Lumina Foundation for Education Announces Second-Quarter Grants

OTHER GRANTS
Community Investment Network (Raleigh, N.C.)—$10,000 to support the 2009 Community Investment Network Conference.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (New York, N.Y.)—$10,000 to provide professional development opportunities to young grantmakers.

The Foundation Center (New York, N.Y.)—$10,000 to support the Foundation Center's Funding for Education Month programming in June 2009.

The Greenwich Roundtable, Inc. (Cos Cob, Conn.)—$49,000 to develop and disseminate an alternative investment curriculum guide for foundations' chief investment officers.

Guidestar (Williamsburg, Va.)—$10,000 to support a project to provide the new 990 tax forms to nonprofit organizations and to implement the Guidestar Exchange Program.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (Indianapolis, Ind.)—$10,000 to provide general operating support.

Portland State University Center for Academic Excellence (Portland, Ore.)—$7,500 to support community partner attendance of the Partnership Institute which seeks to enhance understanding of higher education-community partnerships through research dissemination and shared learning.

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.