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About DART
The Direct Action and Research Training Center, or DART, is a national network of 21 affiliated grassroots, nonprofit, congregation-based community organizations.
Where We Work
The DART Network is currently comprised of twenty-one affiliated congregation-based community organizations throughout Florida, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Organizing Careers
DART is currently accepting applications for full-time community organizing positions. Application deadline: June 30, 2019.
Latest News
Social justice group to focus on senior abuse in nursing homes
April 1, 2019. The Sun Sentinel. They work behind the scenes trying to fix what’s wrong in the community. They are BOLD Justice, or Broward Organized Leaders Doing Justice, an interfaith organization comprised of 23 congregations throughout Broward County. The…
Seidman: Answering to the common folk
March 31, 2019. The Palm Beach Post. SURE’s annual Nehemiah Action Assembly is a cross between church social and trip to the principal’s office. The buzz of affable neighborliness within the packed crowd gathered at the Municipal Auditorium last week floated atop…
Faith groups ask for affordable housing and criminal justice reform
March 29, 2019. 88.5 WMNF A coalition of faith-based groups will gather on Monday to ask Hillsborough County leaders to solve problems of affordable housing and criminal justice in the county. The Hillsborough Organization for Progress & Equality, or HOPE,…
Advocates Ask Metro Council To Protect City Funding For ‘The Living Room’
March 27, 2019. 89.3 WFPL. Centerstone’s The Living Room program helps people with mental health and substance abuse issues avoid jail. But looming city budget cuts could threaten the program’s future less than two years after it opened. Mayor Greg Fischer’s…
Nineteen Congregations come together to discuss the affordable housing crisis in Sarasota
March 25, 2019. WWSB ABC 7. SARASOTA (WWSB) -How much of your income goes toward your rent or mortgage? Experts say you should only spend a quarter of it. But, a new report says in Sarasota County, around 15,000 families…
Members of Congregations Gather to Advocate for More Affordable Housing
March 12, 2019. NBC29.COM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – People of all faiths in central Virginia are coming together to address a problem they say knows no religion. On Tuesday, March 12, about 100 members of IMPACT (Interfaith Movement Promoting Action…
Testimonials
BREAD is the most important organization in Columbus, Ohio, with a permanent and strong program for Hispanic civil rights in this city.
Wilson Hernandez / Owner, El Sol de Ohio
DART has done something that I’d never have thought possible – especially in Charleston, South Carolina! Over two dozen congregations now celebrate the “diversity of our unity and the unity of our diversity” by doing justice in ways that tear down walls, build bridges and change our community for the better.
Rev. Joseph Darby / Presiding Elder, Beaufort District, AME
“DART’s work is an authentic and highly effective answer to God’s call to do justice.”
Dr. Robert Linthicum / Pastor and Author of Transforming Power
“Five years ago, I could not imagine the cross-section of clergy and congregations that have come together to fight for justice under the banner of the Charleston Area Justice Ministry with the help of DART. This organization has been a real blessing to my ministry.”
Rev. Nelson Rivers III / Head Pastor, Charity Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, SC
DART groups are on the ground doing the hard work of justice ministry. They are putting prophetic imagination into action. The leadership that DART provides is urgent, given the deep crisis we face in our society.
Walter Brueggemann / Old Testament Scholar and Theologian
“I have had the privilege of working with several DART organizations as they wage campaigns to provide affordable homes for low income people, and their victories have served as models for other communities across the country.”
Mary Brooks / Housing Trust Fund Project, Center for Community Change
