Terrible Experience - Anonymous employee DART Center Employee Review

Ever felt powerless to change your community? Do you want to work with amazing leaders, volunteers, and others sharing your passion for change? Do you want to publicly hold elected officials and decision makers accountable for the fair treatment of all people in your community? Then I highly recommend a career with DART!! DART teaches how to organize large groups of organized people to push for systemic change. If fighting for change is your passion, then check out where DART is hiring and apply! It will be exciting and life changing!

The work/life balance can be a challenge, but with proper training and support this can be overcome!

Getting to show up to work and live out my values each day is a great privelege, I love that I get to work with people who genuinely want to live out their beliefs and create a better community for everyone. You're responsible for setting your own schedule and calendar, which can be a tough thing to get used to at first but gives me a lot of flexibility to be able to balance family responsibilities with work. I also get to be a part of making some big changes in my community and I love that that's something I can make a career of. The pay & benefits are also on-par or above a lot of other similar community organizing work

The job can be pretty demanding at times, some of the busy weeks can be 50+ hours. It can also be just overall tough and emotionally draining at times, you hear a lot of tough stories from community members about the injustices they face, and while we do get tangible wins on the issues, the change we're looking for can take a long time and there's often a LOT of resistance from those in power. Being able to find ways to process that outside of work has been really important for me. There's a lot of things in this job that happen that are completely outside of your control, which can be frustrating and a challenge to figure out how to shift plans around to deal with