The movement toward greater use of data and evidence in social programs is encouraging, and there is a widely shared commitment to achieving better outcomes for the vulnerable segments of society served by nonprofits. At the same time, the current paradigm for using evaluation to get those outcomes has faced challenges. It is time to…
Presentation to the Evidence Commission: A Funder’s Perspective
In 2016, Managing Director Kelly Fitzsimmons presented to the Commission on Evidence-based Policymaking (CEP) in order to help inform its strategy around the use of data and evidence in government policy and programs. Her presentation lays out existing constraints for using and building evidence – including limited innovation in evaluation, constrained data access and weak…
The Request for Information Guide: Improving Government Human Services Contracting
Project Evident and Results for America are excited to announce the release of a brand new, jointly produced Request for Information Guide. This year-in-the-making RFI guide leads government and human services providers through a series of Collaborative Procurement Questions that can be used over the course of the entire government contracting process, including in an RFI itself, to strengthen…