By topic

List of topics (click link)

• Anti-poverty, economic mobility and social equity
• Behavioral insights
• Budgeting, evidence-based
• Contracting, results-driven
• Criminal justice and policing
• Data and analytics
• Economic and workforce development policy
• Education: K-12
• Education: college / post-secondary
• Evaluation / measuring impact
• Evidence-based policy, building capacity to do it
• Experimentation (test, learn & adapt) and innovation
• Grant making, evidence-based
• Health policy
• Human services
• Insights from agency leaders
• Insights from elected officials
• Leadership insights
• Lean initiatives
• Logic models
• Nonprofits and foundations
• Pay for Success / Social Impact Bonds
• Performance-based budgeting
• Performance measurement & performance management
• PerformanceStat leadership strategy
• Personal growth
• Prizes and challenges
• Public management and leadership insights
• Researcher-practitioner partnerships

Interviews by topic (interviews can be in more than one category)

Anti-poverty, economic mobility and social equity

• Lessons from the New Hope Project for today: Julie Kirksick, former Executive Director, and Kali Grant, Georgetown University
• How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors
• Lessons from HUD about building evidence on important social policy issues: Calvin Johnson, HUD
• King County, Washington’s Equity and Social Justice Strategic Plan: Arun Sambataro, King County
• Using behavioral insights to help recruit diverse police candidates: Elizabeth Linos, University of California, Berkeley
• Using randomized evaluations to address global poverty and other social policy challenges: Dean Karlan, Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action
• The Building Strong Families program: Robert Wood, Mathematica Policy Research
• The New Hope anti-poverty initiative in Milwaukee: Aletha Huston, University of Texas at Austin
• Fighting for reliable evidence [in anti-poverty and employment programs]: Judith Gueron, MDRC, and Howard Rolston, Abt Associates
• Boosting the life chances of young men of color: Dan Bloom, MDRC
• The Moving to Opportunity Demonstration’s long-term findings: Larry Katz, Harvard University
• A city’s effort to drive innovation and learning on a priority issue [fighting poverty]: Kristin Morse, New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity
• Strategies to reduce unintended pregnancy: Adam Thomas, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
• Smart Start in North Carolina: Stephanie Fanjul, Smart Start

Behavioral insights

• Three cognitive biases that can influence decision makers use of evidence about what works: Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
• Launching a behavioral insights community of practice: Melissa Leal, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• How to communicate so that busy people respond and take action: Todd Rogers, Harvard Kennedy School
• The importance of replication and validation in evidence-based policy: Tammy Chang, U.S. Treasury Department, and Nathanial Higgins, formerly U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team
• Lessons in applying behavioral insights to human services from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project: Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Nadine Deshausay, MDRC
• Using behavioral insights to design smarter school lunchrooms: David Just, Cornell University
• Applying behavioral insights through the EAST (Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely) framework: Simon Ruda, U.K. Behavioral Insights Team
• Using behavior insights to improve government performance: Maya Shankar, White House Social and Behavioral Science Team
• Improving public policy through behavioral economics: Raj Chetty, Harvard University
• Improving education outcomes with innovative low-cost interventions, such as texting: Ben Castleman, University of Virginia
• Applying insights from behavioral economics to improve social service outcomes: Emily Schmitt, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Testing whether text messages improve the effectiveness of communication with citizens: Donald Green, Columbia University

Budgeting, evidence-based

• Colorado’s nation-leading practices in using evidence to guide budget decisions: Sara Dube, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• How Minnesota’s impact evaluation unit supports evidence-based budgeting: Weston Merrick, State of Minnesota
• Evidence-based budgeting in New Mexico: Charles Sallee, Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico
• Insights from Tennessee’s Office of Evidence and Impact: An interview with Christin Lotz, State of Tennessee
• How Utah became a leader in evidence-based policymaking: Jonathan Ball and Kristen Cox, State of Utah
• How the State of Mississippi uses evidence-based budgeting to increase return on investment and improve program outcomes: Toby Barker, Mississippi State Representative
• Colorado’s involvement in the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative: Henry Sobanet, State of Colorado (this is a web extra to his interview)
• How New Mexico uses evidence to drive smarter spending decisions and improve programs: Charles Sallee, Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico
• States’ use of cost-benefit analysis: Gary VanLandingham, Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative
• Washington State, a leader in the use of cost-benefit analysis: Steve Aos, Washington State Institute for Public Policy

