This brief summarizes key findings of the Narrative Communications Project sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This communications capacity-building grant project aimed to help state-based advocates build consensus more effectively and promote children's health insurance...

In 2007, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established Insuring America's Children to help secure health care for all children. A new brief and executive summary document how state-based grantees responded and adapted to unprecedented changes in children's coverage over the past several...

This report presents the sampling design and data collection activities for round 4 (2010) of the Social Security Administration’s National Beneficiary Survey (NBS). It also provides descriptive statistics on working-age individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income and Social...

This report presents findings from an analysis of baseline data collected as the first step in an impact evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s energy sector project in Tanzania. The evaluation will use rigorous methods to estimate impacts of two project components: (1) an...

This report presents findings from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Transforming Healthcare Quality Through IT program on aspects of sustainability, partnerships, and effective teamwork in grantees’ health IT implementation. Seventy percent of grantees sustained or...

This catalog compiles information from 54 studies of 39 family-strengthening programs that serve low-income couples. It documents the research on the programs’ effectiveness or impacts and the degree to which the studies demonstrate that a specific program (and not some other factor) led...

This report presents findings from a study on outreach and Medicaid enrollment best practices to meet Missouri’s insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act. The study found that mobilizing a broad network of local partners is key; new messages and partners will be needed to reach...

The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Compact with Armenia aimed to reduce rural poverty and improve agricultural production. A rigorous evaluation of irrigation training programs associated with the Compact’s Water-to-Market Activity found the training did not substantially...

Funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation and implemented by El Salvador’s Millennium Challenge Account (FOMILENIO in Spanish) from 2008 to 2012, the Productive Development Project (PDP) aimed to assist in the development of profitable and sustainable business ventures for poor...

This working paper found a program that constructed high quality “girl-friendly†primary schools in Burkina Faso increased enrollment of all children between 5 and 12 years old by 20 percentage points and increased girls’ enrollment 5 percentage points more than boys’.