Community Partnership for Attainment Cohort #3
Webinar 1: Highlights and Key Information
Haley Glover, Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation
Jeanna Keller Berdel, Senior Strategy Officer,
Lumina Foundation
Goal 2025:
To increase the proportion of Americans with
high-quality degrees and credentials to 60
percent by the year 2025.
What do we mean by…
Partnership Health
The community is working collaboratively to achieve common
goals, using agreed-upon accountability tools and measures, and
utilizing data to make decisions about program direction and
design
Equity
Communities explicitly identify and develop action plans to
address chronic attainment gaps between racial/ethnic groups
Attainment
Communities build support for and action plans around targeted
populations and issues with the principle:
Access + Success = Attainment
Why Equity Matters
Fourteen states
represent 46 percent
of the total U.S.
population. Those
states have a
population age five
and under that is
majority non-white.
By 2025, half of the nation’s workers, or more than 50 million,
will be of Latino descent.
Lumina’s Equity Imperative
Postsecondary Degree Attainment
Lumina recognizes that, to make effective change in higher
education, equity and excellence must be at the center of all its
efforts to reach Goal 2025.
Webinar Series for Cohort #3:
• Webinar 1 (12/1 @ Noon EST): Highlights and Key
Information
• Webinar 2 (12/8 @ 2 p.m. EST): Partnership Health –
Strive
• Webinar 3 (12/11 @ 1 p.m. EST): Summer Melt
• Webinar 4 (12/15 @ Noon – 1:30 p.m. EST)
Attainment Strategies
• Webinar 5 (1/07 @ 1 p.m. EST): Brookings Economic
Profiles – part 1
• Webinar 5 (1/07 @ 2 p.m. EST): National Student
Clearinghouse – part 2
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Timeline
• Jan. 14-15, 2015– Convening
– Communities given support to begin their charter proposal work
– Communities receive Brookings data profiles
– Communities receive StriveTogether Assessment results
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Feb., 2015– Communities receive Brookings Institution Profile
Feb, 2015 – Communities receive National Student Clearinghouse data
Feb. – Mar., 2015 – Webinar series on issues of interest, process, data
Mar. 28, 2015– Charter proposals due to Lumina
(communitypartnership@luminafoundation.org)
• Apr., 2015– Charter proposal negotiations
• May 15, 2015– Charters finalized and signed
• June/July 2015 – First allocation issued
What is the Charter Proposal?
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Minimal narrative
Focus on action and strategy planning
Focus on results
Alignment with assistance/opportunities
provided via Partnership
Why are we calling it a Charter?
• Reflects our ommunity partnership’s obje tives and
activities occurring in collaboration with Lumina
Foundation
• Defines how your community partnership will utilize the
financial resources provided by Lumina
• Defines how your partnership will measure success and
accomplishment of attainment activities
• Estimates how your partnership will deliver postsecondary
attainment outcomes, including improved preparation,
enrollment, persistence and completion
• Defines how Lumina Foundation and national partner
organizations will support your ommunity’s work through
technical assistance, peer network support and learning
opportunities
Expectations
• Adopt a strategic planning mindset—not just
what, but how and why
• Be as explicit as possible—if there are budget,
time, resource, assistance implications, list it
• Be ambitious, but realistic
• Feel encouraged to identify TA needs, even
those you haven’t heard us talk about
• Focus on higher education
• Stay in touch
Cohort 3 - $120K
• $10K planning grant – released directly after
Jan. 14-15 Convening
• $50K annual allocation – released upon
charter approval (April/May 2015)
• $60K annual allocation – approx. March 2016
• Word about Indirect Costs: Only if Personnel costs
are built into the grant. Maximum amount if 20% of
Personnel costs.
Supporting your Work
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Adults/ Workforce
Completion Pipeline
Coach
Curriculum Objectives
Across Groups
Access
Persistence
Completion
Attainment
Data-based Decisions
Landscape Mapping and
Elimination of Redundancy
Sustainability – Funding and
Leadership
Peer Networks and Learning
X-Coach Sharing and
Initiative-Wide Collaboration
Coach
Coach
Coach
Coach
Liaison Role – Coordinated by DCA, Jill Wohlford
Expectations:
Service Orientation
Active Listening
Relationship-Building
Guidance
Expectation Management
Transparency
Responsibilities: Deep understanding of CPA strategies
Identify and address challenges
Peer relationships across sites
Identify improvements, themes to Lumina
Execution:
Monthly conference call
Agenda developed with team leads
Identify areas for x-site collaboration and discussion
Determine need for where site-specific follow-up, visits are necessary
Communications
• Planned and emerging opportunities
– Focus magazine(s)
– Website renovation
– Strategy Labs site
– Initiative reporting
– Yammer
– Communications protocols
• When you talk about Lumina…
Evaluation Framework
Questions ????
Contact information:
• Haley Glover, hglover@luminafoundation.org
• Jeanna Keller Berdel,
jkeller@luminafoundation.org