Contracting, results-driven

• • How results-driven contracting improved outcomes for Chicago’s most vulnerable: Lisa Morrison Butler, former Commissioner, Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
  • How Seattle used results-driven contracting to improve homeless services: Jason Johnson, Deputy Director, Human Services Department, City of Seattle
  • Transforming the culture of procurement in state and local government: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School

Criminal justice and policing

• • • Using behavioral insights to help recruit diverse police candidates: Elizabeth Linos, University of California, Berkeley
    • How Utah became a leader in evidence-based policymaking [including using evidence for juvenile justice reform]:Jonathan Ball and Kristen Cox, State of Utah
    • Calling on states to close their youth prisons: Patrick McCarthy, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Data and analytics

• • • Unlocking the power of big data to catalyze evidence-based policy: Amy O’Hara, Georgetown University
    • How HHS’s Data Science CoLab catalyzes employee innovation: Will Yang, CoLab Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service
    • How New Zealand links data from public data sets to address important policy challenges: Kelvin Watson, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand
    • Linking data to improve human services while working within privacy laws: Erin Dalton and Brian Bell, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
    • How states and localities are improving the quality of education, health, and human services through integrated data systems: Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania and Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
    • Why broadening access to Federal administrative data is critical for improving government services and increasing taxpayer value: Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Las Vegas’s data-driven effort to improve traffic safety at its most dangerous intersections: Betsy Fretwell, City of Las Vegas
    • Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: Oliver Wise, City of New Orleans
    • How Allegheny County’s Data Warehouse is improving human services through integrated data: Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
    • Using analytics to tackle tough agency challenges: Dean Silverman, formerly Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury
    • The importance of administrative data to learn what work in public policy: Raj Chetty, Harvard University
    • How cities are using data to improve outcomes and save money: Steve Goldsmith, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Data for decision making in government: Benjamin Jones, Kellogg School of Management

Economic and workforce development policy

• • • How Oregon’s auto-enrollment IRA program, OregonSaves, helps state residents save for retirement: Lisa Massena, OregonSaves
    • Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Harry Holzer, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
    • Apprenticeship as an economic development tool in South Carolina: Brad Neese, Apprenticeship Carolina
    • Apprenticeship as a state and local strategy to enhance skills and careers: Bob Lerman, Urban Institute and American University
    • Economic growth and metropolitan areas: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
    • U.S. employment & job quality trends: Harry Holzer, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Education: K-12

• • • Insights on evidence use from Ohio’s Department of Education: Heather Boughton, Results for America
    • Boosting student achievement with high-dosage tutoring: Carly Robinson and Matthew Kraft, Brown University
    • Strategies to sustain program impacts for children and adolescents: Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
    • How states can use ESSA to focus education spending on what works: Tom Kane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
    • How states can use “efficacy networks” to test strategies for school improvement: Thomas Kane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
    • How a UK nonprofit, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is building rigorous evidence about how to close achievement gaps in education: Sir Kevan Collins, EEF
    • Using school-based health centers to address the health needs of low-income youth: Olga Acosta Price, The George Washington University
    • How school districts can use rigorous program evaluation to test new education reforms: Matthew Lenard, Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina
    • Using intensive, individualized math tutoring to boost academic outcomes of disadvantaged youth: Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University
    • Using behavioral insights to design smarter school lunchrooms: David Just, Cornell University
    • Improving the outcomes of disadvantaged youth by teaching them to be less automatic: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
    • Reducing bullying in schools through a peer-based strategy: Betsy Levy Paluck, Princeton University
    • Evidence-based reform in education: Robert Slavin, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University
    • The nation’s first Pay for Success initiative for early education: Ben McAdams, Salt Lake County, Utah
    • Using Career Academies to held disadvantaged students: Jim Kemple, Research Alliance for New York City Schools
    • Improving education outcomes with innovative low-cost interventions, such as texting: Benjamin Castleman, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
    • Children’s executive functions and evidence-based activities that improve them: Adele Diamond, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
    • How successful school systems are closing achievement gaps: Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
    • New York City’s small schools initiative: Rebecca Unterman, MDRC
    • Poverty and student outcomes: Helen Ladd, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Education: college / post-secondary

