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Arnold Ventures’ Education team seeks to fund rigorous, causal research on programs, policies, and practices that improve student outcomes and deliver stronger returns on investment for students and taxpayers. Our work focuses on strengthening the evidence base on effective student success models and aligning policy and funding incentives to support their adoption and scale.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to email Jessica Taketa at jtaketa@​arnoldventures.​org or book a time to chat with her.

There current open Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and links to our past RFPs are listed below.

Arnold Ventures report cover titled “Causal Research on the Impacts of K-12 School Policies,” with three students walking in a school hallway and lockers alongside.

This request for proposals (RFP) seeks to support research studies that estimate the causal effects of actionable, politically viable U.S. K‑12 education policies that can be influenced at the state level and have the potential to improve outcomes at scale.

View the RFP  

Past Education RFPs

Causal Research to Improve Outcomes for Part-Time Students


This RFP closed on June 14, 2026. 

Causal Research to Improve Outcomes for Part-Time Students

This RFP seeks to fund rigorous causal research that builds the evidence base on effective programs and policies for part-time students and identifies scalable, cost-effective approaches to improve completion and labor market outcomes.