Policy Innovation Days
Incubating research partnerships to accelerate policy innovation.
Research partnerships between universities and state and local governments can help communities adopt more effective ways of delivering critically important public goods and services — health, education, safety, clean air and water, and growth-oriented infrastructure. Yet it is not easy for either government agencies or campus-based researchers to form these collaborations. The Policy Innovation Days initiative supports convenings designed to incubate impactful research and evaluation collaborations between SSRC member universities and their state and local government partners.
Connecting agencies and researchers on their home turf
Many university offices work closely with state and local government partners. These institutional connections provide a valuable opportunity to engage public sector agencies in conversations about their research and evaluation needs — conversations that can lead to funded research and evaluation partnerships, drawing on federal grants to state and local governments as well as philanthropic funds.
Generously supported by Arnold Ventures, the initiative funds SSRC member universities to work with their state and local government partners to co-host events bringing together agency representatives seeking research and evaluation support, and campus-based researchers with expertise in causal policy and program evaluation. Hosted on- or off-campus, Policy Innovation Days offer agencies the opportunity to define their research and evaluation priorities, allow researchers to engage with agencies on questions of data availability and quality, and enable both to incubate potential collaborations.
The SSRC covers event costs including travel, lodging, space rental, and catering.
The Chanin Building · 122 East 42nd Street, 46th Floor · New York, NY 10168