The College Board (New York, N.Y.)—$215,000 to identify effective ways to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

EducationQuest Foundation (Lincoln, Neb.)—$140,000 to develop and implement a sustainable college access network in Nebraska that will support advocacy and policy efforts. *

First American Land-Grant College Organization and Network (Columbia, Mo.)—$10,000 to support the FALCON conference focused on student access and success at tribal colleges.

Indiana Association of United Ways (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$10,000 to advance the afterschool movement in Indianapolis and Central Indiana through collaboration with other after school providers and community leaders.

Indiana Department of Education (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$2,500 to sponsor the Indiana Dropout Prevention Leadership Summit.

Jobs for America's Graduates (Alexandria, Va.)—$10,000 to support the JAG National Thought Leader Event to discuss how to close the academic and career achievement gap for at-risk minority students.

National College Access Network (Washington, D.C.) —$72,200 to host an NCAN post-conference day on policy issues and process for the KnowHow2GO learning community.

New England Educational Opportunity Association (Orono, Maine)—$140,000 to develop a sustainable college access network in Connecticut that will support advocacy and policy. *

Northwest Education Loan Association (Seattle, Wash.)—$58,400 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in Washington. *

Ohio College Access Network (Columbus, Ohio)—$163,500 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in Ohio. *

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence (Lexington, Ky.)—$117,700 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in Kentucky. *

Southern California College Access Network (Los Angeles, Calif.)—$95,300 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in the southern California region. *

Student Assistance Foundation of Montana (Helena, Mont.)—$140,000 to develop a sustainable statewide college access network in Montana that will support advocacy and policy efforts. *

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.)—$25,000 to continue the partnership with the National College Advising Corps and the KnowHow2GO campaign. *

University of Southern California—Center for Enrollment, Research, Policy and Practice (Los Angeles, Calif.) - $10,000 to support the January 2010 conference, "What Matters Now: College Access and Success in the Age of Obama."

University of Wisconsin System (Madison, Wis.)—$140,000 to develop a sustainable statewide college access network in Wisconsin that will support advocacy and policy. *

*Previously announced grant in KnowHow2GO press release dated October 29, 2009.

American Association of Community Colleges (Washington, D.C.)—$500,000 to develop and test a national framework for community colleges to improve student outcomes. **

American Indian Higher Education Consortium (Alexandria, Va.)—$500,000 to assist Tribal Colleges and Universities to become more effectively engaged in higher education policy at the local, state and national level. ***

California State University System, Monterey Bay (Seaside, Calif.)—$500,000 to improve the effectiveness of developmental education courses at three Hispanic-serving institutions. ***

Catalytica (Seattle, Wash.)—$9,888 to supplement the original grant.

Complete College America (Washington, D.C.)—$1,000,000 to support the creation and mission of Complete College America.

Indiana Community Action Association (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$10,000 to provide a comprehensive report about the financial aid system in Indiana and policy recommendations to increase access to these financial aid programs for working adult students.

Ivy Tech Community College (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$2,340,000 to increase attainment rates of at-risk youth through an accelerated associate degree program.

Jackson State College Development Foundation (Jackson, Miss.)—$487,000 to create a multi-state, peer-learning network to ensure postsecondary success for minority students. ***

Martin University (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$100,000 to increase educational access and opportunity for incoming first and second year, disadvantaged, and underrepresented students by designing and implementing a Center for Student Success.

MDC (Chapel Hill, N.C.)—$2,947,400 to support the transition of the Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count initiative to a sustainable enterprise.

MDC (Chapel Hill, N.C.)—$300,000 to magnify the impact of the Developmental Education Initiative through communication activities.

MDC (Chapel Hill, N.C.)—$3,000 to sponsor a reception at the Grantmakers for Education conference in Chicago.

Miller Center for Public Affairs (Charlottesville, Va.)—$750,000 to conduct and disseminate two national debates and supplemental outreach activities to increase public interest and energize public policymakers to address issues of importance to higher education.

