[Invitation Only Event]

This 2.5 day convening for practitioners and funders has the overarching goal of strengthening an already growing movement of evidence-building and use in Puerto Rico to improve outcomes for children, youth and families, with a particular focus on economic mobility, education and child welfare.  To achieve this goal, the event will have three intended outcomes, that will be driven by a set of event activities:

Outcome 1: Increasing interest in philanthropic investments in the development and use of evidence in Puerto Rico. This includes increasing interests from local foundations and funders and attracting new investments from national foundations.

Outcome 2: Identifying the challenges and opportunities of building and using evidence in Puerto Rico. This will help inform investment priorities to ensure a more robust and sustainable infrastructure for actionable research and evaluation.

Outcome 3: Promoting collaborations between national and local funders. Ideally these collaborations will eventually lead to the leveraging of resources to implement the identified priorities and a coherent strategy to strengthen the development and use of evidence.