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:

• 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