Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education (Phoenix)—$10,000 to extend College Goal Sunday in Arizona into 2009.

Low Income Families Empowerment Through Education (San Leandro)—$150,000 to help low-income families gain access to and achieve success in postsecondary education.

The Tides Center (San Francisco)—$530,000 to support the continued work of the Making Opportunity Affordable initiative by coordinating technical support.

Community College of Aurora (Aurora)—$597,000 to establish an organization focused on mobilizing the voices of business leaders to stimulate new thinking, strengthen political will, and move policies to increase the number and quality of college graduates.

National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (Boulder)—$95,900 to strengthen data and information to higher education policymakers and analysts to improve policy.

State Higher Education Executive Officers (Boulder)—$977,700 to increase states’ capacity to make data-driven, results-oriented higher education policy affecting student access and success.

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (Boulder)—$629,000 to pilot an accountability project that will provide policymakers and adult learners with consumer information about student outcomes in distance education programs at various institutions.

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (Boulder)—$400,000 to develop a deeper understanding of the processes of articulation and transfer between community colleges and four-year institutions to guide policy and practice within state higher education organizations.

American Association of Community Colleges—$240,800 to support the Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success leadership Award for Achieving the Dream colleges and universities.

American Council of Trustees and Alumni—$7,500 to support the December 2008 convening on the newly reauthorized Higher Education Act.

American Council on Education—$400,000 to support a Web-based portal and communication strategy to inform returning veterans of their educational benefits under the new GI bill. (See November 2008 press release).

American Council on Education—$388,100 to supplement the KnowHow2GO ground campaign with additional partnerships and material development.

American Council on Education—$400,000 to assist postsecondary institutions to implement the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. (See November 2008 press release).

Association of American Colleges and Universities—$350,000 to work with three state postsecondary education systems to increase the participation and success of underserved students.

CommunicationWorks—$622,000 to assist 11 states participating in the Making Opportunity Affordable initiative in building the case for addressing the urgent need to graduate millions more United States college students within existing financial resources. (See December 2008 press release).

The Education Sector—$114,800 to provide policymakers and higher education leaders with new, independent research on factors that affect student loan default rates and to arm them with strategies for reducing the likelihood of default.

Excelencia in Education—$585,000 to increase Excelencia’s organizational capacity to better serve Latino students pursuing success in higher education.

The Finance Project—$200,000 to provide technical assistance to “Breaking the Cycle” grantees involved in the “Connected by 25″ collaborative demonstrational projects in Tampa, Fla.

Innovations in Civic Participation—$500,000 to support a community service model for at-risk youth and to integrate the program within the KnowHow2GO network structure.

National Academy of Sciences—$990,000 to develop improved measures of productivity within U.S. higher education.

National Association of College and University Business Officers—$600,000 to strengthen the capacity of college and university leaders to make higher education more efficient and cost effective.

National College Access Network—$516,200 to support the National College Access Network’s capacity building as an intermediary organization promoting college access.

New America Foundation—$450,000 to increase access to and success in postsecondary education among lower-income children by exploring policy options for reforming state 529 savings plans.

Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education—$315,400 to study alternative and innovative approaches to college admission and academic support.

The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation—$150,000 to conduct a feasibility study on offering the OpenCourseWare curriculum from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to St. Albans and other high school students.

Women in Government—$10,000 to assist Women in Government in preparing for its 2009 National Adult Learning Summit.

University of South Florida (Tampa) - $50,000 to continue College Goal Sunday through 2011.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris)—$10,000 to support the 2008 Institutional Management in Higher Education General Conference.

Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity (Atlanta)—$72,800 to implement College Goal Sunday in Georgia for 2009-2010.

Southern Regional Education Board (Atlanta)—$367,800 to evaluate the effectiveness of student information portals and provide recommendations for future development and support of college-access portals.

University System of Georgia (Atlanta)—$500,000 to improve the retention and graduation of African-American males within the University System of Georgia.

The Board of Trustees of Illinois State University (Normal)—$806,300 to aid policymakers, higher education officials, and students and their families by studying effects of Illinois’ and Georgia’s guaranteed-tuition laws on college and university productivity and on undergraduate degree attainment.

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago)—$399,600 to study the effect of prior learning assessment on the academic persistence and success of adult learners.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—$650,000 to examine the effects of the Global Campus academic, service and business models on student persistence, graduation rates, employment and career success.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - $940,000 to facilitate the dissemination and adoption of best practices in the assessment of college learning outcomes.

YMCA of the USA (Chicago)—$271,200 to fund a planning grant to integrate College Goal Sunday into the National Council of YMCA.

Central Indiana Community Foundation (Indianapolis)—$25,400 to supplement activities in the College Readiness Fund by providing funds for the Central Indiana Community Foundation to attend national KnowHow2GO meetings and convene prospective funders and grantees.

Community Alliance of the Far Eastside (Indianapolis)—$576,800 to provide community building and economic development on the far eastside with the ultimate goal of strengthening educational attainment for students and families.

Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (Indianapolis)—$750,000 to improve college access and success rate for parents of Twenty-first Century Scholars and their dependents.

