jim submits:

"Powerful Collaborations:

Building a Movement for Social Change"

October 16-19, 2003

The Audubon Center of the North Woods

Sandstone, Minnesota

Register now for this year's Community Research Network (CRN)
Conference, sponsored by the Loka Institute. The CRN works for
social change through Community Based Research by acknowledging,
honoring, accepting and following the voices of all stakeholders,
including those historically oppressed. We welcome presentations, performances, readings, and screenings
from community members/organizations, artists, academics and
activists, that include all project voices and are based on your
experience with participatory projects. Scholarships are available
for low-income attendees.

Join others involved in the Community Based Research movement to
share diverse ways of discovering and exposing truths to promote
democratic decision-making processes, self-empowerment, and
realization of community objectives. Our goal is for all
participants to leave the conference with concrete strategies for
contributing to this movement.

To register, apply for scholarships, and/or make a presentation
proposal, please go to Loka. If you have specific questions
about registration, scholarships or proposals, contact Rachel
Maldonado at crn2003@loka.org or 512.585.1507. For questions about
transportation, lodging, or Audubon Center spaces, contact teresa
konechne, at crn2003@loka.org or 612.871.2576. Registration,
scholarship applications and proposals are due by September 2nd.
Reserve EARLY!!! Space is limited.

Financial support for the Community Research Network Annual
Conference has been generously provided by the Annie E. Casey
Foundation.