Grants

To support implementation of the Public Safety Assessment.

To help improve standards in the forensic science community.

To help reduce the incarceration of indigent defendants detained solely because they are unable to pay court-imposed fines and fees.

To evaluate a tool for reducing repeat incidents of domestic violence.

To evaluate the impact of certain policing reforms implemented pursuant to litigation settlements.

To develop investigation and prosecution protocols for the use of force by law enforcement.

To provide consultation on the design and implementation of the Public Safety Assessment.

To develop statistical models that can be used to reduce the backlog of untested sexual assault kits across the United States.

To help improve public safety and health care in Camden, New Jersey.

To enhance the pretrial criminal justice system in Louisville, Kentucky.

To develop a secure digital platform for individuals who are both homeless and frequently involved with the criminal justice system in order to aid this population.

To support improvements to the pretrial criminal justice system in the United States.

To support implementation of the Public Safety Assessment.

To educate the public about the use of monetary sanctions as a form of punishment in the criminal justice system.

To conduct a pilot study of Adult Holistic Defense Case Management, a program to reduce recidivism.

To produce a research agenda on police body-worn cameras.

To establish the Proactive Policing Lab to conduct research on proactive policing practices.

To help improve the application of forensic science in laboratories nationwide.

To provide general operating support.

To examine whether, and to what extent, citations are used to generate revenue for municipal governments.

To help establish a center focused on police research and policy.

To conduct research designed to improve understanding of eyewitness decision making.

To support a national symposium focused on eyewitness identification reform.

To analyze five new sites that plan to implement the Public Safety Assessment.

To evaluate the impact of fines and fees on youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

To test whether the use of a three-dimensional interactive lineup procedure can help reduce bias in eyewitness identifications.

To develop a data warehouse that will allow local agencies to share information about individuals in the criminal justice system.

To convene a national meeting to discuss the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

To help improve eyewitness identification procedures.

To convene a committee to study proactive policing practices.

To help criminal justice agencies more effectively share data.

To create a database of existing laws and pending legislation on pretrial issues.

To update a database of existing laws and pending legislation on pretrial issues.

To establish a data-sharing platform that will help identify youth at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.

To provide strategic planning assistance to states that use federal funding to implement evidence-based criminal justice reforms.

To analyze and improve the quality of cost-benefit analyses in policing.

To fund BetaGov, a project that supports practitioner-led randomized controlled trials related to criminal justice policies.

To support data-driven decision making in the criminal justice system.

To conduct research on electronic monitoring.

To conduct research on police body-worn cameras.

To conduct research on eyewitness identification procedures.

To fund a randomized controlled trial to evaluate procedural justice training and “hot spot” policing.

To analyze the Boston Police Department’s field interrogation observation policy.

To promote evidence-based decision making at all levels of government.

To expand the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development initiative.

To convene a roundtable on pretrial best practices.

To fund the Misdemeanor Justice Project.

To create the Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice.

To evaluate the impact of the Public Safety Assessment.

To develop and evaluate a cognitive behavioral therapy curriculum for young men at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system.

To help reduce the incarceration of indigent defendants detained solely because they are unable to pay court-imposed fines and fees.

To develop a tool that provides targeted services to people who are frequently involved with both the criminal justice and health care systems.

To raise public awareness of reform efforts related to the criminal justice pretrial process and court-imposed fines and fees.

To conduct research on police body-worn cameras.

To support nonpartisan, online news coverage of the criminal justice system.

To conduct interdisciplinary research on eyewitness identification.

To perform qualitative research on the impacts of pretrial diversion and detention.

To assess the field of alternatives to fines for criminal offenses.

To launch an exploratory pilot of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System.

To study whether cognitive behavioral therapy and high-intensity tutoring can help prevent crime.

To research the connections between weather and crime.

To develop and study a pre-booking police protocol that diverts narcotics-involved offenders in Chicago to treatment.

To develop tools to assist law enforcement agencies and courts in responding to incidents of domestic violence.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of an informational tool for public defenders designed to reduce sentencing disparities.

