DART Facts
- Founded in 1982 in Miami, Florida
- Expanded to over twenty organizations in metropolitan areas in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia
- Engages over 400 local religious congregations ranging from Catholic, Protestant, and nondenominational churches, Jewish synagogues and Muslim mosques.
Christian denominations involved include:
| Baptist | Holiness |
| Brethren | Lutheran |
| Catholic | Mennonite |
| Disciples of Christ | Methodist |
| Churches of Christ | Orthodox |
| Congregational | Pentecostal |
| Episcopal | Presbyterian |
| Friends | Reformed |
- Active leadership includes nearly 450 unpaid leaders serving unpaid on governing boards and thousands of others acting as part of their congregational networks
- Unifies a highly diverse constituency across racial, ethnic, religious and economic lines
- Employs about 35 professional fulltime organizers
- Enables a new generation of organizers to enter the field as professional organizers through the DART Organizers Institute
- Trains thousands of local leaders and clergy each year through a series of national and local workshops
- Accepts invitations from religious leaders to build organizations in new cities
