Or consider joining us later this month for our next community tools trial, which will focus on the open-source platform CiviCRM: www.cscce.org/2026/02/12/t...
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Or consider joining us later this month for our next community tools trial, which will focus on the open-source platform CiviCRM: www.cscce.org/2026/02/12/t...
If you’ve read the book, you can still sign up for the session: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
On Wednesday this week, we’re hosting a community book club, facilitated by community member (and recently CSCCE-certified community manager!) Jody Peters: www.cscce.org/2026/02/10/c...
You can find out more about our client services (including some of the groups we’ve worked with to date and the kinds of consultancy we offer) on the CSCCE website: www.cscce.org/consultancy/
This is the first of several private PMB cohorts happening “behind-the-scenes” at CSCCE this year - and if you’re interested in learning more about doing something like this for your team, department, or community, let us know!
We also offer private cohorts of our other trainings, and next week we’ll welcome a new private group of learners into our Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMBs): www.cscce.org/trainings/pr...
…and we’ve created a six-session “introduction to community engagement” training for clients, that combines three lessons and three office hours to directly apply key concepts to their projects.
We’ve also offered this training privately over the years, including for groups of grantees of related programs and to deliver the course during work hours in Australia / NZ…
Next week, we’ll be kicking off our 17th general registration cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals: www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/
This week at CSCCE, we’re preparing for two upcoming training courses and continuing some client projects. We’re also hosting a community book club - a new piece of programming that we’re excited to pilot!
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...