ClosedAtlas Opportunity Score 76/100
Colorado — COSI Career Launch Grant 2026–2027
Colorado’s COSI Career Launch Grant provides $1.5 million statewide to eligible nonprofit organizations supporting up to 1,000 Colorado students pursuing industry-recognized credentials, certifications, or degrees tied to workforce shortages. Applications are due September 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time and require a 1:1 match.
Funding$1,500,000 total program funding; individual award amounts are not established on the current public program page.
DeadlineSeptember 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time.
Last verifiedSeptember 15, 2026
Required next actionApplication deadline passed on September 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time. No further action for the 2026 to 2027 cycle. Monitor the Colorado Department of Higher Education for a future Career Launch cycle.
Broad Eligibility
Colorado nonprofit organizations recognized under IRC 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4). The program supports students completing industry-recognized credentials, certifications, or degrees aligned to Colorado workforce shortages, with priority including rural access and sectors such as health care, education, IT/cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and infrastructure/construction.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score 76/100. N9+ Direct Vendor Fit 0/100. This is a meaningful statewide workforce-development and education opportunity with a $1.5 million pool and explicit health-care workforce relevance, but the current public guidance is structured around nonprofit-led student scholarship/support and requires a 1:1 match. Allowable student supports include tuition and fees, books/materials, transportation, and living expenses. The public guidance does not establish a defensible N9+, connected-exam, telehealth, or QC Healthcare vendor pathway, so no direct-vendor capture or applicant outreach is warranted from this opportunity as currently published.
Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative’s 2026-2027 Career Launch Grant provides $1.5 million statewide for nonprofit-led scholarship and student-support strategies tied to industry-recognized credentials, certifications, and degrees in Colorado workforce-shortage fields. Priority areas include rural access and sectors such as healthcare, education, IT/cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and infrastructure.
Eligible applicants are Colorado 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations. The current program structure requires a 1:1 match and may support student costs such as tuition and fees, books and materials, transportation, and living expenses, subject to the controlling application rules.
Deadline and healthcare relevance
Applications are due September 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM MT. The healthcare-workforce connection makes this useful Atlas intelligence, but the program does not establish a direct N9+, telehealth, or clinical-technology purchase pathway; N9+ Direct Vendor Fit remains 0/100.
Source verificationOfficial government source · cdhe.colorado.govAtlas last verified this record September 15, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗
