CSCCE

Quarterly Skills Share session (QSS26Q3) | Hosting community events: Incorporating feedback, building on momentum, and nucleating new connections
2026-09-02 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
Community events, from in-person annual meetings to monthly webinars, are a great opportunity to strengthen and expand the connections you’re nurturing as a community manager. This Quarterly Skills Share session (QSS26Q3) will include four presentations, with case studies focusing on: incorporating community input through evaluation and iteration; building momentum towards community goals in the immediate aftermath (1-2 weeks) of your event; uniting connected communities to synergize your reach and impact; and engaging new stakeholders in your upcoming programming. The session will include themes covered in depth in Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals, especially the CSCCE Community Participation Model, and you will leave with new, strategic ideas for improving your next community event.
Speakers:

Mara Cowen (Scientific Director, ZTTK SON-Shine Foundation)
Ellen Dow (KBase Scientific Community Engagement Manager, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Nidhi Gandhi-Patel (Pharmacist, NidsRx LLC)
Lipi Gupta (Science Engagement Engineer, NERSC)

This is not a public event – participation is by invitation only! If you are interested in learning more about accessing sessions like this one, please contact training@cscce.org.

Working with volunteers (Volunteers26)
2026-08-25 10:00 - 11:30
Community managers are often trying to create spaces that support group learning and self-expression to build something members of the community couldn’t create alone – and this almost always includes incorporating volunteer contributions. In this Mini-workshop, we’ll explore common community manager concerns related to working with volunteers. We’ll discuss how to flip the narrative from self-doubt and scarcity to center volunteers in a way that empowers and supports them in working together and builds your confidence as a community organizer. We will discuss making contributor pathways visible so that work gets done, while being respectful of members’ different contexts. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking things such as “I feel really self-conscious about asking for contributions from our volunteers – are we being too demanding?” and “I know that different members in our community need different things, but I don’t know where to start.” then this discussion-based workshop is for you.
Register for this Mini-workshop (deadline: Tuesday, 18 August 2026)
About CSCCE Mini-workshops
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.
Mini-workshop descriptions

Preparing and Designing for large-scale collaborations (CollaborationsA/B26)
2026-08-19 10:00 - 2026-08-20 12:00
Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Collaborations A)
In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, you will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify which areas you need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, you will have drafted a survey for your project, ready to determine how to translate the survey responses into practical next steps in the second workshop.
Designing for large-scale collaborations (Collaborations B)
In this second workshop of a two part series, you will debrief the team readiness surveys that you drafted in workshop one and completed for homework. You will explore how to report the results back to the team and determine next steps to take. Then, using a framework describing collaborative approaches, you will identify which combination of approaches or activities will be helpful for the next stage of your collaboration.
Part A | Wednesday, 19 August 2026 10am – 12pm EDT / 2pm – 4pm UTC
Part B | Thursday, 20 August 2026 10am – 12pm EDT / 2pm – 4pm UTC
Register for this 2-part Mini-workshop series (deadline: Wednesday, 12 August 2026)
About CSCCE Mini-workshops
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.
Mini-workshop descriptions

Making a PACT for more engaging virtual meetings and events (PACT26)
2026-08-11 12:00 - 14:00
With virtual work increasingly the norm, community managers are often tasked with convening and facilitating virtual meetings. In this mini-workshop, participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges of virtual meetings and explore the “Making a PACT” framework (Purpose, Attendees, Community management, Tech tools) for effective meeting design. Community managers will apply the framework directly to example scenarios so that they leave feeling empowered to use the framework in their own community management.
Related resource: Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. (2021) Using virtual events to facilitate community building: Making a PACT for more engaging virtual meetings and events. Woodley, Pratt, and East doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4987666
Register for this Mini-workshop (deadline: Tuesday, 4 August 2026)
About CSCCE Mini-workshops
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.
Mini-workshop descriptions

Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings (Decisions26)
2026-08-04 10:00 - 12:00
Meetings and virtual events often involve asking attendees to make decisions. Decision-making invokes numerous considerations, including how to negotiate power dynamics, empower everyone to express their opinions, and actually reach the outcome(s) you desire. In this Mini-workshop, you will explore four broad decision-making modes (authority rule, consultation, voting, and consensus) and then use the PACT framework to plan a decision-making process. You will leave prepared to deploy decision-making processes in a way that invites all attendees at your meetings and events to contribute.
Register for this Mini-workshop (deadline: Tuesday, 28 July 2026)
About CSCCE Mini-workshops
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.
Mini-workshop descriptions

