Office of Institutional Grants

• Amount: $10,671,840
• Project Period: 3/13/2020 - 5/11/2022
• Contact Person: Chuck Jensen
• Email: chuck.jensen@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: US Department of Education

This program is 100% funded by the Federal Government via the U.S. Department of Education to cover costs associated with coronavirus. Institutional portion funds may be used to defray expenses associated with coronavirus (including lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to distance education, faculty and staff trainings, and payroll), and to carry out student support activities authorized by the HEA that address needs related to coronavirus. Institutional funds may also be used to make additional financial aid grants to students.

 

• Amount: $7,646,828
• Project Period: 3/13/2020 - 5/21/2022
• Contact Person: Chuck Jensen
• Email: chuck.jensen@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: US Department of Education

The purpose of this program is to support college students whose lives have been impacted by the coronavirus and are facing financial challenges. This program is 100% funded by the Federal Government via the U.S. Department of Education. Institutions must make financial aid grants to students, which can be used for any component of the student’s cost of attendance or for emergency costs that arise due to coronavirus, such as tuition, food, housing, health care (including mental health care), or child care. Unlike the CARES Act, the CRRSAA requires that institutions prioritize students with exceptional need, such as students who receive Pell Grants, and authorizes grants to students exclusively enrolled in distance education.

• Amount: $2,330,193.18
• Project Period: 8/22/2022 - 12/31/2024
• Contact Person: Chris Peterson
• Email: chris.peterson@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: US Department of the Treasury via the Colorado Community College System

Students who enroll in specific short-term health care training programs at Aims Community College will pay nothing, thanks to the new Care Forward Colorado program.

• Amount: $50,000
• Project Period: 8/29/2022 - 6/30/2024
• Contact Person: Jacob Marshall
• Email: jacob.marshall@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Transportation

The funding will support the creation of a Mobile Aviation Lab with industry equipment to promote careers in aviation and aerospace among Colorado K-12 students and encourage, empower, and educate all those whose interests, lives, and work involve aviation and aerospace without regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental abilities, or point of view.

• Amount: $75,000
• Project Period: 2/15/2023 - 2/14/2027
• Contact Person: Erica Jones
• Email: erica.jones@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Health Foundation

This grant empowers campus communities to strengthen their overall efforts to address student mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention. Funding will bring JED campus programming to all four of Aims Community College’s campuses.

• Amount: $1,250,756
• Project Period: 10/1/2021 - 6/30/2025
• Contact Person: Gabriela Sanchez
• Email: gabriela.sanchez@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Higher Education

The Finish What You Started program will increase enrollment, persistence, and completion of students with some college, no degree and first time students admitted but not enrolled for 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 academic year and decrease student debt for participants.

• Amount: $47,807
• Project Period: 1/19/2021 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Kelly Jackson
• Email: kelly.jackson@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Higher Education

The purpose of the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative Matching Student Scholarship Grant is to increase the amount of scholarships available for post-secondary students in Colorado. Aims Foundation must match every dollar given by the State. 

• Amount: Up to $40,000
• Project Period: 5/1/2020 - 4/30/2024
• Contact Person: David Sordi
• Email: david.sordi@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

The Colorado Space Grant Consortium is funded by NASA and is a state-wide organization involving 21 colleges, universities and institutions around Colorado. Each grantee provides Colorado students access to space through innovative courses, real-world hands-on telescope and satellite programs, and interactive outreach programs. The students interact with engineers and scientists from NASA and aerospace companies to develop, test, and fly new space technologies and to support our outreach and teaching programs.

• Amount: $5,500
• Project Period: 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Doug Strauss
• Email: doug.strauss@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

The grant funds can be spent on any educational materials: books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, and even electronic resources and databases.  

• Amount:  $160,807
• Project Period: 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2023
• Contact Person: David Sordi
• Email: david.sordi@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Aims is partnering with the University of Northern Colorado to promote and support careers and student success in manufacturing technology degree programs. The goal of this project is to encourage a larger and more diverse population of high school students to consider careers in mechatronics and to better prepare students who enter this career path.

• Amount: $25,000
• Project Period: 4/1/2021 - 5/31/2023
• Contact Person: Kelly Jackson
• Email: kelly.jackson@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Daniels Fund

The Boundless Opportunity Scholarship program provides need-based scholarships to students from one or more of the following non-traditional students populations: adults returning to college, veterans, former foster care youth, former juvenile justice youth, GED recipients. 

• Amount: $18,000
• Project Period: 9/5/2022 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Paul LaFleur
• Email: paul.lafleur@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: GMR Foundation for Research and Education

The GMR Foundation Institutional Scholarship Grant Program provides funding to support EMT and Paramedic scholarships for students who demonstrate a financial need.

• Amount: $124,000
• Project Period: 3/1/2022 - 6/30/2024
• Contact Person: Dr. Douglas Strauss
• Email: doug.strauss@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

Aims Community College was awarded its fourth Open Educational Resources (OER) grant in four years from the Colorado Department of Higher Education to support the development of Free-to-Student (F2S) courses. F2S courses are designed with OER and other materials that do not have costs borne by students (e.g. library licensed content).

