Laura and John Arnold Foundation

To provide general operating support to support grantee's efforts to partner with local leaders to create innovative public school systems, with the overall goal of improving the quality of public education in cities across the united states.

To support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its research and policymakers; (II) building a more rigorous approach to technical assistance; (III) advancing its leadership on the use of new evaluation methodologies and data; and (iv) leveraging data efficiently for evaluation, decision-making, and program improvement.

To support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, translating findings into actionable insights that inform policy at scale, and institutionalizing the use of evidence as a driving force behind u.s. Policymaking.

To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.

To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.

To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of social programs and policies.

To continue to develop and publicly disseminate policy options to regulate and control drug spending.

To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and facilitate rigorous evaluation of reimagined housing units for incarcerated young adults in a way that centers human dignity, safety, and race equity.

To support grantee's center on health insurance reforms in providing policymakers and key stakeholders with educational resources and non-partisan technical assistance to support effective cost containment strategies.

To expand PWBM'S ability to provide accurate, accessible, and transparent budget and economic analysis of public policy by providing more access to the model and data while deepening the model's capabilities.

To support grantee's work in bringing greater attention and visibility to hospital and health system spending, prices, finance, and business practices that impact access to care and lead to higher costs for families, employers, and the government.

To construct a cyclotron facility and procuring the installation of the first 30 mev proton beam within the cyclotron facility.

To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.

To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.

To support fiscal policy work related to tax and budget policy.

To support the state and local innovation initiative ("slii") of grantee's abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america.

To support (1) the scaling of grantee's housing supply simulator tool to new states and municipalities to assist policymakers and researchers in determining the market effects of individual land use policies and (2) publishing assessments on the most effective land use policies for increasing housing supply in various localities.

To provide general operating support.

To support and expand grantee's gun policy in america initiative which provides the public, policymakers, and journalists with needed information on the effects of gun policies.

To support the postsecondary equity and economics research ("peer") project and its efforts on accountability and student loan research, policy development and technical assistance.

To support the expansion of the city university of new york's accelerated study in associate programs program in two west virginia community colleges.

To support welcoming neighbors network education fund, and its efforts to remove regulatory barriers to expand the supply of housing across a diverse array of states and municipalities through educational and non-partisan campaigns.

To support grantee's second chances agenda, which aims to build support at the state and federal levels for evidence-based sentencing reforms and second chance release mechanisms through an integrated policy development ad public education program, with the overall goal of reducing extreme prison sentences.

To support policy analysis, advocacy, and education work to safely reduce prison terms, recidivism, and the incarcerated population, reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and expand opportunities for the people and families impacted by the criminal justice system.

To support new research and data analysis to inform forthcoming policy discussions related to medicare sustainability and affordability in four areas: 1) medicare advantage; 2) medicare spending, financing, and affordability; 3) medicare and prescription drugs in the post-inflation reduction act era; and 4) rapid-response analyses of emerging medicare policy issues.

To support the immediate maintenance and transition of the rapid employment and development initiative (readi), a causal evidence-backed program designed to reduce violent crime and recidivism.

To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on promoting meaningful clinical trials.

To support the transit costs project at grantee's marron institute and its efforts to (1) further advance research in the causes of high costs and delays in u.s. Transit projects and (2) support more direct policy engagement for reforms at the federal, state, and local level.

To support a pilot evaluation on the adoption of counsel at first appearance in virginia.

To be used by the policing project at grantee's school of law to develop and promote publicly available and nonpartisan model legislation governing key aspects of policing at the local, state, and federal levels, with the overall goal of promoting police accountability.

To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.

To generate evidence on emerging issues in medicare advantage of interest to policymakers, specifically 1) affinity plans and 2) ghost networks, to inform policy discussions and bolster arguments for reforms to reduce overpayments and increase accountability and competition.

To support implementation of prosecutor-initiated resentencing ("pir") nationally, resulting in prosecutors offices implementing the law effectively and improved assistance for incarcerated people returning home through pir laws.

To raise awareness in state legislatures on criminal justice data and causal research, to increase knowledge of policy options, and support legislator-driven policy change.

To provide technical assistance for states implementing pharmaceutical policy interventions that lower drug prices.