Enacting culture change: The Four Frame Model (CultureChange26)
2026-07-29 11:00 - 13:00
Many culture change projects are met with general enthusiasm at the conceptual level, but fall short during their implementation. In this Mini-workshop, participants will reflect on their own role as change agents and use Bolman and Deal’s Four-Frame Model to assess and describe different types of barriers to culture change initiatives (structural, human resources, political, and symbolic). We will then use the model to identify where community managers might exert leverage – and what specific actions could help to overcome the identified barriers.
Register for this Mini-workshop (deadline: Wednesday, 22 July 2026)
About CSCCE Mini-workshops
CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.
Mini-workshop descriptions

Quarterly Skills Share Session | How to support a sense of belonging and productive community engagement - and measure them!
2026-06-03 11:00 - 12:30
Ensuring that your members feel like they belong and are empowered to engage in community activities is fundamental to community management. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, our speakers will discuss how to co-create codes of conduct that support inclusive engagement, different ways of assessing engagement and community health, and how to ensure that the meetings and events you host support your community’s purpose. We’ll consider these topics in the context of large, online communities as well as smaller, in-person gatherings, and will touch on themes from various CSCCE training courses including co-creation of community resources, designing community programming, and developing champions programs.
Speakers:

Kevin Gott (NERSC)
Rebecca Hartman-Baker (NERSC)
Mike Lipka (NASA)
Samantha Wittke (CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland)

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include three to four presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.
Please note: This is not a public event – participation is by invitation only!

Mini-workshop | Giving and receiving feedback
2026-05-28 11:00 - 13:00
Providing useful and kind feedback to others and being open to receiving feedback ourselves is a critical skill for effective collaboration – including during other CSCCE activities! During this session, we’ll explore the functions of feedback, how to structure yours, and what can make receiving feedback easier.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/cscce-mini-workshop-giving-and-receiving-feedback-feedback26
Registration deadline: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Mini-workshop | Creating core values statements
2026-04-29 11:00 - 13:00
Core values statements describe the values underpinning how community members would like to interact, and include a definition of each value as well as examples of what they look like in action. Core values statements are most effective when they are co-created with community members and are specific to the community, rather than re-using values statements that others have created. In this Mini-workshop, you will practice a process for developing core values that you can adapt for your own community.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/cscce-mini-workshop-creating-core-values-statements-corevalues26
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Content Design (CODE26Sp)
2026-04-21 - 2026-05-29
Content Design (CODE) is a six-week course that introduces a strategic approach to designing and creating community-engaged content that energizes and inspires your community members. During the course, we cover the fundamentals of writing clear and actionable prose. However, this course should not be thought of as a “writing 101” course – instead, it’s a design approach that can impact how you create a range of different content types for your community.
Our Spring offering of Content Design (CODE26Sp) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 21 April until Friday, 29 May 2026.
The key dates are:

Tuesday lessons: 21, 28 April; 5, 12, 19, 26 May at 10am – 11:30am EDT / 2pm – 3:30pm UTC
Friday Co-Labs: 24 April; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May at 10am – 11:30am EDT / 2pm – 3:30pm UTC

Registration deadline: Friday, 3 April 2026
REGISTER
More information is available on the CODE webpage.

CSCCE Community Tools Trial: CiviCRM
2026-03-25 14:00 - 15:30
For our second Tools Trial of the year, we’re continuing our theme of open-source platforms that support community engagement by hosting a session about CiviCRM.
CiviCRM is an open-source constituent relationship management (CRM) platform designed for nonprofits. It can be used to manage community member data, design and implement communications campaigns, and support fundraising efforts. For STEM community managers, like those in the CSCCE community of practice, CRMs like Civi hold the potential to better understand their members and how they interact with the community and each other. How to unlock that potential, however, can feel overwhelming, with significant technical and financial barriers (not to mention initial setup time).
At the Tools Trial, we’ll explore some of these topics, and get a better sense for what is possible with Civi.
Speakers:

