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Computer mediated communication has radically changed the field of development work in civil society organizations. Both the breadth and depth of these changes will continue to expand in the coming years. In that context has emerged a growing interest in more rigorous understanding of precisely how the field is being transformed, what it means for organizations and practitioners, and frankly, what works and what doesn't.

The Gilbert Center is seeking research papers for the new Journal of Online and Integrated Fundraising, Winter 2008 Edition. This is the third new title in our journal series and serves as a practical complement to the previous two titles, which focus on information technology in social change and on networks and civil society. We are interested in rigorously designed research addressing all aspects of online and integrated fundraising, including research that engages with any of the following topics:

• Network centric and "viral" fundraising
• Opportunities for greater cultivation and stewardship
• Donor centered fundraising and organizational boundaries
• Many to many communication and the role of "scaling up listening"
• Tested best practices in all fields of online fundraising
• Emerging patterns of disintermediation and aggregation
• User centered design and user experience in fundraising
• Methods for transitioning donors between media
• Methods for change management in fundraising practice

We are taking a multidisciplinary approach. Original papers and proposals are sought from both researchers and practitioners in all relevant subject areas. Complete papers are encouraged and will be given priority over abstracts or proposals. Two to three page proposals that include a summary of research findings and methods used will also be considered. Send submissions including the author's contact information, position, and affiliation as PDF, RTF, or Plain Text files to research@gilbert.org.

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, Sep. 21st, 2007
If you are going to submit a proposal or abstract first, then we need to receive it by this date. We will review these as they come in, and get back to you as quickly as possible, to let you know if we would like you to submit a complete paper for the next deadline. The sooner you can get that proposal to us the more time you will have to write the complete paper.
 
Deadline for Complete Papers: Friday, Nov. 2nd, 2007
All complete papers must be received by this date. Not an early draft, but a final draft of the paper, please. (The final revision deadline below is for any revision requests made after the peer review process only.) If you previously submitted a proposal and we requested a complete paper from you, then your paper will go straight into the peer review process from here. If this is the first time we hear from you, we will check the contents of your paper and let you know as quickly as possible whether we are sending it into the peer review process.
 
Author notification (and editorial requests): Friday, Dec. 14th, 2007
We will have the peer reviews in hand, and we will let all authors know, by this date, whether or not we will be accepting their paper for this edition of the journal, and whether acceptance is conditional upon further revisions to the paper.
 
Final Revisions Due: Friday, Jan. 11th, 2008
If a paper was accepted, but conditional upon revisions, this is the date by which we need to receive those revisions.
 
Journal Publication Date: Tuesday, Feb. 5th, 2008