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This brief describes the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC), an innovative approach to increasing data analytics capacity at state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies.

Explore this brief on the Office of Refugee Resettlement's Matching Grant Program, which describes common approaches used by resettlement agencies and the local affiliates in their network for securing matching funds and building partnerships.

Explore briefs highlighting ACF projects to support the agency’s evidence capacity, including needs assessment, learning agenda development, and administrative data analysis.

This brief highlights promising practices for preparing and linking data and discusses lessons learned related to (1) processing and cleaning data, (2) completing linkages, and (3) collaborating with partners to execute linkages.

Federal agencies often have experience with building and using evidence to design, manage, and improve their work on behalf of the public. All agencies, regardless of their experience level, can benefit from assessing their capacity to build and apply evidence in their work. The brief presents a snapshot of an evidence capacity framework that draws on research literature supplemented with interviews and focus groups with federal staff.

The findings described in this report represent some of the first available evidence on how individuals who previously received welfare fared in the labor market over the long term and on how sequence and cluster analyses can provide a richer picture of their trajectories and program impacts.

Explore a framework developed by OPRE that introduce five dimensions of evidence capacity among federal agencies: evidence culture, evidence infrastructure, engagement, human capital, and leadership.

A report for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on options and opportunities to address and mitigate the existing and potential risks, as well as promote benefits, associated with AI and other advanced analytic methods.

Explore this toolkit filled with practical guidance for state and local TANF agencies on how to access, link, and analyze employment data from unemployment insurance (UI) systems for program monitoring, reporting, and evaluation.

This webinar is designed to support CCDF Lead Agency staff and partners in understanding how stakeholder perspectives can be paired with agency data to help answer more policy questions. Learn how the perspectives of the people experiencing or implementing the policies can increase understanding of problems, possible solutions, and community contexts...