Performance Management Resources

• Agency Services
• Governor’s Advisory Committee on Performance Management
• NC Results First
• Office of Strategic Partnerships
• OSBM Strategic Planning
• Performance Management Community of Practice

These resources provide a basic understanding of cost-benefit analysis and discuss why CBA is a helpful tool for understanding the monetary impact of a program over time.

• Center for Effective Government Cost-Benefit Analysis Overview
• Pew Charitable Trusts Results First Report: State’s Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Society for Cost Benefit Analysis
• Vera Institute Cost-Benefit Analysis and Justice Policy Toolkit

These cross-cutting resources cover the basics of performance management and cross many subfields of performance management and evidence-based policy work.

• Charting the Next Decade of Evidence Generation in State and Local Government: A Virtual Webinar Series (J-PAL North America)
• Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act of 2018
• How States Engage in Evidence-Based Policy Making (The Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Methods and Tools to Use Performance Data at the State Level: Key Terms, Definitions, & How They Connect (NASBO)

• J-PAL North America Evaluation Summaries
• J-PAL State and Local Government Initiative
• UK Treasury Guidance on Evaluation

These resources provide more information on how to find and evaluate data and evidence, and illustrate how it into your work.

General Evidence Resources

• Using the Results First Clearinghouse Database Helps Users Access Information on Program Effectiveness (The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Results First Initiative)
• Where to Search for Evidence of Effective Programs (The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Results First Initiative)
• OSBM Tiered Levels of Evidence
• Evidence to Policy Resources (JPAL North America)
• A practical frameword for evidence-informed policy: Addressing the generalizability puzzle (JPAL North America)

Using Data in Contracting

• How to Use Evidence in the Contracting Process (The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Results First Initiative)
• Evidence Based Contracting Examples (The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Results First Initiative)

Translating Evidence into Policy (Project Examples)

• How do body-worn cameras impact policing?
• The design of paperwork increases program efficiency
• Predicting where rats live

• Department of Information Technology Yellow Belt Training – Available via Beacon Learning Management System
• Results Washington – Lean Conference

• UNC School of Government - Strategic Planning

Cross-Cutting Resources

• Arnold Ventures, Arnold Venture's Evidence-Based Policy Team

• Center for Results-Driven Governing, National Conference for State Legislatures 

• Center on Social Determinants, Risk Behaviors, and Prevention Science, RTI International

• The Data Coalition

• Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES), General Services Administration (GSA)

• Evidence Team, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

• Evidence-based Policy: Strategies for Improving Outcomes and Accountability

• Pew Charitable Trusts

• Pew Results First Initiative

• Results for America

• Social Programs that Work, Arnold Ventures Evidence Team

• WT Grant Foundation - Improving the Use of Reserach Evidence

Topic Specific Resources

• Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center, SAMHSA

• Institute of Education Sciences

• Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), The White House

• RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center