Opportunity Data helps colleges, systems, states, associations, and sponsors translate Workforce Pell policy into program-level decisions. Colleges can buy a fixed-fee Program Portfolio Review and an annual Accountability Watch; states and systems commission implementation reviews. All of it runs on the same public data, crosswalks, and methods as our open Workforce Pell research.
Opportunity Data publishes open implementation records, methods, and selected state analyses that help the field understand implementation. We provide paid support when organizations need an institution-specific program review, ongoing accountability monitoring, a state implementation review, 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: program eligibility analysis, CIP-SOC crosswalk review, program-level outcome evidence, and policy mapping. The two college services carry fixed prices; the two larger engagements are quoted.
A program-by-program review of which existing certificates a college can fund under Workforce Pell as built, which need a format change, which map to an occupation on the state's list, and which carry earnings or completion-and-placement risk under 34 CFR 690.94 through 690.96.
Community colleges, technical colleges, districts, and system offices.
$9,500 fixed fee for one college. Delivered ten business days after receipt of the program list.
Request this review →The same review re-run for a year on every trigger, with a diff of what moved: new IPEDS or PSEO data, a change to the state's occupation list, approval policy, or reporting template, and any change to the state's row in the State Implementation Record.
Colleges with programs approved or in application, and systems that want every college covered.
$3,500 per institution per year; $2,500 per year when bought with a review.
Start a watch →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.
Rapid Review $18,500. Full State Review from $48,000. Implementation Partnership quoted.
Discuss this engagement →Independent public analysis commissioned by associations, intermediaries, public agencies, or philanthropic sponsors, and focused briefings for leadership teams that need a clear reading of Workforce Pell policy or program-level evidence.
Associations, national intermediaries, policy organizations, public agencies, philanthropic sponsors, boards, and executive teams.
Quoted by number of states, data requirements, and publication schedule. Briefings from $4,500.
Discuss this engagement →The law names occupations, but funding reaches programs, and the accountability tests reach them later: a 70 percent completion and job placement standard the state certifies at approval (34 CFR 690.94), occupation-match placement certification from award year 2029-30, and the value-added earnings test from 2030-31, where failure ends eligibility and carries an assessed liability (690.95 and 690.96). The review shows where each program stands before the application goes in; the watch keeps the answer current.
Districts and systems: $7,500 per college for two to five colleges; six or more quoted. Prices are fixed for the scope shown; additional campuses, data pulls, or meetings are quoted in advance. The institution supplies its program list with clock hours and weeks, per-program tuition and fees, and internal completion and placement rates where they exist.
A state implementation review tests whether the policy framework, crosswalk, existing program supply, and accountability evidence align in practice.
Full State Review and Implementation Partnership pricing depends on the number of institutions, data availability, required meetings, publication status, and delivery schedule; the quote states the fee before work begins.
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.
Name the college or jurisdiction and the service. For a state review or sponsored research, add the decision, the deadline, and the procurement route.
Fixed-fee services get a written quote with scope, deliverables, timeline, and fee. Larger engagements get a short scoping call first, then a written scope of work.
Opportunity Data accepts purchase orders, invoices on net-30 terms, and card payment. W-9 and vendor registration forms are supplied on request. The fixed-fee college services sit under the small-purchase threshold at most public colleges; the institution confirms its own.
Work begins on receipt of the purchase order or payment. A Program Portfolio Review is delivered ten business days after the program list arrives; state engagements follow the schedule in the scope of work.
Name the service and the college, system, or state. Fixed-fee quotes go out within two business days; larger engagements get a scoping call first. Opportunity Data responds from the business email 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.