Salish Kootenai College (Pablo, Mont.)—$402,200 to identify factors that improve the postsecondary retention and success of American Indian students enrolled in developmental studies courses. ***

Southern Education Foundation (Atlanta, Ga.)—$500,000 to enhance student learning outcomes assessment, documentation and use at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions. ***

United States Department of Education (Washington, D.C.)—$5,000 to support the activities and conference costs of the 2009 National HBCU Conference.

University of Arizona Office of Community Relations (Tucson, Ariz.)—$280,250 to support participation of higher education institutions in southern Arizona in an OECD-organized initiative called "Locally Engaged, Globally Competitive."

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Ill.)—$140,000 to examine applied baccalaureate degree programs in the United States to assess their effectiveness in increasing the number of adult learners with the baccalaureate degree.

** Previously announced grant in New Accountability System press release dated October 6, 2009

***Previously announced grant in Minority-Serving Institutions press release dated October 30, 2009.

Bipartisan Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)—$994,700 to help create a next market for higher education innovation through convenings, research and further development of DGREE, spurring innovation and a new market for higher education.

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pa.)—$750,000 to establish a consortium of community colleges, in collaboration with state agencies and national groups, to enact a large-scale process that increase efficiency in the way instruction is developed, delivered and continuously improved.

CommunicationWorks (Washington, D.C.)—$99,500 to produce storytelling videos to help states make the case among key stakeholders for improving higher education productivity.

Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (Ithaca, N.Y.) - $80,500 to analyze the extent to which non-instructional expenditures impact the persistence and graduation rates of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and with different academic qualifications.

Delta Project on Postsecondary Costs, Productivity and Accountability (Washington, D.C.)—$500,000 to support continued development of data and spending metrics for institutional and state-level cost accountability.

Education Writers Association (Washington, D.C.)—$350,000 to provide training and support for journalists covering higher education and develop a strategic response to the changing media environment.

Hechinger Institute on Education and Media (New York, N.Y.)—$600,000 to increase the capacity of Hechinger Institute to produce and broker placement of high-quality, solutions-oriented news coverage of higher education for influential audiences and engaged citizens.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (Columbia, Mo.)—$500,000 to increase campus coverage of college completion and productivity issues by training student journalists to report on these topics.

Midwestern Higher Education Compact (Minneapolis, Minn.)—$100,000 to develop a pilot for Midwestern cities that projects how manipulation of different input and throughput variables contributes to closing the credentials gap.

National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (Boulder, Colo.)—$91,100 to prepare an updated version of "Good Policy, Good Practice. Improving Outcomes and Productivity in Higher Education: An Implementation Handbook."

National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, Colo.)—$500,000 to provide state legislators and their education and fiscal policy aides with information, advice, support and professional development aimed at increasing the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees and postsecondary credentials.

The President's Forum (Albany, N.Y.)—$58,500 to convene The President's Forum to develop recommendations for demonstration projects to improve efficiency and encourage better alignment of individual state regulatory requirements, as well as support increased reciprocal agreements among states to offer instruction across multi-state boundaries.

The Washington Monthly (Chevy Chase, Md.)—$10,000 to upgrade The Washington Monthly's Web server to accommodate greater than anticipated readership on the Annual College Guide.

Indiana Grantmakers Alliance (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$3,000 to provide resources to facilitate and encourage statewide participation of foundation staff and trustees in the Indiana chapter of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, Indiana Blacks in Philanthropy, a corporate grant makers groups, an Indianapolis program officers group and other IGA-sponsored affinity groups around the state.

Morgan State University Foundation (Baltimore, Md.)—$12,000 to support the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education Kellogg Leadership Fellows' reunion as part of the annual White House Conference on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (Philadelphia, Pa.) - $192,800 to contribute to the field of philanthropy an improved understanding of what constitutes foundation effectiveness and how foundations can add value, beyond dollars, to the strategies they support.