Randy R. Stoecker

Randy Stoecker "is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toledo, and is the moderator/editor of COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.utoledo.edu). His areas of expertise include community organizing and development, participatory research/evaluation, and community information technology. He has been involved in a wide variety of community-based participatory research projects and participatory evaluations with community development corporations, community organizing groups, and community information technology programs across North America and Australia. He has also been helping build and evaluate university-community collaborations through the Bonner Foundation's Learn and Serve America Community Research Project. Randy speaks and writes extensively on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research, and community information technology. He is author of Defending Community (Temple University Press, 1994) and Community-Based Research and Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2003)."

• Editor/Moderator, COMM-ORG, the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development http://comm-org.wisc.edu , 1996 to present.

Books

• Stoecker, Randy (ed.). 1997-2009. "Papers." COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm

• Stoecker, Randy and Elizabeth Tryon (eds.). 2009. Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

• Stoecker, Randy. 2005. Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Kerry Strand, Sam Marullo, Nick Cutforth, Randy Stoecker, and Patrick Donohue. 2003. Community-Based Research in Higher Education: Methods, Models and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Harold Simon, Karen Ceraso, and Randy Stoecker (eds). 1998. "Organize!"--Special issue of Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building.

• Stoecker, Randy (ed). 1996. "Sociology and Social Action II" special issue of Sociological Imagination Vol. 33, No. 1. Also at: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/si/sihome.htm

• Stoecker, Randy (ed). 1996. "Sociology and Social Action I" special issue of Sociological Imagination Vol. 33, No. 2. Also at: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/si/sihome.htm

• Stoecker, Randy. 1994. Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside. Philadelphia:Temple University Press.

• Stoecker, Randy, and Edna Bonacich (eds). 1993. "Participatory Research II" special issue of The American Sociologist Volume 24, No. 1.

• Stoecker, Randy, and Edna Bonacich (eds). 1992. "Participatory Research I" special issue of The American Sociologist Volume 23, No. 4.

Recent Grants

• 2008-2010, Project to study relationships between community-based leadership development education and community organizing as strategies to improve civic engagement in Wisconsin. Funded by United States Department of Agriculture Hatch grant, .

• 2008-2009. Project to develop social network software to support a community information technology science shop. Funded by University of Wisconsin Division of Information Technology, $5,000.

• 2007-2008. Project to establish a community information technology science shop. Funded by Corporation for National and Community Service through Princeton University, $19,500.

• 2003-2004: Case study research of Northwest Ohio Community Shares alternative fund. Funded by National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, $4,000

• 1998-2000: Participatory evaluation research with Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Chicago and Toledo to understand effects of organizing training and education activities. Funded by ACORN, Toledo Community Foundation, and Needmor Fund, $21,682.