Community module

Engage forums, bulletins, photo albums, events, and member recognition — the social and communication backbone.

Optional module Enable in Settings → Modules

Community is the social and communication backbone of the platform. One license bundles the Engage forums, bulletin boards, photo albums, events with RSVPs, and member recognition into a single sidebar group. It's the day-one module for most orgs because it is where conversation, history, and announcements live.

Mentorship matching also routes under Community at the module-gating layer — when Community is off, mentorship endpoints are blocked. The mentor profile pages themselves live in the Alumni module, so the two need to be enabled together for a full mentorship experience.

Audience

• Members read bulletins, post in forums, RSVP for events, browse photo albums, and send recognition.
• Chapter officers post chapter bulletins, create events, manage chapter photo albums, and curate recognition.
• National (org) admins configure moderation rules, author org-wide bulletins, manage Instagram social feed integration, and set recognition categories.

What gets enabled

When Community is licensed:

• A Community group appears in the sidebar with Engage (forums), Bulletins, Events, Albums, and Recognition.
• Members can subscribe to forums, react to posts, attach files, and search threads.
• File uploads route through the org's configured storage.
• Notification jobs for forum subscriptions, event reminders, and bulletin pings come online.

Community sidebar group — Engage, Photos, Recognition, Events.

Common workflows

For members

• Post and reply in a chapter or org forum → Engage forums
• Read pinned dashboard announcements → Bulletins (reading)
• RSVP for an event → Events & RSVPs
• Browse the photo album library → Photo albums
• Send a recognition shout-out → Recognition

For chapter officers

• Post and moderate chapter bulletins → Bulletins & moderation
• Create and edit chapter events → Creating events
• Curate chapter photo albums → Photo albums (managing)
• Recognize members with a categorized post → Recognition (posting)

For national / org admins

• Author rich org-wide bulletins with the rich-text editor → Org bulletins authoring
• Pipe the org's Instagram feed into dashboards → Social feed (Instagram)
• Set moderation rules and review flagged content → Engage moderation rules · Flagged content queue
• Define recognition categories → Recognition categories
• Manage albums and events at the org level → Albums admin · Events admin

What's NOT in this module

• Direct member-to-member conversations are in the Messaging module, not Community.
• Alumni mentor profiles are part of Alumni — Community only routes the mentorship matching endpoint.
• Foundation bulletins are a separate surface in Foundation and use a plain text editor, distinct from the rich-text editor used by org bulletins here.
• Community bulletins are not a campaign tool; for fundraising appeals use Foundation campaigns.

Where to go deeper

• Post-enable runbook → Community runbook
• Member overview → Members area
• Officer overview → Officers area
• Module enablement → Module enablement

Last verified against v0.62.1 (2026-05-11).