• • • How state tuition-free college programs are spanning political divides: Michelle Miller-Adams, Upjohn Institute
    • How Promise Programs are expanding college access, affordability, and degree attainment: Elizabeth Bell, Florida State University
    • Two promising strategies to promote college success for disadvantaged students: Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh, and Michael Weiss, MDRC
    • Reforming the federal Experimental Sites initiative to better learn what works in higher ed: Amy Laitinen and Clare McCann, New America
    • Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Harry Holzer, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
    • Increasing diversity in the science through the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program: Freeman Hrabowski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    • Closing the social-class achievement gap for first-generation college students: Nicole Stephens, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Evaluation / measuring impact

• • • Four fundamental principles of evidence-based policy and practice, drawing from U.S. and European experience: Howard White, Campbell Collaboration
    • The importance of replication and validation in evidence-based policy: Tammy Chang, U.S. Treasury Department, and Nathanial Higgins, formerly U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team
    • Determining if your program is having a positive impact (i.e., impact evaluation 101): David Evans, The World Bank
    • Cost-benefit analysis 101 for policymakers and public managers: Henry Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University
    • Using randomized evaluations to address global poverty and other social policy challenges: Dean Karlan, Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action
    • Three strategies to promote relevance in program evaluations so that findings are useful to policymakers and practitioners: Evan Weissman, MDRC
    • Reducing fear of program evaluation: Paul Decker, Mathematica Policy Research
    • Using impact evaluation to improve program performance: Rachel Glennerster, Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL)
    • Building an evidence base for agency programs: Chris Spera, Corporation for National and Community Service
    • Rigorous program evaluation on a budget: Jon Baron, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
    • A provider’s perspective on being part of a rigorous evaluation: Sarah Hurley, Youth Village
    • Important tools for evidence-based decision making: Margery Turner, Urban Institute
    • Using rigorous program evaluation to learn what works: Rob Hollister, Swarthmore College

Evidence-based policy, building capacity to do it

• • • Insights about building credible evidence in social policy: David Anderson, Arnold Ventures
    • Insights on evidence use from Ohio’s Department of Education: Heather Boughton, Results for America
    • Three keys to a successful agency evaluation office: Susan Jenkins, Administration for Community Living, HHS
    • Insights from Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations: Rakesh Mohan, Director, Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations
    • How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors
    • Lessons from HUD about building evidence on important social policy issues: Calvin Johnson, HUD
    • Investing in what works at the federal level: Jed Herrmann, Results for America
    • Why evaluation policies are useful to results-focused federal agencies: Naomi Goldstein, HHS, and Molly Irwin, DOL
    • A primer on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking’s recommendations: Nick Hart, Bipartisan Policy Center
    • Launching an applied research team within city government: David Yokum, Director, The Lab @ DC
    • How the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab (RIIPL) works: Justine Hastings, RIIPL
    • How the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education is helping the education field to learn and do what works: Russ Whitehurst, The Brookings Institution
    • How Philadelphia became a leader in the use of data and evidence: Maia Jachimowicz, Results for America
    • The role of a Chief Evaluation Officer: Demetra Nightingale, U.S. Department of Labor
    • Strengthening evaluation capacity within agencies: Naomi Goldstein, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Experimentation (test, learn & adapt) and innovation

