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From Pilot to Policy: Five Things to Know about Summer EBT
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States can roll out summer grocery programs in 2024 for students eligible for subsidized school lunches, and here are five things states need to know.

Abt’s Program Theory Playbook: Six Visual Strategies That Will Change Your Evaluation Game
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Abt’s developed a playbook that illustrates six different types of program theories to help program developers and evaluators visualize program theories.

Three Tips to Make the Most of Community School Funding
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Funding for the Full Service Community Schools Program has doubled, so we’re offering three tips to make the most of this approach to support the whole child.

Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded
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Abt Global’s decade of evaluations of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children pilot can inform the national rollout of the pilot.

Do Year-Round Schools Work? Three Questions to Ask
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Abt’s Cara Jackson offers three tips to help educators determine if year-round instruction is desirable—and feasible—for their students.

Guaranteed Income and Avoiding the Benefits Cliff
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Guaranteed income is a promising benefit for many; this blog addresses the complications that may arise when combined with other programs.

New HUD Funding Addresses Three Challenges Identified by Encampment Research
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Abt explains how the Biden administration’s Initiative for Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness addresses findings from our study of homeless encampments.

Strategies for Success: How To Boost Students’ College Completion and Earnings
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Colleges could help more adults complete credentials and boost earnings by combining features of proven career pathways and sector training programs.

Evaluating the Workforce Innovation Fund
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The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…

Process Study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Pay for Success” Pilots
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tested the use of a Pay for Success (PFS) approach for funding and evaluating employment services. Under the PFS model, private and philanthropic investors cover the up-front costs of delivering an intervention. Then…