"The nature of community will shift drastically in 2025. Most people are overwhelmed. This year, people will likely be more selective about the communities they join." 

- Gav Parry @ UQ Ventures and CAST, Cohort #1 Alumnus 

What a time to be alive right?!

With February done and dusted and March bringing a huge month for the startup x community space, our team have written this edition to ensure you don’t miss a beat!

From our _SOUTHSTART top picks, major events happening during International Women’s Day, hot jobs in the community space, upcoming events and the launch of our new 2025 Community Industry Trends & Predictions Report with Frontcover… it’s all here.

Plus you’ll get to meet our new Ambassadors 🥲 AND our new Community Lead joining us at The Community Collective (can you name a more meta role?!).

And of course we leave you with a smile with a very relatable meme at the end… 😆

Grab a cuppa and read on 🧡 Paz

📙  Download Our Free 2025 Community Industry Trends & Predictions Report with Frontcover 🎉

We've launched our new Report with Frontcover 🎉

After interviewing countless Key Voices in the community industry, this is your go-to guide for understanding where the world of community building is headed in 2025.

Thank you to fellow CC’ians Lea Rausch for writing & design arrangement by Gabi Scharf 👏 and of course our Key Voices (AKA absolute legends).

🏵 Behind The CC Scenes 👀

Get a sneak peek into what’s happening at The CC. Written by yours truly (Paz) 👋

🙌 Welcome, Ambassadors! A huge congrats to our Ambassador Program #6—join us in congratulating them here. With 30+ people applying for 8 roles, it was super awesome to welcome the final group.

🏵 Goal Setting Workshop: We loved seeing you at The CC Goal Setting Workshop in Melbourne with Desmond John at StartSpace!

🤝 IWD25 Event: We’re supporting Forever Projects for IWD25: Curate Confidence, March Forward on Monday, 3 March in Adelaide.

☕ Coffee & Croissants: Kicking off _SOUTHSTART with a bang! Join us for coffee & croissants with Standard Ledger, Frontcover, The CC & FKS. Will we see you there?

📆 The Art of Maximising Events: Keen to run better events? Learn tactics to get people to actually show up? We’re hosting The Art of Maximising Event Experiences online Wed 12 March with The Nudge Group—featuring Sheree, Steve x Megan!

🚺 International Women’s Day is coming up on 8 March—here are our top event picks to celebrate 👀

🎟 _SOUTHSTART 2025: We’ve rounded up the Top Schedule Picks & Events for this year’s epic experience in Adelaide.

🤝 Intros AI Case Study: Curious about our partnership with Intros AI? Here’s what went down and why it matters in our Intros AI Partnership Case Study.

📙 Our partners at Discourse have published an amazing guide to selecting the right metrics for your community

🎥 Need a videographer at your next event? Looking for podcast production support. Get an email intro to our friends at Nudge Productions. 

🔥 Blackbird Sunrise Australia 2025 is happening this 30 April & 1 May in Sydney. Get your tickets.

🎤 Meet Our Speakers: You need to meet our Cohort #6 Speakers—get ready to be inspired by them here.

🏵 Cohort #6: 2 days left to apply for our 8-week Community Cohort #6. If you’d like to be known for community building, don’t miss the deadline. Already 95+ people have applied, with 42 alumni keen to come back again… First in first served.

👋 Meet Ines: Our team is growing! Say hello and learn about our new Community Lead, Ines Schuber 🎉

🔥 Community Jobs

As always, here are the hottest jobs in the community and startup space. Written by our Community Lead, Ines Schuber.

