Opportunity Data helps states, systems, institutions, associations, and funders translate Workforce Pell policy into program-level decisions. Our work combines public data, policy analysis, crosswalk review, program inventories, and labor-market evidence.
Engagements typically begin at $12,500.
Opportunity Data publishes open trackers, methods, and selected state analyses that help the field understand implementation. We provide paid support when organizations need institution-specific analysis, state implementation reviews, custom data, crosswalk audits, sponsored research, or decision briefings.
Four engagement types, each built on the same public-data foundations as our open Workforce Pell research: policy mapping, program eligibility analysis, CIP-SOC crosswalk review, and program-level outcome evidence.
A structured assessment of how a state's Workforce Pell policy connects federal requirements, eligible occupations, program offerings, crosswalks, and available outcome evidence.
State agencies, governor's offices, higher education systems, workforce agencies, and implementation partners.
Engagements typically begin at $12,500.
Discuss this engagement →A program-level review of which existing certificates may qualify, where evidence is incomplete, and where program coding, duration, outcomes, or occupation mapping may create implementation risk.
Community colleges, technical colleges, college systems, and institutional research teams.
Single-institution reviews typically begin at $7,500. System-level work is scoped separately.
Discuss this engagement →Independent public analysis funded by foundations, associations, intermediaries, or public agencies.
Foundations, associations, national intermediaries, policy organizations, and public agencies.
Multi-state engagements are scoped according to the number of states, data requirements, and publication schedule.
Discuss this engagement →Focused analysis for leadership teams that need a clear interpretation of Workforce Pell policy, implementation choices, or program-level evidence.
Boards, executive teams, state leaders, trustees, associations, and funders.
Briefings typically begin at $3,500.
Discuss this engagement →The law names occupations, but funding reaches programs. A state implementation review tests whether the policy framework, crosswalk, existing program supply, and accountability evidence align in practice.
Final pricing depends on the number of institutions, data availability, required meetings, publication status, and delivery schedule.
Opportunity Data is developing a student-facing Workforce Pell Program Finder that would show which programs are available, where they are offered, how long they take, what they cost, and which occupations they lead to.
We are seeking a state, foundation, system, or national partner to fund the first program-level deployment.
Discuss sponsoring the Program FinderWe distinguish occupation eligibility from the actual programs, credentials, and institutional capacity through which students receive aid.
Our work is grounded in public data, documented assumptions, transparent methods, and reusable analytical structures.
The work combines statistical analysis with direct experience in state government, institutional research, program review, and higher education decision processes.
Opportunity Data is not tied to a vendor, membership organization, or predetermined implementation model.
Paid engagements apply the same frameworks, crosswalks, and data infrastructure that run our open Workforce Pell research.
Tracks published state implementation frameworks, occupation lists, program policies, and supporting artifacts.
Compares how states translate federal Workforce Pell requirements into implementation choices.
Maps Workforce Pell requirements to the state instruments Alabama had already built.
Explains why program supply and eligibility, not occupation lists alone, determine student access.
Translates the federal earnings requirement into a program-level accountability framework.
Demonstrates Opportunity Data's broader capacity to build transparent, reusable measurement infrastructure.
Opportunity Data's Workforce Pell work has been cited by NPR and shared across the community-college and state-policy field.
Tell us the decision, jurisdiction, program portfolio, or implementation problem you need to address.
We define the users, deliverables, available data, decision deadline, publication status, and procurement requirements.
Opportunity Data provides a proposed scope, timeline, deliverables, responsibilities, and fee.
Work begins after the agreement is executed and the initial payment or purchase order is received.
Substantial custom analysis does not begin before a written scope is approved.
Use this form to describe the decision or implementation problem. Opportunity Data will respond to qualified inquiries using the business email already associated with the site.
Opportunity Data provides independent research and analytical services. Its work does not constitute legal advice or an official determination of federal or state program eligibility.
Opportunity Data works with organizations that need a clearer view of policy design, program eligibility, institutional capacity, and student access.