To study how expungement affects recidivism and employment.

To help improve the process of judicial selection and evaluation through the Quality Judges Initiative.

To develop and study a multi-dimensional family therapy program in the Miami-Dade criminal drug court.

To evaluate the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program in Seattle, Washington.

To study a program that pairs post-release offenders in Washington state with medical professionals.

To conduct research on police body-worn cameras.

To conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the use of court-imposed fines and fees in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To fund a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of police body-worn cameras in Washington, D.C.

To advance the implementation and rigorous testing of deferred prosecution programs.

To support the launch of a national law enforcement leadership group.

To support the transformation of low-performing schools in Memphis, Tennessee.

To educate families about the New Orleans Student Scholarships for Excellence in Education.

To educate families about the New Orleans and Louisiana Student Scholarships for Excellence in Education.

To help families in the state of Missouri make informed educational choices.

To promote high-quality school options in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To provide general operating support.

To support the expansion and replication of high-quality schools in Camden, New Jersey.

To support the expansion and replication of high-quality schools in Memphis, Tennessee.

To support continued investments in high-performing charter schools.

To promote high-quality school options in San Antonio, Texas.

To inform families about school quality and options in Cleveland, Ohio.

To support the development of strategic education tools.

To promote high-quality school options in Washington, D.C.

To provide general operating support.

To provide general operating support.

To provide general operating support.

To provide general operating support.

To improve K-12 public education.

To provide vision screenings and eyeglasses for students in Houston, Texas.

To help establish the Rio Grande Center for Teaching and Leading Excellence.

To support digital learning in K-12 education.

To help scale the grantee’s effective school leadership development model.

To help develop high-quality teachers and school leaders in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To promote high-quality school options in the state of Louisiana.

To develop an index that measures and ranks public schools in the United States by effectiveness.

To help enhance SchoolGrades.org.

To develop a tool that will provide information about blended learning and other education technologies.

To help develop high-quality teachers in the United States.

To promote high-quality school options in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To promote high-quality school options in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To conduct research on education technology.

To help develop and launch high-quality schools across the United States.

To support digital learning.

To support parents’ rights to access high-quality schools for their children.

To help develop high-quality school leaders in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To help develop high-quality schools for children in the Houston, Texas metro area.

To support blended learning.

To help develop high-quality teachers in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To support blended learning.

To provide general operating support and help improve K-12 education in the Bay Area of California.

To provide general operating support and to promote parent engagement efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To help the grantee establish an office in Louisiana.

To provide general operating support and help improve K-12 education in the state of Louisiana.

To improve K-12 public education.

To provide general operating support.

To research the impact of Teach For America corps members in the state of Texas.

To recruit talented teachers and school leaders in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To promote high-quality school options in Memphis, Tennessee.

To promote high-quality school options in Memphis, Tennessee.

To promote high-quality school options in the state of Texas.

To improve student achievement in Texas.

To promote high-quality school options in Indianapolis, Indiana.

To help develop high-quality teachers in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To develop a plan to increase the number of high-quality school options in Oakland, California.

To educate stakeholders about the portfolio model of school governance.

To promote high-quality school options in the United States.

To develop high-quality teachers in the Aldine Independent School District in Texas.

To improve the quality of education data available to the public, researchers, and educators in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To support the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

To support the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

To support the Houston Education Research Consortium.

To support the Houston Education Research Consortium.

To improve K-12 public education.

To help governments implement evidence-based policies and programs.

To advance evidence-based policymaking and promote the use of longitudinal data in education research.

To fund an analysis of federal credit programs and identify ways to make them more efficient and effective.

To support evidence-based policymaking within the federal government.

To leverage insights from behavioral science to ensure that federal, state, and local policies are based on rigorous research.

To fund a low-cost randomized controlled trial of a program to promote college enrollment and completion for disadvantaged students.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial of a low-intensity home visiting program for pregnant women and families with young children.

To support the California Department of Education in its efforts to expand and implement the Career Academies program in low-income high schools across the state.

