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Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and Political Analyst on What's Your Point on Fox 26 News, welcomes Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones. Commissioner Briones shares her work in improving Precinct 4, an important gun buyback program taking place this November 18th, and her literacy advocacy, with her recent appearance at NP's & NEA's Big Read event in September as well as the Harris County Proclamation given to Nuestra Palabra and Tony Diaz for 25 years of cultivating community cultural capital. Join us on NP Live at a special time this Wednesday, November 8th, at 9:00 AM CST as part of our multi stream broadcast. You can check out the show on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter! Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones is a native Texan and proud Latina who grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the daughter of teachers, who taught her the importance of education, hard work, and serving others—values that have defined her and which she now brings to the office of County Commissioner for Precinct 4. Upon graduating with honors from Harvard University, she began her career as an 8th and 10th-grade teacher at two of the lowest-income public schools in the country. She then attended Yale Law School, where she led the Latino Law Students' Association's public service initiatives and provided pro-bono assistance to survivors of domestic abuse and juvenile offenders. Commissioner Briones returned to Texas to practice law at Vinson & Elkins LLP, then served as General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of the Laura & John Arnold Foundation, a major national philanthropic nonprofit. She next became the Judge of Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 4. Judge Briones was the highest-rated Harris County Civil Court at Law Judge in the 2019 Houston Bar Association (HBA) Judicial Evaluation Poll and won the 2020 HBA Judicial Preference Poll. Briones co-founded the statewide nonprofit Texas Latinx Judges and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center. She and her husband, Adán, live in Houston with their three daughters and worship at St. Ambrose Catholic Church.

The session, titled The Importance of Now: Maintaining Momentum in Criminal Justice Transformation, ranges from the personal to the national, covering how both these experts began in criminal justice change, and how to address the particular needs of women involved in the criminal legal system. The discussion also addresses how misinformation impacts reform strategies, the tendency to focus on wins and then move on—rather than maintaining those wins—and the need to reach wider audiences with our messages.Guest BiosErica BondVice-President, Social Justice Initiatives, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeErica Bond has experience in the government, non-profit, public policy, and legal sectors. Prior to becoming Vice President of Justice Initiatives at John Jay College, Erica was the Policy Director at the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College, a research organization that seeks to advance safe, just and equitable communities through data and research on criminal justice policy, operations and reforms.  Previously, she served as Special Advisor for Criminal Justice to the First Deputy Mayor of New York City.Prior to joining city government, Erica was a Director of Criminal Justice at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (now called Arnold Ventures), where she worked to develop new research, policy reforms and evidenced-based innovations with the goal of transforming criminal justice systems nationwide. In this role, she partnered with criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and policymakers on initiatives to improve community safety, increase trust and confidence in the criminal justice system and ensure fairness in the criminal justice process. Erica is a mayoral designee to New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board. She has a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.DeAnna HoskinsPresident and CEO, JustLeadershipUSADeAnna R. Hoskins is President & CEO of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). Dedicated to cutting the U.S. correctional population in #halfby2030, JLUSA empowers people most affected by the criminal justice system to drive reform. DeAnna is a nationally recognized leader and a formerly incarcerated person with experience as an advocate and policy expert at the local, state, and federal level. Prior to joining JLUSA as its President and CEO, DeAnna served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, managing the Second Chance Act portfolio and serving as Deputy Director of the Federal Inter-Agency Reentry Council. Before that, she served as a county Director of Reentry in her home state of Ohio. DeAnna has always worked alongside advocates who have been impacted by incarceration, and knows that setting bold goals and investing in the leadership of directly impacted people is a necessary component of impactful, values-driven reform. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, The Aspen Institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse, support, or oppose political candidates or parties. Further, the views and opinions of our guests and speakers do not necessarily reflect those of The Aspen Institute.Visit us online at The Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative and follow us on Twitter @AspenCJRI.