To build and develop the real-time crime index ("rtci"), an infrastructure for regularly collecting data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies and creating a publicly accessible dataset and accompanying visualizations, with the overall goal of allowing interested researchers and members of the public to view crime data and understand crime trends in as close to real-time as possible.

To conduct credible research, analyze policy proposals, and provide in-depth technical assistance to federal policymakers to advance common-sense reforms in the medicare advantage program.

To establish a collaborative of foremost experts on dual-eligible research to provide policy-responsive analyses on integration between medicare and medicaid.

To advance the successful implementation of health policy changes that are taking place to support individuals' well-being as they leave incarceration, and inform the development of future federal policy reforms.

To conduct research on changes to risk adjustment in medicare advantage (ma) to inform policy proposals and ongoing administrative efforts to reduce incentives for ma plans to engage in aggressive risk coding to increase payments.

To conduct research and analysis to inform policy discussions on key aspects of the medicare program related to competition and spending including (i) reforms to medicare advantage payment benchmarks, (II) oversight of agents and brokers, and (III) benefit redesign in traditional medicare.

To fund the tax policy center.

To assess recent reforms and new initiatives in prosecutorial decision making in philadelphia communities.

To conduct research and policy translation related to insurance design and market structure in the united states healthcare system.

To support a cohort of tax and budget policy groups in generating state-level analyses on the impact of fines and fees to support fee elimination and fine reform.

To support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project, which will evaluate the quality of the evidence base for medical products, fulfillment of required post-market studies, and coverage decisions to provide evidence-based policy solutions that strengthen the evidence base used for fda approval.

To support a randomized controlled trial ("RCT") to assess the effects of transforming seven units in missouri prisons based on the scandinavian model.

To embed a research unit within the connecticut department of social services, with the aim of supporting the state medicaid office to use data and evidence to shape policy.

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

To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the change in policy governing police department use and documentation of pretextual stops.

To analyze a series of developments in prescription drug markets with the goal of understanding the consequences of various responses policy makers might adopt to the resulting market dynamics.

To analyze policy solutions aimed at improving coordination between the fda and the uspto, while focusing on ensuring competition in the case of pharmaceutical mergers.

To support center for advancing the study of health care research.

To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.

To examine mega-health systems that span states, markets, and service lines with the goal of understanding underlying economic mechanisms.

To support grantee's national zoning atlas and its efforts to support zoning code reform by documenting information about zoning codes in six states: alaska, arizona, georgia, north carolina, utah, and colorado.

To inform policymakers of the factors that drive high healthcare spending and potential policy interventions.

To conduct a mega study - a large-scale randomized controlled trial that aims to simultaneously evaluate ten different low-cost interventions that support first-year college students.

To support the prison and jail innovation lab with the overall goal of strengthening and improving correctional oversight across the united states through policy development and education.

To provide general operating support for journalism.

To support the improvement of audit and enforcement procedures at the internal revenue service.

To support the california accountability project's digital democracy program.

To bring strategic litigation that reinvigorates the prohibition on jailing people for nonpayment of fines and fees.

To support a randomized controlled trial of public safety outcomes through reduces supervision conditions.

To conduct a multi-site replication of a prior experimental study, in which a promising, low-cost supervisory intervention led to reduced arrests and use of force.

To support a state to design, build, and evaluate a process to reduce the costs and administrative burden associated with renewing medicaid eligibility for dual-eligible beneficiaries and creating publicly available materials.

To support the implementation of policy changes to safely reduce revocations and improve community supervision outcomes.

To provide short-term bridge funding to the texas all payer claims database.

To support independent investigative journalism.

To provide support for the national collaborative on gun violence research.

To engage stakeholders on hospital pricing practices.

To objectively track biopharmaceutical companies' investment and R&D decisions and evaluating how these choices impact innovation, particularly in response to federal policy changes.

To enhance state legislative capacity to use evidence in state policymaking efforts and direct public funding to evidence-based programs.

To explore the pros and cons of computational simulation in clinical trials, using ai/ml methods to produce simulated controls at either the aggregate or the individual level, to measure the safety and effectiveness of a drug and develop policy recommendations.

