Mini-workshop | Enacting culture change: The Four-Frame Model
2023-11-29 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
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 on Eventbrite
Price: $150 (or apply for a free ticket via our accessibility fund)
Registration deadline: Friday, 24 November 2023

CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program Information Session
2023-12-13 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82458606246?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please join us to learn more about the spring 2024 cohort of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program (CERT24Sp).
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82458606246?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Monthly Community Call - Annual Community Potluck!
2023-12-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86141763557?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for our annual community potluck – a chance to reflect on 2023, set some goals for 2024, and let us know what you’d like CSCCE’s community programming to look like over the next 12 months.
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86141763557?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations
2024-01-10 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, participants will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify the stage of their project and which areas they need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, participants will have drafted a survey for their project, and be ready to determine how to translate the survey responses into practical next steps in the second workshop.
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Price: $150 (or apply for a free ticket via our accessibility fund)
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 3 January 2024

PBK24W
2024-01-16 - 2024-03-01
Creating Community Playbooks – Winter 2023 (PBK24W)
Playbooks are written hubs that keep your community members, community champions or community team on the same page by making visible the who, what, why, when, where, and how of your shared work together. In this workshop-style, multi-week course, we’ll talk about the different contexts in which playbooks are useful and the different strategies for creating and maintaining them. Then, you’ll use CSCCE’s playbook framework and custom templates to create a “lite” playbook of your own.
More information: https://www.cscce.org/trainings/pbk/
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-community-playbooks-pbk24w-tickets-742420940017?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

CEF24W
2024-01-18 - 2024-03-07
Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals – Winter 2024 (CEF24W)
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.
More information: https://www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scientific-community-engagement-fundamentals-cef24w-tickets-742454279737

CSCCE Monthly Community Call
2024-01-24 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83380580405?pwd=[REDACTED]
Topic: The intersection of self care, community care, and community management
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83380580405?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join January’s community call to share your perspective on how to balance individual self care with community engagement – both as community member and community manager.

Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations
2024-02-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Prerequisite: Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1)

In this second workshop of a two part series, participants will debrief the team readiness surveys they drafted in workshop one. They will explore how to deploy the survey and how to report the results back to the community and determine next steps. Then, using a framework describing collaborative approaches, participants will identify which combination of approaches or activities will be helpful for the next stage of their collaboration.
Register on Eventbrite
Price: $150 (or apply for a free ticket via our accessibility fund)
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Find out more about CSCCE’s refund policy.

CSCCE Monthly Community Call
2024-02-28 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89529518276?pwd=[REDACTED]
Topic: The informational roles of community-engaged content
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89529518276?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Monthly Community Call
2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87064398898?pwd=[REDACTED]
Topic: The garden metaphor for community management
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87064398898?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Monthly Community Call
2024-04-24 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84053842676?pwd=[REDACTED]
Topic: Evaluating the impact of short-form training in the STEM ecosystem
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84053842676?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Monthly Community Call
2024-05-29 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81989584908?pwd=[REDACTED]
Topic: Creating Community Playbooks – a.k.a. Collaboration Guides, Team Handbooks, and more!
Speakers:
Sophie Bui (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NCSA)
Allie Lau (American Physical Association, APS)
Martin Magdinier (OpenRefine)
Abstract:
Join May’s community call to:

Learn more about the application of community playbooks in a variety of organizational settings in STEM
Explore different examples of community playbooks
Consider if CSCCE’s training course, Creating Community Playbooks, fits into your professional development plan for 2024
Meet other community managers in STEM and grow your professional network

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81989584908?pwd=[REDACTED]

QSS Session: Navigating community management in a large, complex organization
2024-06-05 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
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 navigating community management in a large, complex organization, including negotiating more recognition of the role of community management at an organizational level.
This is a private event.
Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program Orientation
2024-06-10 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
This event is exclusively for participants enrolled in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.
CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program builds upon our foundational Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) course to create a longer-form, multi-component, online program for STEM community managers. The program will equip community managers and their organizations with necessary skills and frameworks to ground their work in a community-centric leadership approach – and to signal those qualifications to others.
Find out more about the program.

CSCCE Mini-workshop: Creating core values statements
2024-06-13 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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, certification program participants will collaboratively draft core values statements as a cohort, a process they can also adapt for use in their own communities.
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This event is exclusively for participants enrolled in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.
CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program builds upon our foundational Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) course to create a longer-form, multi-component, online program for STEM community managers. The program will equip community managers and their organizations with necessary skills and frameworks to ground their work in a community-centric leadership approach – and to signal those qualifications to others.
Find out more about the program.

CSCCE Mini-workshop: Giving and receiving feedback
2024-06-20 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Providing useful and kind feedback to others and being open to receiving feedback ourselves is a critical skill for effective collaboration – including during the certification program experience! During this session, we’ll explore the functions of feedback, how to structure yours, and what can make receiving feedback easier.
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This event is exclusively for participants enrolled in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.
CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program builds upon our foundational Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) course to create a longer-form, multi-component, online program for STEM community managers. The program will equip community managers and their organizations with necessary skills and frameworks to ground their work in a community-centric leadership approach – and to signal those qualifications to others.
Find out more about the program.

CSCCE Monthly Community Call - annual summer social!
2024-06-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275302115?pwd=[REDACTED]
For our June community call (and annual mid-year social), we’ll be bringing back our curated networking forum for its fourth annual offering! This is a unique opportunity to connect with others who are nurturing community, collaboration, and connection in a range of organizational settings in STEM.
Registration for this event has closed as we have reached capacity. If you would like to be added to a waitlist, please reach out to katie.pratt@www.cscce.org.
More information

Mini-workshop | Working with volunteers
2024-07-10 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
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.

Registration is now closed.

