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. Learn more:

Gabriella and Faith met through another network (shout-out to Loksan and Molly at the Impact Consulting Hub!) and realised how valuable networks are to providing people with opportunities to meet others who are similarly passionate about the work they do, but also come from different backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches.

After just one year as an emerging community, Channels grew to have 250 members and 3.5k followers on LinkedIn, and share 600+ jobs in our regular round-ups. In February 2022, Channels underwent a re-strategising where we decided to focus more on what we call ‘up-and-coming’ social impact communicators. This more specific focus allows us to better serve our members.