Domestic Public Policy

The Domestic Public Policy Program supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. An overarching goal of the Foundation's grant making is to support projects that help stimulate and inform important public policy debates. To that end, the Foundation supports research on and evaluation of existing public policies and programs, as well as projects that inject new ideas into public debates. 

The Foundation is interested in a wide range of topics. Education and school reform have been central to the Foundation’s grant making in recent years, including efforts to assess the effectiveness of various school reform initiatives, such as charter schools. 

The Foundation has expanded on its interest in public finance issues by beginning to explore the future of the Medicare program and the larger challenge of coping with expected increases in the costs of federal entitlement programs.

The Foundation also provides support for projects that assess the impact of immigration on American society, examine the effectiveness of our regulatory policies, and explore the interaction between the policy making process and the political process through support for projects on congressional redistricting and the conduct and financing of political campaigns. The Foundation continues to support projects that inform the debate over policies designed to assist disadvantaged families.

In addition to its primary grant making program, the Foundation sponsors a special program known as the Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program, to assist a new generation of public policy analysts and scholars.

  

 
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The Brookings Institution
Kenneth Pollack
U.S. Policy Options Towards Iran
The National Institute for Public Policy
Keith Payne
Examination of U.S. Strategic Forces Policy and Capabilities
The Rand Corporation
Cheryl Benard
Reshaping Muslim World Narratives
 
American Enterprise Institute
Norm Ornstein
The Continuity of Government Project
University of Arkansas
Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky
The Fiscal and Educational Impacts of Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems
University of Chicago
Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan
Economic Well Being, Inequality, and the Middle Class
       
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