Results for America

This week, Results for America's Solutions Accelerator team is in Santa Fe, New Mexico alongside our partners Fines and Fees Justice Center and the San Francisco Financial Justice Project to host our Cities and Counties for Fine and Fee Justice Accelerator with over 50 jurisdictions and 100+ people to learn about how to implement bold and equitable fines and fees reform.

Read the latest from The New York Times featuring Fines and Fees Justice Center's Joanna Weiss to learn more about the negative impacts fees have upon Americans dealing with the criminal justice system.

Want to learn more? Explore our Roadmap to Bold and Equitable Fine and Fee Reform 👇🏽http://results4america.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Roadmap-to-Bold-and-Equitable-Fine-and-Fee-Reform.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/opinion/jail-fees-mass-incarceration.html

Opinion | How Expensive Is Going to Jail? We Did the Math. Our criminal justice system is nickel-and-diming people at every turn, burying them in punishing debt.

Last month, RFA's Heather Boughton and Sara Kerr led a presentation at Southern Education Foundation's Outcomes-Based Contracting 2024 Convening where they shared how evidence-based spending strategies can help state education agencies maximize the impact of their grant programs and improve outcomes for students across the nation.

Want to learn more about how you can build and use evidence to achieve better, more equitable outcomes through your grantmaking programs? Explore our Education Evidence-Based Spending Guide! https://educationspending.results4america.org/

As we look back on a great Month, we want to take a moment to highlight the incredible work of our State and Local Workforce Fellows. Together with our dedicated Workforce Policy team, they’re working to make sure workforce policies across the country are not only informed by evidence, but have the well-being of workers front and center.

As part of our mission to equip government with the tools needed to invest in what works, we've developed resources designed to help workforce and economic development leaders to maximize impact with data and evidence, as well as identify and implement strategies to place workers into better jobs.

Explore them here:

👷🏻‍♀️ Job Quality Playbook:
https://jobquality.results4america.org/

📊 Workforce Spending Guide:
https://workforcespending.results4america.org/

Today, Results for America in partnership with the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC), PolicyLink and SAJE, will begin our Right to Counsel (RTC) Solutions Sprint! Right to Counsel is a crucial tool to fight unjust evictions, protect renters and save jurisdictions money. We're excited to share that Organized Power In Numbers will be among our upcoming Right to Counsel cohort!

Today at 9am MST at Phoenix City Hall they will hold a press conference to highlight how this policy can provide relief for workers, families and those affected by the housing crisis. Phoenix-based residents are encouraged to attend and RSVP here:

Right to Counsel Press Conference As organizers and community leaders we invite you to the Right to Counsel Press Conference on Wednesday, September 25th, where we will be calling for the Right to Counsel in evictions as a crucial tool to fight unjust evictions and protect renters. We’ll be highlighting how this policy can provide...

🇨🇦 What Works Cities Certification is in Canada!

We couldn’t be more excited to visit our first Canadian cities to learn more about data practices driving progress! Thank you and for hosting us recently.

Each visit was a unique opportunity to peek behind the curtains of Canadian municipal government and get to know the leaders who are committed to data-driven decision-making. It’s inspiring to see in-person the positive impact the cities of Calgary and Winnipeg have on their residents.

Stay tuned for more on the Canadian horizon! Learn more at whatworkscities.org or at the link in our bio.

📣 Join RFA and bipartisan leaders next week (9/24) to discuss how to invest $1 trillion in solutions that work!

📅 On Tuesday, September 24 at 1 p.m. ET we'll be hosting a virtual event demonstrating how the Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide can help policymakers invest federal funds in what works. At the event, we’ll hear from Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) and Congressman Rudy Yakym (R-IN), two of the co-chairs of the Congressional What Works Caucus, as well as other senior federal and state leaders who are using the approaches detailed in the guide to advance economic mobility.

💻 RSVP to reserve your place today!
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jeyOT8P-R1OjmMEa61-Xag #/registration

We are thrilled that Results for America's Brittany Giroux Lane has been selected for the 2024-25 Obama Foundation Leaders USA Program.

Her leadership of the Solutions Accelerator at RFA has resulted in an approximate investment of $100 million by local governments to support evidence-based solutions that advance economic mobility.

Read more about her work helping governments identify and invest in solutions that improve lives!

Brittany Giroux Lane Brittany Giroux Lane, 2024-2025 Obama Foundation USA Leader

🗣️ JOB ALERT! 📣

We're seeking an Associate Director for Federal Evidence-Based Policy who is passionate about improving government outcomes and advancing economic mobility outcomes. The Associate Director will lead RFA’s “Invest in What Works Federal Standard of Excellence”, which seeks to advance evidence-based policymaking in federal agencies, departments, and other units and RFA’s federal evidence-based policy agenda engaging with the White House and Congress.

Learn more and apply today! ⬇️
https://grnh.se/17f988b77us

Last week, RFA's Director of Education Policy Implementation Heather Boughton joined Ohio Deans Compact's Statewide Action Forum for a panel entitled, "Accelerating Learning for All Students: Insights from High-Dosage Tutoring & Other High-Impact Strategies" alongside Leiah Groom-Thomas, J. Lasley II and Sarah Wilson to discuss how data can be used to inform, evaluate and improve the impact of High-Dosage Tutoring.

Research consistently shows that tutoring helps students learn, with numerous studies confirming its strong benefits. Driven by this evidence, policymakers and educational leaders nationwide can invest in tutoring initiatives to boost student outcomes.

