On Deck Community builders Fellowship
Supercharge and scale your community. In 8 weeks.
The Community Builders Fellowship is an 8-week remote program where fellows learn how to create communities, get them off the ground, and sustain the magic as they scale. We're taking everything we learned building the On Deck community to help you supercharge your own.
Kick-off: March 13, 2021
Run our playbook on your community
Get your community off the ground
Scale while sustaining the magic
Build a sustainable business model
Join and learn from world-class community builders
Li Jin
Greg Isenberg
Brianne Kimmel
Nadia Eghbal
David Spinks
Turner Novak
Jesse Genet
Jeff Morris Jr.
Erika Batista
Sahil Lavingia
Ashley Tolbert
Andreas Klinger
Apply for the Community Builders Fellowship
Kick-off: March 13
Join @beondeck for its 3Cs formula —> Community + Character + Culture
All of that is very practical, generosity of its members is real, serendipity is digital, connections are meaningful and all friendships are very humane!
This is best ‘Give First’ culture on the internet.
Life after @beondeck is crazy good! The network is so powerful. @Auroreserete’s ODF cohort hasn’t even started yet and despite that she has helped me connect with 4 potential customers in completely new/different markets in record time. Thank you!
So far I’ve been in @beondeck slack for two days and raised $20,000. The program doesn’t even kick-off until tomorrow. If this doesn’t convince you to join, idk what will. #beondeck #odf6
Midway through ODF & every time I attend a session or interact with the community I have the same excitement as Day 0. I wish all founder communities were like this.
I have never seen a community that translates the true essence of business & ideas beyond borders before @beondeck
@beondeck will do for human capital what @AngelList did for financial capital
Curriculum
Introduction
Navigating the Community Builders Fellowship
Hacking Communities 101
Starting With Why
Why community
Growing through community
Foundations of community
Starting a Community
Empowering through storytelling
Growing trust through interactions
Engineering serendipity
Scaling a Community
Business and sustainability
Scaling infrastructure
Fostering engagement
INCLUDING...
Intimate Masterminds
Build with Fellows
Expert Sessions
The On Deck Method
We're building a modern educational institution that redefines how community and learning come together. Being part of any On Deck program means you’ll have access to a community of world-class professionals. With every new program we launch and cohort we start, your network gets stronger.
Here are the cornerstones of the On Deck experience:
Deep Friendships
Unparalleled Knowledge
Community Diversity
Scaled With Software
Engineered Serendipity
Spirit of Service
Apply for the Community Builders Fellowship
Kick-off: March 13
FAQ
To be a good fit for ODW, you are probably:
* A strong and enthusiastic writer with some form of past work to point to, whether that’s a published piece, an existing newsletter or blog, some copywriting you did for a job, or even just a short story you wrote when you were fourteen.
* At least a little bit entrepreneurial, with an independent spirit.
* Eager to be an active participant in a growing community, as much of the value of On Deck comes from the network and peer-to-peer connections.
You do not need to have an existing blog or newsletter to apply to the Fellowship. ODW is for writers who want to start building an audience as well as grow an existing one.
Joining the On Deck Writer Fellowship is $1,990.
We're currently offering this as special early-bird pricing—it'll rise in the coming months, so apply now!
Our goal is to make the Fellowship accessible to the absolute best talent, no matter their financial situation.
All Fellows have the option to pay in four monthly installments (with no interest or additional charges). We also have a limited number of scholarships available thanks to our Access Fund. Information about scholarship applications will be provided to accepted Fellows closer to the kickoff date.
Between attending your workshops and giving peer feedback, you should expect your writing workshop to take up around three to four hours a week.
Beyond workshops, ODW is a choose-your-own-adventure buffet. You get out what you put in: often, the biggest contributors are also the biggest beneficiaries.
Depending on your schedule and interests, you could choose to:
* Attend everything and “gorge” yourself on knowledge until you explode
* Tune in at your leisure to attend sessions that interest you
* Or just search the directory and connect with interesting people one-on-one
Most ODW Fellows have full-time jobs, so our programming is designed with that in mind.
Absolutely not! Our Fellows write about a diverse list of topics. ODW1 features writers focused on technology, history, philosophy, science, international relations, arts and literature, religion, personal stories, and even fiction.
Yes: ODW will be run entirely remotely. This enables participation from all corners of the world. We’ve spent the past two ODF cohorts mastering the playbook for building remote communities and relationship building online, and will apply the same approach here.
Post-COVID, we’ll return to organizing offline programming like dinners, small gatherings, and retreats, but the core Fellowship will remain a remote-first experience.
You can! The sun never sets on ODW1: roughly 30% of current Fellows are from countries other than the U.S.
We offer a wide range of scheduling options for writing workshops so that you can find a time that works for you, wherever you are. Our other live programming mostly happens on U.S. Eastern hours, but is all recorded and made available later in case you can’t attend live.
There are also many opportunities for asynchronous editing, learning, and socializing through our Slack community.
You can view our values here, but to summarize: Service, Sacredness, Respect, and Gratitude.
