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Climate change, social injustice, access to education: now more than ever, the complex challenges and pressing issues our societies are facing globally can only be tackled through unprecedented cooperation. We already live in an interconnected world where technology has become an essential part of everyday life and allows for new forms of collaboration. A number of staggering for-profit online communities have already been established. However, many communities aiming for social good are struggling to replicate such successes due to a lack of funds, experience and skilled support. Let’s use the power of technology to strengthen online communities, collaborate beyond borders, missions or time zones, and create positive change together.
Virtual Communities for Impact is a practical and adaptable toolkit that empowers community builders to learn from the experience of their peers to unleash the collective power of their communities. On a single platform, it captures best practices, case studies, tools and resources, sourced from over 25+ international organizations that have rich and vast expertise in community building in the impact sector. Most aspects can be applied to both online and offline communities for impact.
INITIATING PARTNERS
- The iac Berlin advises foundations and other nonprofit organizations on the design of impact-driven networks and initiates new forms of collaboration.
- Impact Hub is a global network of collaborative spaces, entrepreneurial communities, and engaging programmes that inspire, connect and catalyse impact.
- The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 working on biodiversity and the reduction of human footprint.
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Ouishare connects people and accelerates projects for systemic change. We question and experiment with social models based on collaboration, openness, and fairness.
- The Luc Hoffmann Institute works for the future of nature and natural systems by helping partners to unlock the potential of their ideas and accelerate the search for solutions.
Work Transformation Collective
The Work Transformation Collective unites highly-skilled individuals and organisations from a variety of fields to support your move into a new era of virtual work. We truely believe virtual collaboration has its worth and its place when taking efficiency, inclusion and environmental impact into account. Virtual facilitators, experience designers, graphic recorders, and artists joined forces to help you turn the recent crisis into an opportunity. Together we translate your services, meetings, communities and conferences into the world of online connectivity. getinvolved at communitiesforimpact.org
Key areas we support
- Organising virtual conferences
- Translating your work into the virtual world
- Running a successful virtual community
Our joint goal: creating a virtual gathering or conference that participants will remember. Now is the time to showcase how much is possible in a virtual setting from panel conversations to worldcafé sessions to engaging breakouts. We even want to take it a step further and create a space for collaborative action planning and trust building.
Imagine 50, 100, or 200 participants from one organisation or across organisations, or even across sectors, collaborating virtually – zero health risks and zero CO2 emissions. From three hours to multiple days long. Goals ranging from enriched exchanges, initiating new projects, or group bonding can be achieved. We want to imagine the impossible together: A session in which every participant is engaged and leaves with more energy, instead of being exhausted from too much screen time. Next to well facilitated content conversations, no technical hick-ups, and potentially even a graphic recording capturing your main points, we offer to include magical moments: listening to a live violinist, watching a magician perform, doing a virtual treasure hunt and much more. The sky is the limit.
Directory
Get a sense of who is part of the collective and our combined experience. You can either connect directly with those having the skills you are looking for or you can reach out to us as a collective to put together a team to support you in addressing your needs.
Case Histories
Slack-powered community rituals
The Civics Unplugged Fellowship community
Challenges and insights on impact measurement
Impact Hub
Co-budgeting, a practice for engaging community members in decision-making
League of Intrapreneurs
Virtual Reality BarCamp: Online Skill Sharing
Bosch Alumni Network
Experience with the Community Canvas
Climate KIC Alumni Association
Exploring the Edges
Ouishare
Getting clear on your engagement strategy for designing the right learning agenda
Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF)
Building a community for innovators in conservation
Panda Labs
A community for impact
Amani Institute Changemaker Community
Growing your community by decentralising its structure
Bosch Alumni Network
Lessons Learned from growing the Impact Hub community
Impact Hub
U.lab connects online & offline for a global learning experience
U.Lab
Working towards an inclusive society starts with your community
Singularity University
A doocracy-based decision-making mechanism
Ouishare
How learning agendas empower our community of intrapreneurs?