⚡ Investments Associate (Ops & Community) @ Startmate (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀 Community Lead @ LIFTWOMEN® Group (Melbourne, Australia)

⚡ Operations Manager @ Broadsheet Media (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀 Event Manager @ Bursty (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀 Partner Growth Specialist @ Too Good To Go (Melbourne, Australia)

⚡ Event and Communications Lead @ Xplor (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀 Community Fundraising & Events Coordinator @ The Alannah & Madeline Foundation (Melbourne, Australia)

⚡ Partnerships Manager @ Culture Amp (Sydney, Australia)

🚀 Manager, Student Engagement @ University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)

⚡ Community Engagement Coordinator (NSW) – Indigenous Identified Role @ Aurora Education Foundation (Sydney, Australia)

🚀 Event Coordinator @ Nexus42 (Sydney, Australia)

⚡ Front of House Specialist @ Canva (Sydney, Australia)

🚀 Sydney Workplace and Executive Operations @ Notion (Sydney, Australia)

⚡ Community Partnerships Manager @ Airwallex (Sydney, Australia)

🚀 Senior Community & Programs Advisor @ Australian Computer Society (Sydney, Australia)

⚡ Community Lead @ WeWork (Brisbane, Australia)

🚀 Community & Event Manager @ Bigo Live (Remote, Australia)

⚡ Community Lead @ Anthropic (Remote-Friendly, USA)

🚀 Operations Associate, Startup Community @ Techstars (California, USA)

⚡ Investment Manager / Principal @ Giant Leap (Remote, Australia)

🚀 Community & Content Manager @ BeamXR (Remote, UK-based only)

⚡Community Manager @ Outset Ventures Limited (Auckland, New Zealand)

📆 Startup & Community Events 

Upcoming events in the community, tech and the startup space. Written by our Community Lead, Ines Schuber.

📍3 March - IWD25: Curate confidence. March Forward in Adelaide

📍4 March - Startup Basketball - Adelaide SOUTHSTART Edition in Marden

📍3-7 March - Community Week online

📍4-6 March - A SPACE TO BREATHE in South Australia

📍4 March - Scaling a Startup with Toby Hilliam ⚡️ in Auckland

📍4 March - 🏵 Standard Ledger x Frontcover x The CC x FKS: Coffee & Croissants in Adelaide

📍5 March - Community Outlook 2025 online

📍5 March - Her Tech Circle - IWD Breakfast | Sydney in Sydney

📍5 March - Demo Day + Light Talk - Connecting Tech Innovation Globally 🌏✨ in Fortitude Valley

📍5 March - MedTech Actuator Accelerator Demo Day in Melbourne

📍5 March - International Women's Day 2025 - #AccelerateAction - Micro-Change, for Macro Impact in Auckland

📍5 March - DayBreak – Festival of Innovation 2025 in Tauranga City.

📍6 March - Surf Coast Women in Business - End of Summer Social 2025 in Torquay.

📍10-16 March - Climate Action Week Sydney in Sydney

📍11 March - Founder Connect with OK200! in Melbourne

📍11 March - She Speaks, She Wins: The Startup Pitch Lab in Sydney

📍11 March - More than Money: Unlocking the Full Potential of Climate Tech Support Programs in Haymarket

📍12 March - International Women's Day | Startmate x Google Cloud (Sydney) in Sydney

📍12 March - The Startup Network Presents: AI Pulse online

📍12 March - 🏵 The Art of Maximising Event Experiences online

📍13 March - Stone & Chalk's Ecosystem Mixer: Women In Technology in Melbourne

📍13 March - Building Together: Collaboration Space for Community Leaders online

📍14 March - IWD - A Breakfast with Change Makers of the Startup World in Melbourne

📍18 March - Open Pitch Night in Melbourne

📍19 March - Pro bono pitch night in Sydney

📍22 March - Unconference Plus for Community Builders in New York City

📍25 March - Female Founder Pitch Night in Melbourne

📍26 March - Community Moderation and Crisis Management for Online Communities with Céline Riemenschneider online

📍27 March - Powerskill Panel - Networking 2.0: Leveraging Connections, Community, and Technology to advance your career in Auckland

📍28 March - Book Launch: Growth Forum in Melbourne

☕️ Community Builder of the Month

Fellow CC’ian Promise sat down with Alicia Curtis @ Alyceum to learn what makes working in community magic and the 3 tech tools he couldn't live without. Grab a coffee with Alicia Curtis.

🤪 Let’s Laugh

We love to leave you with a smile. Especially if you open just one email today, let it be ours. We promise it’s worth it! 😆📩

Until next time,

Paz, Ines and The CC Team