3: Grants

Use innovative outcome-focused grant designs.

Other Information:

Using innovative outcome-focused grant designs: Proposals should expand or improve the use of grant program designs that focus Federal dollars on effective practices while also encouraging innovation in service delivery. These include tiered-evidence grants, Pay for Success initiatives and other pay for performance approaches, Performance Partnerships allowing blended funding, waiver demonstrations, incentive prizes, competitive incentive funds that encourage the use of evidence-based practices in formula grants, or other strategies to make grant programs more evidence focused.

Stakeholder(s):

• Federal Grant-Making Agencies: Because many Federal dollars flow to States, localities, and other entities through competitive and formula grants, grant reforms are an important component of strengthening the use of evidence in government. The goals include encouraging a greater share of grant funding to be spent on approaches with strong evidence of effectiveness and building more evaluation into grant-making so we keep learning more about what works.


• States


• Localities


• Grant Recipients

Objective(s):

3.1: Pay for Success

3.2: Tiered-Evidence

3.3: Performance Partnerships & Waiver Demonstrations

3.4: Competitive Grants

5: Multi-Phase Selection

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