Evaluation Reports
Lumina Foundation places a high value on evaluation. We support efforts that look closely at our work and the work of our grantees to answer: What have we learned? What works? What's next? We also support evaluation that examines our own work to help us advance our mission and serve our grantees. Although grantee perceptions are not definitive evidence of a foundation's end social impact, they can help assess a foundation's overall performance and progress.
Making the numbers add up
A guide for using data in college access and success programs
Download publication 40 pgs., 3M
Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars program: A statewide story with national implications
An evaluation report
This report summarizes three separate evaluative research projects, all of which address different but closely related aspects of Indiana’s Twenty-first Century Scholars program — an Indiana-supported effort to promote pre-college preparation and postsecondary access for low-income students.
Download publication 43 pgs., 1.3M
Places—and faces—that foster student success.
Spring 2007 Edition
This publication reveals what our grantees have learned in their efforts to increase persistence rates among first- and second-year students on 15 campuses in Indiana. (Spring 2007)
Download publication 43 pgs., 2.7M
Recent grants are points of promise in the effort to enhance student success
An evaluation report
This brief explores Lumina Foundation's early efforts to learn more about student retention. (April 2006)
Download publication 9 pgs., 520k
Grantee Perception Reports
This survey provides comparative data on grantee perceptions of Foundation performance on a variety of dimensions.
Grantee Perception Report 2008 108 pages | 724k
Grantee Perception Report 2006 110 pages | 460k
Grantee Perception Report 2005 51 pages | 656k
Opinion Leader Surveys
Opinion Leader Survey 2007 39 pages | 3.6M
This 2007 evaluation examines how opinion leaders in postsecondary access and success and philanthropy perceive Lumina Foundation's performance and organizational effectiveness. (July 2007)
Grantee Perception Report 2005
This 2005 evaluation examines how opinion leaders in postsecondary access and success and philanthropy perceive Lumina Foundation's performance. (July 2005)
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