NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative

The INCLUDES Initiative is a comprehensive, national effort to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF's commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields. The vision of the INCLUDES Initiative is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the Nation's population. The Initiative seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale. With this solicitation, NSF offers support for five types of projects that connect and contribute to the INCLUDES National Network: Design and Development Launch Pilots, Collaborative Change Consortia, Alliances, Network Connectors, and Conferences. All INCLUDES funded projects must operationalize five design elements of collaborative infrastructure - shared vision, partnerships, goals and metrics, leadership and communication, and expansion, sustainability, and scale - to create systemic change that broadens participation in STEM.