To produce timely analyses and policy briefs to inform efforts to improve care and reduce inefficiencies for the dual-eligible population.

To develop a structured battery of statistical methods for measuring racial bias at various stages of the traffic enforcement process.

To expand grantee's lab for economic opportunities? ("leo") capacity to work with organizations and agencies in the criminal justice space, with the overall goal of increasing rigorous criminal justice impact evaluations.

To develop a methodology for defining hospital and physician safety net providers across payers in the united states.

To support a study of veterans' access and use of contraception to better understand needs, barriers, and policy solutions.

To support efforts around the country on issues of access to and independence of counsel and policy work at the state and federal level focused on increasing funding and independence of indigent defense.

To build the evidence base for policymaking.

To conduct impact litigation and educational advocacy to end punitive and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices in new york and oklahoma.

To (1) research and explore policies that would enable the fda to incorporate updated information on a repurposed generic drug's label and (2) create payer-directed materials that communicate the impact and value of a repurposed generic drug.

To create the los angeles justice data hub, which will manage and support external researcher access to the los angeles district attorney ("lada") data for a range of research on charging, sentencing, and programmatic policies.

To support grantee's investigative reporting on criminal justice issues.

To support grantee's state capacity initiative and its efforts to identify opportunities and advance reforms related to the u.s. Government's ability to confront twenty-first century challenges with the right knowledge, tools, and personnel.

To support a forum for supervision agency leaders, foster practitioner-researcher connections, and identifying and facilitating opportunities to develop evidence-based supervision reforms.

To support scholarship involving health markets, insurance premiums, bad actors, and state-level interactions.

To be used by the deason criminal justice reform center to identify and promote strategies for improving access to counsel at the earliest stages of the criminal legal process by launching a campaign to support changes to policy and practice in nine states.

To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.

To develop and launch budget policy campaigns in three to four states to create funding structures that allow for independence of the indigent defense function and promote state funding to deliver constitutionally sufficient defense.

To support the first step act resource center, which works to maximize the impact of the first step act ("fsa").

To support research at the university of minnesota to augment the research capacity of the minnesota sentencing guideline commission.

To assess and estimate the amount of home health care fraud in the united states and the effect of alternative policy interventions on reducing improper home health care use.

To pilot a "living evidence" model in the u.s. Department of education to provide a proof-of-concept for a modernized and accelerated approach to evidence synthesis and outcomes-driven policymaking.

To support implementation of the recently-passed, omnibus supervision bill in minnesota, providing guidance and expertise to agency leaders, and monitoring implementation issues; facilitating connections between policy stakeholders and researchers to encourage the development of rigorous causal evaluations; and providing ongoing policy development and education support on other post-conviction issues being considered in minnesota.

To raise awareness for meaningful medicare reforms.

To continue and expand the cities and counties for fine and fee justice ("CCFFJ") initiative by building on lessons learned from CCFFJ'S work with local jurisdictions to build awareness and capacity to achieve fine and fee reform and leveraging growing, national momentum for fine and fee reform.

To support the creation of a collaborative network of governors' housing policy leads to share best practices on improving housing supply and affordability, and support an in-person convening.

To support a research-practice partnership to study the impacts and implementation of peacerox, a violence reduction program for children, young adults, and families in central texas.

To examine the implications of medicare advantage provider selection on medicare spending and beneficiaries with complex health needs.

To evaluate the implementation of two neighborhood community violence interventions in washington, D.C.

To develop the penn wharton budget model's education model to assess college financing reforms.

To (i) provide comprehensive analysis of regulatory flexibilities that use lower evidence standards for fda approval; and (II) develop new labeling strategies to describe the limitations and uncertainties of clinical benefit for new drugs.

To support pretrial policy capacity for grantee's beyond jails initiative, with the overall goal of building coalitions and educational resources on pretrial reform.

To facilitate an ongoing network of federal leaders in charge of implementing large-scale investments and develop a learning system to help leaders develop their understanding of promising management and operations approaches for implementing these programs.

To evaluate the law enforcement alternative response strategies implemented by two north carolina cities: durham and greensboro.

