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About DART
The Direct Action and Research Training Center, or DART, is a national network of 23 affiliated grassroots, nonprofit, congregation-based community organizations.
Where We Work
The DART Network is comprised of twenty-three affiliated congregation-based community organizations throughout Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Organizing Careers
DART is currently accepting applications for full-time community organizing positions. Apply today.
Latest News
Topeka JUMP maintains its goals with meeting held online
April 30, 2020. WIBW. Though the coronavirus pandemic caused the Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project to hold its biggest meeting of the year online this week, rather than in person, group leaders say the organization is going strong, advocating…
Topeka JUMP pushes for affordable housing
April 27, 2020. KSNT.COM The Topeka Justice, Unity, and Ministry Project held its 2020 Nehemiah Action virtually on Monday evening. Affordable housing was a key topic on the agenda. With the economic impact coronavirus is having on working families more…
Fearing wave of evictions, advocates press Richmond City Council to up investment in affordable housing
April 27, 2020. Richmond Times-Dispatch. In the middle of a pandemic many fear will cost families their homes, advocates on Monday pressed the Richmond City Council to steer more dollars to affordable housing for residents. In normal times, Richmond landlords…
Why did Kansas officials threaten opponents of jail expansion with a $3 million bond?
April 3, 2020. The Kansas City Star Editorial Board. Douglas County Commissioners want to expand the jail in Lawrence, and they apparently won’t let anything stand in their way — not even opposition from the public. And if citizens dare…
Commentary: North Charleston Police Department still needs a racial bias audit
March 31, 2020. The Post and Courier. In his recent op-ed, North Charleston City Councilman Ron Brinson said the city’s police department had a “mind-numbing wake-up call” nearly five years ago after the murder of Walter Scott by then-Officer Michael…
Group files suit to compel vote on jail
March 16, 2020. McPherson Sentinel. LAWRENCE — An interfaith organization filed a lawsuit Monday to force a public vote on the Douglas County Commission’s plan to invest $30 million in a jail expansion. Voters in the county rejected in May…
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