Since the 2016 presidential election revealed some stark differences along racial lines in voting, the rallying cry of listening to Black women has become prevalent in many different areas of work. Today we are in conversation with Gabrielle Wyatt founder of The Highland Project, an organization focused on building and sustaining a pipeline of Black women leading communities, institutions, and systems, resulting in the creation of multi-generational wealth and change in their communities. Prior to founding The Highland Project, Gabrielle led major change initiatives in our nation's largest and most complex school systems and shaped the investment strategy of leading national philanthropic initiatives. Most recently, she was a Partner at The City Fund, founded by leading national philanthropists to support local education leaders to build local movements for systemic change in education. Gabrielle supported local education leaders across the nation to expand opportunities for students in public schools through strategic advising, board service, and philanthropic investments. During her tenure, Wyatt launched the City Leadership Fellowship, an executive leadership development program focused on empowering Black and Latinx leaders pursuing bold education visions. Before joining The City Fund, Gabrielle was the Chief Strategy Officer at Civic Builders. A non-profit focused on solving the facilities challenge for high quality charter schools. Gabrielle led partnerships with the Walton Family Foundation and Laura and John Arnold Foundation to launch three national facilities funds to support growing high performing public schools. As a Baltimore native, Gabrielle began her career as a Baltimore County Public Schools Board of Education member. Gabrielle is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Harvard Kennedy School. Gabrielle Wyatt is the proud daughter of two Baltimore educators, Mary Alice Thomas and Quentin Wyatt. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/LeadHighland/ Website: https://www.thehighlandproject.org/index.html

Welcome to Seeding the Future, a podcast from the Charter Cities Institute, where we explore how giving and philanthropy are changing as wealth is created in new industries, at younger ages, and by more diverse demographics. In this inaugural epode, we hear from John Arnold, American philanthropist, former Enron executive, and Founder of Arnold Ventures, about philanthropy for policy change. John hit it big trading natural gas in the 1990s and 2000s, going on to found one of the most successful energy trading hedge funds, Centaurus Energy, after leaving Enron. He now ranks as one of the world's richest people, with a net worth well over a billion dollars, and runs Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) with his wife, an organization doing groundbreaking work in criminal justice reform. Today, John shares how education reform, system design, and public policy inform his giving and some of the challenges he has encountered in advocating for policy. We discuss political polarization, crypto wealth, and their impact on philanthropy and John shares his interesting perspective on nonprofits as third parties that can solve problems in areas that governments and the private sector can't, plus so much more! Make sure not to miss this conversation with the billionaire philanthropist taking on criminal justice reform, John Arnold. Key Points From This Episode: •   How education reform, system design, and public policy have informed John's philanthropy. •   What his strategy for impact entails when it comes to advocating for policy. •   Major changes John has witnessed in philanthropy, including a shift to ‘giving while living'. •   Bridging the gap between founders and the nonprofit world with patience and commitment. •   Why John believes nonprofits need to be more direct with donors. •   Challenges that come with advocating for policy, particularly in the criminal justice space. •   Political polarization and philanthropy; what role nonprofits can play in voting reform. •   How decentralized crypto wealth will impact the philanthropy of the future. •   Global conflict resolution efforts and why organizations have lost momentum in this area. •   Finding problems that philanthropy can solve by looking in areas that are too politically or financially risky for the government or the private sector. •   John's thoughts on the disconnect between philanthropic intent and philanthropic action. •   The inherent flaws of donor-advised funds that the ACE Act seeks to solve. •   Why John is impressed by philanthropic efforts in the climate change space. •   Why he encourages founders, philanthropists, and nonprofits not to wait until tomorrow. •   How to address the issue of connecting nonprofits with donors and vice versa.   Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: https://twitter.com/JohnArnoldFndtn (John D. Arnold on Twitter) https://www.arnoldventures.org/ (Arnold Ventures) https://ssir.org/articles/entry/against_big_bets# (‘Against Big Bets') https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/ (Charter Cities Institute) https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-lawrence/ (Skye Lawrence on LinkedIn)

Joanna Weiss is the co-founder and co-director of the Fines and Fees Justice Center, a national center for advocacy, information, and collaboration to end the unjust and harmful imposition and enforcement of fines and fees. Joanna Weiss was also the Director of Criminal Justice at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. She created and managed the Foundation’s fines and fees portfolio, garnering millions of dollars of support for research, litigation, and technical assistance projects to address the negative impacts of fines and fees in the justice system.You can go to any Fines and Fees Justice Center to find out more about what they do. To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.

