Indianapolis—Lumina Foundation for Education awarded grants totaling $9.8 million in the second quarter of 2010. These fifteen grants went to organizations in nine states and the District of Columbia.
As listed below, Lumina’s grant making reflects the Foundation’s commitment to three primary areas:
- students are prepared academically, financially and socially for success in education beyond high school;
- higher education completion rates are improved significantly; and,
- higher education productivity is increased to expand capacity and serve more students.
“We continuously invest in partners and ideas that will lead us to the Big Goal,” said Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation. “We know it presents an immense challenge- one that requires significant changes in the nation’s postsecondary system. We are convinced that we can achieve that progress if we work toward it in a thoughtful, coordinated and collaborative way.”
Lumina’s second-quarter grants are listed below:
Preparing Students for Success
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (San Antonio, TX)— $25,000 to provide general operating support and advance the mission of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
Indiana Grantmakers Alliance (Indianapolis, IN)— $100,000 to improve the impact and effectiveness of Indiana grantmaking in support of Indiana’s long-term vitality by focusing on efforts that lead to greater access to and success in postsecondary education.
Learn More Indiana (Indianapolis, IN)—$474,500 to help students in Indiana access and complete postsecondary education.
Southern California College Access Network (Los Angeles, CA)— $224,700 to execute Phase II of the KnowHow2GO campaign in Southern California.
The National Forum on Higher Education (Ann Arbor, MI)—$5,000 to support a national summit that brings together education, foundation and policy leaders to develop policies that will determine educational opportunity for immigrant and undocumented students.
Enhancing Productivity
CommunicationWorks, LLC (Washington, DC)— $900,000 to develop communications activities and products that strengthen the ability of states to graduate more students within existing resources while maintaining academic quality.
Education Writers Association (Washington, DC)— $10,000 to provide discussion at the Education Writers Association annual meeting on “The Future of Education Journalism.”
HCM Strategists, LLC (Washington, DC)— $2,829,500 to manage state contracts and coordinate technical support for Lumina’s productivity initiative.
The Tides Center (San Francisco, CA)— $2,250,000 to continue Lumina Foundation’s multi-state, multi-year Productivity Grant initiative by managing state contracts and coordinating technical support
WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA)— $75,000 to support FRONTLINE’s “College, Inc.,” a PBS documentary that examines for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America.
Other Grants
American Public Media (St. Paul, MN)— $500,000 to examine critical higher education issues related to the kind of education Americans will need for the 21st Century in public radio- and Web-based documentaries and shorter newsmagazine stories and podcasts.
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago, IL)— $1,000,000 to implement a pilot for a virtual Prior Learning Assessment Center.
Guidestar (Williamsburg, VA)— $10,000 to continue free public services, such as Exchange program, and institute new technology upgrades.
Tennessee Board of Regents (Nashville, TN)— $975,000 to increase completion rates for sub-baccalaureate programs in Tennessee while building enrollment and expanding the scope and scale of these programs.
Western Governors University – Indiana (Indianapolis, IN)—$500,000 to help the state of Indiana and Western Governors University (WGU) create and launch WGU-Indiana, a wholly owned subsidiary of WGU, to increase higher education attainment among state residents.
About Lumina Foundation
Lumina Foundation for Education is committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college—especially low-income students, students of color, first-generation students and adult learners. Our goal is to increase the percentage of Americans who hold high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina pursues this goal in three ways: by identifying and supporting effective practice, through public policy advocacy, and by using our communications and convening power to build public will for change.
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