News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 31, 2006

Third-quarter grants announced

(Contact Dollyne Sherman at 317.951.5493 for more information).

Indianapolis – Lumina Foundation for Education awarded $19.9 million in grants during the third quarter of 2006 to 54 organizations in 20 states and Washington D.C.

“By working to expand access and success for students, we hope to help America regain its global leadership role in educational attainment – and capture all the societal benefits that role ensures,” said Martha D. Lamkin, president and chief executive officer of Lumina.

“That is why the Foundation is committed to helping higher education respond to dramatic demographic shifts, painful financial realities, and changing workforce demands,” said Lamkin.

“To accomplish this tall order, we must deliver quality education to a much greater number of people. The goal is crucial, not only to individual opportunity but to the social and economic well-being of the nation.”

The 54 grants approved since July are listed below by state:

Arkansas

Arkansas State University (State University) - $172,800 to promote access to postsecondary education for at-risk high school students in the Arkansas Delta region.

California

Al Wooten, Jr. Youth and Adult Cultural Education Center (Los Angeles) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 200 middle and high school students, including 80 African-American males in Los Angeles.
A-MAN, Inc. (Los Angeles) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 100 middle and high school, African-American male students in Los Angeles.
Resolution, Inc. California Newsreel (San Francisco) - $90,000 to support the production, marketing and dissemination of a documentary film that will help colleges and universities create a more inclusive campus climate to improve the postsecondary persistence and attainment of underrepresented students.
Orangewood Children’s Foundation (Santa Ana) - $30,000 to strengthen the postsecondary programs that provide services to former foster youth by coordinating a second National Convening of Postsecondary support programs for former foster youth.
University of San Francisco (San Francisco) - $507,200 to identify, assess and disseminate successful student access and student retention practices through a network of Jesuit urban universities.
University of Southern California Center for Urban Education (Los Angeles) - $141,400 to complete data analysis and write a monograph on the results of the Equity for All project.

Georgia

University of Georgia Board of Regents (Atlanta) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services for as many as 380 students, including 220 African-American males in various university programs.

Illinois

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago) - $850,000 to identify and work with state leaders in up to three states to design and build support for state-based Lifelong Learning Account (LiLA) programs, thus moving the LiLA concept from a demonstration project to a change in state and national policy to benefit adult learners nationwide.
Urban Prep Academies (Chicago) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 320 high school-aged African-American males in Chicago.
Illinois State University (Normal) - $9,000 to support the Higher Education Funding and Student Financial Aid Conference.

Indiana

Boys and Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana, Inc. (Gary) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 45 African-American males in Gary.
Hendricks County Community Foundation (Avon) - $209,600 to help adult students complete secondary school, access workforce training and achieve their postsecondary education goals.
Independent Colleges of Indiana (Indianapolis) - $10,000 to support the College Summit to address issues relating to Latinos in higher education in Indiana.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Career Academies/Goodwill Educational Initiatives (Indianapolis) - $100,000 to provide direct access services to 300 high school students including 90 African-American males in Indianapolis.
La Plaza (Indianapolis) - $10,000 to produce a video promoting college access for Latinos and the El Puente Program.
Lawrence Township Foundation (Indianapolis) - $100,000 to provide services to underrepresented students to prepare them to participate in the Advancing Academic Excellence program.
Martin University (Indianapolis) - $10,000 to engage Martin University in a comprehensive strategic planning process as it prepares for a leadership transition.
North Central High School (Indianapolis) - $8,000 to provide travel assistance to four high school representatives from the Advancing Academic Excellence initiative to present a session at the College Board Forum 2006.

Kentucky

Berea College (Berea) - $20,250 to administer the National Survey of Student Engagement assessment instrument a second time at the nation’s six work colleges.

Louisiana

Dillard University (New Orleans) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 100 middle and high school students, including 50 African-American males in New Orleans.

Massachusetts

Commonwealth Corporation (Boston) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 130 African-American males in Providence, Rhode Island and Brockton, Massachusetts.
Education Development Center (Boston) - $299,300 to evaluate how secondary schools engage Hispanic families to support increased student educational attainment and improved preparation for postsecondary education.
Jobs for the Future (Boston) - $10,250,000 to plan, manage and implement “Making Opportunity Affordable,” an initiative designed to make quality higher education affordable and accessible to more students.
Media and Technology Charter High School (Boston) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 130 high school students, including 50 African-American males in Boston.