• • • Creating a culture of experimentation within organizations: Thomke, Stefan – Harvard Business School
    • How program managers can use random assignment (i.e., a lottery) to build evidence that can improve customer service: Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University
    • Making rigorous program evaluation easier with RCT-YES software: Peter Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research
    • Test, learn & adapt – How public agencies can use researcher-practitioner partnerships to test low-cost, light-touch interventions: Adam Sacarny, Columbia University
    • Innovation teams around the world: Jo Casebourne, NESTA
    • Using opportunistic experiments to learn what works: Peter Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research
    • Implementing a department-wide innovation strategy: Bryan Sivak, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Using predictive analytics and rapid-cycle evaluation to improve program design and results: Scott Cody, Mathematica Policy Research
    • Learning from innovative businesses about creating a culture of experimentation in government: Jim Manzi, author of Uncontrolled
    • Learning from the Obama campaign about creating a culture of experimentation in government: Amelia Showalter, Obama campaign

Grant making, evidence-based

• • • Transforming Federal grant programs from compliance driven to results focused: Robert Gordon, formerly White House Office of Management and Budget
    • How one Federal agency, CNCS, strengthened the role of evidence in a key grant program, AmeriCorps: Diana Epstein and Carla Ganiel, Corporation for National and Community Service
    • Insights for evidence-based grant making from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Evelyn Kappeler, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • The federal evidence agenda and lessons for state and local leaders: Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution
    • Strengthening evidence-based grant making at the U.S. Department of Education: Jim Shelton, U.S. Department of Education
    • Becoming an evidence focused grant-making organization: Kelly Fitzsimmons, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    • Building an evidence base for agency programs: Chris Spera, Corporation for National and Community Service
    • Harnessing Silicon Valley funding approaches to drive breakthrough solutions in the public sector: Jeffrey Brown, USAID

Health policy

• • • Test, learn and adapt – How public agencies can use researcher-practitioner partnerships to test low-cost, light touch interventions [using examples from public health]: Adam Sacarny, Columbia University
    • Using school-based health centers to address the health needs of low-income youth: Olga Acosta Price, The George Washington University, Milken Institute of Public Health
    • Insights for evidence-based grant making from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Evelyn Kappeler, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: Bevan Baker, City of Milwaukee Dept. of Health, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha Co.
    • Las Vegas’s data-driven effort to improve traffic safety at its most dangerous intersections: Betsy Fretwell, City of Las Vegas
    • Improving health outcomes of older adults while reducing costs through the nursing-led Transitional Care Model: Mary Nayor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
    • The first-year effects of Mexico’s soda tax: Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health
    • Using behavioral insights to design smarter school lunchrooms: David Just, Cornell University
    • How Mexico took on the soda industry and won, passing a soda tax: Tina Rosenberg, New York Times and Solutions Journalism Network
    • Colorado’s Family Planning Initiative: Larry Wolk, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
    • Using food banks to fight diabetes and promote health for vulnerable populations: Hilary Seligman, University of California, San Francisco
    • Evidence-based policies that improve early-life health and wellbeing: Janet Currie, Princeton University

Human services

• • • Insights from C-Stat in Colorado at year 5: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Linking data to improve human services while working within privacy laws: Erin Dalton and Brian Bell, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
    • An overview of Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth, with lessons for other areas of social policy: Thaddeus Ferber, Forum for Youth Investment
    • Lessons in applying behavioral insights to human services from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project: Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Nadine Deshausay, MDRC
    • How states and localities are improving the quality of education, health, and human services through integrated data systems: Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania and Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
    • How Allegheny County’s Data Warehouse is improving human services through integrated data: Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
    • Strengthening evaluation capacity within agencies: Naomi Goldstein, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
    • Implementing a department-wide innovation strategy: Bryan Sivak, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Using “C-Stat” in Colorado to drive results-focused human services: Ki’i Powell, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Insights for evidence-based grant making from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Evelyn Kappeler, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Applying insights from behavioral economics to improve social service outcomes: Emily Schmitt, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Focusing a social service agency on results and improved outcomes: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services

Insights from agency leaders (Secretary or Deputy Secretary)

• • • Insights from C-Stat in Colorado at year 5: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Insights from the only Federal department with two Deputy Secretaries: Heather Higginbottom, U.S. Department of State
    • Implementing a turnaround at DOL: Seth Harris, formerly U.S. Department of Labor
    • Strengthening evidence-based grant making at the U.S. Department of Education: Jim Shelton, U.S. Department of Education
    • Leadership insights you (probably) won’t learn in grad school: Joanna Richard, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
    • Focusing a social service agency on results and improved outcomes: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services