Learn more about high-impact tutoring here in our brief: https://edresearchforaction.org/research-briefs/design-principles-for-accelerating-student-learning-with-high-impact-tutoring/

Is your city is looking to build long-term, sustainable data practices? If so, join us on September 18 at 2 PM ET for an exclusive webinar with Mayor Corey Woods of Platinum-Certified City of Tempe Government, Arizona where he'll be joined by What Works Cities Managing Director Rochelle Haynes to discuss Tempe's data-driven path to sustained community impact.

Tempe originally achieved Certification in 2020. Since then the City has continued to invest in citywide practices. The result? In 2023, Tempe became one of only five Platinum-Certified cities ever.

📅 Save your spot today! bit.ly/TempeWebinar

Yesterday, the EdResearch for Action team participated in Catalyst:Ed's webinar entitled, “The Power and Potential of Aligning Existing Programs to Evidence" to share how EdResearch for Action’s Act on Evidence Toolkit can be a powerful tool for harnessing to improve outcomes in .

Learn more and explore the Toolkit from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University here: https://edresearchforaction.org/resources/act-on-evidence-toolkit/

We're enjoying another fantastic day of peer learning at the Rapid Cycle Fellowship Convening in Washington, D.C.! 🙌🏽 The are diving deeper into -based approaches to improving outcomes for workers in their states & beyond.

Curious about how a change in administration could impact Inflation Reduction Act implementation?

Join the Sustainable Cities Fund and the Local Infrastructure Hub for a webinar hosted by Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Law on September 18 at 12pm ET to hear from experts and explore the findings from Columbia Climate School's latest report on the progress and potential risks to the Inflation Reduction Act and efforts to protect communities from the impacts of climate change.

💻 Register for the 9/18 virtual webinar here:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b11rCvMjQYGFghRNASWugA #/registration

📘 Dive into the newly released report here:
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2024/09/10/implementing-the-inflation-reduction-act-progress-to-date-and-risks-from-a-future-hostile-administration/

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act: Progress to Date and Risks from a Future Hostile Administration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act: Progress to Date and Risks from a Future Hostile Administration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

“The Local Infrastructure Hub’s pro-bono bootcamps and training sessions opened doors to the technical guidance we needed. Bootcamp leaders provided our city staff with fact sheets and bespoke data points, connected them to subject matter experts, and coached them in one-on-one sessions that sharpened our grant applications. In no time, we had an array of resources at our fingertips.”

The result: The City of White Plains won millions of dollars in grants to plant trees, build safer streets, install energy-efficient HVAC and lighting and revitalize the downtown.

More from Mayor Thomas Roach on working with the Local Infrastructure Hub and why other municipalities should lean on the program’s supports in Governing:

Want to Make the Most of Federal Infrastructure Funding? There’s a Hub for That. Through boot camps and training sessions, a group is helping smaller cities and towns with limited resources put together competitive grant applications. More mayors should take advantage of it.

Today, we're excited to kick off Day 1 of our Workforce Rapid Cycle Fellowship Convening in Washington, D.C.! Over the next two days our will discuss , solutions, , and much more! Stay tuned as we share lessons and updates!

Learn more about RFA's work to drive federal, state, and local workforce funds toward evidence-based strategies and improve outcomes for America's workforce here: https://results4america.org/our-work/workforce-policy/

NEW! 📢 Today, we’re excited to launch the Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide — a new comprehensive, user-friendly resource to help policymakers in Congress, the White House and federal agencies shift the over $1 trillion allocated through federal grants each year to evidence-based solutions.

Explore the new Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide here:
https://federalspending.results4america.org/

📅 We also hope that you'll join us Tuesday, September 24 at 1 p.m. ET for a virtual event demonstrating how the Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide can help you invest federal funds in what works. RSVP today here: https://go.results4america.org/e/1060053/ster-WN-jeyOT8P-R1OjmMEa61-Xag/95g8ym/2429313828/h/-qO6PT9TrdW3_cbovWNdL2uXokGWpbFfwFSWTGHHrhg

Homepage The Results for America Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide describes the following strategies for how the federal legislative branch (Congress) and executive branch (White House and Federal Agencies) can invest in what works:

If 50% of current opioid settlement funds were spent on evidence-based interventions, we estimate that around 90,000 lives could be saved over a 10 year period.

This week, Zachary Markovits and Patrick Carter spoke at ’s Pathway to Hope Summit on how communities can use data & evidence to maximize the impact of $50 billion from opioid settlements.

The $50 billion provides hope. Hope to individuals, families and communities that have been brought to their knees because of this epidemic. This money can save thousands of lives. But it has to be spent on programs that work.

We’re honored to support community leaders as they face the opioid crisis with empathy and evidence-based solutions.

Learn more about the Summit: bit.ly/3AhNmar

🎉 Congratulations to Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence (DBI) for winning the 2024 Sharman Stein Award for Storytelling Changemakers! 🎉

Led by Dr. Brita Andercheck, Ph.D., the DBI team has created over 50 public data products for more than 20 city departments. Highlights include making data accessible to Spanish-speaking residents, combating human trafficking with innovative dashboards and working toward zero traffic fatalities by 2030.

The annual award recognizes local government teams that build trust and collaboration with residents through outstanding public communication.

See how Dallas is doing it: bit.ly/DallasSharmanStein