Reducing childhood exposure to lead is potentially one of the most impactful public safety policies. Read Jennifer Doleac's statement on President Biden' announcement of new lead abatement investments: bit.ly/4dfNMgu

📣📣📣Hey smart people! Yes, YOU! Have an idea for a causal study to build #evidence in higher education, infrastructure, public finance, or contraceptive choice and access? We want to support your work!

Learn more about the RFP + apply by *June 1*: bit.ly/3UORuqA

Over the past few years the BreakFree Education fellowship has helped to train more than a dozen formerly incarcerated people and help them find employment in the Washington, D.C. area.

Read more about the program here: arnoldventures.org/stories/suppor… #SecondChanceMonth

Terrific interview with Eva Ruth Moravec about Texas Justice Initiative. I'm thrilled that AV is supporting this public service - more and better data on what is happening inside our jails and prisons.

arnoldventures.org/stories/texas-…

Our recent study for Arnold Ventures on #counsel at first appearance was recently cited by Austin Statesman:

statesman.com/story/opinion/…

According to new KFF issue brief, site neutral payments could reduce incentives for hospitals to buy up physician practices and lower health care costs.

Learn more: bit.ly/3Uf0ovQ #SiteNeutral #HealthCareCosts

We’re thrilled to be working on this effort and so grateful for the support.

Rohini Pande of EGC/Yale Department of Economics speaking about how testing & iterating on program design through research can take good ideas to their potential, w Laura Arnold of Arnold Ventures and David Wilkinson of Tobin Center for Economic Policy at the last night's @Yale For Humanity event, Dallas.

With support from AV, Texas Justice Initiative will be expanding and deepening its data collection and analysis regarding deaths in Texas' prisons and jails.

Read our interview with their executive director Eva Ruth Moravec here:
arnoldventures.org/stories/texas-…

🚨 Our E&E team has issued a 'Building Evidence' #RFP to fund strong, quasi-experimental studies in Contraceptive Choice & Access, #HigherEd , #Infrastructure , and Public Finance.

⏳ Deadline for letters of interest (LOIs) is June 1

Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3UORuqA

We are pleased to support CJARS' #JusticeOutcomesExplorer . JOE is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a fresh glimpse into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year.

Learn more here: joe.cjars.org

What does the future of power look like? 🤔

Solar, storage, and wind make up 95% of active capacity in queue to connect to the grid, according to a new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Read the full report: bit.ly/3UfrSkX

Randall McNeil, BreakFree Education fellow and criminal justice policy analyst at Arnold Ventures, shares his journey and his perspective on the challenges and opportunities formerly incarcerated people face.

Read the interview: bit.ly/43M4a3y #SecondChanceMonth

Ever heard of turning a setback into a comeback? That's exactly what Thomas Barnes did. From job struggles to positively impacting his community & family, he flipped his story.

It's a powerful reminder: #secondchances can truly change the game. Safe & Just Michigan #SecondChanceMonth

Hospital systems have justified horizontal mergers for years claiming that larger scale will lower costs and raise quality. We now have the 3rd study showing that merged systems, even if in different markets, materially raise prices & don't improve quality measures.
via STAT

New issue brief from KFF identifies 10 things to know about consolidation in #healthcare provider markets.

Learn more: bit.ly/3Uf0ovQ #HealthCareCosts

There are about 44,000 collateral consequences across the country for those with records. These 'permanent punishments' aren't fair to people who have served their time and want to rebuild their lives.

Learn more about our work on this issue: bit.ly/2YFHcef

In an op-ed for AL.com, Matthew Charles of FAMM Foundation & Andy Potter of One Voice United discuss the corrections crisis — in Alabama and nationwide — that's putting corrections officers & incarcerated people at risk, and decreasing community safety. al.com/opinion/2024/0…

Second panel moderated by Destiny Center Arnold Ventures with New Jersey Office of the Public Defender Jennifer Sellitti, Alexander Shalom ACLU of New Jersey, Rev. Dr. Charles Franklin Boyer Salvation and Social Justice, Jiles Ship - thanks to Stono Public Affairs for bringing so many leaders together! #CJR

Happening now at Kean University: Destiny Carter Arnold Ventures kicks off a great #CJR event with Stono Public Affairs, Shavonda E. Sumter, Senator Angela V. McKnight, Britnee N. Timberlake, Dr. Herb Conaway, Adrian O. Mapp, Jiles Ship and so many others.