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Find similar grantsLumina Foundation Grants is sponsored by Lumina Foundation for Education Inc. Supports initiatives aimed at increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality college degrees, certificates, and credentials to 60% by 2025.
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Open call for grant proposals: Lumina is funding work through three RFPs. Lumina is funding work through three RFPs. Note: The proposal deadlines have now passed .
We are inviting ideas that advance racial equity and justice in pursuit of Lumina’s mission of ensuring 60 percent of working-age adults have college degrees, certificates, industry certifications, and other credentials of value by 2025. Earlier this year, Lumina announced changes in how we ensure an equity-first approach by looking beyond invitations for proposals.
We believe open solicitations for ideas and proposals can help address the barriers that hamper grant-seeking organizations led by people of color and nonprofits that serve communities of color.
Learn more here: Shifting some strategies can help us put racial equity first Racial Justice and Equity Grants Eligibility: Eligible organizations include 501(c)(3)s and organizations such as community-based nonprofits, public policy and advocacy organizations, tribal organizations, social movement organizations, and centers within colleges and universities. (Government agencies and for-profit businesses are not eligible.)
Grant amounts: Up to $400,000 Initial Application Deadline: Sept. 2, 2021 State Policy Partnerships Eligibility: State-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations advancing education policy at a state level are eligible to respond to this Request for Qualifications. Lumina funds cannot be used to support lobbying or related activities.
Grant awards: Up to $200,000 Prioritizing Adult Community College Enrollment Eligibility: Public community colleges in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. All Tribal Colleges also are eligible. Grant awards: Up to $75,000 Application Deadline: Sept.
17, 2021 Lumina’s HBCU Adult Learner Initiative closed to new inquiries on July 11, 2021. What are you looking for?
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The Innovative Postsecondary Models Fund — Gates, Lumina, Strada, Ascendium, ECMC, College Futures, Haas Jr., and Raikes, administered by Panorama Global — will make 7 to 10 grants of $750,000 to $1,000,000. Eligibility is unusually wide and the gates are unusually specific. One of them eliminates most applicants outright, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the idea.
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