COMM-ORG has issued its annual call for papers.

Are you writing a paper on:

• community organizing?
• community development?
• community planning?
• community-based research?
• a related area?

COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to authors.

To submit a paper contact the editor, Randy Stoecker, at randy@comm-org.wisc.edu.

Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their papers for submission to journals, trade publications, or anywhere. Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference," papers presented on COMM-ORG are regularly published in journals and other publications.

COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. They also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing.

They are especially interested in papers on the following and other topics:

• What works and what doesn't in community organizing, planning, and development.
• Real-life stories of community organizing and/or development campaigns.
• The relationships between theories and practices in community organizing.
• The history of community organizing in a changing structural-historical context.
• Linkages between community organizing and community development.
• Linkages between community organizing and planning.
• The roles of religious institutions in community organizing.
• Linkages between community organizing and social movements.
• The roles of gender, race, identity, and ideology in community organizing.
• Activist-academic collaborations in community organizing.

If you wish to submit a paper:

• The paper must be submitted electronically to randy@comm-org.wisc.edu using a word processing or html format; absolutely no pdf files will be considered.
• Text must be in single column format.
• You agree that your paper will be formatted in html using the COMM-ORG style.