Evaluation
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.
Evaluation Reports
- Results and Reflections, Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars program: A statewide story with national implications PDF—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.
- Lumina Foundation Lessons: Places—and faces—that foster student success PDF—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)
- Results and Reflections: An Evaluation Brief PDF—This brief explores Lumina Foundation's early efforts to learn more about student retention. (April 2006)
Grantee Perception Reports
This survey provides comparative data on grantee perceptions of Foundation performance on a variety of dimensions.
Opinion Leader Surveys
- 2005 Opinion Leader Survey Highlights—This 2005 evaluation examines how opinion leaders in postsecondary access and success and philanthropy perceive Lumina Foundation's performance. (July 2005)
- 2007 Opinion Leader Survey Results PDF—This 2007 evaluation examines how opinion leaders in postsecondary access and success and philanthropy perceive Lumina Foundation's performance and organizational effectiveness. (July 2007)
