COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN MADISON, NEW JERSEY.

The article presents information on community organization in Madison, New Jersey. Any community organization evident in Madison, as a result of social planning, has come not because of organization superimposed and reaching downward to control but rather as a result of interest from within resulting in the voluntary, cooperative, federation principle. The Madison Social Planning Council was set up with the purpose of not merely to bring professional service workers together but to provide a clearing house for ideas and plans of various organizations, to constitute a means for planning and action for the youth of Madison, and to lay the foundation for sane coordination of accepted activities. The organization is bound by no set of laws, has no constitution, receives no dues, and has only the necessary officers to provide for efficiency at meetings. The Social Planning Council meets four times each year. At these meetings, the personnel is composed of two representatives from each organization in the community. A consideration of problems is made, suggestions are received and discussed, and committees are appointed to carry out specific studies. The actual work of the Council is carried on through committees which are designed fully to represent interest groups.