To build a network of sheriffs to pilot and evaluate policy innovations, workshop policy and research needs, and serve as a launchpad for an independent organization of solutions-oriented sheriffs.

To (i) educate and provide non-partisan technical assistance to policymakers and (II) educate consumer groups about the importance of payment reform to lower health care costs and provide more personalized, high-quality care.

To provide technical assistance to consumer groups on health care cost containment policies for the benefit of the general public and consumers of healthcare across the united states.

To document the universe of factors that impact witness participation across different stages of the criminal legal system.

To conduct a quasi-experimental study to estimate the impact of small area fair market rents (safmrs), a place-based policy that give families more rental support if they reside in zip codes with higher market rents. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, the study will examine the effects on households' access to high-opportunity neighborhoods, with measures including school quality, neighborhood opportunity index, and rent burden.

To estimate the effects of state cost growth benchmarks on health care spending, prices, and premiums.

Develop and rigorously evaluate the first use of a sandbox environment within a government agency to advance the use of ai in the public sector.

To engage in and provide support and targeted technical assistance to states related to developing and implementing population-based payment reform via a workgroup, tracking state payment reform activity, and disseminating information about payment reform and federal and state efforts related to the same.

To support the justice lab.

To develop and release public, written products around timely program integrity and good governance issues to elevate them within the policymaking community.

To support litigation that improves prison conditions and develop litigation that challenges excessive sentences.

To support the center for research innovation in biotechnology in documenting issues in clinical trial data reporting, trends in pharmaceutical research and development, and the cause for abandoned clinical trials.

To ensure faithful implementation of a rule change addressing the access to counsel in mississippi and continuing to push for better access to indigent defense in the state.

To support continued data collection and dashboard maintenance for the jail data initiative (jdi), the only large-scale effort to collect daily individual-level jail records in the united states.

To support state medicaid and health department agency leaders in expanding contraceptive access.

To support efforts to build and scale an initiative to add visual journalism capacity to nonprofit newsrooms across the united states.

To survey the current tax landscape in puerto rico and identify areas for improvement.

To provide legal expertise regarding the medicare drug price negotiation program outlined in the inflation reduction act, and to defend and support the implementation of federal and state efforts addressing the affordability and accessibility of prescription drugs.

To support a study exploring the relationship between family engagement and the well-being of incarcerated persons.

To investigate how certain profit-shifting activities and international tax rules affect domestic investment and employment, both on the u.s. Mainland and in puerto rico.

To pursue new data analyses related to nonprofit hospitals and billing practices.

To (i) develop a comprehensive overview of the present landscape of social media advertising trends, regulatory activity, and key stakeholders' reactions to prescription drug marketing by social media influencers; (II) acquire a comprehensive understanding of prescribers? And consumers' experiences with direct-to-consumer social media drug marketing and the extent to which this marketing affects prescribing requests; and (III) publicly disseminating policy and regulatory solutions related to same.

To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america community safety and criminal justice reform initiative, with the overall goal of spurring new evaluations and evidence on criminal legal policy by funding, supporting, and disseminating evidence from promising randomized evaluations.

To research the effects of government-designated gun-free zones on the risk of firearm violence and crime.

To support policy analysis and development, field leadership, and educational advocacy to drive progress on federal accountability and student loan reform.

To support legal technical assistance on cost containment policies.

To strengthen fda approval standards by challenging the current use of progression free survival (PFS) as a surrogate endpoint in oncology RCTS.

To support research on deaths in all prisons nationwide and create a public resource for the improvement of prison conditions, preventable death reduction, and policy reform.

To support states to advance integration between medicare and medicaid, as well as conducting policy analyses in support of future integration efforts.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the reading partners program.

To evaluate whether algorithmically blinding prosecutors to a defendant's race reduces bias in charging decisions, and if race-blinding has other unintended impacts on charging decisions.

To provide comprehensive budget oversight to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs, including agriculture, nutrition benefits, defense programs, and disaster policy.

To build upon the national case closed project to examine fatal and non-fatal shooting investigations across multiple jurisdictions.

To continue non-partisan analytical and advisory work for the new jersey sentencing commission and engaging in investigator-initiated studies that contribute to criminal justice policy reforms.

