💬 Welcome to The Channels Network
The Channels Network is for all the up-and-coming #SocialImpactComms people out there!
Channels is a free and voluntary grassroots community initiative for social impact communications professionals, with a specific focus on providing a platform for early career professionals & those new to the field to develop professionally.
Join as a member
By subscribing to our Substack, you are joining a network of social impact communications practitioners and professionals around the world.
By joining Channels, you get the following benefits:
💙 Join our special events and online activities: From brainstorming sessions to Q&As with experts to networking meet-ups, the Channels team is always organising fun online events for our community. Members get the first notification of events, and some have limited spaces, so make sure you’re in our LinkedIn Group and Google Group to be in-the-know.
💙 Get featured: Are you a job seeker who wants to amplify your profile and reach new people? We’re rolling out a new initiative: #ChannelsMemberFeatures, which will feature the skills, expertise, and goals of our community, and we’ll share it to our network of 250+ members and 4,500+ followers! Want to be featured? Fill out this form. (Please note: we only feature members)
💙 Contribute to The Channels Blog: Channels is a platform for our members to grow with. If you have something to say, let us help you say it. We offer our a space called ‘The Channels Blog’ as a space for Channels members to reach new audiences. Reach out to thechannelsnetwork@gmail.com for more info on how to contribute.
💙 Meet someone in the community: We will soon be testing a new feature for members! We’ll be using the tool Intros.ai to make super smart, algorithmic introductions between our members based on a form you fill out, explaining what you’re looking for and how important different characteristics are for you. Soon, we’ll invite subscribers to connect via this new tool.
💙 Join the conversation: Download the Substack App to your phone to join the member-exclusive chat:
☕️ Give back to Channels
Have you gotten a job through our round-ups? Have you learned something new through our events? Do you want to make sure we keep operating to help other people?
If you like what we do, feel free to show your support and buy us a cup of coffee. It'll help keep us caffeinated, pay for the online tools we use, and help us to help more people. Thanks a lot! ☕
Our history
The Channels Network was started by Gabriella Mikiewicz and Faith Toran in February 2021 amid a global pandemic to fill a gap in networking opportunities specifically for communications professionals in social impact fields. After just one year as an emerging community, Channels grew to 250 members and 3.5k followers on LinkedIn, and in two years has grown to 1.7k Substack subscribers and almost 10k followers on LinkedIn! Thank you to everyone who has made this journey possible!
🤝 The team
Channels is currently run by the following volunteers:
Gabriella Mikiewicz, Strategic Director
Elisabeth Roura Bosch, Job Board Editor
Tanya Kathuria, Newsletter Editor
Ruth Namara, Job Board Editor
🤝 Partners
You can reach our team at thechannelsnetwork@gmail.com.
