An engaging, immersive initiative by Facebook to help community leaders advance their leadership skills and utilise Facebook tools and resources to deepen their community’s impact.
Facebook has launched its 2022 Community Accelerator Programme, and for the APAC region, startup ecosystem platform e27 is designated to be the implementation partner to help community leaders on Facebook advance their skills and utilise digital tools to deepen their impact.
This year, Facebook aims to create a better digital experience through content creation for digital communities. This programme is a game-changer for the carefully selected communities across the Asia Pacific.
Among thousands and thousands of applicants, we selected 20 communities from six different countries to join this year’s Asia Pacific cohort. The most diverse communities joining this year’s programme engage through content sharing on hobbies and leisure, support, education, parenting, sustainability and climate, health and well-being, and economic impact.
Throughout the four-month programme, selected participants will receive training from experts and coaches through a customised curriculum to help them organise and strengthen their community while connecting with community leaders from around the globe.
Participants will also gain access to Meta tools and services to support them in their efforts to activate their members. Each participant will receive a grant of up to US$40,000 through grant management partner GlobalGiving to fund work that advances their community goals.
Over the last few years, the community leaders on Meta are looking for support and guidance in how to grow their communities’ impact stronger than ever. To support the communities, Meta took this holistic approach that enables the community leaders to learn and use the tools and educational resources they need for a better digital experience and make a greater impact in the world.
Let’s meet the communities of the 2022 APAC Cohort
This year among the selected, 20 communities from six different countries in the Asia Pacific region is joining this game-changing accelerator programme. Seven communities from the Philippines, six communities from Bangladesh, four communities from Indonesia, one community from Malaysia, one community from Singapore, and one community from Thailand were selected for the four-month-long accelerator programme. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the communities and their leaders.
Communities from the Philippines
Community Leader: Rosario Juan
Community: This community is for coffee enthusiasts who love to brew coffee at home with sheer excellence. This is a respective and collaborative community of coffee lovers and learners who engage and converse with each other on coffee recipes, favourite methods, and favourite beans.
Community Leader: Joey Ong
Community: A group for PinoyDads, all dads from all backgrounds, supporting each other and giving each other the virtual fist bump they’ve always needed.
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Philippine Native Tree Enthusiasts
Community Leader: Ephraim Cercado
Community: The Philippine Native Tree Enthusiasts is an environmental, civic group passionate about environmental conservation through the propagation of native trees. They mostly emphasise native trees, and they encourage the members to share relevant information from seed sourcing and germination to propagation.
Community Leader: Arne Reodique
Community: Pulutan means “Food – best consumed with drinks” (like Tapas) which celebrates the Filipino culture of drinking and sharing food with good company. This community also encourages sharing of recipes, food videos, etc.
Social Media Marketing Philippines
Community Leader: Neil Dimapilis
Community: This group is built specifically for both Filipino freelancers and those aspiring to be one to learn and find resources on how to grow as a Freelancer. This community provides information and educational resources to those who wish to learn Social Media Marketing.
The Freelance Movement | Freelancing Community
Community Leader: Avie Ellazar
Community: This group is built specifically for both Filipino freelancers and those aspiring to be one to learn and find resources on how to grow as a Freelancer.
The Succulent Club Philippines
Community Leader: Dorothy Mercado
Community: A community of succulents lovers that share tips and resources on how to care for succulents. Through this hobby, community members have also found connections and support from one another.
Communities from Bangladesh
Community Leader: Shah Alif
Community: Starting during the Coronavirus Pandemic, Castaway on the Moon helps young and creative artists from Bangladesh and abroad by helping them showcase their talent in the group. As a cultural organisation, its long-term goal is to make people collaborate with culture and art and make people aware that artists are important to brighten our world.
Community Leader: Sabit Hossein
Community: Foodbank is Bangladesh’s premier place for restaurant recommendations and reviews from around the country, with over two million foodies from all over the country. The group sends foodie scouts to new restaurants suggested by the members to do official tastings and to highlight unsung food heroes off the beaten path around the country.
Community Leader: Zarin Oshin
Community: Oporajita is a plant lovers’ group encouraging people to create their own mini gardens through learning content and plant giveaways in the community. The long-term mission is to encourage more people to plant trees, create a mass movement to play a small part in climate change and be a little part of the ongoing SD$15 that is “Life on Land”.
Community Leader: S.M.Niaz Mowla
Community: Pencil is encouraging future generations of Bengali speakers worldwide to practice Bengali culture and the Bengali language by engaging people of all ages who are involved in creative writing and cultural work. Authors of different ages publish their writing online in the Pencil group first, then continue to print books with Pencil and various publishers and coordinate authors with readers.
Community Leader: Hasan Mahmud
Community: School Of Engineers is the largest online educational platform for engineering students and professionals in Bangladesh. The group teaches more than 492,000 students and professionals every single day using our Meta page, group, and YouTube channels. Long-term, the group hopes to contribute to achieving SDG’s Goal for quality education by 2030 and start a global chapter in 2025.
Community Leader: Nisha Nasima
Community: More than 10 thousand female entrepreneurs are selling a wide range of products and services through meta-pages, but many of these entrepreneurs will not be able to sustain their businesses due to a lack of necessary knowledge and training. Women and e-commerce Forum (WE) addresses the needs of these female entrepreneurs. WE’s goal is to help female e-Commerce entrepreneurs to sustain their businesses and empower them via a selling and trading platform using meta groups.
Communities from Indonesia
Community Leader: Erikar Lebang
Community: A community to discuss healthy lifestyles through food-combining methods.
Ikatan Laundry Indonesia (ILI)
Community Leader: Reza Nevizond
Community: To create a community for professional laundry businesses that protect the interests of members, businesses, and customers with the support of its ecosystem to support and grow together so that it becomes a top 3 reputation reference choice on a national scale.
Community Leader: Sarah Dee
Community: A safe space for INFPs as their second home where they can share their problems, get support from fellow INFPs, and better understand their cognitive functions. This group has become more of a support group covering mental health, drug addiction, toxic relationships, domestic violence, etc., that they can share, support, and learn to better themselves. Our mission is to provide more impactful programmes for free that can help overcome their dark sides and struggles.
Motherland (ada kisah disetiap kasih ibu)
Community Leader: Mami Ara (Nurul)
Community: A support group for mothers to share information and resources, creating a one-stop sharing platform around various topics from families, child development, financial training through the mompreneur training programme, etc.
Community from Malaysia
Community Leader: Azil Loko
Community: This is a social group for alumni of all 55 MRSM (schools) in MY since 1972.
Community from Singapore
Community Leader: Melvin Chew
Community: Created in April 2020 to help support hawkers and F&B outlets that are suffering during the pandemic, especially during the lockdown period in Singapore. The group helps connect F&B establishments and customers to support each other.
Community from Thailand
Community Leader: Uli Kruse
Community: This group is for designers, contractors, homeowners, and architects to share resources on renovating their homes. It also seeks to raise the competency of contractors & owners on building techniques and materials.
If you are an organisation working on similar projects that align with our communities, reach out and engage with the community leaders for an exciting collaboration! Please leave your details via this link.
For more information about other cohort participants, feel free to see the 2022 Accelerator participant cohort or visit the Facebook Community Accelerator Programme official page.
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