Policy Research

Recent Grants

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The Power of Measuring Social Benefits

Number of Grants: 31

Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management (Waltham, Massachusetts)
$350,000 in support of a project entitled, Family Financial Well-Being in the 21st Century: Strategic Positioning of Data Tools for Policy Impact (over three years). (2007)

Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$485,000 to support an expert advisory committee and a mid-term assessment of The Power of Measuring Social Benefits (over three years). (2009)

Council for Excellence in Government Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 to accelerate the rate at which evidence-based social policies are adopted throughout the federal government (over three years). (2007)

Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$750,000 to conduct a cost-benefit analyses of behavioral experiments to develop consumer financial protections (over three years). (2009)

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
$290,000 in support of a cost-benefit analysis of the Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study (over 18 months). (2009)

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
$750,000 in support of a cost-benefit analysis of the Experience Corps (over three years). (2007)

MDRC (New York, New York)
$900,000 in support of the Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Foundations of Learning Program (over three years). (2007)

National Academy of Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Washington, D.C.)
$380,000 to support a workshop on the implications of cost-benefit methodology for the evaluation and design of early childhood interventions (over 15 months). (2008)

National AIDS Housing Coalition (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to increase understanding of scientific evidence about the effectiveness of service-enriched housing in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. (2009)

National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$110,000 to prepare research and policy papers and convene a conference on the costs and benefits of crime control and crime prevention (over 18 months). (2009)

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (New York, New York)
$500,000 to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of a case management model for the treatment of drug dependency (over three years). (2008)

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of the Crime Lab. (2009)

Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research (Salem, Oregon)
$1,000,000 to support a cost-benefit analysis of the impact of health insurance on low-income people in Oregon (over three years). (2009)

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$200,000 to support the Partnership for America's Economic Success. (2009)

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$285,000 to further the work of the Partnership for America's Economic Success. (2008)

RAND (Santa Monica, California)
$1,000,000 to conduct research to expand shadow prices to include more outcomes affected by social programs (over three years). (2008)

Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina)
$200,000 to pilot a stated-preference survey of the value to the American public of reducing childhood poverty. (2008)

Roosevelt Institution (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 to support undergraduate training in cost-benefit analysis (over two years). (2007)

University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$185,000 in support of a benefit-cost analysis of extending state care of foster children into early adulthood (over eighteen months). (2007)

University of Maryland Baltimore County Department of Economics (Baltimore, Maryland)
$200,000 to support the "Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis" (over four years). (2009)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$500,000 to implement a stated-preference survey of Americans' willingness to pay to eliminate child poverty by 2030 (over two years). (2009)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$400,000 to assess the long-term impact of participation in an Individual Development Account program (over 18 months). (2009)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$750,000 in support of an assessment of the long-term impact of participation in and a cost-benefit analysis of an Individual Development Account program (over three years). (2007)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$1,400,000 to expand the use of integrated data systems to support evidence-based policymaking (over three years). (2009)

University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$30,000 to support a plan to develop integrated administrative data systems to improve social programs and policies. (2008)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$285,000 to develop and promote standards and principles for benefit-cost analysis of social programs (over 18 months). (2008)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$600,000 in support of the Center for Benefit-Cost Analysis (over four years). (2008)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$600,000 in support of three annual Conferences on Benefit-Cost Analysis (over three years). (2008)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$200,000 in support of a conference on cost-benefit analysis in social policy decision-making. (2007)

Washington State Institute for Public Policy (Olympia, Washington)
$800,000 to advance the use of evidence and cost-benefit analysis in state government policymaking (over two years). (2009)

Wilder Foundation (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
$300,000 in support of a cost-benefit analysis of supportive housing in Minnesota (over three years). (2008)

U.S. Fiscal Future and American Society

Number of Grants: 0

MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society

Number of Grants: 2

Columbia University in the City of New York, Mailman School of Public Health (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of planning a Research Network on an Aging Society. (2007)

Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (New York, New York)
$3,900,000 in support of the Research Network on an Aging Society (over three years). (2007)

Building Resilient Regions

Number of Grants: 3

Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 to promote the understanding of and policy guidance about economic changes underway in American cities and metropolitan areas (over two years). (2009)

Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (Coral Gables, Florida)
$30,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$252,000 in support of research on the regional effects of globalization on job quality and volatility and worker inequality and insecurity (over two years). (2007)