0:30: Moving forward, plowing ahead (and the investigation continues) 1:30: Trump is fighting on, and Rand Paul dares to ask you to “decide for yourself” 6:25: Sidney Powell says witnesses are being threatened 6:35: The fight in Arizona 8:00: Georgia's investigation of “third-party groups attempting to register out-of-state voters for the crucial Senate runoff elections” 8:40: The fight in Wisconsin 9:00: Eddy wants to know what the FBI's doing 13:00: We're only in the fourth week of a long process — much more to come 22:00: A caller asks about the findings of Genevieve Briand, and Dowd provides a deep dive on the removal of the JHU student newspaper's article about her inconvenient work 29:55: A caller sparks a lengthy conversation about the senseless attack on hydroxychloroquine and the demonization of Stella Immanuel 32:20: The week-before-Thanksgiving Senate hearing on early outpatient treatment in which actual doctors treating COVID-19 patients faced off against a clueless Trump Derangement Syndrome activist 47:45: A caller brings up the bizarre, destructive utopianism of “sustainable development” and elites' deranged desire to control just about every aspect of life on Planet Earth 1:04:55: Eddy is no fan of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's Public Safety Assessment tool 1:06:20: A caller asks, “Where do we go from here?” 1:09:20: Eddy's got The Lincoln Project in his crosshairs — and yes, some of them are right here in New Mexico 1:13:00: A caller and Eddy discuss Trump's possible path to victory 1:15:20: A caller discusses his experiences with voter fraud/manipulation in the disability community (legal advice from folks in the field is welcome) 1:26:40: A caller at an “essential business” thinks someone stopped by to do a “covert Rona safety check on us” 1:41:20: The Piñon Post's coverage of the attempt to silence KIVA 1:43:45: Your texts re: how 1600 AM sounds, not giving up, a false positive at the VA, bed capacity at UNM, Eddy's run for PRNM chair, 93.7 FM, masks in the car, “American Voters Matter,” the threat of forced vaccinations at work, hydroxychloroquine over the counter, statistical anomalies as “evidence,” and Darren White stinks 2:01:40: Tim Keller “doesn't expect things to change for the foreseeable future, for several months” 2:03:20: A male Karen goes mask crazy in Arizona (warning: vulgarity) 2:09:10: Does anyone like Chihuahuas? 2:25:50: Is New Mexico's Attack Chihuahua headed for Washington or not? 2:27:05: The very strange governor of Oregon 2:29:25: Identity Politics and the “Biden cabinet” 2:29:50: It's fun to bash DUI Deb — let's do a little more of it!

Scientists and policy makers have a couple of things in common: they dedicate themselves to a cause larger than themselves. Getting results that positively impacts other people or a certain issue is what drives these special people to overcome every rejection and test failures that they come across with. Policy-making isn’t the easiest field to enter into but for Mike Stebbins, PhD, it’s an incredibly challenging yet very fulfilling thing to be a part of. Mike Stebbins is the President of Science Advisors, a science and health consulting firm that he founded in 2018 to provide science, technology, and public policy guidance to private companies, philanthropies, and non-profit organizations. He is currently serving on the board of a number of corporations and non-profit organizations including the National Academy of Sciences board on research, data, and information. Mike was previously vice president of science and technology for the Laura and John Arnold Foundation who is responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities for philanthropic investment in science and technology. Prior to this, he served as the assistant directors for Biotechnology in the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for seven years where he helped develop eight executive orders and other directives addressing issues ranging from the antibiotic resistance crisis to restoring pollinator health. He was also a former director of biology policy for the Federation of American Scientists where he led its Bio-security project. His public policy experience also includes working as a legislative fellow for US Senator Harry Reid, and as a public fellow for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Prior to his arrival in Washington, Mike worked as the senior editor at Nature Genetics. Mike earned his Ph.D. in genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He earned his degree in BS Biology at SUNY Stony Brook. What You’ll Hear On This Episode of When Science Speaks How Mike Stebbins got involved in public policy and his advice for scientists who would also like to be involved in policy-making Areas of science policy-making need skill strengthening and development Why PhDs and Postdocs need to view the transition into public policy as a new discipline Why persistence is a valuable asset in policy Mike’s major lessons from his time at the White House Employing the Tom Sawyer technique when driving people towards a goal The similarities of scientists and policy-makers How to get relationship-building right in the White House in order to get positive policy outcomes and how to make people passionate about executive actions How scientists can get people to listen to their findings in the realm of policy-making Mike’s example of how two factions with different opinions can work together   Connect with Mike Stebbins Mike Stebbins on LinkedIn Mike Stebbins on Twitter Mike Stebbins on Medium   Scientists in the world of policy-making Public policy is a tedious field of challenges where your rejections and failures become an essential part of getting the policies that you want to get implemented to function the way that you have envisioned in your mind. And the reason why a lot of scientists are coming into policy-making is because of the similarities between doing work in the laboratory and in drafting policy. The desire to get solutions for problems that once resolved could potentially make things better for everyone is the driving force for many of these special people to do their job and to do it extremely well. Mike Stebbins is a renowned geneticist who got involved in policy-making through his work in the White House and his legislative fellowship under US Senator Harry Reid, and as a public fellow for the National Human Genome Research Institute. His top notch advice for scientists who are rearing to enter the hectic and challenging world of policy-making is to view the field with a different perspective. It’s an entirely new field that relies heavily on building relations in order to get things done and knowing how to make different people come together towards a common cause is critical to the success of a certain policy. The value of bringing different people together in policy-making Mike Stebbins shares his first-hand experience in seeing how policy-making works through his experience working in the field. He has seen how people come together to get to an agreement that can effectively resolve an issue that would become an executive order that gets results such as when he developed executive orders and directives that addressed issues ranging from antibiotic resistance to restoring pollinator health. The key to getting the results he needed to see? Relationship-building. Getting people to become enthusiastic and passionate about the project that they are working on and getting them to share their expertise and skills to get to a point where all questions have been answered and resolved is crucial in policy-making. Banding people together for a cause greater than themselves and pushing aside other things that they may have invested in to get a policy off the ground is challenging and ultimately very rewarding. Policy-making is a selfless act bound by the desire to improve things and get things done. Learn more about Mike Stebbins and what he has learned from his time as a policymaker on this week’s episode of When Science Speaks. 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$17 million in grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation seek to refocus attention on an area of criminal justice reform that's been largely overlooked in the push to end mass incarceration: conditions inside prisons.  Small, Safe, and Humane: A Vision for Prison Reform

