**Multiple opportunities to learn and grow**

It’s been a pivotal month for us as we continue to grow our team, our training offerings, and our collection of free resources.

This month, CSCCE received a new grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support us as we test a financial sustainability model. This funding will enable us to add new technical infrastructure and continue to grow our team, as well as to test out new programs and products.

Thanks to the grant, our next step is to hire a Membership Director, who will work with us to pilot a brand new institutional membership program. You can find the full job description here, and we’d love to hear from you if you have any questions about the role.

This week, we began delivering our newest training format, a series of five, 90 minute mini-workshops on planning and facilitating virtual (and hybrid) events. You can still sign up for any or all of the remaining four sessions of the series. Use code VE55OFF for a $55 discount on each session, subject to availability.

And, finally, our collection of community profiles is growing! We’ve added 14 more profiles to the existing set of 13 from 2020. The latest round includes rOpenSci, ASAPbio, The Ecological Forecasting Initiative, and the STEP UP community.

Also in this week’s newsletter:

Check out our new collection of 14 scientific community profiles – infographic snapshots of STEM community structure, programming, and goals
Join us for our monthly community call, which will feature presentations from three of the community managers who took part in our profiles project
Don’t miss our new sponsored section for job opportunities and announcements

News and updates

A new grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

We’re delighted to announce that CSCCE has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support us as we chart a path to financial sustainability. Over the next few months, you can expect a menu of more streamlined consultancy options, a growing collection of training options, and an institutional membership program.

Are you CSCCE’s new Membership Director?

Thanks to this new funding, we’re now looking to hire our first Membership Director. This is a key role at a pivotal point in CSCCE’s evolution – and we’re looking for a US-based, highly collaborative individual with a passion for creating member experiences that delight and empower!

14 new scientific community profiles

As part of our research into the importance of building community in STEM, we create profiles to describe the key features of existing communities. Our latest collection builds on the initial pilot (released in 2020), and showcases a variety of infrastructure organizations, research collaborations and communities of practice.

July community call: Explore CSCCE community profiles

This month, we’re showcasing a new collection of community profiles on our community call, and have invited three of the community managers who took part in this project to share their experiences. Join us TODAY at 3pm UTC / 11am EDT.

CSCCE mini-workshop series

We’re piloting a new 90-minute mini-workshop format as part of our expanding professional development curriculum to support community managers in STEM. Choose from the following offerings, or register for them all!

Event planning: Selecting tools to supplement your online meetings and events | Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 3pm UTC / 11am EDT
Event facilitation: Making decisions during your virtual meetings | Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 3pm UTC / 11am EDT
Event facilitation: Supporting conversations before, during and after virtual meetings and events | Tuesday, 31 August 2021 3pm UTC / 11am EDT
Hybrid events: Making hybrid events the best of both worlds | Tuesday, 14 September 2021, 3pm UTC / 11am EDT

Community social hours

Last June, while we were all still adjusting to living and working during lockdowns and quarantines, we hosted weekly unstructured social hours for any of our members to come and decompress, connect, and find support. We’ve brought these social hours back for July and August, but this time we’ll loosely theme each bi-monthly meetup around one of the CSCCE core values. Our next social hour will take place on Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 3pm UTC / 11am EDT, when the value is “We empower one another.”

Director of Community at the Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation seeks an outstanding Director of the Hertz Community to oversee the strategic engagement and mobilization of our more than 1,200 Hertz Fellows, a multigenerational network of many of our nation’s most accomplished science and technology leaders and disruptors. We’re looking for an influential and highly organized leader with experience engaging scientific and technical communities and who thrives on building productive relationships with all kinds of people, both online and in person. In this highly visible role, you’ll help create connectivity among our fellows, fuel and accelerate collaborations, and grow the foundation’s capacity to support our fellows’ pursuit of game-changing research and technology development.

View the full job description.

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July 2021 Newsletter

**Multiple opportunities to learn and grow**

News and updates