Lumina Foundation

Lumina Foundation is an independent non-profit private foundation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, established in 2000. Its primary mission is to expand access to education, aiming to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, certificates, and other high-quality credentials to 60 percent by 2025. The foundation employs an outcomes-based approach that emphasizes the design and development of an equitable, accessible, responsive, and accountable higher education system. Additionally, Lumina Foundation fosters a national sense of urgency for action to achieve its educational goals through research, information dissemination, and innovation.

Erin Archer

CFO and Vice President

Zakiya Smith

Strategy Director, Finance and Federal Policy

Past deals in Non-Profit

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Minnesota Education Equity Partnership transforms practices, policies, and public narratives to build an education system. They develop leadership services and trainings for educators, districts, schools, organizations, leaders, and faculty. They build equitable educational spaces that uplift the students and advance racial equity and excellence in education.

Education Reform Now

Grant in 2022
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Campaign for College Opportunity focus on making college more affordable by sharing research findings, through nonpartisan communications.
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Center for Racial Equity in Education supports the development of a shared policy agenda among public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana operates as a social enterprise focused on providing opportunities and essential services to individuals in the region. By identifying gaps in the community, the organization evaluates potential opportunities and risks to develop effective solutions. Through its various programs and resources, Goodwill seeks to empower individuals, helping them achieve personal and professional growth while fostering a positive impact on the community.
Lawyers for Good Government mobilize the legal profession in support of people who have been harmed by systemic racism, using means such as policy resource and analysis.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a non-profit legal advocacy organization specialized in civil rights and public interest litigation. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; its pro-immigration advocates multiculturalism and the homosexual agenda, supports muslims and racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers ""hate groups"". The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin.
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Jeremiah Program

Grant in 2022
Jeremiah Program disrupts the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time.
ACLU of Indiana Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit charity that provides legal assistance and conducts educational programs and activities.
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Capital B

Grant in 2022
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Noodle

Series B in 2020
Noodle creates innovative online and hybrid programs while improving traditional classroom models. Noodle Partners has the capability to work with universities on every aspect of building a certificate or degree program that they choose—marketing, student recruitment, enrollment, curriculum design, student engagement, support services, graduate placement, and alumni engagement—and provides a high level of fit and finish.
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