Lauren Collister (IOI)
Yo Yehudi (OLS)

Join us on Zoom

Scientific Community Engagament Fundamentals (CEF26W)
2026-03-19 - 2026-05-07
This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work.
Our winter offering of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF26W) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 19 March until Thursday, 7 May.
The key dates are:

Social hour: Thursday, 19 March at 12pm – 1pm EDT / 4pm – 5pm UTC
Monday lessons: 23, 30 March; 6,13, 20, 27 April; 4 May at 12pm – 1:30pm EDT / 4pm – 5:30pm UTC
Thursday Co-Labs: 26 March; 2, 9,16, 23, 30 April at 12pm – 1:30pm EDT / 4pm – 5:30pm UTC
Graduation: Thursday, 7 May at 12pm – 2pm EDT / 4pm – 6pm UTC

Registration deadline: Thursday, 5 March 2026
REGISTER
More information is available on the CEF webpage.

CSCCE Community Book Club: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
2026-03-11 11:00 - 12:30
This 90-minute book club session will focus on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, a short fable that is used to explore a model outlining five things that are essential for a healthy, collaborative team (or working group, steering committee, or sub-community). If possible, we do ask that you read the book before the call, but we will also offer a recap of the key themes at the beginning of the session.
Facilitators:

Jody Peters (University of Notre Dame / EFI)
Lou Woodley (CSCCE)
Katie Pratt (CSCCE)

Register for the event on Zeffy to receive a calendar invitation and Zoom link.
More information is available on the CSCCE blog.

CSCCE Quarterly Skills Share Session: Coordinating and implementing community-engaged communications campaigns
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:30
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.
Community management work regularly involves telling your members about upcoming activities, leadership or staffing changes, and relevant news (e.g., funding opportunities or community publications). Speakers will share their experiences coordinating community events, restarting community efforts after a pause, and more. This session will highlight what it takes to coordinate a complex communications campaign, including creating scaffolding materials – a process we discuss, work through, and template in Content Design (CODE).
Speakers

Amber Nelson (Sage Bionetworks)
A.L. McMichael (Barnard College)
Tajuddeen Gwadabe

Please note: This is not a public event – participation is by invitation only.

CSCCE Community Tools Trial: Zulip
2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
Zulip is an open source platform, similar to Slack, that supports community engagement through threaded discussions and curated channels. It is growing in popularity in STEM, and within our community of practice there is a collective interest in learning more about the platform, as well as several resident experts willing to demo Zulip and answer questions.
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
So, we’re bringing back our community Tools Trials format to facilitate a conversation about Zulip! Our panel of Zulip experts includes:

Samantha Wittke, CSC-IT Center for Science
Danny Garside, Digital Research Academy
Maria Doyle, Bioconductor
Philip Durbin, Dataverse

They’ll each share a brief demo or presentation to highlight the features of Zulip, and then they’ll all be available to answer any questions you might have about the platform.
CSCCE Tools Trials are free events that are open to anyone convening communities in STEM, and this session is perfect for you if you:

Are interested in learning more about setting up Zulip as a new community platform
Want to learn more about what it takes to transition a community from Slack to Zulip
Already run a Zulip community, but are interested in “advanced” features such as integrating bots
Want to get to know your fellow scientific community managers

We intend for this to be the first in a short series of Tools Trials focusing on open-source tools for community engagement. Please check our Events calendar for future events, and/or reach out to info@cscce.org if you have a suggestion of a platform to trial.

CSCCE December Community Call: Annual community potluck
2025-12-16 11:00 - 12:00
As in years past, our December community call is an opportunity to close out the year in reflection and intention setting. The call will be roughly divided into three “courses,” with participants encouraged to “bring a dish to share” – in other words, our collective contributions will create a unique gathering, which you can expect to include reflection prompts, gentle activities, and opportunities to discuss and set intentions for the year ahead.
Specifically, please bring a dessert to share this year: something that inspired you in some way over the last 12 months. Some suggestions for what to bring include:

A book or article
A podcast series or episode
A poem, quote, or song lyric
A piece of music or new (to you!) artist
A TV show or movie
A recipe
A painting

