Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
206 709 3100 TELEPHONE
www.gatesfoundation.org

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

Eurasia Foundation

1350 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
202 234 7370 TELEPHONE
www.eurasia.org

Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed non-profit organization supported by USAID and other public and private donors. Since 1992, Eurasia Foundation has invested nearly $360 million through more than 8,000 grants and operating programs across the former Soviet Union.

Ford Foundation

320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
212 573 5000 TELEPHONE
212 351 3677 FAX
www.fordfound.org

The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than half a century it has been a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide, guided by its goals of strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation and advancing human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Russia.

Lumina Foundation for Education

30 South Meridian Street, Suite 700
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317 951 5300 TELEPHONE
800 834 5756 TOLL FREE
317 951 5063 FAX
www.luminafoundation.org

Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access to and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups such as minorities, first-generation college-goers, students from low-income families and working adults. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that a society can make in its people.

MPR Associates, Inc.

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 800
Berkley, CA 94704
510 849 4942 TELEPHONE
510 849 0794 FAX
www.mprinc.com

MPR Associates, Inc. is an education research and consulting firm with offices in Berkeley, Calif. and Washington, D.C.

National Center for Education Statistics

1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
202 502 7300 TELEPHONE
http://nces.ed.gov

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. NCES collects postsecondary education data about institutions, faculty, and students through its universe collection, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and through a number of longitudinal studies. The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 established IES within the Education Department, and IES brings rigorous and relevant research, evaluation and statistics to the nation’s education system.

National Science Foundation

4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
703 292 5111 TELEPHONE
www.nsf.gov

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of $5.92 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to over 1,700 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 42,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 10,000 new funding awards. The NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation

1250 Hancock Street, Suite 205N
Quincy, MA 02169
781 348 4200 TELEPHONE
877 635 5436 TOLL FREE
781 348 4299 FAX
www.nmefdn.org

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest philanthropy in New England that focuses exclusively on promoting access, quality and effectiveness of education. Established in 1998, the Foundation provides grants and other support to education programs in the region designed to improve underserved students' academic achievement and access to higher education. It also funds research that examines critical educational opportunity issues. Since it was established, the Foundation has distributed nearly $72 million in grants. Currently, it is realigning its program investments. It will continue to focus its grantmaking on strategies that support underserved learners while building knowledge on how to dramatically improve outcomes for the majority of New England's learners. The emerging program areas include early learning, use of time in learning, examination of the pathways involved between secondary and postsecondary education, and adult learning with a focus on postsecondary opportunities.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

1025 F Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20004
202 552 2000 TELEPHONE
202 552 2299 FAX
www.pewtrusts.org

The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.

Philip L. Graham Fund

c/o The Washington Post Company
1150 Fifteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
202 334 6640 TELEPHONE
202 334 4498 FAX
www.plgrahamfund.com

The Fund was established in 1963 to honor the memory of Philip L. Graham, who was publisher of The Washington Post and president of The Washington Post Company for many years before his death. Gifts from his widow, Katharine Meyer Graham, his friends and The Washington Post Company formed the initial corpus of the Fund.

From its earliest days, the Fund has used its resources, first, for the betterment of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and, second, for improvements in the field of journalism and communications. Current annual giving is about $5,000,000. Mrs. Graham served as founding trustee of the Fund until her death in July 2001. The Fund’s current trustees are Donald E. Graham, Martin Cohen, Theodore C. Lutz, Carol M. Melamed, and Lionel W. Neptune. Candice C. Bryant serves as president of the Fund.

The Sallie Mae Fund

12061 Bluemont Way
Reston, VA 20190
www.salliemaefund.org

The Sallie Mae Fund is a charitable organization sponsored by Sallie Mae. The Fund achieves its mission—to increase access to a post-secondary education for America’s students—by supporting programs and initiatives that help open doors to higher education, prepare families for their investment, and bridge the gap when no one else can.

Tertiary Education Council of Botswana

Private Bag BR 108
Gaborone BOTSWANA
+267 390 0679 TELEPHONE
+267 397 1873 FAX
www.tec.org.bw

Established in 1999, the Tertiary Education Council is governed by a 14-member regulatory body that coordinates and promotes tertiary education while determining and maintaining standards of teaching, examination, and research in tertiary institutions in Botswana.

TERI

P.O. Box 848108
Boston, MA 02284
617 422 8810 TELEPHONE
888 FAX TERI FAX
www.teri.org

TERI is a Boston-based national nonprofit organization focused on promoting access to education for people of all ages and backgrounds. TERI directs the Pathways to College Network, an alliance of over 30 nonprofit organizations and funders committed to advancing college access and success for underserved students, and supports research projects and initiatives related to improving college access and affordability. Locally, TERI provides college access services for young people and adults in Boston and other Massachusetts communities, including college advising centers at public libraries, a statewide telephone information hotline, and TRIO, GEAR UP, and other college outreach programs. Additionally, TERI is the most experienced and largest nonprofit guarantors of private loans for education, helping students close the gap between education costs and their other resources such as financial aid, savings and family support.

United Planning Organization

301 Rhode Island Avenue
Washington, DC 20001
202 238 4600 TELEPHONE
www.upo.org

The United Planning Organization, the designated community action agency for Washington, D.C., is a private nonprofit corporation that plans, coordinates, and implements human service programs in Washington, DC. UPO's rich history dates back to December 1962 when the agency was established via gifts from both Ford and Meyer Foundation grants awarded to plan, initiate and support long range programs for the entire Metropolitan Washington, DC area. Today, UPO operates numerous programs including Head Start/early childhood development, youth programs, family strengthening services, and substance abuse treatment/counseling. Others are neighborhood initiatives, housing services, energy programs, specialized training services, welfare-to-work, and others. UPO does these things either directly or via a partnership of more than 60 community-based organizations. The United Planning Organization also sponsors the UPO/Joseph A. Beavers Scholarship Program that awards scholarships to District of Columbia students. UPO is the only local group that awards scholarships to General Education Development (G.E.D.) recipients as well as to high school graduates. UPO is governed by a tripated style board of directors with 1/3 elected by customers served; 1/3 appointed by the District of Columbia mayor; and 1/3 representing local groups of interest.

USA Funds

PO Box 6028
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6028
317 806 1200 TELEPHONE
317 806 1203 FAX
www.usafunds.org

USA Funds is the nation’s leading education-loan guarantor. A nonprofit corporation, USA Funds works to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access, and success by providing and supporting financial and other valued services. USA Funds links colleges, universities, proprietary schools, private lenders, students and parents to promote financial access to higher learning. During the past 47 years, the USA Funds guarantee has supported a total of more than $154 billion in financial aid for higher education. USA Funds has served more than 18.2 million students and parents, as well as thousands of educational and financial institutions.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek, MI 49017
269 968 1611 TELEPHONE
269 968 0413 FAX
www.wkkf.org

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 to “help people help themselves.” Specifically, the organization supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

For greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas, including health, food systems and rural development, youth and education, and philanthropy and volunteerism. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.