To support states transitioning from an integrated demonstration program to a permanent integrated model.

To support grantee's fiscally sponsored project, illinois contraceptive access now ("ican"), and its efforts to lay the foundation for an effective multi-state implementation strategy to expand family planning programs and related contraceptive coverage policies in the united states.

To develop and disseminate consumer health care experience surveys and state policy scorecards.

To support new research into the problem of chronic absenteeism in our nation's k-12 schools in order to better understand the causes, patterns, and shifts of this new and evolving paradigm and to prevent elevated rates of post-pandemic absenteeism from becoming a new normal in schools.

To develop and test a model to support states in creating budget processes that identify, incentivize, and prioritization funding interventions backed by rigorous evidence.

To research outcomes-based accountability and graduate school accountability.

To develop policy analyses that engage stakeholders on the need for and importance of value in federal and state-level higher education policy reform.

To conduct a study on the handling of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the united states and study-related concerns with medical death investigations.

To research reforms to reforms to medicare advantage and traditional medicare to help put the medicare program as a whole on a more fiscally sustainable path.

To provide tools that prevent medicare insolvency.

To support states to develop a standardized traffic stops data collection infrastructure and conduct routine analysis to address identified racial disparities by tapping underutilized federal funding.

To support the center for study and practice of violence reduction.

To analyze medicare advantage ("ma") payments and benefits, and their relationship to plan enrollment as well as to ma networks, to understand opportunities for ma policy changes with the goal of reducing ma spending and increasing value.

To design two new transformative undergraduate degree programs at ASU to serve as a model for other programs and higher education institutions seeking to improve return-on-investment for students and taxpayers, and build a strong foundation for a pilot and evaluation of those programs.

To support research and education on private equity (pe) investment in the health care sector to provide expanded transparency and analysis about its role in health care, focusing the impact of pe on provider pricing and consolidation issues in the commercial market, including on the role of pe in the use of anticompetitive practices, surprise billing, rural health, and pe health care roll ups, among others.

To provide general operating support.

To build an active bridge between government and researchers by translating data to simple digestible reports for policymakers, with the overall goal of facilitating evidence-based policy in the criminal justice field.

To support strategic litigation to combat the imposition of unjust legal financial obligations on those who cannot afford to pay them, through ongoing litigation challenging the extortionate collection of fines and fees and unconstitutional court costs.

To develop rapid-response capability and resources to develop educational, nonpartisan resources for state policymakers and advocates on evidence-informed policy options in the development of gun policies agendas and priorities.

To continue to review parole opportunities in louisiana for people serving long sentences through policy development and education, and direct legal representation.

To drive grad plus policy reform by developing and modeling ideologically-diverse policy proposals.

To provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overall goal of rigorously testing new approaches to drive transformative solutions and policy change to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.

To support efforts to transform prison conditions through disability rights litigation.

To provide general operating support for journalism.

To support the second look network and advance back-end release policy reforms.

To map the current political, economic, and legislative landscape of pay-to-stay incarceration cost recoupment practices across the united states.

To identify and understand (i) the drivers of health care costs in the small group market, (II) the budgetary implications of same, and (III) potential solutions to these issues.

To evaluate the existing home and community based services evidence base and develop a research agenda aimed at decreasing nursing home utilization and spending.

To support grantee's efforts to conduct housing enforcement in three states through legal partnerships, legal analysis, and housing project partnerships.

To analyze how well the medicare advantage star rating system measures and incentivizes quality.

To support the development of effective bipartisan policy to integrate medicare and medicaid for the dual-eligible population.

To explore how broadening the patient population of randomized controlled trials can impact oncology treatments' effectiveness and safety.

To identify and support states that are leading innovative efforts to incentivize and support the adoption of effective student success practices and develop state policy recommendations for other states to follow.

To build support for equity-centered payment reforms, including by educating and engaging policymakers and health equity and consumer stakeholders.

To explore the prosecutor policy landscape relating to intimate partner violence, as well as host two convenings to further generate evaluation opportunities.

To evaluate the collection, retention and use of dna analysis by law enforcement.

To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.

