Academy for Educational Development (New York, N.Y.)—$149,300 to support a planning grant for mapping data about college and success networks.

Academy for Educational Development (New York, N.Y.)—$667,700 to design and conduct an evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of KnowHow2GO.

Academy for Educational Development (New York, N.Y.)—$56,300 to coordinate KnowHow2GO technical support provided by two independent providers.

Achieve, Inc. (Washington, D.C.)—$395,700 to strengthen the alignment of higher education with college- and career-readiness standards.

Center for Law and Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)—$208,000 to conduct research and develop relevant policy briefs on federal non-higher education programs with education and training components. This will include a state-by-state analysis of how these funds are used.

Center for Nonprofit Excellence (Akron, Ohio)—$104,500 to examine the implementation process and outcomes of the KnowHow2GO learning community and draw connections with the productivity learning community.

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$100,000 to expand access to Advanced Placement professional development for high school teachers in Indiana.

Council for Opportunity in Education (Washington, D.C.)—$150,000 to improve the reach and effectiveness of KnowHow2GO state networks by integrating TRIO programs at the national and state level.

DonorsChoose Indiana (Chicago, Ill.)—$300,000 to engage middle school teachers in the KnowHow2GO campaign.

Illinois Student Assistance Commission (Deerfield, Ill.)—$93,500 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in Illinois.

Indiana Department of Education (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$100,000 to coordinate efforts to increase college access and success by engaging partners and leveraging resources.

Learn More Indiana (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$115,500 to plan for the next phase of KnowHow2GO in Indiana.

Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$60,000 to create college access networks within Marion County's public high schools that provide wrap-around services touching on all four steps of KnowHow2GO for students.

New America Foundation (Washington, D.C.)—$325,000 to promote policy options that make investing in state-administered 529 college savings plans more appealing for low- and moderate-income families.

OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (Philadelphia, Penn.)—$9,100 to support the preparation of a white paper entitled "Using Data to Drive Change" for distribution at various events.

Scholarship America (St. Peter, Minn.)—$140,000 to develop a sustainable college access network in Iowa that will support advocacy and policy efforts.*

Tennessee Higher Education Commission (Nashville, Tenn.)—$140,000 to develop a sustainable college access network in Tennessee that will support advocacy and policy.

United Way of Central Indiana (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$150,000 to support the Community Economic Relief Fund that assists citizens with emergencies relating to basic needs, including food, housing and utilities.

University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.)—$73,900 to plan for the next phase and expansion of KnowHow2GO in Florida.

What Kids Can Do (Providence, R.I.)—$99,900 to bring student-produced research and media to the attention of local and national policymakers and stakeholders.

What Kids Can Do (Providence, R.I.)—$870,000 to manage Lumina's three-year initiative to link national youth-serving organizations to the KnowHow2GO campaign.

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

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago, Ill.)—$175,000 to design, develop and administer an accessible "virtual" Prior Learning Assessment Center.

Excelencia in Education, Inc. (Washington, D.C.)—$10,000 to support 2009 Examples of Excelencia and its Celebration de Excelencia.

Florida International University (Miami, Fla.)—$495,800 to evaluate student success initiatives and develop program improvements to raise undergraduate persistence rates using a data-driven inquiry process. **

Institute for Higher Education Policy (Washington, D.C.)—$604,600 to provide support to the Minority-Serving Institutions Models of Success program. **

Institute for Higher Education Policy (Washington, D.C.)—$1,110,600 to strengthen access and success through research, policy and improved practice.

MDRC (New York, N.Y.)—$1,200,000 to evaluate the implementation of the Achieving the Dream developmental education initiative.

New England Board of Higher Education (Boston, Mass.)—$65,000 to assist policymakers in New England states as they develop strategies to increase postsecondary attainment.

Scholarship America (Minneapolis, Minn.)—$600,000 to build the capacity of Scholarship America to operate the Dreamkeepers program.

University of North Carolina Office of the President (Chapel Hill, N.C.)—$500,000 to increase the retention and graduation rates for students of color at all six minority-serving institutions within the University of North Carolina system.

United Way of Central Indiana (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$5,000 to provide funding to sponsor a Connected by 25 team to attend the 2009 Creating a Blueprint conference and other professional development opportunities.

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Penn.)—$40,000 to provide operating support for Change magazine.

University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, Texas)—$500,000 to identify the institutional structures at minority-serving institutions that foster student success and increase the effectiveness of transfer programs across the state. ""

University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)—$500,000 to implement a statewide Bachelor's Accelerated Completion Program to meet the needs of Texans who have started college but never finished.

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

CommunicationWorks (Washington, D.C.) - $300,000 to develop and implement communication and media strategies across states that advance productivity improvements within higher education.

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (Half Moon Bay, Calif.)—$600,000 to extend the potential for the online knowledge collaborative as the intermediary to encourage and facilitate productivity in higher education.

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (Washington, D.C.)—$600,000 to develop the National Governors Association's capacity to help governors shape policies that increase transparency and accountability in higher education and contribute to increase the numbers of residents educated to meet workforce needs.

The Public Agenda Foundation (New York, N.Y.)—$796,800 to support the productivity agenda by developing a model for faculty and institutional engagement, and supporting policy and public will building to increase productivity in higher education.

SPEC Associates (Detroit, Mich.)—$800,000 to evaluate Making Opportunity Affordable.

The Tides Center (San Francisco, Calif.)—$1,450,000 to support the expansion of Lumina's productivity agenda by managing state contracts and coordinating technical support.

The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.)—$750,000 to allow the Indiana Business Research Center to apply powerful analytic modeling to help answer critical questions about factors influencing student success in higher education and the workforce in Indiana.

Western Governors University (Salt Lake City, Utah)—$800,000 to draw and share lessons arising from a newer, technology-enabled approach that unbundles elements of higher education to offer individualized, self-paced instruction that focuses on helping students meet defined learning outcomes.