Lumina Foundation for Education Announces Second-Quarter Grants

YMCA of the USA (Chicago, Ill.)—$5,127,600 to manage, expand and integrate the College Goal Sunday program into the national YMCA movement.

SUPPORTING SUCCESS
Education Writers Association (Washington, D.C.)—$10,000 to support a panel discussion regarding degree quality with reporters at the Education Writers Association's annual meeting.

Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)—$2,577,700 to conduct and disseminate research on the relationship between higher education and the economy, including projecting the supply and demand for college-educated workers.

MDRC (New York, N.Y.)—$4,000,500 to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count.

Women in Government (Washington, D.C.)—$200,000 to promote adult learning through state policy work among state legislators.

ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (Washington, D.C.)—$600,000 to inform boards and presidents of America's college and universities to improve student success rates.

Business Innovation Factory (Providence, R.I.)—$280,000 to map the student experience in higher education to put a face on Lumina's big goal and identify opportunities where experiences may be enhanced in order to graduate more students.

Capitol Beat (Raleigh, N.C.)—$10,000 to educate journalists nationally who cover state government about state finance and higher education productivity issues affecting college access and student academic success.

CEOs for Cities (Chicago, Ill.)—$240,000 to systematically uncover new ideas on how to reduce the cost of getting students into and then out of college with a degree, without sacrificing quality.

The Education Sector (Washington, D.C.)—$750,000 to provide research and analysis, strategic communication and policy promotion aimed to reorient the public conversation around higher education to focus on quality of teaching and learning, student attainment and reduced student cost.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (Columbia, Mo.)—$10,000 to support higher education training for journalists at the four-day 2009 IRE conference.

The Public Agenda Foundation (New York, N.Y.)—$103,100 to work with CEOs for Cities to design and promote dialogue sessions in eight Talent Dividend cities to encourage integration of the Talent Dividend framework and concepts into local strategic planning efforts as a means of advancing the Talent Dividend.