You can find more information about the event in this blog post: https://www.cscce.org/2025/11/19/decembers-community-call-seventh-annual-cscce-community-potluck/
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88123402630?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE QSS Session | Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community
2025-12-03 11:00 - 12:30
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be talking about the temporal aspects of community management: Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community.
The successful, on-time delivery of community projects and activities regularly requires community managers to use project management tools and strategies to coordinate work. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss tools and tactics for managing projects both within a staff team and across a community of volunteers, with a particular emphasis on time-dependent, deadline-driven workflows. This session will draw on themes from all of the multi-week courses in CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program, connecting the dots between effective content and communication, engagement strategy, project management, and documentation.
Speakers

Pooneh Sabouri, Project Manager for STEP UP, Florida International University
Jody Peters, Community Manager for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, University of Notre Dame
Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Research Software Engineer, Imperial College London

This is an invitation-only event.

Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB)
2025-11-18 - 2025-12-12
This six-session bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts. This training draws upon a core text, The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, with materials contextualized for STEM scenarios and applied to custom STEM case studies by CSCCE staff.
Over the course of this training, participants use CSCCE-created templates to create a Project Canvas describing the three key domains of a project (Foundation, People, and Creation) and the three building blocks of each domain (which include the project’s purpose, benefits, stakeholders, sponsor, and the plan for delivery and evaluation).
We use detailed STEM-specific case studies to support participants with completing the Project Canvas in small groups, with application sessions intended to aid participants in applying the concepts to their own project. In our experience, this provides the most value – supporting high fidelity acquisition of key concepts as well as dedicated time to make progress on individual projects with instructor support.
The Fall 2025 offering of the Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB25F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 18 November until Friday, 12 December 2025.
The key dates are:

Tuesday lessons: 18 November; 2, 9 December at 12pm – 2pm EST / 5pm – 7pm UTC
Friday Co-Labs: 21 November; 5, 12 December at 12pm – 2pm EST / 5pm – 7pm UTC

*Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S., there will be no sessions on Tuesday, 25 November and Friday, 28 November.
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
REGISTER FOR PMB25F

Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists
2025-11-05 11:00 - 13:00
This two hour session provides an overview of the concepts and approaches scientists can use in managing their collaborative projects. You will leave the session able to describe what a project is and the relationship between projects and operations. We’ll also discuss the three types of project and their relationship to uncertainty and complexity. Finally, we will explore the competencies of an effective project leader, whatever their job title. Please note that we also offer a two-day Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp that significantly expands on the topics covered in this Mini-workshop, and sets you up to put many of these principles into practice using HBR’s Project Canvas.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshop-an-introduction-to-project-management-for-scientists-tickets-1286709465649?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Nurturing Online Communities (NOC)
2025-09-30 - 2025-11-14
Building and nurturing a community in an online environment comes with specific needs and challenges. This seven-week course is designed with community managers of scientific communities of practice in mind, and will explore a variety of social science claims about how people behave in online communities to inform actions that you might take to support increased engagement, commitment, and constructive behavior.
In this seminar-style course, participants will engage with instructors and each other in regular discussions, guided by the course textbook, Building Successful Online Communities by Kraut and Resnick. The course will cover 6 topics related to managing online communities and each week we will review the corresponding chapter of the textbook, focusing on key themes identified by staff, and work together on a case study to apply the concepts. Later the same week, learners will spend a 90-minute Co-Lab working in breakouts on a CSCCE-designed activity to apply a translation of the core concepts to their own community, followed by a debrief.
Our fall offering of Nurturing Online Communities (NOC25F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 30 September until Friday, 14 November 2025.
The key dates are:

Tuesday lessons: 30 September; 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 12** November at 12pm – 1:30pm ET / 4/5pm – 5/6:30pm UTC*
Friday Co-Labs: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 7,14 November at 12pm – 1:30pm ET / 4/5pm – 5/6:30pm UTC*

*Note that daylight savings may affect the timing of live sessions for those outside the US in the final week two weeks of the course).
**CSCCE will be closed on Tuesday, 11 November 2025 in observance of Veterans Day. To accommodate this, our week 7 lesson will take place in the same time slot on Wednesday, 12 November.
Registration deadline: Friday, 5 September, 2025
REGISTER FOR NOC25F

