{"id":1635,"date":"2011-02-25T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:58:02","slug":"on-campus-dart-center-informational-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"On Campus DART Center Informational Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice Available to UM students and alums!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be hosting an informational session on Monday, March 7 at 5:30 in University Center Room 241 <\/strong>to discuss careers in the field of community organizing<\/strong> with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Hannah Wittmer<\/a> via email or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone #, email address and year in school.<\/em><\/p>\n

After years of research into best practices, experimentation, evaluation, and refinement, the Organizers Institute has become THE elite field school in the training of grassroots community organizers in the country.<\/p>\n

DART is now accepting applications for the 2011 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:<\/p>\n

* Entering a community
\n* Identifying and training local leaders
\n* Strategic planning and issue cutting
\n* Relationship and community building
\n* Direct Action on community issues
\n* Fundraising<\/p>\n

The DART Center, has built coalitions throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues including:<\/p>\n

* Education reform in low-performing public schools
\n* Job Training
\n* Drugs and Violence
\n* Criminal Recidivism
\n* Living Wage
\n* Neighborhood Revitalization
\n* Predatory Lending
\n* Affordable Housing, etc.<\/p>\n

The DART Organizers Institute combines a 7-day classroom orientation with 15 weeks of infield training at a local grassroots organization and in-field training site.\u00a0 Organizer Trainees are provided with a cost of living stipend and travel.\u00a0 Room, board, and tuition will also be paid by DART during the seven-day classroom training.\u00a0 After successful completion of the program, DART will place graduates into permanent full-time salaried positions earning $30,000-$35,000\/year + benefits.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The 7-day classroom orientation and 15-week infield training start in July 2011. Training locations will include placements in several states around the country.<\/p>\n

Although it may be helpful, no direct experience is necessary. Organizer Trainees (OTs) hired to participate in the DART Organizers Institute must demonstrate a desire to pursue community organizing as a long-term professional career. A master’s degree, JD, or similar life experience is preferred though not necessary. Candidates must have a college degree or be graduating prior to July 2011. Also, candidates must display a workmanlike diligence, be driven to produce sustained results, have proven capacity to build relationships of trust, create and execute a plan, act professionally, feel comfortable working with religious institutions, be accountable and willing to hold others accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting.\u00a0 OTs must also have access to a car during their training and be flexible regarding relocation. Fluency in Spanish\/English is a plus and people of color are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n

To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you to contact Hannah Wittmer<\/a> via email or at (785) 841-2680. You can download applications or view profiles from previous OTs at the DART website: www.thedartcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice Available to UM students and alums! The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be hosting an informational session on Monday, March 7 at 5:30 in University Center Room 241 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing with students interested in empowering their communities and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,11,29,9,18,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-alumni","category-ll-m-info","category-post-graduate-opportunities","category-programming","category-resources","category-summer-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}