Astoria, OR – According to the state officials, Results for America is a national nonprofit that promotes evidence-based policymaking.
Its newly released 2023 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excell highlights advances in evidence-based grantmaking, budgeting and direct services, and identifies 194 efforts across 46 states to build and use evidence and data to achieve better, more equitable results for residents.
- Oregon was one of this year’s five leading states. Highlights of its data-driven work include:
- Investment of funds in evidence-based direct services for young people.
- The use of evidence-based budget targets.
- A focus on budgeting towards creating equitable outcomes, including the addition of racial impact assessments in agency budget requests.
- Strong data leadership, including having a state data strategy, a data strategy website, and undertaking efforts to support open data and transparency among state agencies.
