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Grants to President and Fellows of Harvard College

Amount Purpose Term Source
$91,757 To expand access to research about public sector retirement systems. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$143,762 To help identify new payment models for Accountable Care Organizations and other entities and to develop research studies to evaluate those models. 2016 - 2017 LJAF
$8,745,487 To support the operations of the Harvard HealthCare Markets and Regulations Lab. 2017 - 2021 LJAF
$63,129 To educate key stakeholders about improving the treatment of opioid use disorders. 2017 - 2018 LJAF
$87,857 To support the HealthCare Markets and Regulation Lab's consultation to the state of Arkansas' health reform task force. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$187,981 To evaluate policies intended to lower prices for health care services including a public option and price regulation. 2018 - 2020 LJAF
$195,071 To evaluate the effects on spending and use of an employer-based reward program for patients that choose lower-priced healthcare providers. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$1,126,786 To help develop a litigation strategy focused on ending deceptive practices in the for-profit college industry. 2016 - 2017 LJAF
$18,785 To identify reforms that address the unfair practices of for-profit colleges. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$3,057,093 To support the Project on Predatory Student Lending in its efforts to challenge predatory lending practices in the for-profit college industry. 2019 - 2021 LJAF
$123,219 To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the Public Safety Assessment. 2015 - 2020 LJAF
$196,489 To conduct a randomized controlled trial on a teacher training program. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$80,749 To promote best practices that can help governments achieve operational excellence in a cost-efficient manner. 2016 - 2017 LJAF
$725,000 To provide general operating support to the Harvard Open Access Project. 2016 - 2018 LJAF
$155,000 To sponsor a conference on data sharing in medical clinical trials. 2014 - 2015 LJAF
$733,571 To fund the continuation of the Coding for Cancer initiative, the development of a plan to support future open innovation challenges, and the creation of a preliminary plan for an open innovation center that will coordinate future efforts across health ca 2016 - 2018 LJAF
$25,000 To host a conference and support research on state pension underfunding. 2017 - 2018 LJAF
$89,461 To conduct research and educate key stakeholders about the impact of local control on municipal public finance in Illinois. 2017 - 2018 LJAF
$800,000 To support the Center for Public Leadership's efforts to evaluate a series of low-cost, high-yield interventions. 2016 LJAF
$240,000 To support the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. 2014 LJAF
$551,134 To support the Harvard Kennedy School's Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab. 2013 - 2015 LJAF
$380,000 To support the Equality of Opportunity project. 2013 - 2016 LJAF
$40,000 To develop ideas for future experimental interventions related to housing voucher programs. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$134,526 To support the Civic Analytics Network, a network of 20 local government Chief Data Officers. 2018 - 2019 LJAF
$150,000 To support a research fellow at the federal agency level to demonstrate new methods in state-federal research partnerships and behaviorally-informed interventions. 2018 - 2019 LJAF
$3,000,000 To provide state and local jurisdictions with technical assistance aimed at improving government agency service delivery and procurement systems. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$7,449,048 To support the Harvard Kennedy School's Government Performance Lab. 2015 - 2019 LJAF
$2,141,762 To develop and support a network of government chief data officers. 2016 - 2018 LJAF
$507,563 To provide technical support to community partners in state and local jurisdictions that are considering sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and other policies. 2018 - 2022 LJAF
$416,341 To support research examining whether Medicare Advantage enrollment is associated with less wasteful health care spending. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$399,672 To develop and disseminate a guide for state and local government officials on allocating opioid litigation funds. 2019 - 2021 LJAF
$60,000 To develop and publish 20 evidence-based commentaries on healthcare topics. 2022 - 2023 LJAF
$9,828,842 To support the development and operations of the HealthCare Markets and Regulations Lab. 2014 - 2018 LJAF
$180,111 To support the development of the HealthCare Markets and Regulation Lab. 2014 LJAF
$9,300,000 To provide general operating support. 2020 - 2024 LJAF
$39,777 To evaluate existing barriers to the introduction of generic drugs for opioid use disorder treatment to the market. 2018 - 2019 LJAF
$147,197 To analyze the impact of patient assistance programs on prescription drug pricing in the United States. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$157,874 To examine the impact of biosimilar competition on biologic prices. 2020 - 2022 LJAF
$554,431 To research the extent of overpayments in Medicare Advantage plans for dual-eligible beneficiaries. 2022 - 2025 LJAF
$309,812 To examine the costs and benefits of vertical integration among health care providers in Massachusetts in an effort to inform policies that regulate and increase the value of potential vertical mergers and acquisitions while mitigating price increases. 2019 - 2021 LJAF
$109,814 To support research on the market-wide impacts of tiered network health plans on physician prices and referrals. 2021 - 2022 LJAF
$51,000 To support the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. 2022 DAF
$400,000 To provide general operating support 2020 ANI LLC
$482,749 To support follow-up of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Nurse Family Partnership in South Carolina. 2020 - 2023 LJAF
$260,563 To fund a low-cost randomized controlled trial of a cognitive behavioral therapy curriculum for youth participating in Job Corps. 2017 - 2020 LJAF
$593,110 To create a database that will support research on the impact of charter school attendance on long-term educational outcomes for students. 2018 - 2024 LJAF
$63,689 To help evaluate the impact of a hybrid learning model created by an education partnership on student outcomes. 2022 - 2023 LJAF
$2,709,337 To support Harvard Law School's Legal Services Center in its efforts to challenge predatory lending practices in the for-profit college industry. 2017 - 2019 LJAF
$1,572,632 To support strategic litigation and policy engagement to combat predatory practices in higher education and defend student borrowers. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$198,369 To promote evidence-based decision making at all levels of government. 2015 - 2017 LJAF
$401,828 To study how the shift toward non-prosecution of non-violent misdemeanors affects panel system outcomes by race/ethnicity. 2022 - 2024 LJAF
$24,000 To support a randomized controlled trial of the Public Safety Assessment. 2014 - 2017 LJAF
$5,422,849 To help create the Access to Justice Lab, which will promote the use of rigorous evidence about what works in the legal system. 2016 - 2024 LJAF
$40,000 To analyze the Boston Police Department's field interrogation observation policy. 2014 - 2015 LJAF
$313,634 To conduct research on day fines in Germany. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$1,017,058 To fund grantee?s Criminal Justice Policy Program. 2016 - 2020 LJAF
$539,823 To conduct a randomized controlled trial on the effects of legal financial obligations on criminal defendants' recidivism and other life outcomes. 2017 - 2019 LJAF
$207,000 To support a new chief data officer with the Opportunity Insights initiative. 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$315,893 To conduct comprehensive legal and policy research regarding how each state uses community supervision to monitor and enforce payment of criminal justice debt. 2019 - 2021 LJAF

Grants

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