Insights from elected officials (current and former)

• • • Creating a results-focused city government: Michael Nutter, former Mayor of Philadelphia
    • How the State of Mississippi uses evidence-based budgeting to increase return on investment and improve program outcomes: Toby Barker, State Representative, Mississippi
    • The nation’s first Pay for Success initiative for early education: Ben McAdams, Mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah
    • Creating a results focused city government: Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
    • How cities are using data to improve outcomes and save money: Steve Goldsmith, Harvard Kennedy School and former Mayor of Indianapolis
    • Creating results-focused city government through SomerStat: Joseph Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts

Leadership insights

• • • Career reflections from an evidence leader: Naomi Goldstein, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Leading successful change and strategic initiatives: John Kotter, best-selling author
    • The opportunities and pitfalls of government reorganization: Bob Behn, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Insights from the only Federal department with two Deputy Secretaries: Heather Higginbottom, U.S. Department of State
    • Transforming support services in Federal agencies: Jeffrey Neal, formerly Defense Logistics Agency and Department of Homeland Security
    • Twelve “better practices” that can help public leaders tackle key organizational challenges and boost results: Bob Behn, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Exploring how outstanding public executives make tough decisions: Ronald Sanders, Booz Allen Hamilton
    • Implementing a turnaround at DOL: Seth Harris, formerly U.S. Department of Labor
    • Insights from the FTC about promoting employee engagement: David Robbins, Federal Trade Commission
    • Creating a results focused city government: Greg Fischer, City of Louisville, Kentucky
    • Leadership insights you (probably) won’t learn in grad school: Joanna Richard, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
    • Designing a well-crafted mission statement: Sharon Oster, Yale School of Management
    • Transforming mission and support services in government: Judy England-Joseph, Partnership for Public Service
    • Engaging citizens online: Matt Leighninger, Deliberative Democracy Consortium
    • Making telework work: Scott Overmyer

Lean initiatives

• • • Colorado’s lean initiative in state government: Henry Sobanet, State of Colorado
    • Using Lean Six Sigma to improve results in government: Jim Robinson, Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, George Washington University

Logic models

• • • Five questions public agencies should ask to put their logic models to work: Cynthia Phillips, National Science Foundation (retired)
    • Using logic models, a key building block of results-focused programs: Tom Chapel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nonprofits and foundations

• • • Helping nonprofits build and use evidence through Project Evident: Kelly Fitzsimmons, Project Evident
    • How a small nonprofit in New Mexico achieves big good government wins: Fred Nathan, Think New Mexico
    • Becoming an evidence-focused grant-making organization: Kelly Fitzsimmons, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    • Washington State, a leader in the use of cost-benefit analysis: Steve Aos, Washington State Institute for Public Policy

Pay for Success / Social Impact Bonds

• • • The use of impact bonds around the world: Emily Gustafsson-Wright, The Brookings Institution
    • Lessons from the nation’s first Social Impact Bond, aimed at reducing recidivism among adolescent offenders at Rikers Island: Gordon Berlin, MDRC
    • Using Pay for Success to fund early-childhood programs: Janis Dubno, Voices for Utah Children
    • The nation’s first Pay for Success initiative for early education: Ben McAdams, Salt Lake County, Utah
    • Strengths and misperceptions of Social Impact Bonds: Jeff Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Massachusetts’ juvenile justice Pay for Success initiative: George Overholser, Third Sector Capital Partners
    • New York City’s Social Impact Bond, the first in the U.S.: Linda Gibbs, City of New York City

Performance-based budgeting

• • • How Utah became a leader in evidence-based policymaking: Jonathan Ball and Kristen Cox, State of Utah
    • How the State of Mississippi uses evidence-based budgeting to increase return on investment and improve program outcomes: Toby Barker, Mississippi State Representative
    • Performance budgeting in Austria: Gerhard Steger, Budget Director, Austrian Ministry of Finance
    • Using outcome based budgeting to fund what works: Andrew Kleine, City of Baltimore, Maryland

