Today we’re releasing the remaining five tip sheets in a nine-part series on launching and running community champions programs. These publications are an output of the CSCCE community champions programs working group, and were co-created with members of that working group in writing sprints during the Spring of 2022. 

In this blog post, we revisit the first four tip sheets in the series as we summarize the whole collection, essential reading for anyone interested in mobilizing emerging leaders in their community. 

The nine stages of community champions programs

Our nine-stage model takes a granular approach to designing, implementing, and closing/continuing community champions programs. By creating one tip sheet for each stage, we and the working group members created resources from which readers will be able to pick and choose the areas they need input on, while also having access to a detailed collection of synthesized experiences across the entire progression. 

Each tip sheet began life as a discussion topic in our monthly working group meetings, with all members contributing to shared notes documents that formed the primary source material for the tip sheet authors. Then, CSCCE’s Communications Director and Content Archivist Katie Pratt coordinated writing sprints for volunteers to meet and turn these ideas into tip sheets. After a staff editing and formatting phase and final sign off from the authors, the tip sheets were published on Zenodo and curated on our Community Champions Programs resource page for anyone to download for free under a CC BY-NC-ND license. 

In addition to CSCCE staff members Lou Woodley, Katie Pratt, and Camille Santistevan, the members of the working group were:

The new tip sheets

All of the tip sheets are available on Zenodo here, or click on an individual tip sheet below to view and download them separately:

Champions guidebook

For more background on community champions and how to empower members into these roles, check out the second part of our Community Participation Model guidebook. The model initially identified CHAMPIONS as a meta-mode, with individuals acting in any of the four main modes of community engagement (CONVEY/CONSUME, CONTRIBUTE, COLLABORATE, and CO-CREATE) to MAINTAIN, GROW, or EVOLVE a community. 

Download a copy of the guidebook: 

Work with CSCCE to build or nurture your champions program

As part of our consultancy work, we have partnered with several STEM organizations to help build champions programs. You can find out more about what these collaborations look like by clicking on the images below: 

To inquire about consultancy, please email training@cscce.org. You can also find out more about our range of consultancy offerings here.