Workshops: Building pipelines, developing leadership

该项目将举办三次培训讲习班/会议，并参加2005/6年度在多伦多举行的美国评价协会/加拿大评价学会联合会议。这些讲习班旨在培养不同国家和族裔群体在评价方面的领导人，从而增加STEM劳动力的多样性。拟议项目的具体目标是：为研究生提供培训会议，以便开发有价值的课程和评价知识生成，改善对评价感兴趣的STEM和其他社会科学学科研究生的知识库，开发由社会议程/倡导评价框架指导的领导渠道模式，解决非营利组织、基金会和其他机构面临的机会、机会和权力问题。该项目将发展一种季度培训活动的形式，包括评价领域的指导和联网，促进成为一名响应文化的评价人员的概念和方法工具，通过评估建立可持续的社区，发挥评估在促进社会变革中的作用。

This project is to conduct three training workshops/conferences and attendance at the joint American Evaluation Association/Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Toronto in 2005/6. The workshops aims to develop leaders of diverse national and ethnic groups in evaluation and thereby increase the diversity of the STEM workforce. Specific goals of the proposed project are: To provide training conferences to graduate students in order to develop valuable curricula and evaluation knowledge generation, To improve the knowledge base of graduate students from STEM and other social science disciplines interested in evaluation, To develop a leadership pipeline model guided by social agenda/advocacy evaluation frameworks that address issues of access, opportunity, and power that are faced by non-profit organizations, foundations, and other agencies.The project will develop a format of quarterly training activities to include an orientation and networking in the field of evaluation, advancing the conceptual and methodological tools of becoming a culturally responsive evaluator, and building sustainable communities through evaluation and the role of evaluation in promoting social change.