America Achieves
For The Results For America Project
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Despite generous philanthropic efforts, most U.S. social programs are still overwhelmingly funded by public dollars, which are seldom allocated based on data about programs’ effectiveness. Results for America seeks to improve the impact of public resources, shifting the debate away from arguments about increasing or decreasing their availability and toward a discussion of how to use them to get better results. A grant to this pilot project would help Results for America pursue its goals: building collaboration and alignment across sectors to support evidence-based social interventions, and support the development of infrastructure for program evaluation and data collection.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.americaachieves.org
Address
100 West 33rd Street Suite 917-Box 900, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
America Achieves advances fair access to educational and economic opportunity by serving as a scale-oriented program incubator/accelerator — as well as an advisor and convener of key leaders. Since the organization was founded, it has supported projects advancing deeper learning and incubated, scaled, and launched educational policy and systems change initiatives, while advising dozens of top foundations and leaders across sectors. The grant will assist in the spin-off of remaining initiatives, conducting an effective transition, and wind-up for the organization.
for the Results for America project to improve use of evidence in federal budget allocations
Today less than 1 percent of federal spending explicitly considers evidence of impact as a criterion for funding. Launched in 2012, Results for America seeks to create a new norm for allocating public dollars through "investing in what works," helping to drive public resources toward results-oriented solutions.
