American Government Needs to Deliver
A six-year bipartisan effort to strengthen America by building the government we need to compete globally and serve citizens effectively.
Our Opportunity
For decades, the administrative state has grown more sclerotic, and efforts to revitalize it have found incremental success at best. Now, change is here. The Recoding America Fund is shaping that change in the public interest.
To build the field we need to drive bold change, we’re bringing together experts, mapping the landscape, filling in the gaps, and resourcing a coherent agenda. By putting together the pieces of the state capacity puzzle, the Fund will enable this ecosystem to make meaningful, long-lasting change.
Our Approach
The public sector cannot deliver meaningful policy outcomes without a new operating model. An effective government has the right people, focused on the right work, with purpose-fit systems, and test-and-learn frameworks.
The fund’s strategy marries the best of bottom-up insight and experience from practitioners with top-down incentives for collaboration to drive collective impact.
Our Investments
We invest across each of our four competencies, with some cross-cutting investments that support broader, systemic reforms that can amplify progress across the operating model.
Workforce
Procedural Reform
Digital Infrastructure
Test-and-Learn Frameworks
- Law
- Policy
- Regulation
- Implementation
- Stakeholders
- Outcomes
Test-and-Learn Frameworks
To restore America’s capacity to achieve policy goals, we need a new operating model for government. The current model functions as an open loop—policy that flows one-way from lawmaking to implementation to outcomes, with little space for learning and adjustment along the way.
Closing the feedback loop means applying test-and-learn approaches that ensure policies achieve the desired outcomes under real-world conditions and align stakeholders around outcomes over process.