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2012                                               private lenders to support creditworthy small
                                                   businesses who are struggling to access loans.
   business finance                                Since the program’s inception, the funds have
   programs begin as                               generated $60 million in private sector financing
   part of ssbci                                   to Colorado businesses and have impacted more
                                                   than 2,000 jobs throughout the state.
With a goal of encouraging more private
lending activity in Colorado, CHFA partnered       ID Sculpture, formerly known as Integrated
with the Colorado Office of Economic               Design Solutions of Gunnison, was a recipient
Development and International Trade (OEDIT)        of a CCS loan. Owner Andris Zobs says the CCS
in 2012 to design capital access programs          program was one of the first steps that allowed
funded through the federal State Small Business    his company to start a new phase of growth. In
Credit Initiative (SSBCI). With these funds, CHFA  2014, Colorado was named fourth in the nation
began to administer the Cash Collateral Support    for most deployment of SSBCI resources by
(CCS) and the Colorado Capital Access (CCA)        percentage of allocation.
programs. The funding requires leveraging with

ID Sculpture, a business customer in Gunnison
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