1. A score that predicts one year functional status in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis patients. 2. [What's Trending]: Part 2: Drug pricing and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review framework. In the first segment, Dr. David Lapides talks with Dr. Ramani Balu about his paper on a score that predicts one year functional status in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis patients. In the second part of the podcast, you'll hear the the second part of Dr. Gordon Smith's interview with Dr. Steve Pearson on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review and drug pricing. DISCLOSURES: Dr. David Lapides has served as a consultant for Board Vitals; and has received foundation/society research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinical Fellowship. Dr. Ramani Balu has received governmental research support from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Dr. A. Gordon Smith has served on the scientific advisory board of the Regenesis Data Monitoring Committee; has served on the editorial boards for Continuum and Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology; has served as a consultant for Regenesis; has served on the speakers' bureau for Alexion; has received commercial research support from Impeto Medical SAS; and has received governmental research support from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Steve Pearson's Institute for Clinical and Economic Review has received membership dues from Aetna, Alnylam, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Anthem, AstraZeneca, Blue Shield of CA, Cambia Health Solution, CVS, Caremark, Editas, Express Scripts, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), HealthPartners, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co., National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), Novartis, Premera Blue Cross, Prime Therapeutics, Regeneron, Sanofi, and United Healthcare; and has received foundation/society research support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Kaiser, East Bay Community Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund.

1. Development and validation of a score to detect paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after stroke. 2. [What's Trending]: Drug pricing and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review framework. In the first segment, Dr. Andy Southerland talks with Dr. Timo Uphaus about his paper on the development and validation of a score to detect paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after stroke. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Gordon Smith focuses his interview with Dr. Steve Pearson on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review and drug pricing. DISCLOSURES: Dr. Southerland has severed on editorial boards for the Journal Neurology and is Section Editor for the Neurology Podcast. Dr. Timo Uphaus reports no disclosures. Dr. A. Gordon Smith has served on the scientific advisory board of the Regenesis Data Monitoring Committee; has served on the editorial boards for Continuum and Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology; has served as a consultant for Regenesis; has served on the speakers' bureau for Alexion; has received commercial research support from Impeto Medical SAS; and has received governmental research support from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Steve Pearson's Institute for Clinical and Economic Review has received membership dues from Aetna, Alnylam, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Anthem, AstraZeneca, Blue Shield of CA, Cambia Health Solution, CVS, Caremark, Editas, Express Scripts, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), HealthPartners, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co., National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), Novartis, Premera Blue Cross, Prime Therapeutics, Regeneron, Sanofi, and United Healthcare; and has received foundation/society research support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Kaiser, East Bay Community Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund.