To conduct research and analysis to develop recommendations for new place-based policies that would effectively facilitate capital access for mission-driven developers in middle neighborhoods as an alternative to simply extending existing tax incentives.

To support the launch of a cross-sector learning collaborative and workgroup that actively engages advocates, payers, clinicians, pharmacies, and state stakeholders to address implementation failures in extended supply and pharmacist prescribing policies across three states.

To identify and advance innovative state policy solutions to strengthen contraceptive affordability and access.

To conduct and disseminate research that evaluates the effectiveness of state-level initiatives on contraceptive access by estimating causal effect of other similar state-run programs.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of mississippi's kinship care navigator program, a support program for kinship caregivers of children in mississippi.

To support states in designing and launching population-based payment models for primary care in medicaid, with the overall goal of delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary care.

To address the impact of high provider prices on patients and their families.

To support the development of a scorecard that assesses the favorability of the policy environment for contraceptive access nationally and within each u.s. State.

To support a cohort of prison wardens to participate in a leadership academy and develop/implement reforms.

To conduct analyses and provide evidence-based policy recommendations that can support review, approval, and promotion of new indications for safe, effective, affordable generic drugs.

To advance bipartisan, evidence-based policies related to police accountability in order to enhance public safety and protect individual rights.

To evaluate "playing 4 change," a video game-supported, school-based therapeutic group that is designed to reduce aggression among at-risk youth, during the pivotal transition to adolescence.

To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and strategies to reduce health care prices.

To research the impact of over-the-counter hormonal birth control pill and understand if and how over-the-counter access is changing contraceptive access and use, particularly among groups with well-described structural barriers to reproductive healthcare.

To support educational activities related to democracy reform.

To pilot an evidence pipeline accelerator to expand the pool of nonprofit programs ready for rigorous evaluation.

To assess the outcomes of online colleges and analyze graduate study debt accumulation.

To expand an in-progress federally-funded multi-state randomized controlled trial of public montessori preschool to include kindergarten and third grade educational outcomes.

To develop, implement, and research innovative program approval and renewal policies to serve as potential models to increase the return-on-investment of higher education.

To conduct and disseminate research studying how zoning regulations and other local land use policies impact housing supply and affordability, to provide evidence-based solutions to bring naturally-occurring affordable housing to communities.

To pursue new data analyses related to nonprofit hospitals and billing practices.

To conduct research to analyze delays to biosimilar competition.

To support research to extend understanding of the impacts of a restorative justice ("RJ") intervention in chicago public schools.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of roots, an early numeracy tutoring program for kindergarten students developed by the university of oregon.

To provide technical assistance to states on medicaid managed care design, with an emphasis on payment, for the dual-eligible population and those with long-term services and supports needs.

This project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of financial assistance on both short-term and long-term pretrial outcomes, including court attendance, incarceration for failures to appear, and case closures.

To provide policymakers and their staff with nonpartisan, evidence-based resources related to commercial prices, including hospital and providers consolidation and competition, as well as technical assistance related to lowering healthcare prices in the united states.

To make the transparency in coverage data (i.e., health insurer price transparency) more available to a wide audience including policymakers and researchers by standardizing the data and publishing files for public use.

To estimate the cost and coverage effects of increasing the age of medicare eligibility.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate tutored by teachers, an online tutoring program for elementary school students aimed at improving math and english language arts achievement.

To develop and advance policy solutions to promote affordability and equity in the commercial health insurance system.

To (i) provide technical assistance to up to five states to help states build a framework for measuring and evaluating postsecondary value and return-on-investment; and to (II) support louisiana and tennessee to develop and implement specific governance and funding reforms.

To evaluate the implementation and impact of body-worn cameras automated auditing on multiple police agencies.

To engage in policymaker education, technical assistance, and dissemination activities highlighting the benefits of payment reform.

To examine changes in health care spending, utilization, and quality associated with primary care investment policies across colorado, delaware, oregon, and rhode island.

To educate and build greater support for advancing primary care payment reform through adoption of a hybrid capitated payment model in the medicare shared savings program ("MSSP") and reforming the medicare physician fee schedule.

To support the purpose of developing and advancing a comprehensive set of policy options for intellectual property reform in the drug space through research, public education, and policy development.

