{"type": "project", "title": "The CM Guild", "logoImg": "bafkreie7qhbhokqhzd27tydpgaet5ebli5fupjghxllp7zculh62zbzvsq", "website": "https://www.notion.so/refi-dao/Community-Manager-Guild-643e545b6f5d4417b9352bc170fc5491", "bannerImg": "bafkreibix5flnp3yxjm4zcbntlkksgw4nbv4nvxkc2gjbtvzhxvmduwit4", "createdAt": 1673576233547, "userGithub": "", "credentials": {}, "description": "THE CM GUILD\n\n-The Concept-\n\n\nThe CM Guild, or Community Managers Guild, was born out of the idea that community managers and the ReFi community could really benefit from having a similar experience to that of founders within the ReFi Dao Founders Circles. With this in mind we are building this hub within the ReFi Dao server alongside, and with the guidance of the ReFi Dao team. The intention is to be another service within ReFi Dao, with Community Managers and ReFi community building as the focal point.\n\nThe Community Managers Guild is focused on creating a central hub for Community Managers from ReFi specific projects, to come together. A place to learn, teach, collaborate, and grow together. It is designed to be a safe place to enhance, learn new skills, and make connections in the space. The idea is for those who take part in the guild will become better at growing the ReFi community at large. With new skills and tools to build and attract more individuals to the ReFi space, and thus grow the overall impact being made.\n\n-The Initial Structure-\n\nThe CM Guild will hold weekly workshops hosted by professionals in the space with an expertise in a variety of fields that are directly related with growing and engaging communities. There will also be product showcases where tools for community managing are shared. Representatives from those tool protocols will provide walk through training, demonstrations, and answer questions from Community Managers. All of these workshops will be recorded to create a library of educational content for future members to engage with.\n\n-The Near Future-\n\nLike the Founders Circles, the CM Guild will establish a cohort where circles are formed based on community type, location, phase of community development, and other factors. This will help ensure the greatest possible outcomes for the participating members. Each cohort will last between 6 to 8 weeks initially.\n\nWith the Community Managers Circles, fellow CMs will become more connected, and strengthen the overall ReFi community. The bonds created between fellow CMs during this time will carry beyond the cohort to further foster collaboration and community growth within the space. Cross pollinating and establishing a more connected tightly knit ReFi community overall.\n\n-The Immediate Impact-\n\nOne of the initial public goods the CM Guild will make available immediately, is the Gitcoin Grants Give-A-Thon. This is something one of our team members had started with another organization, and has decided to bring to the CM Guild believing it would be a better fit.\n\n\nThe Give-A-Thon is a marathon Twitter Spaces for ReFi grantees that takes place during the Gitcoin Grants Round. It plays host to a number of co-hosts from large organizations who are looking to support grantees in the round. Projects are invited to present their work and how the grant will help them achieve their goals. The intention is to give these amazing projects the extra exposure to potential donors, and grow the community.\n\n-The Goal-\n\nOne thing that is certain, is that climate change is a global problem. The more people we can on-board to the ReFi space the greater the impact we can achieve. Community Managers play an integral role in growing, shaping, and engaging the very communities which will generate that impact.\n\nBy being a member of The CM Guild, Community Managers will have the opportunity to not only expand on their own knowledge and learn new skills, but help shape the entire ReFi community as a whole.\n\nIt makes sense that we invest in the people who are building these communities up.\n\n-Use of Funds-\n\nFunds from the grant will be directly deposited into a Multi-Sig for the following uses.\n\n1\ufe0f\u20e3Operational costs, e.g. funding the Gitcoin Grants ReFi Give-A-Thon \n2\ufe0f\u20e3Access to tools and materials for CMs\n3\ufe0f\u20e3A drip of funds to the communities that cohort members represent, to be used specifically for community building events and campaigns to attract more individuals to the ReFi space\n\n- What We Have Accomplished -\n\nWe have put on 5 workshops\nOnboarded 70+ Community Managers\nRaised just over $1,400 in previous Gitcoin Round", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "TheCMGuild"}
The CM Guild
THE CM GUILD

-The Concept-


The CM Guild, or Community Managers Guild, was born out of the idea that community managers and the ReFi community could really benefit from having a similar experience to that of founders within the ReFi Dao Founders Circles. With this in mind we are building this hub within the ReFi Dao server alongside, and with the guidance of the ReFi Dao team. The intention is to be another service within ReFi Dao, with Community Managers and ReFi community building as the focal point.

The Community Managers Guild is focused on creating a central hub for Community Managers from ReFi specific projects, to come together. A place to learn, teach, collaborate, and grow together. It is designed to be a safe place to enhance, learn new skills, and make connections in the space. The idea is for those who take part in the guild will become better at growing the ReFi community at large. With new skills and tools to build and attract more individuals to the ReFi space, and thus grow the overall impact being made.

-The Initial Structure-

The CM Guild will hold weekly workshops hosted by professionals in the space with an expertise in a variety of fields that are directly related with growing and engaging communities. There will also be product showcases where tools for community managing are shared. Representatives from those tool protocols will provide walk through training, demonstrations, and answer questions from Community Managers. All of these workshops will be recorded to create a library of educational content for future members to engage with.

-The Near Future-

Like the Founders Circles, the CM Guild will establish a cohort where circles are formed based on community type, location, phase of community development, and other factors. This will help ensure the greatest possible outcomes for the participating members. Each cohort will last between 6 to 8 weeks initially.

With the Community Managers Circles, fellow CMs will become more connected, and strengthen the overall ReFi community. The bonds created between fellow CMs during this time will carry beyond the cohort to further foster collaboration and community growth within the space. Cross pollinating and establishing a more connected tightly knit ReFi community overall.

-The Immediate Impact-

One of the initial public goods the CM Guild will make available immediately, is the Gitcoin Grants Give-A-Thon. This is something one of our team members had started with another organization, and has decided to bring to the CM Guild believing it would be a better fit.


The Give-A-Thon is a marathon Twitter Spaces for ReFi grantees that takes place during the Gitcoin Grants Round. It plays host to a number of co-hosts from large organizations who are looking to support grantees in the round. Projects are invited to present their work and how the grant will help them achieve their goals. The intention is to give these amazing projects the extra exposure to potential donors, and grow the community.

-The Goal-

One thing that is certain, is that climate change is a global problem. The more people we can on-board to the ReFi space the greater the impact we can achieve. Community Managers play an integral role in growing, shaping, and engaging the very communities which will generate that impact.

By being a member of The CM Guild, Community Managers will have the opportunity to not only expand on their own knowledge and learn new skills, but help shape the entire ReFi community as a whole.

It makes sense that we invest in the people who are building these communities up.

-Use of Funds-

Funds from the grant will be directly deposited into a Multi-Sig for the following uses.

1️⃣Operational costs, e.g. funding the Gitcoin Grants ReFi Give-A-Thon 
2️⃣Access to tools and materials for CMs
3️⃣A drip of funds to the communities that cohort members represent, to be used specifically for community building events and campaigns to attract more individuals to the ReFi space

- What We Have Accomplished -

We have put on 5 workshops
Onboarded 70+ Community Managers
Raised just over $1,400 in previous Gitcoin Round
The CM Guild