Building Evidence: Support for QEDs to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies
Funds quasi-experimental causal evaluations of social programs and policies. The Public Finance strand explicitly seeks studies of state responses to benefit cliffs and their effects on employment, earnings and economic mobility.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The RFP publishes no budget range or cap. Budget scope is negotiated at the full-proposal stage; the notification timeline notes that final award timing may vary depending on proposal scope and budget.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-11 — 27 days awayLetters of interest due September 11, 2026; invitations to submit a full proposal November 6, 2026; full proposals January 15, 2027; award notification estimated March 31, 2027. A companion Strengthening Evidence RFP covers random-assignment studies on the same date.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- No degree or citizenship gate is stated, but applicants must submit a letter of interest on the required template and the study must fall in a named policy area (Higher Education, Career Pathways, Health Care, Medicaid, Online Gambling, Infrastructure, Public Finance). Arnold Ventures' updated indirect cost policy applies.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- benefit cliffs · economic mobility · quasi-experimental evaluation · medicaid · workforce
- Apply at
- https://assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/PDFs/AV-Building-Evidence_RFP.pdf
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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