Grantee Profile

Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

Grants to Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

  • $200,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Duration 2 years)

    Policy Research

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy is a Washington, D.C.-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works with federal policymakers to advance evidence-based reforms in major U.S. social programs. This project aims to accelerate and institutionalize what are now informal scoring developments by the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office, whereby evidence-based programs in one area that generate savings in another area of federal activity are rewarded in official budget scoring processes.

  • $750,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Duration 3 years)

    Policy Research

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — To accelerate the federal government's use of cost-benefit analysis to strengthen evidence-based social policies (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy $950,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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