• Amount: $10,000
• Project Period: 4/1/2023 - 6/30/2024
• Contact Person: Dr. Douglas Strauss
• Email: doug.strauss@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

Aims Community College was awarded its fifth Open Educational Resources (OER) grant in five years from the Colorado Department of Higher Education to support the development of Free-to-Student (F2S) courses. F2S courses are designed with OER and other materials that do not have costs borne by students (e.g. library licensed content).

• Amount: $365,424
• Project Period: 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023
• Contact Person: Landon Loyd
• Email: landon.loyd@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, administered by the Colorado Career & Technical Education and the Colorado Community College System

The purpose of this grant is to provide students with the academic and technical skills needed to succeed in a knowledge and skills-based economy.  Perkins funding elevates the quality of Aims CTE programs to support each learner's skill development and meet industry needs by keeping equipment up-to-date and ahead of industry standards when possible; prepare Colorado's future workforce through transformation partnerships by enhancing Career Academy offerings and capacity with the needed equipment/tools/technology; and ensure access to meaningful work-based learning opportunities.

• Amount: $134,241
• Project Period: 8/3/2022 - 5/19/2023
• Contact Person: Shayna Howell
• Email: shayna.howell@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade

The Skill Advance Colorado Job Training Grant (formerly the Colorado First and Existing Industry Grant) helps businesses and nonprofits create customized job training for employees.

This training:

• develops Colorado’s workforce
• builds workers’ transferable skills
• improves workers’ resumes and long-term employment opportunities
• helps Colorado businesses remain competitive

Current sub-recipients:

• Lightning Systems, Inc. DBA Lightning eMotors
• Owens-Illinois Glass, Inc. (Current & Concurrent Grants)

• Amount: $90,534
• Project Period: 9/27/2022 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Scott Bradley
• Email: scott.bradley@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Higher Education

This grant will fund a limited number of scholarships for students pursuing a Commercial Driver License (CDL) credential.

• Amount: $9,778.10
• Project Period: 1/1/2023 - 4/30/2023
• Contact Person: Gina Jones
• Email: gina.jones@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Mile High United Way

A partnership between the Mile High United Way and the Colorado Community College System, Tax Help Colorado offers free tax preparation assistance to families who earn less that approximately $60,000 per year thus helping to ease the burden of commercial tax preparation costs for this group of tax payers.

• Amount: $1,375,525
• Project Period: 9/01/2020 - 8/31/2025
• Contact Person: Bernadette Cordova
• Email: bernadette.cordova@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education

The objectives of the program are to increase the retention, graduation and transfer rates of 160 eligible students, and to foster an institutional climate supportive of the success of low-income and first-generation students and students with disabilities.

• Amount: $1,309,440
• Project Period: 9/01/2020 - 8/31/2025
• Contact Person: Bernadette Cordova
• Email: bernadette.cordova@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education

The objectives of the program are to increase the retention, graduation and transfer rates of 120 eligible students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM disciplines), and to foster an institutional climate supportive of the success in STEM of low–income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities. 

• Amount: $12,000
• Project Period: 4/1/2022 - 3/31/2023
• Contact Person: Patty Schulz
• Email: patty.schulz@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: The Weld Trust 

The Weld Trust awarded Arty’s Pantry $12,000 and Atmos Energy donated a matching $12,000 to support Arty's Pantry.  Arty's Pantry ensures that all students have access to food and the basic supplies they need to succeed. 

• Amount: $28,500
• Project Period: 7/1/2022 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Erica Jones
• Email: erica.jones@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: The Weld Trust 

Aims Counseling Services will purchase 250 tele-therapy sessions to expand mental health capacity and offer services in some needed domains that are not currently covered and increase outreach to students.

• Project Period: 7/1/2018 - 6/30/2023
• Contact Person: Fabian Garcia
• Email: fabian.garcia@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

This partnership is with Greeley-Evans School District 6. This program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.

• Project Period: 08/01/2022 - 06/30/2023
• Contact Person: Raymond Chard
• Email: raymond.chard@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

The purpose of the Concurrent Enrollment Expansion and Innovation (CEEI) Grant Program is to provide grants to partnering local education providers and institutions of higher education that seek to begin offering, or to expand their capacity to offer, concurrent enrollment opportunities to qualified students.  Aims is currently partnering with Windsor Charter Academy.

• Project Period: 10/01/2019 - 06/30/2024
• Contact Person: Julie Luekenga
• Email: julie.luekenga@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education

The purpose of this grant is to provide migrant and seasonal farmworkers and members of their immediate family a high quality instructional program that will allow them to attain their High School Equivalency diploma.  This is a partnership grant. The lead is University of Colorado Boulder, BUENO Center.

• Project Period: 10/1/2018 – 9/30/2023
• Contact Person: Jackie Chabot
• Email: jackie.chabot@aims.edu 
• Funding Agency: US Department of Health and Human Services – HRSA Division

This partnership is with Metro State University. The goal is to promote and support the identification and recruitment of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds into the health professions, including allied health, and transfer from Aims to MSU. 

• Project Period: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2026
• Contact Person: Ray Chard
• Email: ray.chard@aims.edu
• Funding Agency: Colorado Department of Education

The P-TECH grant is an innovative partnership between the Greeley-Evans School District and Aims Community College, designed to promote advanced manufacturing concurrent enrollment programs.