The Commission is based in the Foundation's Washington, D.C., headquarters. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. Its objectives are to sharpen thinking about societal problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices. Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute project designed to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states. The project analyzes changes in income support, social services, and health programs.
Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments.
Mathematica , one of the nation's leading independent research firms, conducts policy research and surveys for federal and state governments, as well as private clients. The employee-owned firm, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, welfare, education, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs in the United States. Mathematica's mission is to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence to bear on the provision of information collection and analysis to its clients.