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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2007

Lumina Foundation for Education Announces Second Quarter Grants

Indianapolis – Lumina Foundation for Education awarded more than $2.9 million in the second quarter of 2007 to 26 organizations in 14 states and the District of Columbia to help increase college access and student success.

“The Foundation continues to address barriers that impede access to and success in postsecondary education, particularly among traditionally underserved groups,” said Martha D. Lamkin, president and chief executive officer. “Through the work of our grantees, college will become a reality for more students, and the many benefits of higher education will extend further into American society.”

The 26 grants approved during the quarter are listed below by state:

CALIFORNIA
Taproot Foundation (San Francisco) - $120,000 to underwrite volunteer-led services to build capacity at organizations dedicated to college access and attainment.

COLORADO
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (Boulder) - $10,000 to fund a meeting of leaders from K-12 and higher education on P-16 data and data system issues.

State Higher Education Executive Officers (Boulder) - $ 85,000 to support the implementation of data collection and analysis for the State Profile System of the Access and Excellence Initiative.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Aspen Institute - $10,000 to sponsor the seminar for mid-America foundation chief executives.

Education Writers Association - $37,500 to elevate and improve news reporting on higher education issues.

Excelencia in Education, Inc. - $9,800 to support the production and distribution of a summary profile of Latino college students.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations - $25,000 to work with grantmakers to increase the pace of adoption of organizational learning practices.

Institute for Higher Education Policy - $289,000 to analyze and report on the implications of the European Community’s Bologna Process for the U.S. higher education system and to assess the quality of international comparative data on education attainment.

Institute for Higher Education Policy - $66,000 to enable the institute to more widely disseminate the findings of a forthcoming research study examining immigrants’ access to and success in higher education.

FLORIDA
Hillsborough Community College Foundation (Tampa) - $192,172 to implement institutional change in the Achieving the Dream initiative.

ILLINOIS
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago) - $350,000 to develop comparative analyses of state performance on adult learning and test the Adult Learning Policy Framework Review.

INDIANA
DePauw University (Greencastle) - $84,100 to support the National Hispanic Institute for Latino Students’ Young Leaders Conference at DePauw University during the summers of 2007-09.

Encouragement Services, Inc. (Bloomington) - $2,500 to inventory college access materials and curriculum for use with the Pathways to College Network library and KnowHow2GO ground campaign.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (Indianapolis) - $45,000 to provide operating support for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.

LOUISIANA
Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission (Baton Rouge) - $4,500 to conduct planning for a 2008 College Goal Sunday event.

MICHIGAN
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leaders (Grand Rapids) - $10,000 to support the Nonprofit 2020 Conference for emerging nonprofit leaders.

MINNESOTA
Scholarship America (Edina) - $600,000 to support the Disaster Relief Fund for Postsecondary Education Students.

NEW YORK
Learning Matters, Inc. (New York City) - $7,000 to support travel scholarships for recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award for a youth-produced video.

Social Science Research Council (New York City) - $10,000 to transfer the database of research on college transitions, compiled by the Social Science Research Council as part of its project on Transitions to College: From Theory to Practice, to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

NORTH DAKOTA
University of Mary (Bismarck) - $4,500 to conduct planning for a 2008 College Goal Sunday event.

PENNSYLVANIA
OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (Philadelphia) - $75,000 to assist the philanthropic sector to become more effective through better use of evaluative information for decision making.

RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island Student Loan Authority (Warwick) - $4,500 to conduct planning for a 2008 College Goal Sunday event.

TEXAS
Community College Survey of Student Engagement (Austin) - $886,900 to support the development and national launch of the Survey of Entering Student Engagement for community colleges.

VIRGINIA
Educational Policy Institute, Inc. (Virginia Beach) - $10,000 to support the Retention 2007 conference on student retention.

GuideStar (Williamsburg) - $10,000 to provide academic researchers, instructors and students access to GuideStar premium services at no cost for the duration of their course or research projects.

Virginia Tech Foundation (Blacksburg) - $10,000 to contribute to the Hokie Spirit Scholarship fund in honor of the victims of the April 16, 2007 campus shootings.

About Lumina Foundation
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, particularly underserved student groups such as minorities, first-generation college-goers, students from low-income families and working adults. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that a society can make in its people.

For more information, contact Kevin Corcoran, Media and Policy Communication Director, at 317.951.5493, or Dianna L. Boyce, Communication Associate, at 317.951.5116.