League of Intrapreneurs
Learning Exchange Grants
Bosch Alumni Network
Salesforce Community Cloud
Impact Hub
The Importance of Intentionality in Community Maturation
Experiment
A Community Driven by Enthusiasm
The Borderland
Strategies to guide virtual community conversations
Greater Than
From emergency interventions to virtual meditation
In-person meetings are foundational to communities
Enspiral
Learning from 10-years of community building
Ariadne
Tools
Community Strategy & Community Building
- Questions and advice to think about how your community can be more Inclusive and diverse community
- Enspiral’s Communication Guidelines as an inspiration for you.
- In depth explanation of the Community Commitment Curve by CMX and some useful worksheets
- Set up a virtual mentoring programme to build relevant knowledge while supporting personal development based on WWF’s experience.
- The CMX Community Strategy Canvas is a strategy tool around business alignment, membership cohesion, and positioning
- The CMX’s 7 P’s of Community Framework helps you solidify community belonging
- A tool to help you set-up the strategy of your impact driven community
- Looking at 5 skill areas of a community builder and sub-skills within those.
- Content planning template in which you can include insights on your audience mapping
Governance Structure & Leadership
- A simple tool to support you when applying coaching as a way of supporting and leading relevant members of your community created by the Organizers Handbook
- Working Groups - help your community to self-organise working groups to address themes relevant to the community or organise impact focused initiatives
- A conversation guide if you want to establish a partnership with an organisation or another community
- A simple tool to support you when applying coaching as a way of supporting members of your community from the Organizers Handbook
- A great source to learn more about how to effectively organise communities, originally tailored for teams organising campaigns but still very applicable to communities
- Enspiral’s Stewarding Guide provide a solid piece of culture-first technology for online groups
- Ensprial supports small groups that are doing work directly related to their “core” work
- An inspiration for how organisations can organise in a decentralised manner.
- Key steps of collaborative funding via the co-budgeting tool in groups and organizations
- Loomio is a tool that enables participatory and iterative decision-making for communities
Facilitation
- Consensus is a process that involves everyone who is fundamentally affected by a decision. The tips apply to any meeting that you want to be inclusive and effective.
- A list of tools for meetings mostly for in-person but many easily transferable for virtual settings about prioritisation, evaluating ideas, warm-up, etc.
- Creative Reaction Lab pioneered a framework that acknowledges and utilizes the role of people + systems + power when developing solutions or approaches that impact the many.
- 200 questions you can use as icebreaker questions in your community that aim at building trust and creating a sense of belonging
- Icebreakers for virtual teams that can easily be adapted to remote workgroups or any virtual meeting hosted.
- How to host a virtual coffee by Collaboration superpowers.
- How to have a great video conference set-up by Collaboration superpowers
- Virtual graphic harvesting is a means to capture ideas in a visually engaging way - an example.
- StepUpBC’s Innovation Co-Learning Guidebook provides pointers on the process for an Idea Navigator to co-create and coordinate an innovation lab.
- A document that you can use to brief your speakers on the overall goals and technology for a virtual session or online conferences
- Description of the role and tasks of the facilitator and the supporter when hosting a virtual session.
- A step by step guide to support you in setting up successful virtual calls or workshops from marketing to follow-up
- A simple template to discuss the main objectives of a call and content elements before going into more detailed planning. includes an example from a call hosted by WWF.
Co-creation
- Kumu makes it easy to organize complex data into relationship maps such as stakeholder maps or sub-communities
- Trello helps you track progress of a project as a group
- Miro offers virtual space for all your company’s layers of notes, media, data, and other inputs—all from different sources and in different formats
- GroupMap offers customisable brainstorming templates for meetings and workshops that help your team think better together
- Conceptboard provides interactive space for remote teams to collaborate from idea conception to final approval for product development, marketing, coaching
- Coggle allows you mindmap live and share with others our drawings and flow charts
- Cardboard helps you frame and design customer journey maps and visualize user experiences, workflows, or test paths
- Mixed is a real-time whiteboard for distributed teams
- Ziteboard is a zoomable online whiteboard with realtime collaboration and simple teamworking to visualize your ideas and design together
Technology
Formats
Virtual Open Project Night
Host an online space where innovative ideas can be pitched and other participants can give feedback or decide to join a team.
