We’ll be convening on Zoom on Wednesday, 25 March at 2pm EST / 6pm UTC, and we hope you’ll join us! Let us know you’re coming and what you’re hoping to learn using this brief Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CRMs can be powerful tools for tracking member data and coordinating communications and fundraising campaigns. At the tools trial, we’ll consider how they can also support effecting community engagement.
Coming up at the end of the month, IOI’s Lauren Collister and OLS' Yo Yehudi will be joining us for a community Tools Trial, where we’ll be exploring CiviCRM - a constituent relationship management platform (CRM): www.cscce.org/2026/02/12/t...
And you can read more about how we created the new Zulip Quick Start Guide in collaboration with some of our community members in this blog post: www.cscce.org/2026/03/03/n...
You can find out more about why scaffolding is so important in engaged and inclusive communities in part three of our Community Participation Model guidebook: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We refer to guides like these as “scaffolding” - supportive information, activities, and processes that address barriers to member participation and ensure that all members can access and engage in community programming.
This guide, which you can adapt and adjust to meet your needs, is intended to support new members of your community get comfortable logging in and participating - just like our earlier guides for Slack, Mural, and more: www.cscce.org/resources/sc...
NEW RESOURCE ALERT!! We’ve just published a CC BY Zulip Quick Start Guide - perfect for anyone convening their members in the open-source community platform, Zulip! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
If you’re just finding out about CEF now and need a little more time to get sign-off on taking the course, please let us know. You can email training [at] cssce [dot] org to request a deadline extension.
If you’re interested in growing as a community professional in STEM, we encourage you to sign up for our next CEF cohort, which begins on Thursday. 19 March (reg deadline is this Thursday, 5 March): www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
In early 2024, we published a medium-term evaluation of the course, which showed that it is having a positive impact not just on the people who take it, but also the communities they manage and the teams they are part of: www.cscce.org/research/eva...
We’ve been running 20-25 person cohorts of CEF since 2020, and almost 400 people have completed the training to date: www.cscce.org/cef-grads/
CEF is a foundational training designed to meet the specific needs of community managers in STEM (and STEM-adjacent contexts) - professionals working in academia, research, nonprofits, schol comm, and beyond.
CEF is a foundational training designed to meet the specific needs of community managers in STEM (and STEM-adjacent contexts) - professionals working in academia, research, nonprofits, schol comm, and beyond.
For anyone joining the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program, the first step is to complete Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF): www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/
You can read more about Jody and Pooneh’s path through our modular certification program, we well as some early insights into how the program is impacting participants, in a new blog post: www.cscce.org/2026/02/26/c...
A graphic summary of Pooneh Sabouri’s path through the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program, which includes her headshot, information about the modular components she completed, and the logo of her community: STEP UP.
She’ll be joined by her longtime colleagues in the program Pooneh Sabouri, who also graduates this quarter!
A graphic summary of Jody Peters’ path through the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program, which includes her headshot, information about the modular components she completed, and the logo of her community: The Ecological Forecasting Initiative.
The book club will be led by @jpeters7.bsky.social, who is graduating this week from the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program!
There’s also still time to sign up for our 11 March book club, at which we’ll be discussing Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: www.cscce.org/2026/02/10/c...
There’s also still time to sign up for our 11 March book club, at which we’ll be discussing Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: www.cscce.org/2026/02/10/c...
This week at CSCCE, registration is about to close for our next cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF), and we’re celebrating two new grads from our Certification Program!
And if you find these resources helpful, let us know! We’d love to learn more about how you’re putting these frameworks into practice: info [at] cscce [dot] org
Or if you’re looking for guidance around your next career move, check out our series of 25 community manager case studies, interviews with CMs in a variety of contexts: www.cscce.org/case-studies/
If you’re a more established community manager and thinking about how to put together training or mentorship programs, check out our community champions programs resource page: www.cscce.org/resources/co...
Relatedly - there are also places left in our upcoming Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals course, which is especially valuable to new CMs: www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/
If you’re a new community manager, check out the CSCCE Community Participation Model. The framework and associated guidebooks will help you think through how and why you engage with your members: www.cscce.org/resources/cpm/
But if you’d like a “guided tour,” here’s where we’d suggest you start...
Did you know, CSCCE has a collection of free-to-download resources, created by and for STEM community managers? You can find them all here: www.cscce.org/resources/
This Tools Trial, part of an ongoing series on open-source community engagement platforms, is a great opportunity to connect with other STEM community managers and get answers to your burning questions about CRMs!
And then at the end of March (25 March at 2pm EDT / 4pm UTC), Lauren Collister and Yo Yehudi will be giving us a tour of CiviCRM in our next Tools Trial: www.cscce.org/2026/02/12/t...
