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.
- 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.
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.
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- Reporting
- Reports are due on June 30 of each grant year.
- 2025 reports will include all scholarship funds disbursed from Summer 2024 to Spring 2025.
- Reports must be submitted to the COSI Reporting Portal which opens May 1, 2025
- Templates and Reporting Instructions for 2025 reporting will be released on the Google Drive. A link will be provided here when available.
- For more information on reporting requirements, view the COSI Reporting Policy.
COSI will offer two Reporting Support Session where grantees can ask questions about reporting. These sessions are optional and have no set agenda. Come with your questions. The session information is as follows:
Session Details Link June 10, 2025 at 10 am Zoom June 26, 2025 at 1 pm Zoom - 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
Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges Adams State University Foundation Adams County Education Consortium Aims Community College Foundation Community Voice Boys & Girls Club of Fremont County, inc.
Aurora Public Schools Arapahoe Community College Foundation Fort Lewis College Foundation Colorado Mesa University Foundation Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation Clear Creek High School Hide in Plain Sight Colorado Mountain College Foundation Colorado Women's Education Foundation Colorado School of Mines Foundation Technical College of The Rockies Colorado State University - Pueblo Foundation Community College of Aurora Foundation Colorado State University Foundation True North Youth Program Custer County High School Emily Griffith Foundation Denver Public Schools Foundation Western Colorado University Foundation Lamar Community College Front Range Community College Foundation Denver Scholarship Foundation Pagosa Springs Rotary Community Assistance Fund Grand Foundation Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Pikes Peak State College Foundation I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder Mile High United Way Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation Jeffco Schools Foundation North Colorado Medical Center Foundation Otero Junior College Foundation Morgan Community College Foundation Project Self-Sufficiency Northeastern Junior College Foundation Red Rocks Community College Foundation University of Colorado Foundation-Boulder University of Colorado
Foundation-Denver
University of Northern Colorado Foundation Youth Power 365