As colleges and universities across the country reschedule or cancel classes during the health crisis, some of Lumina's Impact Ventures investees are stepping up to provide critical solutions and support to address the challenges students face.

A college provost whose innovative program for helping students succeed won the judges’ award in a Lumina Impact Ventures contest said she’s been inspired by her early teaching experience at Miami Dade College.

Miami Dade College’s Accelerated Credentials Training and Skills program and peer-learning app Knack each receive $25,000 to help adults secure the knowledge and skills needed for tomorrow’s jobs

More than a dozen early-stage companies met with potential investors, pitching their products in a “Demo Day” of new ideas and services to advance educational attainment.

Demo Day kicks off a two-day event in San Francisco on social impact investing and innovation in education and training after high school.

There are at least two ways to look at everything, including innovation. One way—let’s call it the radical approach—was aptly expressed by Charles F. Kettering who said this: “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”

Investment will help Edquity grow college footprint, further “beyond tuition” and emergency aid work NEW YORK – Edquity, a Brooklyn-based edtech and fintech company supporting students through each and every financial decision on the road to college graduation, has raised $500k from Lumina Impact Ventures, the venture capital arm of the nation’s leading foundation focused on improving equitable post-high school…

New ideas are around us everywhere, so it’s no surprise that Lumina Foundation is looking hard for the latest innovation in our field, as well. We’ll get a look at some intriguing ideas on March 27 in New York at Lumina’s third annual Education Innovation Prize Challenge.

Two years after shifting the focus of its impact investing program, Lumina Foundation is building partnerships that give emerging companies the benefit of the Foundation’s network—multiplying the investment’s value and creating new opportunities along the way.

Lumina announces impact investing program with the first group of strategic social investments: Credly, BridgeEdu, and New Profit.