Mini-workshop | Working with volunteers
2025-09-29 11:00 - 13:00
Community managers are often trying to create spaces that support group learning and self-expression to build something members of the community couldn’t create alone – and this almost always includes incorporating volunteer contributions. In this Mini-workshop, we’ll explore common community manager concerns related to working with volunteers. We’ll discuss how to flip the narrative from self-doubt and scarcity to center volunteers in a way that empowers and supports them in working together and builds your confidence as a community organizer. We will discuss making contributor pathways visible so that work gets done, while being respectful of members’ different contexts. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking things such as “I feel really self-conscious about asking for contributions from our volunteers – are we being too demanding?” and “I know that different members in our community need different things, but I don’t know where to start.” then this discussion-based workshop is for you.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshop-working-with-volunteers-tickets-1286675584309?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF)
2025-09-04 - 2025-10-23
This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work.
Our fall offering of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25F) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 4 September until Thursday, 23 October.
The key dates are:

Social hour: Thursday, 4 September at 10am – 11am EDT / 2pm – 3pm UTC
Monday lessons: 8, 15, 22, 29 September; 6*, 20 October at 10am – 11:30am EDT / 2pm – 3:30pm UTC
Thursday Co-Labs: 11, 18, 25 September; 2, 9*, 16 October at 10am – 11:30am EDT / 2pm – 3:30pm UTC
Graduation: 23 October at 10am – 12pm EDT / 2pm – 4pm UTC

*CSCCE will be closed on Monday, 13 October 2025 in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. To accommodate this, we have slightly adjusted the schedule for this CEF cohort. “Reading Week” will now only take place during one session, on 2 October 2025, and the Week 7 lesson that would have taken place on Monday, 13 October will be held on Thursday, 9 October.
REGISTER (deadline: 1 August 2025)
Pricing:
CSCCE offers rates to reflect the different organizations that community managers work for and the range of budgets that may be available.

General rate: $1275 – For non-profits.
Supporting rate: $1575 – Aimed at for-profits and others who would like to support the participation of others.
Discounted rate: Depending on participants paying the supporting rate, we may be able offer a limited number of discounted tickets for this cohort. If you would like to participate but your organization is unable to cover the whole cost, please complete this course discount request form.

Find out more about CSCCE’s refund policy.
More information is available on the CEF webpage.

CSCCE QSS Session | Guiding your community members towards a shared purpose
2025-09-03 11:00 - 12:30
Over the lifetime of a community, there are often transitional moments when, as community manager, you might need to re-assess or re-align members around your community’s shared purpose. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss ways of synthesizing feedback into meaningful content and programming, facilitating generative conversations through scaffolded activities, and co-creating new materials with and for your members. This session will draw on themes from the Content Design (CODE) course, as well as the Creating core values Mini-workshop, which we will summarize at the beginning of the session.
Speakers:

Brielle Bennett, Senior Program Specialist, Ethics and Organizational Advancement, American Geophysical Union
Curtis Sharma, Project Manager/Community Manager, 4TU.ResearchData
Zoë Leanza, Communications Manager, Sage Bionetworks

About Quarterly Skills Share sessions
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.
This is an invitation-only event.

Mini-workshop | Creating core values statements
2025-08-06 11:00 - 13:00
Core values statements describe the values underpinning how community members would like to interact, and include a definition of each value as well as examples of what they look like in action. Core values statements are most effective when they are co-created with community members and are specific to the community, rather than re-using values statements that others have created. In this Mini-workshop, you will practice a process for developing core values that you can adapt for your own community.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshop-creating-core-values-statements-tickets-1286633618789?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Mini-workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings
2025-07-16 11:00 - 13:00
Meetings and virtual events often involve asking attendees to make decisions. Decision-making invokes numerous considerations, including how to negotiate power dynamics, empower everyone to express their opinions, and actually reach the outcome(s) you desire. In this Mini-workshop, you will explore four broad decision-making modes (authority rule, consultation, voting, and consensus) and then use the PACT framework to plan a decision-making process. You will leave prepared to deploy decision-making processes in a way that invites all attendees at your meetings and events to contribute.
Price: $150
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mw-designing-for-effective-decision-making-during-virtual-meetings-tickets-1203811977029?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Mini-workshop | Enacting culture change: The Four Frame Model
2025-07-02 11:00 - 12:30
Many culture change projects are met with general enthusiasm at the conceptual level, but fall short during their implementation. In this Mini-workshop, participants will reflect on their own role as change agents and use Bolman and Deal’s Four-Frame Model to assess and describe different types of barriers to culture change initiatives (structural, human resources, political, and symbolic). We will then use the model to identify where community managers might exert leverage – and what specific actions could help to overcome the identified barriers.
Price: $175
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshop-enacting-culture-change-the-four-frame-model-tickets-1286599978169?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 25 June 2025

