Community Champions Last updated: July 2024

Mission and Mandate

As our network grows, so must our leadership! Our Advisory Council and Community Champions put key support functions and decision-making in the hands of our members.

Community Champions are our most experienced members, equipped with resources and tools, who support hubs on a year-long basis. Acting in a position of trust, Community help to address hub challenges and scale best practices to strengthen our activities globally.

Responsibilities

Community Champions leverage their skills and experience to advance our community’s mission locally. Acting in a position of trust and safeguarding the privacy of all members, Community Champions:

  • Charter: Ensure all hubs and members understanding and uphold our Charter, values and standards, intervening when members do not fulfill community expectations.
  • Good Governance: Support Curators to establish good governance practices, including distributed leadership roles, conflict resolution mechanisms and local charters.
  • Hubs Sustainability: Support hubs in their sub-region with their development journey ensuring long term sustainability and avoiding hub closures.
  • New Members: Track the total # of Global Shapers per hub and support hubs in their respective region to achieve and maintain 20 active Global Shapers as per our Charter through annual recruitment.
  • Projects and Reporting: Support hubs to deliver at least 1 hub project per year that is shared on TopLink and organize a yearly Project Showcase for their region in December.
  • Share Progress: Join monthly check-ins with Global Shapers HQ to share sub-regional progress and learn about the latest community updates and priorities.
  • Meetings and Updates: Set up a sub-regional communication channel and organize frequent meetings with Hub Curatorships and members to share and solicit updates.
  • Newsletters and Liveshow: Promote the monthly Newsletter and Liveshow.
  • Opportunities: Promote opportunities including the Innovation Prize, Climate Reality Trainings and other membership benefits
  • Hub Elections: Support hubs with transparent Curatorship Elections process to ensure all hubs in the region elect and submit new leadership teams before March 1st.
  • Annual Review: Maximize Annual Review responses.
  • Global Shapers Annual Summit: Contribute to the design and facilitation of the Global Shapers Annual Summit, and support the participation of Incoming Curators.
  • Retreats & SHAPEs: Support the design and delivery of SHAPEs and annual Retreats and ensure maximum representation and participation from their sub-region.
  • New Hubs: Support Global Shapers HQ with nominating and onboarding Founding Teams in priority cities as identified by Community Managers to achieve expansion targets.
Community Champions who are active Global Shapers are still expected to fulfill hub membership commitments and activities.

All Global Shapers are invited to give feedback about Champions to the Head of the Global Shapers Community. Curators are also invited to share information about their experience with their respective Community Champion in the Annual Review at the end of their mandate.

Project Showcase

The impact hubs are leading around the world is incredibly rich and varied. Projects are diverse in terms of the issues addressed and implementation strategies, each with their lessons learned and best practices. The Project Showcase is designed to help spread awareness amongst the community about the amazing work being done in neighbouring hubs and help Shapers build on each other's work and achievements by scaling successful projects and their impact.

Community Champions should organize one Project Showcase for their sub-region every year in December.

Objectives

  • Provide a space for Shapers to share their projects, including impact metrics, key takeaways and recommendations.
  • Give inspiration to Shapers for project ideas that they can replicate in their city.
  • Ensure that hubs do not have to reinvent the wheel and that members share best practices to optimise project planning and fast-track to implementation.
  • Help Shapers get to know other members in the region and connect local efforts for more collaborations.
  • Prevent the discontinuation of strong projects by building momentum and engagement of members from different hubs around these projects.
  • Identify the strongest projects in each region to feature at a global level.
  • Celebrate the end of the calendar year and the great work achieved in the region.

Coordinating a Project Showcase involves the following steps:

Before the session

  • Contact each hub in the region and ask them to prepare up to two projects to present, prioritizing projects that can more easily be replicated or lead to cross-hub initiatives.
  • Send a calendar invitation at least two weeks in advance of the session. All Shapers in the region should be invited. Hubs that do not have a project to present are particularly encourage the join.
  • All projects that will be showcased must have a detailed and updated project description on TopLink.
  • Ask Curators to prepare two slides one with key information about the project and the other with a picture.
  • If possible, share the compiled deck with hubs and encourage them to have a look before the session. This will help members get a sense of the projects being presented and prepare some questions.

During the session

  • The Project Showcase is introduced by the Community Champion.
  • Each project lead has 3 minutes to present the project and 5 minutes to answer questions, for a total of 8 minutes per project (this can change depending on the amount of Hubs presenting). The link to the TopLink project page is shared in the chat for more information.
  • Plan for a 90 minute session, or maximum 2 hours. This might mean that hubs will only present one project depending on how many hubs are in the region.
  • Plan for at least one break during the session. This could be in the form of a 7-minute randomized breakout for Shapers to get to know each other and walk around or stretch.

After the session

  • Send an email to hubs thanking them for their participation with the TopLink project page links of all projects showcased.

Meet Our Champions 2024-2025

North Asia

  • Greater China: Luona Cai (Shanghai I Hub)
  • Greater China: Fan Hongyi (Chengdu Hub)
  • Japan, Mongolia and South Korea: Yuma Sumi (Fukuoka Hub)

Asia Pacific

South Asia

MENA

Africa

Europe and Eurasia

Latin America

North America and the Caribbean

Appointment and Term

Community Champions are appointed by the Head of the Global Shapers Community upon recommendation by Community Managers. Community Champions can be active Global Shapers, Founding Curators or Alumni members. All Community Champions must:

  • Understand and advance the mission of the Global Shapers Community
  • Uphold and amplify the Charter and values of the Global Shapers Community
  • Have at least 2 years of experience in the Global Shapers Community

To ensure this role is given the time and attention needed, the following community members are not eligible for appointment to the role of Community Champion:

  • Founding Curators of hubs opened less than 2 years ago.
  • Curators, Vice-Curators or Advisory Council members who will serve in leadership positions that overlap with corresponding Community Champion mandate.

Community Champions are appointed before the start of the Global Shapers Calendar Year, beginning on 1 July. Champions serve a 1-year role, renewable up to 2 consecutive years (should they have a meaningful track record and approval by the Head of the Community).

Support

To achieve this ambitious mandate, Global Shapers HQ provides the following support to Community Champions:

  • Participation in the Global Shapers Annual Summit to connect with their respective hub Curators and fellow Community Champions to advance their mission and mandate.
  • Regular touchpoints with Global Shapers HQ to learn more about the community's latest initiatives, policies, practices and tools to facilitate successful regional engagement.
  • Travel grants to support 2 engagement trips per year (including a regional SHAPE event or respective sub-regional retreat) to achieve their goals and key performance indicators.
  • Mass-communications to regional members.
  • An annual Zoom Pro License to facilitate virtual communication with regional hubs.
  • Support with the design, facilitation and programme of sub-regional annual retreats.

Cancellation

If Community Champions are unable to fulfil the responsibilities listed above, they can step down by writing to their Community Manager. Alternatively, Community Champions may receive written notice from Community Managers listing the key performance indicators that must be reached in a 1 month's time. If indicators are not reached, the Head of the Global Shapers Community may choose to cancel a Champion's mandate.

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