Indiana Student Financial Aid Association (Indianapolis)—$10,000 to extend College Goal Sunday into 2009.

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Indianapolis)—$650,000 to explore and support the educational success of African-American males in high school and college in Indiana.

Ivy Tech Community College (Indianapolis)—$130,000 to support a national convening on new delivery models for working adults.

John H. Boner Community Center (Indianapolis)—$500,000 to support Indianapolis Public Schools and the city’s Super Bowl Legacy Project to implement education, nonprofit and economic development initiatives on the near eastside.

Legacy Foundation of Lake County (Merrillville)—$869,300 to create the College Readiness Fund, a funding collaborative to improve and expand college access in Lake County.

The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington)—$1,699,800 to develop and implement the Indiana Workforce Intelligence System, a student unit record data system that integrates education and workforce data.

United Way of Central Indiana (Indianapolis)—$423,600 to increase the number of foster youth who complete high school and pursue higher education.

Vigo County Education Foundation (Terre Haute)—$10,000 to support an after-school program at a Vigo County School Corporation middle school and its elementary feeder school.

Iowa College Access Network (West Des Moines)—$115,500 to implement College Goal Sunday in Iowa for 2009-2011.

Kansas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Wichita)—$10,000 to extend College Goal Sunday in Kansas into 2009.

Kentucky Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Louisville)—$10,000 to extend College Goal Sunday in Kentucky into 2009.

The Washington Monthly (Chevy Chase)—$885,000 to underwrite news analyses that explore topics such as the urgent need for higher U.S. degree attainment rates, especially among underserved student populations.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (Cambridge)—$225,000 to build capacity at the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

The Schott Foundation for Public Education (Cambridge)—$500,000 to support the launch of the Opportunity to Learn Campaign.

Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (Ann Arbor)—$398,000 to disseminate and promote public, institutional and business policies and practices shown to advance postsecondary access and attainment among Latina immigrant workers in the United States.

Midwestern Higher Education Compact (Minneapolis)—$800,000 to develop group purchasing programs to reduce institutions’ costs of procuring energy and providing health benefits to employees and students.

Midwestern Higher Education Compact (Minneapolis) - $166,000 convene a policy summit with higher education stakeholders to focus on the redesign of public policies and institutional practices to create improvements in institutional productivity.

Minnesota Minority Education Partnership (St. Paul)—$50,000 to continue College Goal Sunday in Minnesota through 2011.

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (Jackson)—$150,000 to support College Goal Sunday in Mississippi through 2011.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (Columbia)—$50,000 to allow journalism-training organizations to plan a multi-year effort that aids college journalists’ reporting on issues related to making U.S. higher education more efficient and cost effective and to increasing degree attainment.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (Columbia)—$10,000 to sponsor education panels at the 2009 Computer-Assisted Reporting conference.

New Jersey Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Lincroft)—$50,000 to continue College Goal Sunday in New Jersey through 2011.

City at Peace (New York)—$247,400 to research, document and disseminate the key factors for City at Peace’s success in advancing high school graduation and college enrollment.

College Board (New York)—$74,200 to plan a national voluntary assessment for community colleges.

Harlem Children’s Zone (New York)—$800,000 to strengthen the College Success Program.

Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media (New York)—$210,000 to increase Hechinger Institute’s capacity to initiate high-quality journalism, including an analytical, magazine-style story that examines the University System of Maryland’s initiative to increase efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media (New York)—$10,000 to produce a video of the Charles Murray/Anthony Carnevale debate concerning the value of a college education.

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (White Plains)—$91,000 to design a program to enable underrepresented students of color in developmental mathematics at community colleges to attain a degree in engineering.

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (Cincinnati)—$918,700 to establish the College Readiness Fund, a funding collaborative to improve and expand college access in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Pepper Pike)—$10,000 to continue College Goal Sunday in Ohio through 2009.

Ohio College Access Network (Columbus)—$42,000 to utilize the Ohio College Access Network as technical assistance to the KnowHow2GO state grantees in the ground campaign.

Ohio College Access Network (Columbus)—$25,000 to provide grant funds to the Ohio College Access Network members to more widely spread the KnowHow2GO messaging and outreach to underserved students through partnerships with local library systems.

Grantmakers for Education (Portland)—$150,000 to provide general operating support to build the organizational capacity of Grantmakers for Education.

Mid-Eastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (Philadelphia)—$6,625 to continue College Goal Sunday in Maryland and Delaware into 2009.

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (Bensalem)—$10,000 to support the work of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in memory of founding Lumina Foundation Board chairman Ed McCabe.

The Big Picture Company (Providence)—$500,000 to develop a replicable pilot program for first-generation college students that increases student knowledge, applied skills and graduation rates.

Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (Oxford)—$10,000 to support an education law roundtable in the United Kingdom.

Educational Policy Institute (Virginia Beach)—$10,000 to support the 2009 National Summit in Washington, D.C. focusing on significant educational policy issues facing the U.S. education system.

Wisconsin Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Ripon) - $50,000 to continue College Goal Sunday in Wisconsin through 2011.

University of Wyoming Foundation (Laramie)—$15,000 to extend College Goal Sunday in Wyoming into 2009.