The 2024-2025 CASFA/FAFSA are open; please expect intermittent FAFSA access.

 
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Current Providers

In order to provide Colorado students with services and programs we know help address timely completion and success in postsecondary education, we will support communities with postsecondary access tools, resources, and assistance to help encourage coordinated efforts.

COSI provides communities with tools, resources, and assistance to help encourage coordinated efforts. Community Tools and Resources provides customized technical assistance for grantees through site visits and grantee network meetings documentation and guides for student success best practices, and compliance and scholarship guidance. 

  • Site visits and grantee network meetings allow technical assistance providers the ability to guide grantees in professional development, capacity building, and networking with the entire statewide COSI community.
  • Student success best practice tools are intended to build community engagement, college enrollment, persistence, and completion. Resources include programming models and tools, enrollment guides for all Colorado public institutions, evidence-based research, PowerPoints, handouts, and more for education professionals.
  • Scholarship guidance includes a variety of helpful resources for scholarship providers, including information on verifying financial eligibility for students, sample MOUs between counties and third-party fiscal agents, best practices for scholarship granting organizations, membership stipend for the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) and more. This page includes a link to the student support directory; folders of resources for student support programs, scholarship providers, collective impact initiatives, and students; helpful links; and upcoming events. 
     
Resources

This folder contains a variety of helpful resources for scholarship providers, including support in building community engagement, fundraising, information on verifying financial eligibility for students, sample MOUs between counties and third-party fiscal agents, best practices for scholarship granting organizations, and more.

 

MSS Resources

Meetings

The alignment of student success programs and tuition assistance greatly increases the chances of a student's on-time completion of a degree or credential. Because the intent of our program is to fuse these two initiatives together, we will host both scholarship providers and community partnership grant recipients two times per year during our annual summer symposium and regional grantee events.  In addition, grantees are required to complete check-ins and site visits, these events will be determined and organized directly with your COSI point of contact.

Click here for access to our calendar.

Newsletter

COSI sends out a monthly newsletter by email. In this newsletter, you will find critical information on upcoming deadlines, updates on grants, details for COSI meetings, and other relevant information. Anyone that is involved in the MSS grant should sign up.

If you are not currently receiving our newsletter use this link to receive updates.

Reporting
  • Reports are due on June 30 of each grant year.
  • 2024 reports will include all scholarship funds disbursed from Summer 2023 to Spring 2024. 
  • Check back here for updates on when the reporting portal will open as well as the release of our 2024 reporting instructions and information on the reporting support sessions. This information will be released throughout the Spring 2024 semester. 
Point of Contact

The COSI team has grown! The expanded team allows for more individualized support for grantees. Please direct your questions to your assigned COSI POC.

 Crystal Annan

Alison Grendahl

Marie Snow

Jacquie Granados

Mariana DelMonte-Gladstone

Kolby Knupp

Foundation for Colorado Community CollegesAdams State University FoundationAdams County Education ConsortiumAims Community College FoundationCommunity VoiceOne Million Degrees
 

Boys & Girls Club of Fremont County, inc.  

Aurora Public SchoolsArapahoe Community College FoundationFort Lewis College FoundationPoudre School District Foundation
 Colorado Mesa University FoundationColorado Northwestern Community College FoundationClear Creek High School Hide in Plain Sight 
 Colorado Mountain College FoundationColorado Women's Education FoundationColorado School of Mines FoundationTechnical College of The Rockies 
 Colorado State University - Pueblo FoundationCommunity College of Aurora FoundationColorado State University FoundationTrue North Youth Program 
 Custer County High SchoolEmily Griffith FoundationDenver Public Schools FoundationWestern Colorado University Foundation 
 Lamar Community College Front Range Community College FoundationDenver Scholarship Foundation  
 Pagosa Springs Rotary Community Assistance FundGrand FoundationMetropolitan State University of Denver Foundation  
 Pikes Peak State College FoundationI Have a Dream Foundation of BoulderMile High United Way  
 Pueblo Hispanic Education FoundationJeffco Schools FoundationNorth Colorado Medical Center Foundation  
 Otero Junior College FoundationMorgan Community College FoundationProject Self-Sufficiency   
  Northeastern Junior College FoundationRed Rocks Community College Foundation  
  University of Colorado Foundation-Boulder

 University of Colorado

Foundation-Denver

  
  University of Northern Colorado Foundation   
  Youth Power 365