Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research was established in 2016 to support California community college leaders through annual professional learning institutes and independent, actionable research.

Over the past nine years, our work has been supported by university resources, federal research grants, state funds, private philanthropy, contract consulting and evaluation work, and individual donors.

• Ascendium Education Philanthropy
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• College Futures Foundation
• ECMC Foundation
• Evelyn &Walter Haas Jr. Fund
• Hearst Foundations
• Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (California Community College Chancellor’s Office)
• The James Irvine Foundation
• Lake Tahoe Community College
• Lumina Foundation
• Project for Education Research that Scales (PERTS)
• Solano Community College
• Stuart Foundation
• University of California, Davis (UC Davis School of Education)
• U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences
• Individual donors