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