Public Policy Broadly

This grant will support the dissemination of grantee work on the use of research evidence to policymakers and practitioners.

How can we motivate informed political participation by young Americans?

The goal of this project is to develop a conceptual framework that assists in the identification and measurement of factors that contribute to the success of scale-up efforts.

Support documentation on social programs and the role of evaluation research in advocating, funding, developing, and implementing them.

To support and help expand NPR’s news programming on youth issues.

MDRC will work with Foundation staff to plan and convene a meeting of leading researchers to advance work on analyzing variation in intervention impacts.

The investigator will analyze the development of six efforts of the Obama administration: home visitation, teen pregnancy prevention, the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, the Social Innovation Fund, the Community College Challenge Fund, and the Workforce Innovation Fund.

Funds were given to support the travel of four researchers to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Summer Institute on Applied Research in Child and Adolescent Development.

The goal of the project is to develop a sustainability plan for the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars, whose mission is to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge.

Raudenbush and Bloom will continue to develop the field’s ability to conduct more rigorous and cost-effective intervention and measurement studies. They will also advance methods for determining whether intervention impacts on youth operate through their effects on youth settings ...