Funding What Works (infographic)

Posted on September 30, 2016

A new policy tool called "tiered evidence grantmaking" allows federal agencies to award smaller amounts of grant funding to test promising ideas, and larger amounts to replicate practices with a proven record of success.

How exactly does that work? Scroll through our infographic to see.

Funding What Works infographic

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