What is/are the source(s) of financial support for the Gardner Institute?
As the Policy Center evolved between 1999 and 2005, it was supported almost entirely by grants from five foundations: The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Lumina Foundation for Education, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and USA Funds. In 2005, the Center received a three-year grant from Lumina Foundation to move from a grant-funded to a self-sustaining non-profit entity through the development of what is now the Institute’s signature line of work: the comprehensive, voluntary, self-study process known as Foundations of Excellence® in the First College Year. As of 2009, over 160 campuses have participated in Foundations of Excellence.
