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 Noon EST): Highlights and Key Information Webinar 2 2 p.m. EST): Partnership Health – Strive Webinar 3 1 p.m. EST): Summer Melt Webinar 4 Noon – 1:30 p.m. EST) Attainment Strategies Webinar 5 1 p.m. EST): Brookings Economic Profiles – part 1 Webinar 5 2 p.m. EST): National Student Clearinghouse – part 2

Timeline Jan , 2015– Convening – Communities given support to begin their charter proposal work – Communities receive Brookings data profiles – Communities receive StriveTogether Assessment results 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 Apr., 2015– Charter proposal negotiations May 15, 2015– Charters finalized and signed June/July 2015 – First allocation issued

Minimal narrative Focus on action and strategy planning Focus on results Alignment with assistance/opportunities provided via Partnership What is the Charter Proposal?

Reflects our community partnership’s objectives 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 community’s work through technical assistance, peer network support and learning opportunities Why are we calling it a Charter?

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 Expectations

Cohort 3 - $120K $10K planning grant – released directly after Jan 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 Now… Completion Pipeline Adults/ Workforce 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 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, Jeanna Keller Berdel,