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Find similar grantsGoal 2040 Strategic Grants is sponsored by Lumina Foundation. Supports initiatives aiming to achieve 75% educational attainment by 2040, with a focus on racial equity and quality credentials for incarcerated and re-entering populations.
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Lumina Foundation grant and corporate sponsorship information Today's Students at a Glance Financially Stressed Students First-Generation Students Minority-Serving Institutions Quality in Higher Learning Expanding the share of Americans with education and training after high school Education Attainment Levels Higher Education Redesigned An index of news stories, blog posts from Lumina staff, events, speeches, grantee and partner news, as well as daily higher ed headlines.
Tools and takeaways from our efforts to create a better-educated nation.
Equity in Education → Disparities in Higher Learning Talking about Education and Race History of Federal Student Aid A Stronger Nation data tool → Local Talent Handbook → The next chapter of A Stronger Nation: From progress to payoff From Campus to Career: We’re looking to fund ideas that connect experiences to career preparation We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s need for talent through a broad range of credentials.
How Our Philanthropy Works Your Experience with Lumina’s Grant Process Today's Students at a Glance Financially Stressed Students First-Generation Students Today’s Institutions → Minority-Serving Institutions Today’s Credentials → Quality in Higher Learning Expanding the share of Americans with education and training after high school Education Attainment Levels → Higher Education Redesigned → Education for Impact → An index of news stories, blog posts from Lumina staff, events, speeches, grantee and partner news, as well as daily higher ed headlines.
Lumina News & Blog → Tools and takeaways from our efforts to create a better-educated nation. Equity in Education → Disparities in Higher Learning Talking about Education and Race History of Federal Student Aid A Stronger Nation data tool → Local Talent Handbook → We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s need for talent through a broad range of credentials.
How Our Philanthropy Works Your Experience with Lumina’s Grant Process Expand your reach with support from Lumina. L umina Foundation believes that education provides the basis for individual opportunity, economic vitality, and social stability. With its partners, Lumina works toward a goal of 75 percent of Americans with a college degree, workforce certificate, or another high-quality credential beyond high school by 2040.
Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive, and accountable post-high school education system for all. While we recognize there are many worthy ideas and organizations, Lumina does not accept or respond to unsolicited requests/letters of inquiry .
Our grantmaking is primarily proactive in nature, where we solicit ideas directly from partners based on their unique capacities to leverage large-scale systemic change. Periodically, we hold open Request for Proposals (RFPs) or calls for work around specific topics which are announced on our website. For more information, see the Lumina Grantee FAQ.
We also offer investment capital for strategic social initiatives through Lumina Impact Ventures . Current grantees should review the Grantee Resources page for details on Lumina’s grant management process and to access Grantee Reporting Forms. To comment on Lumina’s grant process, please use the Grantee Feedback form .
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Create Commons Permissions Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. We envision higher learning that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s talent needs through a broad range of credentials. We work toward a system that prepares people for informed citizenship and success in a global economy.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.