DCL: NSF INCLUDES: Supporting a Collective Impact Approach from the Bottom Up

NSF包括支持模型、网络、伙伴关系和研究，以确保妇女、历史上代表性不足的种族和民族成员、社会经济地位较低的人和残疾人更广泛地参与STEM。代数项目将与年轻人项目合作，召开一次关于纳入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)高等教育的会议，以支持国家科学基金会在全国范围内将未被充分代表的工程和科学发现者的学习社区纳入(NSF包括)倡议。会议将审查一个关键问题：一个小型骨干组织需要什么角色和结构，才能将社会变革的“自下而上”模式扩展为有组织的、全面的集体影响模式？此外，会议将培养与会者将各种设计挑战和骨干结构的行动与未来行动联系起来的能力，以满足潜在联盟关于扩大参与挑战和其他面临类似挑战的需求。五个会前设计团队将专注于关键组成部分，以在2017年利益攸关方在密苏里州圣路易斯市召开之前的四个月内改善对来自代表不足和弱势群体的学生的教育。

The NSF INCLUDES program supports models, networks, partnerships and research to ensure the broadening participation in STEM of women, members of racial and ethnic groups that have been historically underrepresented, persons of low socio-economicstatus, and people with disabilities.The Algebra Project, in partnership with the Young People's Project, will convene a conference on inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) higher education in support of the National Science Foundation's Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) initiative. The conference will examine a critical question: What roles and structures are needed for a mini-backbone organization in order to scale a "bottom up" model of social change into an organized, full scale collective impact model? Additionally, the conference will develop participants' capacity to link action on the various design challenges, and backbone structures, to future actions that meet the needs of a potentialAlliance on this Broadening Participation Challenge and others facing similar challenges.Five pre-conference design teams will focus on key components to improve education of students from underrepresented and disadvantaged populations over a four-month period prior to the convening of the stakeholders in St. Louis, Missouri in 2017.