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4. Student and Academic Affairs 5. COSI: Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative **The 2025-2026 Career Launch Cycle has closed.
Stay tuned! COSI will post a new award cycle when funding is available.
** The Career Launch grant is designed to provide tuition support to students via matching funds for community scholarships so that tuition costs are not a barrier to entry, to reduce the currently unmanageable amount of student loan debt, and to create a workforce that has the skills, knowledge, adaptability, and diversity to continue to drive Colorado’s economic growth.
Scholarship organizations are required to match COSI funding 1:1 with community scholarship dollars and provide students with a connection to career services/opportunities. For **fiscal year 2025-2026**, the Career Launch grant will leverage $1. 5 million in state funds to generate $3 million in new scholarship funds to support Colorado students in postsecondary education and degree attainment.
These funds can potentially impact up to 1,000 students over the next few years as they pursue a credential. * Provide financial support to reduce student loan debt. * Ensure each Career Launch student is connected with career opportunities that provide gainful employment and a livable wage.
* Support credential completion in high-demand pathways that support Colorado’s Top Jobs. View full Request for Proposal Please review the entire request for proposal for all the specific grant rules and requirements.
## Organization/Applicant Eligibility Non-profit organizations - 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4), and their partners who are committed to increasing the availability of scholarship dollars for Colorado students, leveraging COSI funds to incentivize new philanthropic monies, and promoting student support best practices aimed at completion are eligible to apply.
Scholarships should not be intended to supplant federal, state, local or non-federal funds. Scholarships should provide support for significant funding gaps in cost of attendance to help close the affordability gap for students pursuing postsecondary credentials. To maximize COSI, the matching funds, and support students across the state, students should only receive scholarship funds from one COSI grant per academic year.
COSI recommends the use of the Last Dollar Plus model in the awarding of funds. ## Program Participant Criteria * Participants must demonstrate financial need: * This can be determined using Pell eligibility a must be between 0 and 100% or between 101% and 250% of the maximum permissible income to determine eligibility for Pell grants.
* If you are unable to determine a student’s eligibility using FAFSA, the COSI Eligibility Verification Guidance is a resource for alternative ways to ensure a student meets the financial need threshold. * Colorado residents for tuition purposes (includes ASSET students);students); * Attending public area technical colleges, community colleges, four-year institutions of higher education, and research institutions in Colorado.
* Funds can be used for a student’s Cost of Attendance. Grant terms are two years in length. COSI has the following grant term requirements: * For 2025-2026 awards, grantees will be required to start disbursement of their funds no later than Fall 2027 and complete spending funds by June 30, 2029.
Career Launch grants are competitive. Funding will be contingent upon annual appropriations by the State Legislature and any other further discretion at the jurisprudence of the grantor. The Career Launch grant requires that both the COSI award and matching funds serve the same student population.
Funded proposals will be eligible for continued funding in the subsequent years of the grant cycle after successfully demonstrating the following: * Submission of all required evaluation materials. * Adequate progress toward successfully meeting annual objectives; and * Full matching and distribution of scholarship funds as outlined in the agreement; and * Completed annual report to demonstrate fidelity to proceed in subsequent years.
All proposals must be submitted by the date(s) indicated in the Timeline section. The proposal consists of the areas outlined below: **Proposal-**consists of seven sections and can be accessed in the COSI portal. A Proposal Review is provided in this RFP.
1. **Organization Information** * **Essentials-**COSI’s minimum eligibility requirements and any criteria set by the organization that a student must meet to receive a scholarship. * **Pick The Focus-**Identify any of the grant priorities you intend to support and the credential type.
* **Pick The Grant Timeline-** identify the grant term, including start term, length, and first semester funds will be disbursed. * **Scholarship Type-**Is your scholarship renewable? If so, what are the requirements for scholars to renew?
3. Scholarship Disbursement & Payment Schedule * **Scholarship Disbursement** – Share plan to disburse funds for each year of the grant term. * **Payment Schedule -**This will be automatically generated by based on how you plan to disburse funds as outlined by the scholarship disbursement table.