To demonstrate a new approach for researchers working with state or local governments to access Census data for policy evaluation.

To help advance Pay for Success financing.

To demonstrate the feasibility of low-cost randomized controlled trials.

To develop a study design for a randomized controlled trial that will test if competency-based hiring is an effective predictor of job performance.

To develop and distribute materials that capture the current growth of data systems in education and share lessons for other sectors.

To support foundational work needed to conduct the first randomized controlled trial of heroin-assisted treatment for people with opioid use disorders in the United States.

To develop a plan to deliver enhanced services to clients.

To support the Collaborating for Clients initiative.

To help the federal government structure, implement, and evaluate performance-based contracting models.

To analyze the impact of various interventions intended to improve the health, well-being, and earnings of veterans with disabilities.

To educate stakeholders about the importance of rigorously evaluating Pay for Success projects.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of the Talent Development Secondary Diplomas Now program.

To provide general operating support for the Center for Research and Reform in Education.

To compile lobbying records and public officials’ financial disclosure data to increase transparency in government.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of the Bronx Freedom Fund.

To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society.

To support an ongoing randomized controlled trial of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs model and its implementation at three community colleges in Ohio.

To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.

To fund a replication randomized controlled trial of an intervention designed to improve academic achievement and help students successfully transition to middle school.

To support the Michigan Policy Innovation Lab.

To create and disseminate tools to estimate how much taxpayers spend at the local, state, and national level in relation to teen childbearing.

To support the Workforce Data Quality Campaign.

To develop a platform and learning process to advance the use of data in federal, state, and local decision making.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To identify school practices and policies that are promising candidates for rigorous evaluation.

To conduct a random assignment intervention that uses an integrated service delivery model to provide case management and employment services to low-income adults in Ohio.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To create an alternative to the Veterans Disability Compensation system.

To support the Equality of Opportunity project.

To develop ideas for future experimental interventions related to housing voucher programs.

To support the Center for Public Leadership’s efforts to evaluate a series of low-cost, high-yield interventions.

To research the long-term impacts of the Nurse Family Partnership program.

To develop and implement a literacy tutoring program for at-risk students in elementary school.

To support the Connecticut Family Stability Pay for Success Project.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To test four interventions aimed at helping families enrolled in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program find housing in neighborhoods that promote economic opportunity.

To support the Center for Education Policy Analysis in its evaluation of Ready4K.

To fund randomized controlled trials of Assertive Community Treatment and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment in Dallas County, Texas.

To study how evidence-based programs for preventing youth substance abuse impact Medicaid costs and the utilization of health services.

To partner with the University of Chicago to study the impact of minimum wage policies on producer prices.

To help establish the California Policy Lab.

To support the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.

To help establish the California Policy Lab.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to strengthen communication between college instructors and their students.

To design, pilot, and rigorously evaluate an intervention aimed at improving employment outcomes for individuals receiving unemployment insurance.

To train scholars in the field experiment method and promote field experiment research.

To evaluate a tutoring program for at-risk readers in elementary school.

To study an analytical tool that predicts which hazardous waste sites are most likely to violate environmental regulations.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of a job-readiness training program designed to address cognitive and social barriers to employment.

To pilot a project aimed at improving outcomes for youth ages 16 to 24 who are out of school and work in Chicago.

To support the expansion of policy-relevant evidence developed using Internal Revenue Service data.

To support research aimed at improving K-12 education in Texas.

To evaluate an economic development incentive program and its impact on job growth in the state of Texas.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the Kids in Transition to School program.

To partner with University College London to assess the overall employment effects of minimum wage policies in the United States.

To develop a predictive risk model that improved the way Child Protective Services triages cases.

To advance Pay for Success Financing.

To evaluate the impact of higher minimum wage ordinances in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington.

To fund a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a joint hospital/community-based violence intervention program in Seattle, Washington.

To develop an evidence-based policymaking collaborative.

To provide planning support for the Social and Decision Analytics Lab.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the Alief Independent School District Jumpstart Program.

