Become a Hive Toronto Member!

We are excited to announce that Hive Toronto is now accepting new members! At Hive Toronto, members network with each other, share best practices and pedagogies, learn about and play with new technologies, participate in events, and most importantly, collaborate to design and implement transformative learning opportunities for Toronto youth.

To learn more about our members, check out our MEMBERS page

Please find our application here

Why become a member?

To support youth learning, Hive supports member organizations by providing opportunities for educators to develop skills, share knowledge, and collaborate through the following mechanisms:

• Cultivating a community of practice: Community calls, meetups, online communication platform, consultation on program and curriculum development
• Facilitating professional development: Digital literacy trainings, cultivating and sharing training opportunities
• Acting as a conduit: To other organizations, to funders, to opportunities for youth, promotion
• Seeding collaborative partnerships: Informal partnerships, pooling funding from outside funders for cross-member to develop new digital learning opportunities for youth

By joining Hive Toronto, members commit to contributing to a collaborative community of practice. We often explain Hive as a potluck: members have different needs, or “appetites,” but like any good potluck, you take what you need while contributing what you can.

With this being our fourth membership application process, Hive Toronto strives to curate a network of diverse members that serve and are reflective of Toronto and the surrounding areas. Based on member feedback, this round of membership application was open to for-profit organizations with youth programs. The reasoning behind this was twofold: These orgs are offering quality programming to youth and/or educators and current Hive members were already collaborating with several of these for-profit organizations, indicating that they have skills and expertise that could benefit the network.

Requirements for application:

• Must be a registered not for profit in Canada
• Organizations applying to Hive Toronto must serve youth in some capacity
• Is able to commit to monthly, in-person meet-ups and conference calls that allow for members to share program updates, best practices, and learn about new opportunities
• Be able to host a professional development session in the first 6 months of membership with the support of the Hive Toronto team. A professional development session is an opportunity to showcase the work and programming of your organization to the rest of the membership
• Organizations must identify and name at least one individual who will be the point person for their engagement

Next Steps:

• Applications are open from April 1-April 29, 2016
• You will be notified if your application was successful by May 12, 2016
• If your application is successful, we ask that be available to attend our June community meet up on June 16, 2016 at the Mozilla space at 366 Adelaide Street, Toronto, ON

If you have any questions, please contact simona@mozillafoundation.org

We thank all those that apply.