“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” 
- Og Mandino

You made it to our last newsletter of 2024! Can you believe it?

To end on a high note this edition includes 3 exciting NEW announcements 👀, top December events, hot community jobs, The CC 2024 Wrapped Metrics and our Coffee Corner interview with May Flaming @ Wade Institute 🔥

Keep reading for the inside scoop! 👇️ 

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^{🏵 #1 Announcement: Apply To Get $200 Off Our Community Cohort #6}

Our End of Year Sale ends this Mon 9 Dec @ 12pm AEDT.

Apply to get $200 off our global 8-week cohort where community builders, operators & founders level up to build impactful communities, together.

📆 Cohort #6 Dates: Mon 24 March - Fri 16 May 2025
📍 Location: 100% online with optional IRL socials in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane & Lagos
👉 View Full Program

📙 ^{#2 Announcement: Download Our New Report}

We're beyond excited to launch our NEW 2024 Community Manager Snapshot: Startup Space Report 🎉

This joint report with Australian Community Managers x Frontcover contains all the key insights you need to understand what it's like to build community in today’s startup landscape in Australia and New Zealand.

What’s inside?

👉 Average salaries and benefits
👉 Common responsibilities and skillsets
👉 Challenges faced by community managers
👉 Job titles and the role of AI

🔥 Community Jobs

Hottest jobs in the community and startup space. Brought to you by yours truly, Jem, Operations Lead @ The CC.

Hot Jobs

🚀Community Program Manager - ANZ & Singapore (Contract) @ Notion (Sydney, Australia)

⚡Head of Partnerships & Community @ upcover (Sydney, Australia)

🚀Community Lead, Perth @ WeWork (Perth, Australia)

⚡Manager, Community & Advocacy (Singapore or Sydney, Australia) @ Sigma (Singapore or Sydney, Australia)

🚀Community Manager @ Shepherd (Remote - Aus & NZ)

⚡Resident Experience Community Manager @ scouted. (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀Head of Communications & Community @ VeVe (Remote, New Zealand)

⚡Community Manager @ Newcore (Remote, APAC)

🚀Community Manager @ Outerdawn (Auckland, NZ)

⚡Community Associate @ International Workplace Group (IWG) (Auckland, NZ)

🚀Head of Communications & Community @ VeVe (Remote, New Zealand)

⚡Thought Leadership & Event Content Lead @ Culture Amp (San Francisco, USA)

📆 Startup & Community Events

Latest events in the community, tech and the startup space. Brought to you by yours truly, Jem, Operations Lead @ The CC.

📍2-6 December - West Tech Fest in Perth, Australia

📍6 December - AI ROI Workshop in Auckland

📍9 December - Learn to Pitch and AI Startup in Melbourne

📍10 December - AI Blueprint Lunchtime Webinar Series: AEC, Creative Industries and Education Online

📍11 December - Runway HQ Incubator Showcase: Celebrate Our 15th Cohort in Geelong

📍12 December - The Ultimate EOY Celebration: Australia’s Biggest Startup Xmas Party in Melbourne

📍12 December - SOUTHSTART Merry Mixmas in Adelaide

📍12 December - Startup&Angels' x The Community Collective End of Year Ecosystem Drinks in Sydney

📍15 December - Early Stage Success: How to Build and Grow Your Startup Community online

📍17 December - Beyond the Calendar: Mapping Out Your 2025 Event Schedule online

📍20 December - Startup Pitch Event by Startup Valley in Syd in Sydney

📍20 December - AI & Tech Networking Sydney in Sydney

📍20 December - Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night Syd in Sydney

🌟 #3 Announcement: Introducing our NEW Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Startup Events Calendar! 🌟

This is your go to calendar created by ⚡ Startmate x 🚀 Overnight Success x 📖 Frontcover x 🏵️ The Community Collective for all startup & community events happening in ANZ.

Whether you're a founder, investor, operator, mentor, or community builder, this is THE calendar to discover and add your top events.

Our aim is to create 1 source of truth that acts as a guide to streamline all events.

✨ Hosting an Event? Add your event to share it with 11k+ other people! As long as it's relevant 😎

Now bookmark this link & subscribe here.

🏵 The CC 2024 Wrapped Metrics

Paz here, Co-Founder @ The CC 👋 Each year we review our annual metrics in a style that’s inspired by Spotify’s Yearly Wrapped. So let’s dive into our impact this year…

Here's The CC 2024 metrics wrapped 🎁 🤯

🏵️ 12.8k combined audience reach across our social media, website and newsletters (up from 7.8k in 2023)

🏵️4.1k comments of feedback were left on Community Strategies by members to provide guidance to other members during our cohorts

🏵️ 1070 attendees across 42 public events & meetups in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland, Perth, Lagos, Nigeria or online via Butter 

🏵️ 971 downloads of our free PDF Reports x Templates for community builders

🏵️ 777 on our waitlist to hear about our next Community Cohort #6 launch 🤯

🏵️ 233 members in our FKS WhatsApp community with Frontcover, hosted with Alan & Liz

🏵️140 community builders across 10 countries trained in our Community Cohort program, joining 223 alumni 

🏵️ 91 NPS for Community Cohort #4, up from 84, 78 & 71 in Cohort #3, #2 & #1

🏵️88 Community Strategy Templates created during our programs for companies including Google, Airtree, CSIRO, Founders Factory Africa, Startmate

🏵️ 86 member-led events organised without us during our Community Cohorts 

🏵️ 79 hours of online live sessions hosted for our Cohort #4 and #5

🏵️ 61 coaching sessions happened 1-1 to provide community strategy guidance

🏵️ 56 guest speakers across our public events, meetups & cohorts. 

🏵️42 members took on leadership roles in the community as Hosts, Ambassadors, Editors, Mentors or Connectors 

🏵️ 21 collaborations with incredible organisations to co-host events

🏵️ 13 newsletters written with 2.5k subscribers

🏵️ 5 incredible Advisors including Melia, Jaala, Kim, Ben and Dan

🏵️ 5 Press features including Startup News, Startup Daily, Coworks, FKS & Hub

🏵️10 incredible partnerships with Discourse, intros.ai, Common Room, StartSpace, The Nudge Group, Disco, Pause Awards, HEXPO, _SOUTHSTART, Blackbird Sunrise

🏵️ 3 incredible humans worked within our team including Jess Walker, Jem Hecht, Liz van Zyl

🏵️ 2 new group coaching offerings launched with 12 community builders and 2 coaches

🏵️ 1 incredible community… 🧡

Thank you to everyone who has supported us on our way. Stay tuned for what’s in store in 2025…

☕️ Community Builder of the Month

We’re celebrating May Flaming @ Wade Institute and Cohort #4 CC’ian! We sat down with May to learn more about her fave tech tools & podcasts/books/articles in community building. Grab a coffee with May.

🤪 Let’s Laugh

We love to leave you with a smile. Especially if you make decisions like this… 😆

And that’s a wrap for 2024…

Thanks for all the amazing support this year 🧡

Until next time,

Paz, Jem and The CC Team