Virtual Jury Meeting
During this Virtual Jury Meeting, some jury members are in the same physical location, while others join the meeting virtually
Virtual Failure Night
During a failure night, people from across an organisation are invited to share a failure they went through and share key learnings and insights.
Live Written Discussion
Use your community platform to get members to discuss a facilitated discussion. Panellists and audience members respond to questions and each other.
Virtual Conference
Conferences can also be hosted online. This format is accessible to anybody with an internet connection. Plan your event meticulously and connect people.
Global Mash-up
An event combining online and offline elements to create connectivity within a community that operates in multiple locations.
Learning Sprints
Create an online space to share knowledge, opinions and collective intelligence by collecting unique knowledge, experience, and perspectives to learn and grow.
Icebreaker
A ready to use icebreaker for you.
Members Unplugged
Q&A session designed to learn about the real and honest work of community members.
Fireside Chats
Fire Side Chats are open spaces for members to have intimate conversations with our mentoring team via a 90 min Zoom call with 8 participants and a mentor.
Toolkits
Beginner
- Which types of virtual communities exist and is a virtual community the right approach?
- What are the different lifecycles and stages of a virtual community?
- What is my role as the virtual community builder?
- How do I create and maintain a virtual community strategy?
- How do I build a content strategy?
- How can I fund my community?
- What platforms and tools are out there to support me?
- How do I initiate my virtual community once my strategy is complete?
- I am setting up a virtual community. What do I need to know?
- How do I establish a learning agenda as part of my community building?
Advanced
- How to activate others in your virtual community?
- How can I become a better virtual facilitator?
- How do I achieve impact with an online community?
- How do I make my virtual community diverse and inclusive?
- How can I combine my online community and offline activities?
- How can virtual communities make good decisions together?
- How to grow your online community?
- How does a virtual community define and measure its success and impact?
- How do I create synergies with other communities?
Further Reads
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/slack-powered-community-rituals/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/1399/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/co-budgeting-a-practice-for-engaging-community-members-in-decision-making/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/virtual-reality-barcamp-online-skill-sharing/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/experience-with-the-community-canvas/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/exploring-the-edges/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/getting-clear-on-your-engagement-strategy-for-designing-the-right-learning-agenda/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/building-a-community-for-innovators-in-conservation/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/professionals-who-create-social-impact/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/growing-your-community-by-decentralising-its-structure/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/lessons-learned-from-growing-the-impact-hub-community/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/u-lab-connects-online-offline-for-a-global-learning-experience/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/working-towards-an-inclusive-society-starts-with-your-community/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/governance-to-empower-an-emergent-community/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/how-learning-agendas-empower-our-community-of-intrapreneurs/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/sharing-knowledge-and-experiences-and-learning-together-learning-exchange-grants/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/salesforce-community-cloud/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/the-importance-of-intentionality-in-community-maturation/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/a-community-driven-by-enthusiasm/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/strategies-to-guide-conversations/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/from-emergency-interventions-to-virtual-meditation/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/in-person-meetings-are-foundational-to-communities/
https://communitiesforimpact.org/case_study/learning-from-10-years-of-community-building/
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https://communitiesforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191107_Virtual-Jury-Meeting.pdf
https://communitiesforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191107_Virtual-Failure-Night.pdf
https://communitiesforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191107_Live-Written-Discussion.pdf
https://communitiesforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191106_Virtual-Conference.pdf
https://communitiesforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191106_Mash-up.pdf
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