The Community Club

What The Community Club does

The Community Club (legally Community Connect Club) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit professional association serving community builders — community managers, community leads, directors of community, and adjacent practitioners — globally. Founded in 2020 by Mac Reddin as a project within Commsor, the organization was spun out as an independent Delaware-incorporated nonprofit in late 2023 and relaunched in 2024 with a five-person Board of Directors chaired by Erik Martin (Head of Community at Midjourney). Its core offering is a free, informal membership centered on a Slack workspace of over 5,000 community professionals, supplemented by mentorship programs, accountability groups, working groups, a job board, and a weekly newsletter ("Community Club Weekly" on Beehiiv). The organization has explicitly disclaimed any proprietary technology platform; its product surface is community orchestration rather than software. There is no native mobile app, no published API, and no disclosed SDK.

The business model is currently pre-revenue: membership is free, and the organization relies on volunteer involvement and a one-time foundational grant from Commsor to fund operations. A paid, advanced membership tier has been publicly announced for 2025, which would represent the first recurring revenue stream. As a 501(c)(6) — a business league / professional association tax code, distinct from the more common 501(c)(3) charity — the organization is structured to represent the professional interests of community builders rather than to generate profit, which constrains monetization options to dues, sponsorships, and program fees. Go-to-market is community-led growth: word-of-mouth, organic social (LinkedIn, Twitter), and the newsletter funnel prospects into the Slack workspace, where engagement is deepened through volunteer pathways into committees, advisory boards, and Board positions. The customer base is a horizontal, global long tail of individual practitioners — there are no named enterprise customers, no B2B sales motion, and no disclosed revenue figures.

Name

The Community Club

Legal name

Community Connect Club

Website

https://community.club

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Community Club (Community Connect Club) is an independent 501(c)(6) nonprofit professional association serving over 5,000 community professionals globally through a free Slack workspace, mentorship, accountability groups, and a job board, with a paid membership tier planned for 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Association Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), Professional Organizations (813920), Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Centers & Neighborhood Support Services (BPAGAEAL)

Keywords

• Professional community association
• Community builder networking
• Nonprofit membership organization
• Mentorship programs
• Community professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Membership fees (planned): Currently offers free informal membership via Slack. Plans to introduce a more advanced paid membership level in 2025, surpassing current offerings. As a 501(c)(6) nonprofit association, the organization focuses on serving its community rather than generating profits.
2. Initial funding from Commsor: Commsor established the independent entity and provided initial funding and logistics to help the Club find a sustainable path for the future.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Community Club is an independent nonprofit membership association that provides community professionals with a Slack-based networking community, mentorship programs, accountability groups, working groups/committees, a weekly newsletter, a job board, and events. Membership is currently free and informal via Slack, with a more advanced paid membership tier planned for 2025.

Product overview

The Community Club is a nonprofit membership association, not a software product or technology platform. It provides community professionals with networking opportunities, mentorship programs, accountability groups, educational resources, newsletters, and events. The organization operates primarily through a Slack workspace where over 5,000 community professionals connect globally, and offers a job board for community-related positions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Slack Community Membership

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Commsor: Commsor is a community operations software platform founded by Mac Reddin, who also founded The Community Club. It serves community professionals with tooling rather than association services, but its founding relationship and ongoing operational ties (e.g., Commsor COO as Club Secretary/Treasurer) make it a critical adjacent peer.
• Disco: Disco is a community + learning platform purpose-built for member-led groups, courses, and cohort-based experiences. It serves many of the same community professionals and competes for the same paid-program and event mindshare the Club intends to enter in 2025.
• Higher Logic: Higher Logic is an enterprise community and engagement platform serving associations and member-based organizations. It targets the same professional community managers The Community Club serves, and its association customers often overlap with the Club's potential sponsor/partner base.
• Bevy: Bevy is a community-led growth platform that acquired CMX and now serves community professionals through software plus the CMX content/event brand. As a well-funded commercial incumbent, it competes for the same professional audience with deeper resources than The Community Club.
• Circle: Circle is a community platform enabling creators and brands to launch branded communities. While a software vendor rather than an association, it serves many of the same community professionals as customers and overlaps in tooling and event formats used by the Club.
• Mighty Networks: Mighty Networks operates a platform for paid communities and courses, frequently used by community professionals themselves. It overlaps with The Community Club on audience (community builders) and competes indirectly for member time and paid program dollars.

Direct peers

• FeverBee: FeverBee is a community management consultancy and resource hub publishing extensively for community professionals. It overlaps with The Community Club's audience (community managers, heads of community) and competes for the same professional mindshare via content, training, and events.
• Community Roundtable: The Community Roundtable is a research and advisory firm dedicated to community management professionals, producing the annual State of Community Management report and operating TheCR Network. It targets the same professional audience as The Community Club and historically has been the closest analog in serving community-building practitioners.
• CMX (Community Manager Experience, now part of Bevy): CMX was the largest professional community for community managers before being acquired by Bevy in 2023. It was the most direct historical analog to The Community Club in serving the same audience with events, content, and networking — its absorption by a commercial platform created the gap the Club is now attempting to fill as an independent association.

Emerging players

• Belongly: Belongly is a professional community for mental health providers where The Community Club's President Erik Martin is an advisor. It mirrors the Club's nonprofit-association, professional-networking model in a different vertical, making it a useful comp on the 'professional community as nonprofit association' thesis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CommunityClub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-community-club

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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