Community Canvas

A framework to help you build meaningful communities

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A framework to help you build meaningful communities

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The Community Canvas is a framework that helps people and organizations build stronger communities. It provides a template for anyone who brings people together.

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Think of this as the "Business Model Canvas", but for communities. @halbluchs @pforti @supermombartz have spent the last 15 years building and participating in communities, and while each is unique, they've realized that they all share a similar structure. As such, the Community Canvas is making this structure visible to help people build more sustainable and successful communities.

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9yr ago

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Maker

@chrismessina Thanks so much for hunting the Canvas Chris! We're excited to have launched it after three years of work. Great communities can be such a powerful way to connect people and share experience and knowledge. But building and maintaining communities is hard. That's where the Canvas can provide guidance and structure - whether you're trying to build a new community, or improve an existing one. We're grateful for any feedback or thoughts from other community builders!

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@chrismessina thanks so much for your support Chris, very much appreciate it and would love to hear if you have any advice on how to improve future versions of the Canvas. Thank you!

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9yr ago

Local Lead Game

Thank you very much @halbluchs for putting this guide together. I'm building a maker community of my own and this has given me some good guidance.

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6yr ago

This is awesome - I really love how in-depth it goes, especially the questions related to Why. Just curious, is this something in continuous development or is this a final product?

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@camroncade thanks so much! The Canvas is def work in progress. We hope to work with community builders across the globe to make this more complete and valuable in future versions, please let us know if you have any feedback or advice on how to improve it! Future versions will also include case studies and more example.

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9yr ago

@pforti Sounds awesome. Consider this my vote for both case studies and examples.

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9yr ago

CMX

Excited to see this launch after having the opportunity to get an early look at what Fabian and team were working on. Our community is already finding it to be a really helpful framework for mapping out their community needs. Thrilled to see more smart people thinking about this challenge. Question for the team: what is your goal in creating this canvas? What change are you hoping to see as a result?

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@davidspinks first off, THANK YOU for all your feedback and support on this journey! Your insights have impacted the actual Canvas, especially with the Content box! With regards to your question about what the goal is with the Canvas: we believe that communities bring something beautiful to society. If communities are done well, it means that humans trust each other more, they feel they belong, they feel less lonely, they collaborate more, they build friendships, they act more out of love and less out of fear. And our ultimate, long-term goal is that as a result of the Canvas more people will build communities that matter and as a result more people will feel like they found a place where they belong. This isn't a quick journey and I'm sure we'll need many iterations to get the Canvas to a place where it will truly support a large group of community builders. But feedback from people like yourself will be invaluable on this journey. Having said that, I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts: what role do you think the Canvas can play? Thanks for everything, David!

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

Thank you all for supporting us on our journey! We are grateful for your help to reach more community builders and most importantly, learn from them. Please reach out to us if you have any feedback or advice on how we can improve future versions of the Canvas and make it as valuable as possible for community builders anywhere, and hopefully through it help the world build stronger communities.

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9yr ago

Local Lead Game

@pforti It would be awesome if you could share anything new that you've learned since releasing this guide. I've got a few new ideas with your guidance so far.

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6yr ago

As an inspiring community builder, I find resources dedicated to community building can be expanded. I'm excited to see what this canvas has to offer

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@futi and we'd love to hear your feedback!

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9yr ago

@futi Totally agree

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9yr ago

@pforti I like it! Hopefully in the future there is a 2.0 version I was hoping for their to be more real-world examples (that may be a selfish criticism, because that's the best way that I learn), but I think your Facebook Group is a great substitute. Thanks for all the work behind this!

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9yr ago

Uncubed

I'm just thrilled these 3 have chosen to stick to community as a theme for their next venture. It's a gift they all share and have changed so many lives through their genuine efforts to build sustainable communities. The world needs more businesses like this. Glad it's out there for the world and getting the love it deserves on PH.

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@tarekp thanks so much Tarek!

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9yr ago

Reflection

This is an amazing resource, thank you @halbluchs @pforti @supermombartz for doing all the hard work and presenting it so well! Eager to apply some of these learnings as we build out more community features at Holstee!

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9yr ago

Community Canvas

Maker

@daverad thanks so much, Daveo! Holstee has been a huge source of inspiration for the Canvas

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9yr ago

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