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NextGen Actionable Insights Project Evident – July 2021 Newsletter Project Evident’s Actionable Evidence Initiative works to improve the outcomes of students who are Black, Latino/a/x, or experiencing poverty by promoting “actionable evidence.”  Evidence-Based Policymaking: Survey Data Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Capacity … Continue reading →

Centering Racial Equity in Measurement and Evaluation Urban Institute This brief explores how racial equity and inclusion can strengthen nonprofits’ measurement and evaluation work and how measurement and evaluation help nonprofits identify inequities and use data to improve the operationalization … Continue reading →

A Path Forward for Funding Relief Richmond Times-Dispatch (Bill Leighty) Governments at the state and local levels are faced with an unheard-of set of fiscal circumstances. That is, a financial windfall of unprecedented proportions due to the passage of the American … Continue reading →

States Can Use Federal Stimulus Money to Evaluate Program Effectiveness Pew Charitable Trusts As states continue to respond to the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers should look to use federal stimulus money to bolster efforts to … Continue reading →

Closing the Data Gap: How Cities are Delivering Better Results for Residents Results for America/The Monitor Institute Consider the progress that cities in the What Works Cities (WWC) community, launched in 2015 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and now the leading national … Continue reading →