Grantee Communication Tipsheet
Communicating about your Lumina Foundation grant
Lumina Foundation for Education believes communication has the power to multiply the effects of grantmaking by sharing findings the Foundation and its grant recipients generate. The Foundation's Communication Department wants to aid grantees by supporting dissemination of lessons from grant projects. Either party can open discussion about communication strategy.
PLEASE NOTE: The terms of your grant require that Lumina approve any materials citing the Foundation by name. Please send Dianna L. Boyce, communication associate, dboyce@luminafoundation.org, news releases, brochures, fliers, reports or other materials that mention your grant or Lumina Foundation. She also can be reached at (317) 951-5116. Lumina Foundation provides quarterly news releases to general-circulation, higher-education trade and philanthropy news outlets announcing recent grants. Our grantees' work also is published or promoted on Lumina's Web site and in print and electronic formats. Please alert us when you reach milestones. We also ask that you link to our Web site at www.luminafoundation.org or alert us to material on your site that you believe Lumina stakeholders would find valuable.
Using Lumina Foundation's Name
On first reference, please use Lumina's entire name: Lumina Foundation for Education. On subsequent references, you may use Lumina Foundation or the Foundation.
Lumina Foundation style does not permit the use of the article "the" before its proper name.
Using Lumina Foundation's Logo
Copies of Lumina Foundation's official logo can be obtained for use in releases, in publications or on the Web by contacting Dianna at dboyce@luminafoundation.org. Please include a description of how you intend to use the logo and whether you prefer color or black-and-white.
Describing Lumina Foundation
Below are long and short descriptions for Lumina Foundation. When describing your grant or the Foundation, please use the appropriate version.
Longer version
Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based private foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access to and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, especially underserved student groups such as minorities, students from low-income families, first-time college-goers and working adults. The Foundation believes postsecondary education is one of the most beneficial investments individuals can make in themselves and that a society can make in its people.
Shorter version
Lumina Foundation for Education is an Indianapolis-based private foundation dedicated to expanding access to and success in education beyond high school.
