Snap E & T 50% operational grant

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $18.488 million to the Colorado Department of Human Services on October 1, 2025, for SNAP Employment and Training operational expenses under CFDA 10.561 (State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), with performance through September 30, 2026. The award funds fifty percent of operational and administrative costs for Colorado's Employment First program, which prepares SNAP participants for employment through job-seeking skills training, work experience, and monthly job search support activities administered across 21 Colorado counties at local county human/social services offices and through third-party partners.

The recipient passes funding to multiple non-profit and community-based sub-recipients providing direct employment and training services. Sub-recipients include Crosspurpose (career coaching, skills training, credentialing, and job placement), Center for Employment Opportunities (job readiness training, resume workshops, interview coaching, subsidized transitional employment, and job placement), Project Restart (employment support and job retention services), Work Options for Women (job training and vocational instruction), The Road Called Strate (job-seeking skills training, work experience, and job search support), The Park People (employment and training services), Women's Bean Project (employment training and workforce development), Springs Rescue Mission (employment training and emergency services), Activate Work (employment services and placement), Climb Hire (employment services), Colorado Women's Employment & Education (job training and employment services), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo (employment and training services), Goodwill of Colorado (workforce training and employment services), and Fort Lewis College (administrative support). The award period runs October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Colorado.