Georgia Policy Labs

HELP FUND DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS THAT PROMOTE PUBLIC POLICIES THAT LIFT CHILDREN, STUDENTS, AND FAMILIES—ESPECIALLY THOSE EXPERIENCING VULNERABILITIES

The Georgia Policy Labs is an interdisciplinary research center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies that inspires and drives meaningful policy discussions through the independent, rigorous data insights we generate. Our faculty, staff, and students work alongside our school district and state agency partners to magnify their research capabilities and use the data they share with us to produce evidence-based programmatic and policy insights that provide a clear picture of the humanity beyond the numbers. Our work reveals how policies and programs can be modified so that every child, student, and family can thrive.

What will your gift support?

• Ongoing rapid-response research that provides our school district partners with evidence-based recommendations to help mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic on students
• Free training designed to augment agency staff’s abilities to produce and communicate evidence-based programming and policies
• Development of the next generation of researchers committed to advancing positive, equitable experiences and outcomes for children, students, and families
• A passionate team of faculty, staff, and students developing mutually-beneficial partnerships with agencies in Georgia and across the United States to perform state-of-the-art actionable policy research that seeks to answer questions that one agency cannot answer alone

How has the Georgia Policy Labs made an impact?

• We are designing and analyzing data to manage Georgia’s P-EBT 2.0 program—delivering approximately $1 billion in food assistance to children. We are uniquely qualified to analyze data from multiple state agencies to serve children experiencing poverty and food insecurity.
• We have impacted over 90,000 students as a result of one of our school district partners designing its multi-year pandemic recovery plan based on our rapid-response analysis of the student-level impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and evidence-based recommendations.
• We have trained over 500 people from school districts, non-profit community partners, university partners, and state agencies in Georgia and across the country, increasing their capacity to be catalysts who create evidence-based policies and programs.

Thank you for giving to the Georgia Policy Labs. Your contribution will ensure we have the needed funds to bring the best resources to each policy question, to build our partners’ capacity, and to support research that outlines the actionable possibilities for ensuring children, students, and families have positive, equitable experiences and outcomes now and in the future.