The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, equivalent to CEGA’s domestic counterpart and a leading force working to institutionalize evidence-based policy making, will merge with one of its funders, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF). Also a funder of BITSS, LJAF will integrate the staff of the Coalition into its newly established Evidence-Based Policy and Innovation division. The mission of the new division will be very similar to the one of the Coalition it is replacing which will close down its operations in the next few days and transition its staff to the LJAF in the coming weeks.

According to a LJAF press release, the evidence-based policy subdivision, that will be led by Jon Baron, the former president of the Coalition, will focus on “strategic investments in rigorous evaluations, collaborations with policy officials to advance evidence-based reforms, and evidence reviews to identify promising and proven programs” (LJAF). The innovation subdivision, to be led by Kathy Stack, former…