To support a convening of college and university presidents focused on accelerating innovation in higher education.

To produce informational materials that will guide the evaluation of programs designed to prevent disease and promote a healthy lifestyle.

To support the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, which will evaluate the impact of drug innovation incentive policies.

To scale and enhance the Digital Democracy platform.

To design and pilot a scorecard that will assess alternative health care payment reform models.

To improve the quality, transparency, and efficiency of the nation’s health care system.

To improve the public health of residents in Berkeley, California.

To defray the costs associated with defending the Philadelphia Beverage Tax in Williams, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, et al.

To fund a fellowship focused on developing and promoting open government technology projects.

To support the creation of online curricula and teaching tools for Advanced Placement courses.

To support the Center for Health Policy in its efforts to create an evaluation hub that will study the impact of reforms related to health care payment, benefit, and delivery systems.

To help expand access to college by allowing students to take massive open online courses for credit.

To produce reports on new drugs that include information about a drug’s comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and potential budget impact.

To create a 50-state assessment of structural democracy reforms and obstacles associated with ranked choice voting.

To conduct research and educate the public about ranked choice voting.

To support the work of the Open Contracting Partnership.

To evaluate policies that are intended to reduce the consumption of sugar and to educate the public about those policies that are found to be effective.

To support Kaiser Health News in providing independent reporting on pharmaceutical drug development and pricing.

To produce a report that will outline strategies to address pharmaceutical patents and pricing structures.

To improve the transparency of public institutions and state governments through investigative reporting.

To support efforts to increase the number of organ transplants and reduce the number of individuals on the waiting list.

To study how health care coverage and the integration of long-term services and supports impact medical spending, health outcomes, and quality of life for people with functional limitations.

To build a program that communicates evidence-based methodologies for drug pricing and payment.

To support a meeting to develop a study on donor intervention research.

To support an Institute of Medicine research project that will study patient access to effective and affordable therapies.

To develop a collaborative, nonpartisan forum for policymakers to communicate about structural electoral reforms.

To conduct an independent review of reports produced by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation in order to identify best practices for alternative medical payment and service delivery models.

To support the Donor Management Research Initiative in its efforts to maximize the quality and quantity of life-saving organs, and to build a national, web-based donor management data registry.

To help identify innovative solutions that will increase the number of organ transplants and eliminate the wait list for donors.

To identify and disseminate innovative alternative health care payment models.

To support the development of the HealthCare Markets and Regulation Lab.

To support the HealthCare Markets and Regulation Lab’s consultation to the state of Arkansas’ health reform task force.

To support investigative journalism in the public interest.

To support nonpartisan, investigative reporting.

To support efforts to increase the number of successful organ transplants and reduce the number of people on the organ donor wait list.

To support four pilot projects that will help determine the viability of income share agreements for student aid in higher education.

To support the development an electronic archive of documents related to the sugar industry that will help advance research in nutrition science.

To support the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity in its efforts to improve the transparency of state and local government.

To support efforts to increase the number of successful organ transplants and reduce the number of people on the organ donor wait list.

To conduct research about the potential effects of ranked choice voting.

To support social innovation and entrepreneurship through the OwlSpark Accelerator.

To support OpenStax in its efforts to create free, high-quality online textbooks.

To help develop a litigation strategy focused on ending deceptive practices in the for-profit college industry.

To help expand the Good Pharma Scorecard.

To support the planning process related to the creation of a clinical trial data-sharing platform.

To fund the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences and promote the Open Science Framework.

To increase the reliability of scientific research through replication experiments.

To improve transparency by providing consultation on best practices in data analysis and research design.

To help develop better publication standards for the fields of ecology and evolution.

To encourage preregistration of scientific studies by offering monetary awards to selected researchers who publish studies that have been preregistered on the Open Science Framework.

To develop an econometric model and produce a feasibility report for evaluating schools in New Orleans, Louisiana.

To support Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s project to register and publish existing randomized controlled trials and train researchers on best practices in research transparency.

To improve economic research that relies on statistics collected by the federal government.

