• $6,000,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Policy Research

  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — This grant supports the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, a collaborative initiative between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the MacArthur Foundation to develop analytical tools that help states assess the costs and benefits of policy options and use that data to make decisions based on results. The goal is to change fundamentally the way that states make policy and budget choices by enabling them to harness the power of evidence.

• $872,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 2 years)

  Policy Research

  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — This grant to the Pew Center on the States is one of several that will examine the interdependence of federal and state fiscal policies and the implications that efforts to address federal challenges have for states. The Center will use 50-state research, case studies, and robust outreach and dissemination to create a baseline of states' health care costs by functional areas; and assess cost drivers and the effectiveness of state cost-containment efforts - information that will help state and federal policymakers consider further health care policy changes relating to the 2014 implementation of the national Affordable Care Act.

• $1,500,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Policy Research

  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — To expand the use of cost-benefit analysis by states for setting policy direction and budget priorities (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Pew Charitable Trusts $8,372,000 between 2010 and 2013.