Nellie Mae Education Foundation

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest philanthropy in New England that focuses exclusively on promoting access, quality, and effectiveness of education.   Since it was established in 1998, the Foundation has distributed nearly $83 million in grants. In January 2008, the Foundation realigned its strategic priorities in order to focus on affecting the profound change and improvement necessary in education.

The College Board

The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,400 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns.

The Data Quality Campaign

The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use.

Lumina Foundation

Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people.

MEFA (Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority)

MEFA is a non-profit self-financing state authority, not reliant on state or federal appropriation, that works to make higher education more accessible and affordable for students and families in Massachusetts. MEFA is committed to making college more accessible and affordable. We are a non-profit self-financing state authority, not reliant on state or federal appropriation, that works to make state organization that serves students and families in Massachusetts, and out-of-state students and families pursuing higher education in Massachusetts.

Pathways To College Network

The Pathways to College Network is a national alliance of organizations committed to using research-based knowledge to improve postsecondary education access and success for the nation’s underserved students, including underrepresented minorities, low-income students, those who are the first in their families to go to college, and students with disabilities.

The Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority was created to provide financial assistance to students and their families, which assists them in realizing their postsecondary educational goals. Our mission is to enhance educational access and choice for the residents of Rhode Island by promoting equality of opportunity for postsecondary education to students who would otherwise be restricted financially from participating in the educational program best suited to them.

TD Banknorth Higher Education Group

TD Banknorth Inc. is a leading banking and financial services company headquartered in Portland, Maine and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TD Bank Financial Group headquartered in Toronto, Canada. TD Banknorth is one of the 20 largest commercial banking organizations in the United States, with over $107 billion in assets. TD Banknorth's banking subsidiaries include TD Banknorth, N.A., Commerce Bank, N.A. and Commerce Bank/North, which combined operate banking divisions in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia.

TERI (The Education Resources Institute)

TERI, The Education Resources Institute, Inc., is the most experienced and largest nonprofit guarantor of private loans for education. TERI is also a leader in providing college access programs that help people identify and achieve their postsecondary goals. TERI’s guaranteed private education loan programs have helped over one million students access loans to pay for their education. TERI’s college access programs have supported over one million low income and underserved individuals in their pursuit of a college degree.