To conduct meta-research on clinical trial protocols in order to promote transparency and openness in medical research.

To support high-quality nutrition research.

To provide general operating support.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial on a teacher training program.

To help establish a center that will improve the quality of health care news and information available to consumers.

To help preserve rigorous regulatory standards designed to ensure clinical trial transparency.

To support efforts to improve academic achievement for students from low-income families.

To help establish the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience.

To support the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.

To support efforts to conduct, publish, and disseminate rigorous scientific research.

To support the Berkeley Initiative on Transparency in the Social Sciences’ competition to incentivize and encourage meta-research in economics and political science.

To fund outreach activities for the Berkeley Initiative on Transparency in the Social Sciences.

To educate the public about sugar and its impact on health.

To launch a collaboration aimed at promoting open access to high-quality health data.

To fund a randomized controlled trial evaluating whether reimbursement of lost wages to living kidney donors results in an increased number of living kidney donor applications.

To fund the development of a report on best practices for advancing open data policies and practices within the federal government.

To support efforts to improve transparency at the Food and Drug Administration.

To study the challenges of implementing open science in various disciplines and provide recommendations for how to address them.

To provide planning support for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

To provide general operating support to the Harvard Open Access Project.

To fund the digital mammography portion of the Coding for Cancer challenge.

To support the creation of sustainable startups that accelerate the commercialization of inventions from publicly funded research.

To support educational efforts related to corporate tax reform.

To conduct research on teachers’ pensions in an effort to identify ways to improve fiscal sustainability of state pension systems.

To support research on retirement security and disability insurance policies and programs.

To fund the Tax Policy Center.

To perform a financial analysis of the state of California’s public pension plans and proposed reforms.

To support efforts to improve the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

To collaborate with the Urban Institute to support policy research, education, and dissemination efforts related to school funding policy.

To support two symposia on public pension reform.

To fund a research study that will quantify the extent to which annual employer-funded pension earnings are inequitably deployed across teachers in schools within large urban districts in five states.

To support educational efforts related to public employee benefits reform in the state of Florida.

To support the creation of a database of laws related to municipal pension initiatives and referendums.

To study teacher compensation structures in the 10 largest U.S. school districts.

To conduct research on Social Security Disability Insurance.

To support a meeting focused on the fiscal stability of teacher retirement systems.

To support efforts to assess and improve teacher retirement systems.

To analyze the state of Oklahoma’s pension plans.

To support the development of common standards for gathering and reporting data on tax incentives for economic development.

To support efforts to improve state economic development programs by conducting research and providing technical assistance.

To promote best practices that can help governments achieve operational excellence in a cost-efficient manner.

To expand access to information about public sector retirement systems.

To evaluate the impact of Proposition B, a 2012 pension reform initiative in San Diego, in order to educate other cities and the general public.

To assist the state in addressing retirement security for private sector workers who lack access to workplace retirement savings plans.

To expand access to information about public sector retirement systems.

To support educational efforts related to the state of California’s municipal public sector pensions.

To support the Institute for Economic Policy Research in its efforts to conduct research competitions designed to strengthen the body of high-quality research related to social insurance programs, tax policy, state and local government finances, retirement, education, and crime.

To support the development of a website and mobile application about public sector pension plans.

To help enhance the Internal Revenue Service data infrastructure and to conduct research on topics related to inequality and opportunity.

To support grantee’s Harris School of Public Policy Center’s efforts to enhance transparency and accountability in government finance.

To publish a report about the state of Florida’s teacher retirement policies.

To support research on the impact of government-sponsored automatic individual retirement accounts for private sector workers who do not have access to workplace retirement savings plans.

To support the development of a national platform of public financial data and documents for state and local governments.

To expand access to information about public sector retirement systems.

To support the Center for Education Data and Research.

To fund the Tax Policy Center.

To fund the Tax Policy Center.

To help governments implement and evaluate economic development initiatives.

To fund the Tax Policy Center.

To develop and publish Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting reports that analyze key principles for improving transparency and effectiveness.