Community Networks and Groups
From Social Collaborative Singapore
Contents
Community Networks
Community Networks are focused on a broadly defined domain of interest/social cause or locality.
Issue-Based Communities
- Community Development Network (email: jleehg@gmail.com to join)
- Disability Community Network (email: jleehg@gmail.com to join)
- Practice Research Network (ask Martin Chok if they want to be listed)
Locality-Based Communities
- Connect with young adults who live near you Friendzone
- SGCares Community Networks (Since 2018, MCCY and MSF have co-organised SG Cares Community Network sessions to bring together agencies and partners to discuss issues in their respective towns and explore areas where they can work together to address them)
- Northeast District (ask if Amos wants to list and get involved with others)
Community Interest Groups
Community Interest Groups are focused on a specific issue or concept, and come together to learn about and share knowledge with one another.
- Sociocracy Interest Group
- Degrowth Interest Group
- Worker-owned Cooperatives Interest Group
- Quota Hiring Interest Group
- Freedom of Information Singapore (FOISG) is a non-partisan, student-led movement dedicated to promoting transparency and the right of access to information.
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice are focused on improving existing professional or technical expertise.
- Service Learning Community of Practice
- Research Community of Practice (contact Denise Liu)
- Theory of Change Informal Working Group (contact Carol Liew: [[1]] )
- We are looking for like-minded individuals who would want to start a small informal working group together with us at Just Cause to collectively brainstorm and test new/different ways of facilitating theory of change workshops over the next 6-12 months. If you have facilitation experience and/or have great ideas for how we might improve this classic tool please get in touch!
Community Action Groups
Community Action Groups go beyond sharing knowledge and studying an issue, and are focused on an action plan to achieve a specific goal.
- Social Hackathon / Ideathon (contact Santosh?) [insert link and description?]
- Inclusive Neighbourhood Action Group (contact justin.lee@nus.edu.sg if interested)
- Community Currency Action Group (contact justin.lee@nus.edu.sg if interested)
- Mapping of Social Needs and Community Assets (socialcollab.sg)
- Resource Matching Collective [See if serve.sg, bantu, SGAssist wants to come together]