To develop a research-based definition of "credentials of value" for higher education institutions in tennessee and creating policy recommendations for using that definition to improve the return-on-investment for students and taxpayers.

To research outcomes-based funding policy designs on the return on investment in higher education.

To develop a state policy framework and assessment tool for scaling evidence-based student success practices in states.

To evaluate the advance peace gun-violence reduction program.

To explore current crime trends and build consensus for significant improvements in the nation's data infrastructure and capacity to produce timely, accurate, and complete crime data.

To conduct a ten-year follow-up study of a 2013 randomized control trial on vacant lot greening in philadelphia, pennsylvania.

To improve the non-partisan information available to medicare policymakers relating to: (1) the use of non-fee-for-service payments in medicare advantage; (2) the scope for medicare advantage plans to evade medical loss ratio requirements using related businesses; (3) the design of payment incentives to increase participation in accountable care organizations; and (4) emerging medicare policy debates.

To research the extent of overpayments in medicare advantage plans for dual-eligible beneficiaries.

To provide general operating support.

To provide technical assistance to higher education institutions to support the acceleration of the scaling of three-year bachelor's degrees, with the goal of increasing the return-on-investment for students in the higher education system by decreasing the time and cost to complete a bachelor's degree.

To develop and evaluate a new plea bargaining tracking tool in durham county, north carolina and utah county, utah.

To evaluate the effects of police reforms in new jersey, including de-escalation training, peer bystander intervention training, and a change in use of force policy and reporting requirements, on officer perceptions and behavior.

To accelerate the adoption of fair chance hiring practices in the business community through a new state-based approach.

To build a standalone statehouse team that will cover public policy in ohio.

To provide general operating support.

To collect data and develop a public-facing website-based interface of state transportation performance and spending dashboards, to improve transparency on: (1) how federal transportation dollars are being spent; and (2) what that spending is accomplishing.

To support grantee's journalism division.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial on the impact of online student support hubs on student performance.

To conduct research to identify oncology drugs that are not dose-optimized and assess their potential savings in connection with making the case for the fda requirement of post-marketing dose optimization trials.

To create an implementation plan in partnership with the tennessee bureau of investigations with the overall goal of testing whether collecting biological evidence from burglary crime scenes identifies significantly more serious, chronic offenders.

To build upon previous nursing home profit transparency work on profit tunneling conducted in illinois to identify legal and policy options for nursing home ownership transparency and accountability at the state and federal levels, with the overall goal of improving nursing home care.

To support the development of a multi-stakeholder policy academy to leverage the role of state health leaders for the successful rollout of over-the-counter contraception pills, which will increase the public's ability to access contraception.

To inform policy discussions around increasing adoption of effective population-based payment models.

To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.

To fund a randomized controlled trial of the rapid employment and development initiative program, which provides transitional jobs, cognitive behavioral therapy, and additional services for men at high risk of being perpetrators or victims of violent crime.

To educate policymakers and other key stakeholders on the experiences of medicare beneficiaries with limited incomes and the importance of beneficiary-centered integrated care design.

To produce non-partisan policy options that improve the integrity and sustainability of the medicaid program for all beneficiaries, including dual-eligible individuals.

To support welcoming neighbors network and its efforts to remove regulatory barriers to expand the supply of housing across a diverse array of states and municipalities through educational and non-partisan campaigns.

To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate lifeskills training program for high school students in colorado.

To study the effectiveness of spending limits in reducing wasteful medicare payments for physical therapy.

To conduct a causal inferential impact study to evaluate the outcomes and impact of kentucky's pretrial policies using statewide data in kentucky.

To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the valley initiative for development and advancement (vida), an organization that supports adults seeking to complete occupational training programs at area colleges.

To research and quantify the prevalence, financial magnitude, and clinical relevance of pharmaceutical industry-sponsored speakers' bureaus, with the overall goal of publishing research that improves conflict of interest ("coi") policy in u.s. Healthcare.

To support education efforts about policies and practices and promote community safety.

To educate the policy community on medicare-related taxes and the need to strengthen medicare's financing to improve its fiscal situation.