Creating Community Playbooks (PBK24S)
2024-07-15 - 2024-08-29
In this workshop-style, multi-week course, we discuss the different contexts in which community playbooks are useful and the different strategies for creating and maintaining them. Participants use CSCCE’s playbook framework and custom templates to create a “lite” playbook, and plan for socializing the playbook with their community members.
Our summer offering of Creating Community Playbooks (PBK24S) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Monday, 15 July until Thursday, 29 August.
The key dates are:

Monday sessions: 15, 22, 29 July; 5, 12, 19, 26 August from 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST / 4:00pm – 5:30pm UTC
Friday sessions: 18, 25 July; 1, 8, 15, 22 August 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST / 4:00pm – 5:30pm UTC
Graduation: Thursday, 29 August at 12pm – 2pm EST / 4pm – 6pm UTC

Registration is open for this course: register on Eventbrite (deadline: 21 June 2024)
More information is available on the PBK webpage.

Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events
2024-08-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
With virtual work increasingly the norm, community managers are often tasked with convening and facilitating virtual meetings. In this Mini-workshop, you 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. You will apply the framework directly to example scenarios so that you leave feeling empowered to use the framework in your own community management.

Price: $150
Register here: 7 August Mini-Workshop: PACT24
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 July 2024

CSCCE QSS Session | Coordinating connections: how do we tactically strengthen relationships and strategic partnerships?
2024-09-04 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
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 tactics for strengthening relationships with community members and strategic partnerships with stakeholders. They will share which tactics have worked for them and those that did not work so well, along with lessons learned. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own tactics, and we will explore new ideas together on how to coordinate connections within and across communities.
This is an invitation-only event.
Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F)
2024-09-12 - 2024-10-31
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 Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 12 September until Thursday, 31 October.
The key dates are:

Social hour: Thursday, 12 September at 12pm – 1pm EST / 4pm – 5pm UTC
Monday lessons: 16, 23, 30 September; 7, 14, 21, 28 October at 12pm – 1:30pm EST / 4pm – 5:30pm UTC
Thursday Co-Labs: 19, 26 September; 3, 10, 17, 24 October at 12pm – 1:30pm EST / 4pm – 5:30pm UTC
Graduation: Thursday, 31 October at 12pm – 2pm EST / 4pm – 6pm UTC

Registration is now closed.
More information is available on the CEF webpage.

Mini-Workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings
2024-10-09 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
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: 9 October Mini-Workshop: Decisions24
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Mini-Workshop | Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events
2024-11-06 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
Community managers regularly use online tools to support the needs of community members in virtual meetings and events. With so many possible needs to solve for, and so many potential online tools to use – how can you quickly determine which tools to explore and then use? In this Mini-workshop, you will apply CSCCE’s BASICS framework and SCORE method to determine an appropriate tool for a provided use case scenario. You will also test two online tools in a “sandbox” setting to explore functionality and usability, preparing you to select and implement tools for your own virtual meetings and events.

Price: $150
Register: 6 November Mini-Workshop: OnlineTools24
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 30 October 2024

CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings
2024-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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 focusing on facilitating stakeholder meetings. As a community manager, you may frequently find yourself convening meetings vital to engaging key stakeholders around the mission and goals of your community. This might include scientific steering committee meetings, governance meetings, strategy meetings, or other specialized gatherings. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we will consider how to facilitate these meetings so that they are effective and engaging, with speakers sharing examples from their own work.
This is an invitation-only event.
Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

CSCCE Community Call: Annual Community Potluck!
2024-12-18 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82715917769?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for our annual community potluck – an opportunity to connect with community managers in STEM as we wind down for the end of the year.
Join us on Zoom

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25W)
2025-01-17 10:00 - 2025-03-07 11:30 (America/New_York)
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 Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Friday, 17 January until Friday, 7 March 2025.
The key dates are:

Social hour: Friday, 17 January at 10am – 11am EST / 3pm – 4pm UTC
Tuesday lessons: 21, 28 January; 4,11,18, 25 February; 4 March at 10am – 11:30pm EST / 3pm – 4:30pm UTC
Friday Co-Labs: 24, 31 January; 7,14, 21,28 February at 10am – 11:30am EST / 3pm – 4:30pm UTC
Graduation: Friday, 7 March at 9:30am – 11:30am EST / 2:30pm – 4:30pm UTC

Registration is now closed.
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.

Content Design (CODE25W)
2025-01-28 12:00 - 2025-03-07 13:30 (America/New_York)
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.
Our winter offering of Content Design (CODE25W) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 28 January until Friday, 7 March 2025.
The key dates are:

Tuesday sessions: 28 January; 4,11,18, 25 February; 4 March at 12pm – 1:30pm EST / 5pm – 6:30pm UTC
Friday sessions: 31 January, 7,14, 21, 28 February; 7 March at 12pm – 1:30pm EST / 5pm – 6:30pm UTC

Register on Eventbrite.
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: $1525 – 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 CODE webpage.

Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations
2025-02-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, participants will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify the stage of their project and which areas they need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, participants will have drafted a survey for their project, and be ready to determine how to translate the survey responses into practical next steps in the second workshop.
Price (for both sessions): $300
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshops-preparing-designing-for-large-scale-collaborations-tickets-1074971852749
Registration deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025

Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations
2025-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Prerequisite: Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1)

In this second workshop of a two part series, participants will debrief the team readiness surveys they drafted in workshop one. They will explore how to deploy the survey and how to report the results back to the community and determine next steps. Then, using a framework describing collaborative approaches, participants will identify which combination of approaches or activities will be helpful for the next stage of their collaboration.
Price (for both sessions): $300
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini-workshops-preparing-designing-for-large-scale-collaborations-tickets-1074971852749
Registration deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025
