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Arnold Ventures’s Building Evidence—Support for Causal Studies to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies, LOI due June 13, 2025

Arnold Ventures’s Building Evidence— Support for Causal Studies to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies aims to identify and evaluate bout potentially effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous, causal research using quasi-experimental methods that aligns with key AV policy areas, including higher education, career education and training, infrastructure, contraceptive choice and access, and public finance. Examples of causal research methods include natural experiments, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, and instrumental variable designs. Interested in randomized control trials (RCTs)? See other opportunity. OFR Contact: Mike McMahon. Amount: Not specified (recent grants have ranged from $200K – $400K). Deadline: 6/13/25 (LOI).