This schedule will be generated for every proposal, but will only apply to those disbursing funds to students prior to June 30, 2026. * **Reporting Deadlines –**Determine your reporting deadlines based on when you distribute scholarships 4. **Narrative:**Detail your strategies in each of the following areas.
This section will be graded on a scale. 5. **Reporting Requirements-**acknowledgement and commitment to reporting requirements 6.
**Assurances-**certify acknowledgment of assurances. 7. **Letter(s) of Support**(Optional)-Share support from industry partner or organizations.
COSI encourages organizations to familiarize themselves with the requirements, process, proposal process, and attend the informational webinars and proposal support sessions outlined in the Timeline section. * Late or incomplete proposals will not be accepted. * For assistance, please review the proposal the informational webinar and attend proposal support opportunities if you have questions.
* Access the FAQ document and submit questions to cosi. info@dhe. state.
co. us. * Proposals are accepted via the COSI portal.
* Complete the portal registration at any time. For support contact: Marie Snow at marie. snow@dhe.
state. co. us.
* If the organization has a SurveyMonkey Apply account, please use that account to apply. All proposals submitted to the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative and the Colorado Department of Higher Education are public records and should not contain confidential data. CDHE is subject to the Colorado Open Records Act and must release full proposals when requested.
* Career Launch Proposals will be evaluated using the scoring rubric in the Request for Proposal. * Career Launch Scholarship Grant proposals will be reviewed using the process defined inRule 2. 03.
* Career Launch proposals are competitive and will be reviewed by the COSI staff, the cross-department team, and the COSI Advisory Board. * The cross-department team will present final recommendations to the COSI Advisory Board. * The COSI Advisory Board will make final decisions regarding grant recipients and award amounts.
* If the organization is a current or prior grantee, the Board will consider the organization’s successful completion or progress toward the identified goals and outcomes in their review. * In the event the total amount requested by competitive proposals exceeds the available funds, COSI staff will use a normalization scoring process to determine the maximum amount each applicant can receive.
This will be presented to the COSI Board, with the Board having the authority to make the final decision. ## Proposal Review Process After the initial proposal deadline, COSI will offer Technical Assistance (TA Support). During this process, COSI Staff will review all proposals and reach out to the applicant contact with questions and suggested edits.
This process allows COSI to make sure that your proposal addresses all the questions properly before it is scored. Please consider the following; * All proposals must be complete. COSI will not review or move any proposals forward that are not fully completed.
* Applicants with have a second deadline in which their proposals will be opened back up for edits. * It will be the applicant’s responsibility to go back into the proposal portal and make edits. * Applicants that do not make edits by the deadline will be moved on to scoring as is.
Please carefully review the proposal timeline as late submissions and incomplete proposals will not be accepted.
**Proposal Task****Deadline** RFP Released July 1, 2025 Proposal Portal Opens July 1, 2025 _Proposal must be complete_ August 17, 2025 Technical Assistance Period _COSI Staff will review and make recommendations_ August 18, 2025 – September 7, 2025 Proposals Edits Due September 7, 2025 _Board meets to review and select awardees_ November 14, 2025 Grant Award Notification November 19, 2025 Draft agreements sent out December 3, 2025 Requests for Agreement Changes Due December 10, 2025 Agreements Signature in DocuSign Due January 30, 2026 View the Proposal Informational Webinar which is a recorded session that walks you through the grant and proposal process.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Colorado institutions of higher education. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Funding amounts vary based on project scope and sponsor guidance. Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
Federal grant success rates typically range from 10-30%, varying by agency and program. Build a strong proposal with clear objectives, measurable outcomes, and a well-justified budget to improve your chances.
Requirements vary by sponsor, but typically include a project narrative, budget justification, organizational capability statement, and key personnel CVs. Check the official notice for the complete list of required attachments.
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Review timelines vary by funder. Federal agencies typically take 3-6 months from submission to award notification. Foundation grants may be faster, often 1-3 months. Check the program's timeline in the official solicitation for specific dates.
Many federal programs offer multi-year funding or allow competitive renewals. Check the official solicitation for continuation and renewal policies. Non-competing continuation applications are common for multi-year awards.
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.