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The Public Policy Lab is a nonprofit innovation lab. Our mission is to design policies and programs that help poor and marginalized Americans build better lives. To do that, we partner with government agencies, philanthropies, and NGOs and the communities they serve to develop more satisfying and effective services through ethnographic research, human-centered design, rapid prototyping, and formative evaluation.
The Public Policy Lab is a nonprofit innovation lab. Our mission is to design policies and programs that help poor and marginalized Americans build better lives.
Our 2019 activities included: For theNYC Department of Educations Office of Community Schools, we designed,field-tested, and evaluatiedtools and interactions to connect families to publicbenefits at their childs school. The resulting program launchedacross the network of nearly 300 community schools, serving more than a quarter-million low-income students and their families,in fall 2019.For the Lab at U.S. Office of Personnel and Management (The Lab @ OPM), we created a standardized evaluation framework for the organization's programs, including a process for identifying indicators and tracking metrics for design and education projects.For the NYC Department of Social Services/Department of Homeless Services, we researched the practices of high-performing shelters. Working in close collaboration with staff and residents at a dozen shelters, as well as leaders at the agency, we collaboratively designed and field-tested prototypes of tools and trainings to increase move-out rates in shelter for piloting in 2020.For the NYC Department of Ediucation and five sister agencies that also serve homeless students, we launched a program to identify opportunites to improve inter-agency collaboration and communication, with the goal of reducing the burden on families of interacting with multiple agencies and generating better access to education and stronger academic achievements. For the NYC Department of Ediucation and the NYC Department of Social Services/Department of Homeless Services, we launched a project to develop human-centered interventions to better coordinate transportation management between homeless shelters, schools, and the DOE Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT) and to cross-train DOE and DHS staff with the goal of reducing transportation-related student absences.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Chelsea Mauldin | Executive Dir. | 40 | $131,843 |
| John Payne | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Bryan Boyer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Deborah Marton | Chairman | 1 | $0 |
| David Gibson | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
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