Client Services for Foundations and Individuals

RAND can help put the policy pieces together for the foundation community. RAND has helped foundations to

• reframe the debate about the benefits of the arts and other arts-related research (The Wallace Foundation)
• better understand the way legal and regulatory policymaking affect small businesses and entrepreneurship (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
• examine early childhood education policies, including research into the potential effects of universal preschool programs (The David and Lucile Packard Foundation)
• improve geriatric health care through interdisciplinary research centers (The John A. Hartford Foundation).

RAND research and analysis generates innovative ideas and evidence-based options for individual philanthropists seeking to make a difference on important policy challenges. Donor-sponsored RAND projects include

• Building a Successful Palestinian State
• Future of Genetically Modified Crops
• Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis.

Additionally, generous philanthropic contributions, combined with earnings from RAND's endowment and operations, make possible RAND's Investment in People and Ideas program, which is used to support innovative research on issues crucial to the policy debate but that reach beyond the boundaries of traditional client funding.

Foundations interested in sponsoring RAND research should contact the relevant RAND business division.

Donors interested in supporting RAND's program for Investing in People and Ideas should contact Naveena Ponnusamy, Executive Director of Development, at (310) 393-0411, ext. 6678 or Naveena_Ponnusamy@rand.org.