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

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on the BGSU
campus on Monday, January 30 at 7pm in Business Administration 111 to
discuss careers in the field of community organizing with students
interested in empowering their communities and working for social change.

Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Erica Horton at
erica@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 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.  DART is a 501(c)(3) organization, therefore,
employees of the DART Network are eligible for Public Service Loan
Forgiveness under the recently enacted College Cost Reduction and Access
Act.

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 Erica Horton at erica@thedartcenter.org
or (785) 841-2680.