John Arnold, co-founder of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, was dubbed the King of Natural Gas in the nascent days of online energy trading at Enron. In 2012, after growing his firm, Centaurus Advisors, from an initial $8 million to $5 billion in less than a decade, he announced that he was walking away to pursue other interests. John joins the podcast to discuss that decision, the strategic investments his foundation is making, and recent developments in the energy markets. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

On 12 July 2018, Brookings hosted a launch of Randomistas featuring Thomas D. Cook, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and author or editor of 10 books on research, research design, and evaluation, Rebecca Maynard, professor of education and social policy at University of Pennsylvania, and Jon Baron, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The conversation was chaired by Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.

On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Stuart Buck. As the Vice President of Research at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Stuart works to ensure that research funded by the Foundation is as rigorous as possible, and that the Foundation's major investments are evaluated by independent experts. An attorney and research expert with a background in education policy, Stuart has written and co-written numerous scholarly articles that have appeared in journals such as Science, Harvard Law Review, Education Economics, Education Next, Phi Delta Kappan, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. Stuart has testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and has been a panelist at major academic conferences, including the Association for Education Finance and Policy, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance. He is the author of a Yale University Press book on education in the African-American community, Acting White. Stuart holds a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas, where he studied econometrics, statistics, and program evaluation; a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; and bachelor's and master's degrees in music performance from the University of Georgia.   Segment 1: Working at a Foundation [00:00-10:12] In this first segment, Stuart describes about his research work at the Arnold Foundation. Segment 2: Promoting Research Integrity [10:13-23:48] In segment two, Stuart shares about how he works to promote research integrity at the Arnold Foundation. Segment 3: Increasing the Use of Data in the Criminal Justice System [23:49-36:59] In segment three, Stuart describes some of the recent work of the Arnold Foundation to impact the criminal justice system. Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-04:01]: Pathways to Working with Foundations To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter: @RIA_podcast or #RIA_podcast Email: riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail: 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes, please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily represent the views of Ecampus or Oregon State University.

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann and special guest, Laura Arnold the Co-Chair of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation discuss the economics of Philanthropy. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Criminal-justice data and algorithms -The responsibility of philanthropy -Philanthropy in the age of Trump Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann, @LauraArnoldFdn Production by Veralyn Williams and Mary Wilson Slate Money is brought to you by HP. Their Business line of products are travel tested and perfect for on-the-go or in the office. Go to hp.com/slate and enter code slate at checkout for 30 percent off select HP Business products. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, available on iTunes. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann and special guest, Laura Arnold the Co-Chair of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation discuss the economics of Philanthropy. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Criminal-justice data and algorithms -The responsibility of philanthropy -Philanthropy in the age of Trump Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann, @LauraArnoldFdn Production by Veralyn Williams and Mary Wilson Slate Money is brought to you by HP. Their Business line of products are travel tested and perfect for on-the-go or in the office. Go to hp.com/slate and enter code slate at checkout for 30 percent off select HP Business products. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, available on iTunes. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The controversy over the high price of new drugs and the question of the value they provide will come under increased scrutiny thanks to a grant to a Boston-based nonprofit that works to get at these questions. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation this week announced it is providing $5.2 million to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review aimed at transforming the way new drugs are evaluated and priced. We spoke to Sarah Emond, COO of the institute, about the work it does, what this new grant will do to expand that work, and how to get a the question of the value of new drugs.

January 15, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1u7gX8t. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Salt Lake County reports having deployed the first implementation of a pay-for-success financing at the county level in the country. Mayor Ben McAdams has been actively involved and is now looking for more ways to apply the nascent financing structure, sometimes called social impact bonds. McAdams says, “Salt Lake County used the Pay for Success model to send 600 additional low-income kids to preschool in 2013.” “The Pay for Success model creates a huge opportunity to put taxpayer dollars towards what actually works, rather than following an out-dated recipe that we once thought or hoped would work,” McAdams adds. McAdams explains his motivation, “Pay for Success is a new and different approach to traditional government programming geared towards addressing social needs in the community. Pay for Success is about better accountability for taxpayer dollars and funding what we know works.” McAdams sees this as a beginning. “We’re interested in following data and evidence to scale up programs that help folks in their effort to get on a better path for their future.” Next week, the Mayor is hosting a conference on Pay For Success in Salt Lake City in partnership with the White House. Sponsors for the conference include the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.