Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative (COSI) – Matching Student Scholarship Grant

Deadline: 2/12/2021 LOI

Amount:

Website: https://highered.colorado.gov/matching-student-scholarship-grants/preparing-for-application

Description:

The project addresses this challenge by focusing on accessibility and affordability. To improve accessibility, COSI funds programs that will help prepare students for postsecondary education, as well as support them through completion. To improve affordability, COSI provides tuition support to students through matching funds for community scholarships. These approaches together work to create a strong network of support for students throughout the state as they move to and through postsecondary credentials.

Matching Student Scholarship Grants (MSS Grants) are designed to provide tuition support to students via matching funds for community scholarships so that tuition costs are not a barrier to entry and helping to reduce the currently unmanageable amount of student loan debt.

Eligible applicants:

Non-profit organizations 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.