RAND Campaign Raises More Than $466 Million

RAND successfully completed its Tomorrow Demands Today fundraising campaign, raising $466 million to help expand the capacity of RAND and the Pardee RAND Graduate School to solve humanity's biggest problems.

The campaign, which launched in March 2020, is the largest in the organization's history. The funds raised during the campaign are being used to advance RAND's research and analysis; expand programs, centers and institutes; support innovation and outreach; create new research chairs and fellowships; train a new generation of policy leaders at the Pardee RAND Graduate School; and increase the organization's agility to act when fast-breaking situations arise.

“This is the most ambitious campaign RAND has ever undertaken. But RAND's mission—to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis—has never been more important for a world that is confronting some of its greatest challenges,” said Jason Matheny, president and CEO of RAND. “We are grateful for the extraordinary support of the RAND community, including the individual donors, foundations, and other grantmaking organizations that have provided philanthropic support to RAND and made our campaign success possible.”

The campaign has expanded RAND research in areas that include governing emerging technology, strengthening democracy's appeal and success, and advancing education and justice policy solutions. RAND established a new research division, RAND Global and Emerging Risks, and 18 new centers, institutes, and chair positions during the campaign.

Notable campaign contributions include gifts and grants from:

• Marcia Carlucci to support the Pardee RAND Graduate School
• The Epstein Family Foundation to establish the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute
• The Lowy Family Foundation to create the RAND Lowy Family Middle-Class Pathways Center and the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness
• Grantmaking organizations including Arnold Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Wallace Foundation to support research and analysis to improve health, education, safety, and well-being.

Campaign funding is enabling focused analysis in areas from economic mobility and workforce transitions to China studies and gun policy research. Campaign support has also helped enhance the Pardee RAND graduate school, with an 83% increase in scholarship dollars raised and the launch of a new Washington, D.C.-area campus and a master of national security policy degree program.

“The significant success of the campaign has demonstrated that philanthropy has a crucial role to play at RAND. We appreciate the trust placed in RAND to use philanthropic support to help create real change for the future,” said Matheny.