Kefalas
Colorado State Representative; Fort Collins; House District 52
Phone: 970.221.1135
http://www.johnkefalas.org/

Main Street Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 720.207.5077
http://www.meetup.com/MainStreetChamber-SE-Denver

North West Douglas Economic Development Corporation
Phone: 720.981.2952
http://nwdouglascounty.org/

Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 303.458.0220
http://www.cwcc.org/

West Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 303.233.5555
http://www.westchamber.org/

Colorado Enterprise Fund
Phone: 303.860.0242
http://www.coloradoenterprisefund.org/

City of Denver
Phone: 720.913.1682
http://www.denvergov.org

Metro North Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 720.259.2431
www.MetroNorthChamber.com

Small Business Chamber
Phone: 303.861.1447
www.SmallBizChamber.org

Denver South Economic Development Partnership
Phone: 303.531.8372
www.denversouthedp.org

Rockies Venture Club
Phone: 303.831.4174
www.rockiesventureclub.org

Rocky Mountain Innosphere
Phone: 970.221.1301
www.rmi2.org

Colorado Enterprise Fund
Phone: 303.860.0242
http://www.coloradoenterprisefund.org/

City of Denver
Phone: 720.913.1682
http://www.denvergov.org

Metro North Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 720.259.2431
www.MetroNorthChamber.com

Small Business Chamber
Phone: 303.861.1447
www.SmallBizChamber.org

Denver South Economic Development Partnership
Phone: 303.531.8372
www.denversouthedp.org

Rockies Venture Club
Phone: 303.831.4174
www.rockiesventureclub.org

Rocky Mountain Innosphere
Phone: 970.221.1301
www.rmi2.org

The 2nd Annual Capital Congress Recent Past Forums

  1. June 20th, 2012 – The JOBS Act: Federal Crowd Funding (paper presentation) Watch the Live streaming at: http://sullivanchair.com/live-streaming-of-the-june-20th-crowdfunding-co-capital-congress/
  2. July 30th, 2012- Colorado Limited Registration Offerings ( paper presentation) Watch the Live streaming at: http://sullivanchair.com/live-streaming-of-limited-registration-offerings-co-capital-congress-july-30th/
  3. August 7th, 2012- Issuer Agents (paper presentation)

Other topics discussed during these sessions were:

  • Community Impact Investments (Colorado Limited Registration Offerings);
  • Colorado Capital Agents (Issuer Agents);
  • International Funding of Colorado Businesses,
  • Colorado Investment and Investor Scoring;
  • Incentives for Colorado Businesses;
  • Optimizing Specialty Funds; and
  • L3Cs in Colorado

The Colorado Capital Congress is jointly hosted by the Institute on the Common Good and the Sullivan Chair for Free Enterprise of Regis University.