Randy Stoecker, of the University of Wisconsin, and Mary Beckman, of Notre Dame University, are co-facilitating a learning group focused on the community impact of civic engagement. The group is already generating a set of resources that you can find by clicking on this link.

At a meeting in Princeton in April, a group of approximately 30 people met to discuss CBR and community outcomes. A smaller group of volunteers then met to discuss possible next steps for maximizing and documenting CBR outcomes. You can see the flipchart nots and resources of that group by clicking here.

Our next meeting will be in Victoria, British Columbia, on May 7, at the CU Expo conference. There we will report on some of our efforts, and challenges, in moving the project to its next steps. Our main focus at this point is to develop a collection of studies on PAR outcomes to populate this website. We will discuss strategies for doing that, as well as supporting original research using the outcomes model created at the Paris meeting.

We welcome you to help us build a library of PAR outcome studies. Go to the content management page to submit references, web addresses, and electronic documents to help us create a library of research studying the outcomes and impacts of PAR.

Our first face to face meeting was at the 2007 "Communities Building Knowledge" science shops conference in Paris, France, Friday 31 August from 11:15 to 13:15 . At that meeting we discussed the issues involved in documenting or measuring the outcomes of participatory action research, and possible strategies and funding sources to support better documentation of PAR projects.

Click here to see the draft plan from this meeting.