Brown University
For The Policy Lab
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Amount$300,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/29/2019
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
A grant to Brown University will support the launch of The Policy Lab, a team of social scientists with the mission of supplying the state of Rhode Island with actionable, empirical research necessary to solve its most pressing problems. Although based in Rhode Island, The Policy Lab will serve as a national evidence-based policy hub. This grant will also help The Policy Lab leverage opportunities to develop strong partnerships in the Rhode Island community and lead to early wins for its growth. In addition, it will enable The Policy Lab at Brown to attract more support that will ensure its long-term sustainability.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.brown.edu
Address
P.O. Box 1877, Providence, RI, 02912, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Information Futures Lab
Founded in 2022, the Information Futures Lab is a university hub dedicated to improving local information ecosystems and support people in effectively accessing, creating, and making sense of information that is crucial to their well-being. Students and researchers at the lab build the expertise and capacity of organizations and community leaders that are sources of trustworthy information for the public. Together, they map information needs, identify relevant information challenges, and fuel community-led solution design and testing to build healthy and resilient information ecosystems on the ground.
for a joint program on the New Generators of Inequality: Asset Managers and Private Equity
The Rhodes Center and the Stone Inequality Initiative, both housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, will partner with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne to build a postdoctoral research program focused on the topic of asset management and private equity as a new structure of inequality. The Max Planck Institute is the home of the study of asset manager capitalism. At Brown, the Stone Inequality Initiative considers the inequality driving effects of private equity. The Rhodes Center, also active in research on distributional politics, particularly in regard to climate change, will serve as a bridge for these two research programs.
