COMM-ORG is now sponsored by the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, formerly the Department of Rural Sociology, at the University of Wisconsin.

COMM-ORG was chosenfor November 1997 by the National Housing Institute. It was also recognized in the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofit Good Practice Guide and is linked by over 50 other web sites. COMM-ORG is known widely as a premiere web site for community organizing resources.