Michigan

Calvin College (Grand Rapids) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 300 middle and high school students, including 150 African-
American males in Grand Rapids.
Cranbrook Schools Horizons – Upward Bound (Bloomfield Hills) - $45,000 to provide direct access services to 230 high school students including 95 African-American males in Bloomfield Hills.

Missouri

National Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (Kansas City) - $75,000 to evaluate the effectiveness of Indiana’s five-county strategy for improving access and success for disadvantaged youth.
University of Missouri (Columbia) - $100,000 to help college practitioners assess and meet the needs of community college transfer students.

Montana

University of Montana (Missoula) - $167,000 to establish a mentoring and academic support program for Native American students.

New York

Bank Street College of Education (New York) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 330 middle and high school students, including 70 African-American males in New York City.
Groundwork, Inc. (Brooklyn) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 140 high school students, including 50 African-American males in Brooklyn.
Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc. (New York) - $99,000 to provide pre-college access services to 310 youth, including 127 African-American males in New York City.
Harlem Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (New York) - $100,000 to provide pre-college access services to 550 students, including 85 African-American males in East Harlem.
Medgar Evers College School of Continuing Education and Community Programs (Brooklyn) - $100,000 to provide direct access services to 112 formerly incarcerated youth, including 50 African-American males in Brooklyn.
Public Agenda Foundation (New York) - $1,307,000 to serve as a partner for public engagement activities in the implementation of the Achieving the Dream initiative, to achieve student success in community colleges.

North Carolina

MDC (Chapel Hill) - $1,074,700 to serve as the managing partner in the implementation of the Achieving the Dream initiative, to achieve student success in community colleges.

Oregon

Oregon Business Council/Oregon Community Foundation (Portland) - $85,000 to improve higher education access and success in Oregon.

Pennsylvania

Camp Curtin Branch YMCA (Harrisburg) - $100,000 to provide direct access services to 400 middle and high school students, including 150 African-American males in Harrisburg.
Crossroads Foundation (Pittsburgh) - $98,700 to provide pre-college access services to 165 middle and high school African-American males in Pittsburgh.

Rhode Island

What Kids Can Do, Inc. (Providence) - $28,000 to build collegiate readiness and awareness and to promote collegiate success among low-income and first-generation students.

South Carolina

Clemson University Foundation (Clemson) - $99,800 to provide pre-college access services to 130 African-American middle school males in Clemson.

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University (Nashville) - $261,200 to conduct research on the effect of public polity on college completion.

Texas

Project GRAD USA (Houston) - $385,000 to develop a national parent and community engagement program to increase college access.

Washington D.C.

American Association of Community Colleges - $889,600 to support the participation of selected community colleges in Pennsylvania and Washington state in the Achieving the Dream initiative.
American Association of Community Colleges - $8,000 to further the goals of the Community College Affinity Partnership in developing a national cadre of organizations and foundations that support better student outcomes in community colleges.
The Brookings Institution - $93,700 to conduct research on the impact of changes in need-based financial aid and net college prices on college-going rates of low-income youth.
Excelencia in Education, Inc. - $199,000 to examine the impact on Latino students of the affordability of the higher education system.
The Finance Project - $258,750 to design and implement an outcome evaluation of 16 grants funded through Lumina Foundation's Breaking the Cycle program.
Maya Angelou Public Charter School - $1,585 to provide travel and conference support for the Maya Angelou project director to attend the 2006 NCAN conference and Lumina Foundation sponsored convening.
National Center on Education and the Economy - $400,000 to analyze the relationship of education to the rapidly changing dynamics of the global economy to identify the best educational strategies worldwide that can raise the productivity and effectiveness of the U.S. educational system.
National Council for Community and Education Partnership - $2,000 to cover increased costs for the 2006 McCabe new grantee convening.
The SEED Foundation - $1,555 to provide travel and conference support for SEED program participants to attend the 2006 NCAN Conference and Lumina Foundation’s sponsored McCabe convening.
The Urban Institute - $7,500 to study the impact of postsecondary education programs on prisoners.

About Lumina Foundation
Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access 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, including adult learners. 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 society can make in its people. For more information, contact Dollyne Sherman, Lumina Foundation's communication director.