Performance measurement and performance management (also see PerformanceStat, below)

• • • Developing and using agency performance plans: Elizabeth Funsch, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
    • Colorado’s performance management strategy under Gov. Hickenlooper: David Padrino, State of Colorado
    • Twelve “better practices” that can help public leaders tackle key organizational challenges and boost results: Bob Behn, Harvard Kennedy School
    • How to design performance measures to better measure impact: Peter Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research
    • Applying the Balanced Scorecard to the public sector: Ken Thompson, Kellstadt School of Business, DePaul University
    • Implementing a turnaround at DOL: Seth Harris, formerly U.S. Department of Labor
    • New performance initiatives in Cincinnati city government: Chad Kenney, City of Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Successful performance management starts with purpose: Bob Behn, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Avoiding performance perversity: Donald Moynihan, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Performance standards and incentives: Carolyn Heinrich, University of Texas-Austin

PerformanceStat leadership strategy

• • • Launching LegisSTAT in New Mexico: Charles Sallee, Deputy Director, Legislative Finance Committee
    • Lessons in performance leadership from Montgomery County [including about CountyStat]: Dave Gottesman, Montgomery County, Maryland
    • Insights from C-Stat in Colorado at year 5: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Strengthening a culture of data-driven decision making: Carter Hewgley, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
    • New York City’s VendorStat initiative: Swati Desai, Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York
    • Strategies for turning around a city government [including through stat initiatives]: Andy Kopplin, City of New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Using “C-Stat” in Colorado to drive results-focused human services: Ki’i Powell, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Louisville’s performance initiatives, including LouieStat, at year three: Theresa Reno-Weber, City of Louisville, Kentucky
    • Focusing a social service agency on results and improved outcomes [through KidStat]: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
    • Local perspectives on PerformanceStat: David Gottesman, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Greg Useem, City of Alexandria, Virginia
    • Using LouieStat and collaboration across agencies to improve results in Louisville: Theresa Reno-Weber, City of Louisville, Kentucky
    • The PerformanceStat Potential: Bob Behn, Harvard Kennedy School
    • The Governor’s Delivery Unit in Maryland: Mike Powell, State of Maryland
    • Boosting results through HUDStat: Lisa Danzig, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    • Creating results-focused city government through SomerStat: Joseph Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts
    • Maryland’s StateStat initiative: Beth Blauer, State of Maryland

Personal growth

• • • Using mindfulness practices for greater self-awareness and self-improvement: Marc Margolius, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Prizes and challenges

• • • • Six ways government can use incentive prizes to spur innovation: Jesse Goldhammer, Deloitte Consulting
      • Using prize competitions to spur innovation in government: Jenn Gustetic, NASA

Researcher-practitioner partnerships

• • • How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors
    • The role of North Carolina’s Office of Strategic Partnerships: Jenni Owen, State of North Carolina
    • How federal agencies can use IPAs to bolster evidence capacity and help implement the Evidence Act: Dayanand Manoli, Professor, Georgetown University
    • Insights from a leading researcher-practitioner partnership, between Stanford University and San Francisco’s school district: Laura Wentworth, California Education Partners
    • Launching an applied research team within city government: David Yokum, Director, The Lab @ DC
    • How the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab (RIIPL) works: Justine Hastings, RIIPL
    • Test, learn and adapt: How public agencies can use researcher-practitioner partnerships to test low-cost, light touch interventions: Adam Sacarny, Columbia University
    • Creating successful researcher-practitioner partnerships at the Federal level: Dayanand Manoli, University of Texas at Austin
    • How school districts can use rigorous program evaluation to test new education reforms: Matthew Lenard, Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina
    • Connecting decision makers with high-quality research through the What Works Clearinghouse: Joy Lesnick, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
    • Setting HUD’s research agenda with input from the field through its Research Roadmap: Katherine O’Regan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    • Lessons from a successful research-to-practice collaboration: Carolyn Heinrich, University of Austin-Texas
    • The launch of JPAL North America: Larry Katz, Harvard University

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