CSCCE Community Call - Annual mid-year social and curated networking forum!
2025-06-18 11:00 - 12:00
For the fifth year running, our June community call (and annual mid-year social) will be an opportunity to network with other members of the CSCCE community of practice!
Please register for the event, and let us know who you’d be particularly interested in meeting, using this brief registration form. The deadline for registration: Friday, 6 June 2025.
This call is for:

Anyone working to build or nurture communities in STEM (whether or not your job title is “community manager!”)
Anyone looking for feedback on their community management work
Anyone looking for an opportunity to serve as an informal mentor
Community managers looking for a new event format that supports community networking
Those who love to network, AND those who find it a little awkward – we take (most of) the awkwardness away by setting you up with people to talk to!

CSCCE QSS Session | Behind the scenes of community activities: Planning, managing, and delivering complex projects
2025-06-04 11:00 - 12:30
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.
For our Q2 2025 Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) session, we’ll be focusing on various project management skills, processes, and tools that support community activities. We’ll consider what it means to effectively project manage complex community activities that require contributions from both your internal staff team and external stakeholders and volunteers. Then we’ll discuss some of the tech tools that you can use to support your project management work. And finally, we’ll explore a case study together; what it was like to develop and deliver an in-person event co-created with community members.
This is an invitation-only event.
Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

Mini-workshop | Giving and receiving feedback
2025-05-07 11:00 - 13:00
Providing useful and kind feedback to others and being open to receiving feedback ourselves is a critical skill for effective collaboration – including during other CSCCE activities! During this session, we’ll explore the functions of feedback, how to structure yours, and what can make receiving feedback easier.
Price: $150
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshop-giving-and-receiving-feedback-tickets-1203842107149?aff=oddtdtcreator
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB25Sp)
2025-03-31 - 2025-04-17
Our spring offering of the Project Management Bootcamp for Scientists (PMB25Sp) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Monday, 31 March until Thursday, 17 April.
The key dates are:

Monday lessons: 31 March; 7, 14 April at 12-2pm EDT / 4-6pm UTC
Thursday Co-Labs: 3,10,17 April at 12-2pm EDT / 4-6pm UTC

This six-session bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts and with a strong emphasis on the interpersonal considerations that support successful collaborative work. This training draws upon a core text, The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, with materials contextualized for STEM scenarios and applied to custom STEM case studies by CSCCE staff.
Over the course of this training, participants use CSCCE-created templates to create a Project Canvas describing the three key domains of a project (Foundation, People, and Creation) and the three building blocks of each domain (which include the project’s purpose, benefits, stakeholders, sponsor, and the plan for delivery and evaluation).
We use detailed STEM-specific case studies to support participants with completing the Project Canvas in small groups, with application sessions intended to aid participants in applying the concepts to their own project. In our experience, this provides the most value – supporting high fidelity acquisition of key concepts as well as dedicated time to make progress on individual projects with instructor support.
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Deadline to register: 25 March 2025
Our pricing structure for PMB reflects the different organizations that community managers work for and the range of available budgets. These prices are for a pilot offering of the training, and may increase for future cohorts.

General rate: $595 (pilot cohort pricing for non-profits)
Supporting rate: $750 (aimed at for profits and those who would like to support the participation of others. Find out more about our accessibility fund.)
Discounted rate: Depending on participants paying the supporting rate, we may be able offer a limited number of discounted tickets for this cohort. If you would like to participate but your organization is unable to cover the whole cost, please complete this course discount request form.

Please email training@cscce.org with any questions.
