{"id":9989,"date":"2017-01-11T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hivetoronto.wpengine.com\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:37:20","slug":"announcing-hive-toronto-2017-membership-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/hive-toronto\/announcing-hive-toronto-2017-membership-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Hive Toronto 2017 Membership Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nHive Toronto is excited to announce that we will be launching our new membership cycle on January 20, 2017 at 9 AM EST. This year Hive Waterloo Region and Hive NYC launching their own membership cycles during the same time frame as well. This allows teams to utilize aligned language and efforts to welcome a new cohort of members in 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past few months, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hivelearningnetworks.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hive Learning Networks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Chicago, Toronto, and New York City have been collaboratively working to create consistent membership structures across all cities. During the process, we took a deep dive into each city\u2019s current membership processes and documentation. We identified strengths and major gaps within each city\u2019s membership process, such as non-inclusive membership categories, irregular membership cycles, lengthy applications processes, and inconsistent on-boarding of new members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This cross-city alignment has been incredibly rewarding, yielding a simplified and more inclusive membership process with the potential of alignment of membership cycles in all cities and greater potential of cross-city collaboration. Part of this cross-city alignment is the development and implementation of the new Community Ally category. This tier will now allow us to engage with informal community organizers, coalitions and social justice workers and more. We believe that this is a first step to ensure improved efforts of inclusive practice within the network. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Here\u2019s a snapshot of what our new membership will look like:<\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>Types of Membership<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hive Member<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organizations or institutions that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Must be a registered not for profit in Canada(this requirement is necessary to apply for Hive Toronto mini-grant funding)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Provide youth development and learning opportunities directly to young people in the Greater Toronto Area. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Invest in increasing access and equity in education through digital media and web literacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commit to ongoing learning and innovation for both educators and youth participants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commit to creating and contributing to inclusive learning environments within and outside of their organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Community Ally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organizations that are aligned with Hive\u2019s core principles and practices but do not meet Hive Member criteria. This can include community organizing groups, community focused coalitions etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These groups showcase a commitment to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Invest in increasing access and equity in education through digital media and web literacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commit to ongoing learning and innovation for both educators and youth participants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commit to creating and contributing to inclusive learning environments within and outside of their organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All member organizations and community allies must agree to <\/span><\/i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2i4tgWL\">Hive Toronto MOU<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><b>Next Steps<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These revised Hive Toronto Member Guidelines will inform our New Member Application cycle, which will go live in January 20, 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ommunity, this is an exciting move for us all and I\u2019d like to hear your thoughts on the new strategic direction. I\u2019d be happy to discuss this further with you. Please feel free to get in contact with me at <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900\" href=\"mailto:simona@mozillafoundation.org\"><b>simona@mozillafoundation.org<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hive Toronto is excited to announce that we will be launching our new membership cycle on January 20, 2017 at 9 AM EST. This year Hive Waterloo Region and Hive NYC launching their own membership cycles during the same time &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/hive-toronto\/announcing-hive-toronto-2017-membership-cycle\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346873],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}