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Reconnect Enroll with Momentum Grants

Reconnect Enroll with Momentum Grants

Funding to Increase Enrollment of Current and Potential Reconnect Applicants

This funding supports strategies that increase college enrollment among current and potential Reconnect applicants by addressing barriers that prevent adults from starting, renewing, or persisting in their postsecondary education.

Application Overview

Eligible Applicants

  • Community Colleges in Partnership with County Government
  • Tribal Colleges in Partnership with County Government

Grant Award Amount and Timeline

  • Up to $300,000 for the approved strategies and activities to increase enrollment of Reconnect applicants and potential applicants.
  • Grant term of 2 years

Application Windows

Reconnect Enroll with Momentum Grant Applications are due on Friday, February 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.

Pre-review deadline is Friday, January 16, 2026.

Have a question? Be sure to check out the Reconnect Enroll with Momentum Frequently Asked Questions.

Questions and Application Assistance

For grant eligibility questions or technical assistance in applying for the grant, please contact MiLEAP-Sixtyby30-Grants@michigan.gov.

Reconnect Enroll with Momentum Grants

Recognizing that adult learners beginning college for the first time or returning to college several years after leaving postsecondary education without earning a degree face unique obstacles to enrollment in postsecondary education, the Reconnect Enroll with Momentum grants are designed for community and Tribal colleges to identify current barriers to adult enrollment, and propose strategies and activities to resolve those barriers and increase adult enrollment (and ultimately persistence and completion), with an emphasis on Reconnect applicants.

Per boilerplate, it is a requirement of these grants that there is partnership with county government(s). For the purposes of this grant, county governments may include the formal county administration, or another quasi-governmental body such as a local Workforce Development Board or Economic Development Corporation that has at least a county-wide footprint.