Placed-based initiatives have evolved over the last 20 years to become one of the most promising approaches for addressing "wicked" community problems like poverty, education, health, and racial equity. In order to be responsive and meaningful, place-based evaluations must engage diverse perspectives in a process to capture and make meaning out of emerging dynamics within these complex community contexts. This workshop provided key strategies to design and facilitate an action learning infrastructure that brings together multiple stakeholders in a flexible, self-organizing process of designing and evaluating systems change within place-based initiatives. This action learning infrastructure can be used to: identify emergent outcomes, recognize relationships between perspectives and conditions, design and pursue relevant actions across the system, and gather and use real-time data for feedback and learning.