COALITION FOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY
653 South Emerson Street, Denver, CO 80209 www.coalition4evidence.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To increase government effectiveness through rigorous evidence about what works. The Coalition advocates research to identify the most promising social interventions.

To increase government effectiveness through rigorous evidence about what works.

Provided concrete, high quality advice and tools to the policy community on (i) how to increase government effectiveness through the use of rigorous evidence about what works in social policy, and (ii) what programs and strategies are currently backed by the strongest evidence of effectiveness. The following are illustrative examples of how we provided this information:1) The Top Tier Evidence Initiative, which the Coalition launched to assist federal policymakers in identifying social program models meeting the top tier standard for evidence of effectiveness: "well-designed randomized controlled trials [showing] sizeable, sustained effects on important outcomes." This initiative's expert advisory panel has identified program models that meet (or approach) this standard in a wide range of policy areas, such as K-12 education, teen pregnancy prevention, health care financing and delivery, substance use prevention. Summaries of these programs and the evidence supporting them - including their benefits and costs - were disseminated without charge to a wide variety of policymakers and practitioners through our email distribution list, and are also available without charge on our websites: www.toptierevidence.org and www.evidencebasedprograms.org. 2) The Coalition offered workshops, small group discussions, and in-depth consulting on how to advance evidence-based reforms across social policy. These activities were targeted at a broad audience, including federal agency officials, researchers, foundation staff, and community service providers. The Coalition has provided such stakeholders with advice on many topics, including: (i) how to incorporate evidence-based concepts into federal grant programs, (ii) how to successfully carry out a rigorous evaluation of a program/strategy to determine its effectiveness, (iii) what specific programs/strategies have been shown in rigorous evaluations to be effective, and (iv) how to accurately assess and report the costs and benefits of social programs. Since the Coalition had no affiliation with any programs or program models, and did not conduct research itself, it served as an objective, impartial source of expertise to policy and program officials, and other stakeholders, in the above areas. Much of this advice was provided through our free online Help Desk.3) The Coalition developed and published user-friendly guides on various topics related to advancing the wider use of rigorous evidence and evaluation (e.g., how to conduct rigorous evaluations at low-cost, how funders can develop an evaluation strategy that is most likely to build a body of proven-effective social programs). These guides are all in the public domain and are readily available through our website: www.coalition4evidence.org.

Developed and managed a competition to select and fund low-cost randomized controlled trials designed to answer important policy questions. The goal of the competition was to demonstrate that rigorous evaluations can be conducted at a fraction of the usual cost while still producing policy-important findings. We solicited proposals from the research and policy community and provided funding in 2014/2015 to carry out three studies that most effectively addressed the following criteria: (i) the policy importance of the question they seek to answer; (ii) the quality of their research team; (iii) the rigor of their design; and (iv) how likely it is that they will be low-cost to carry out.

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