Dine College (Tsaile)—$10,000 to strengthen governance, communication and teaching at the college.

Silicon Valley Children's Fund (San Jose)—$10,000 to support a national training conference for officials on university and community college campuses seeking to improve services to students in foster care.

American Indian College Fund (Denver)—$25,000 to assist tribal college students to enroll and succeed in baccalaureate degrees at the University of Oklahoma or Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

State Higher Education Executive Officers (Boulder)—$60,000 to educate presidential nominees and their education advisers about the need to increase U.S. postsecondary attainment.

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (Boulder)—$250,000 to help policymakers integrate state appropriation, financial aid and tuition policies to promote college access and success.

Academy for Educational Development - $551,000 to build a learning community of KnowHow2GO states and regions through such efforts as professional development and peer learning.

American Legislative Exchange Council—$300,000 to create a two-year policy development and communication program to educate state lawmakers about higher-education topics.

Delta Project on Postsecondary Costs, Productivity, and Accountability - $347,600 to improve productivity and accountability in higher education.

Excelencia in Education—$9,800 to produce and disseminate a synthesis on institutional leadership for Latino student success.

Excelencia in Education—$9,800 to produce and disseminate a short brief expanding and refining measures of success for Latino students.

Excelencia in Education—$75,000 to disseminate the brief, "Florida Policy Options to Accelerate Latino Success in Higher Education," and to engage policymakers in discussions and deliberations about the recommendations.

The Finance Project—$10,000 to package information developed through the "Breaking the Cycle" evaluation for external audiences.

FrameWorks Institute—$341,600 to conduct research on public perceptions of and attitudes toward higher education attainment and to test possible approaches to reshaping public discussion of the attainment issue.

Independent Sector—$25,000 to disseminate the "Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice publication to nonprofit board and staff leaders.

Institute for Higher Education Policy—$600,000 to provide general operating support for building organizational capacity to improve student outcomes in higher education.

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators - $159,600 to develop and disseminate case studies of partnerships between College Goal Sunday and KnowHow2GO programs to integrate and sustain both programs.

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators—$256,000 to fund and expand ongoing College Goal Sunday and KnowHow2GO programs to integrate and sustain both programs.

The Communications Network (Naperville)—$10,000 to provide general support to continue the work of The Communications Network, an affinity group serving professional communicators within foundations.

DonorsChoose (Chicago)—$100,000 to fund high school projects that focus on college preparation and academic rigor in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, all of which are key states for the KnowHow2GO campaign.

American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis (Indianapolis)—$10,000 to provide disaster relief funds in the aftermath of storm and tornado damage in May 2008.

American Student Achievement Institute (Columbus) - $1,940,800 to increase opportunities for low-income, first generation and minority students to earn college credits in high school.

National Rural Funders Collaborative (Bethesda)—$300,000 to increase civic participation and community wealth in rural communities of color.

National College Access Network (Cleveland)—$65,900 to support the 2008 Annual Conference's Best Practices Gallery and a half-day, post-conference gathering featuring Lumina college access grantees and other college access projects targeting Latino students and parents.

University of Toledo Foundation (Toledo) - $725,000 to conduct an evaluation of the National Student African American Brotherhood and increase the organization's capacity and sustainability.

GuideStar (Williamsburg)—$10,000 to increase the capacity of the GuideStar Web site.