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Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice
Available to UofL students and alums!

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center
will be on the UofL campus on Thursday, April 5 at 6pm in Career Development
Center (Houchens Bldg, Lower Level) to discuss careers in the field of
community organizing with students interested in empowering their communities
and working for social change.

Please RSVP by contacting Hannah Wittmer at hannah@thedartcenter.org or calling
785.506.8915 with your name, phone #, email address and year in school.

DART is now accepting applications for the 2012 DART
Organizers Institute, the paid, four-month field school for people interested
in launching a career in community organizing. Participants will undergo a
combined classroom and field training covering such topics as:

* Entering a community

* Identifying and training local leaders

* Strategic planning and issue cutting

* Relationship and community building

* Direct Action on community issues

* Fundraising

The DART Center has built coalitions throughout the
country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues
including:

* Education reform in low-performing public schools

* Job Training

* Drugs and Violence

* Criminal Recidivism

* Living Wage

* Neighborhood Revitalization

* Predatory Lending

* Affordable Housing, etc.

The DART Organizers Institute combines a classroom
orientation with on the ground infield training at a local grassroots
organization and in-field training site. 
Organizers are provided with a cost of living stipend and travel. After
successful completion of the program, DART will place graduates into permanent
full-time salaried positions earning $32,500/year + benefits.

The DART Organizers Institute will begin July 9, 2012.  Training locations and permanent placements
sites include cities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia and Florida.

To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you
to visit www.thedartcenter.org or
contact Hannah Wittmer at hannah@thedartcenter.org
or (785) 506-8915.