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Lessons Learned

All of Pew’s projects begin with sound planning and rigorous design. This process is ongoing and includes engaging experts from inside and outside the organization.

Once a project is approved and implemented, its progress is continuously tracked by project staff and reviewed each year by Pew’s board and senior leadership. This annual reassessment provides our staff with an opportunity to reflect on the progress of their work and either reaffirm or revise their objectives, strategies, milestones, and timelines.

Strategic plans are not carved in stone, nor are they useful if left on the shelf. As such, annual plans are an important means of keeping strategies up to date and responsive to what is being learned through implementation in the field. Impact is measured through a rigorous and independent evaluation of the overall program to assess its return on investment and inform decisions about next steps, including changing the methodology and goals of the project or choosing not to move forward.

We report regularly on our experience in Trust magazine and online. Recent reviews include:

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75 Years of Solutions

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For 75 years, The Pew Charitable Trusts has studied the problems that hold people back—and helped fix them. Whether it is making government more responsive, protecting the ocean and public lands, or improving people’s health and economic well-being, Pew’s work is always nonpartisan, based on facts, and guided by a commitment to use data to help individuals and communities thrive. We ask challenging questions, we strive to create common ground, and we run ambitious projects designed to make a difference.

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Reaching New Horizons

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As the world evolved—offering new problems and opportunities—Pew rose to the challenge in 2022, finding ways to help communities and people thrive.

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Follow the Facts

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Facts are critical to our work because they’re the foundation that effective policies are built on and measured by and provide a common language that leaders can use to explain their policy choices to a deeply divided public. As such, facts don’t prejudge. They don’t pick sides in a debate.

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A New Collaboration for Vast and Lasting Conservation

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Enduring Earth seeks to help governments, Indigenous peoples, and local communities protect lands and waters essential to the future of the planet and humanity

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A Boost for Public Safety

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How Pew’s public safety performance project has helped propel reforms in the corrections field.

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Progress in a Difficult Year

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From conducting research that helps state policymakers cope with the pandemic’s fiscal impacts to promoting legislation to restore our national parks, Pew’s work produced a range of accomplishments in 2020.

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The History of Evaluation at Pew

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The Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned its first evaluation, hiring external experts to examine its work to highlight successes and failures, in 1985. Since then, evaluation has been an integral part of Pew’s approach to philanthropy.

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Informing Public Debate

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Pew’s evaluation team commissions external experts to examine our past work, seeking not only to highlight successes and failures, but to provide lessons that can inform the institution’s ongoing and future projects.

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How States Are Innovating to Meet Today’s Challenges

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With tightening revenues and the continuing effects of the coronavirus, state leaders are embracing new policies.

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Three Perspectives, One America

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No matter where they live, Americans share many views in divided times

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Congress Passes the Largest Conservation Bill in a Decade

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On March 12, President Donald Trump signed into law the largest land conservation legislation in a decade. But it almost didn’t happen.

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Making Every Vote Count

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Making Every Vote Count

In 1952, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to improve the absentee voting program for Americans serving in the military. “When these young people are defending our country,” he said then, “the least we at home can do is make sure they are able to enjoy the rights they are being asked to fight to preserve.”

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Expanding Pre-k Education

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Expanding Pre-k Education

New research on child development fueled the movement for pre-kindergarten education in the 1990s by emphasizing the importance of early learning and the untapped capacity of young minds. In 2001, Pew developed a seven- to 10-year plan to seek approval of policies for universal, high-quality early education in four to six states as well as increased federal funding to support it.

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Corrections Policy

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Corrections Policy

Today, Pew works with interested states and a diverse set of partners to diagnose the factors driving prison growth and provide policy audits that identify options for reform based on solid research, promising approaches, and best practices.

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Saving the Land

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Saving the Land

An independent evaluation found that Pew’s campaign to conserve wild lands in Canada and Australia was successful in sustaining global biological diversity.