Today, Facebook announced the new 140 participants of this year’s 2022 Community Accelerator Program. For the APAC region, startup ecosystem tech platform e27 was designated as the implementation partner to help community leaders on Facebook advance their skills and utilise digital tools to deepen their impact.
This four-month program provides selected community leaders of Facebook Groups with training, mentorship and funding for an initiative that extends their community’s positive impact. The program received more than 4,800 applications, and today it was announced the participants for this year’s program across nine regions, including Addicted to Gardening, Integration der Arabische Gesellschaft in Deutschland, and Women and e-Commerce Trust ( WE ).
Now in its third year, the Community Accelerator Program focuses on recruiting top community builders with highly engaged communities to help them advance their leadership skills and deepen their impact. Collectively over the 2020 and 2021 programs, the program has provided leadership development, coaching, curriculum and funding to 208 community groups and their leaders.
Take a look at some of the 2020 and 2021 participants, like Nomadness Travel Tribe, who recruited and increased the reach of their group to international members and people of colour via an in-person “Travel Fest,” or Copa Menstrual México, which developed a project to donate more than 300 menstrual kits to young women throughout Mexico, or Kaki Repair, a movement to encourage people to fix their own belongings rather than just throw them away.
The 2022 Community Accelerator selection committee looked for communities that would benefit the most from our unique programming and have the capacity to be fully engaged in it. One of the program’s key experiences will be for participants to identify an important initiative that will deepen their community’s impact by mobilising their members around a goal and creating a development plan for it, to execute in 2023. Participants represent a variety of community topics, from groups connecting over similar interests and hobbies like thrifting to actioning support for health and parenting, to name a few.
Through the program, Facebook will award funds to the 2022 Accelerator participants to support work that advances their communities’ goals. Excited to partner and get to know more details about the APAC cohort? We will announce our upcoming cohort participants by next week, stay tuned!
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