Social Justice Jobs in Community Organizing Available to GW graduating students and alums!

Social Justice Jobs in Community Organizing Available to GW graduating students and alums!

Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on the GW campus on Mon., March 9 @ 7:00 PM in the Career Center, Room 208 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change.

Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Sunil Joy at sunil@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone # and email address.

DART is now accepting applications for the 2009 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 7-day classroom orientation with 15 weeks of infield training at a DART host organization. This is a paid training program that includes: a $7,000 living stipend, transportation to the classroom orientation and host city, and mileage reimbursement during the infield training. Room, board, and tuition will also be paid by DART during the 7-day classroom training. After successful completion of the program, DART will work to place graduates into permanent full time salaried positions ranging from ($27-30,000/year for Associate Organizers and $30-34,000 for Lead Organizers).

Graduates from the four month DART Organizers Institute have gone onto accept Executive Director and Associate Community Organizing positions throughout the country.

The 7-day classroom orientation and 15 week infield training starts July 12, 2009 and runs through November 7, 2009. Training locations will include placements in several states around the country.

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 or similar life experience is preferred though unnecessary. Candidates must have a college degree or be graduating prior to June 1, 2009. 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. 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.

To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you to send your resume to: Sunil Joy, DART Network, 820 New York Street Lawrence, KS 66044 or by email: sunil@thedartcenter.org. If you have any questions, please call: (785) 841-2680. Also, you can download applications or view profiles from previous OTs at the DART website: www.thedartcenter.org.

Sunil Joy
DART Network
ph: (785) 841-2680
email: sunil@thedartcenter.org
www.thedartcenter.org

2009 Chinese bridge

You are invited to observe and support competing MIDDLE - HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
in Chinese language competition!!!



Theme:

“FUN WITH CHINESE, HOPE FOR SUCCESS!”


中文主题: “快乐汉语 成就希望!”


Friday, April 3, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Multi-Purpose Room (ground floor)
Nyumburu Culture Center, University of Maryland

Come see the FINEST in Chinese language performance!!!
Three-part team competition: language selection, prepared questions, & performance.



Hosted by the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland (CIM)

Coffee Hour, Spring 2009

包括魏老师(Miaochun Wei)在内，一共会有很多外国话的老师都邀请学生来参加咖啡时间，让我们一边儿喝咖啡，吃西式糕点，一边儿也让中文口语能力越来越强！

ASL - EAP - Chinese - French - German -Hebrew - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Russian - Spanish

* Eckles Library, Mt. Vernon Campus
* February 17, March 24, April 21
* 2:00 - 3:00pm (Hebrew and French 2:30 - 3:30pm)
* Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the GW Language Center and the Office of Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon Campus

Schoarlship opportunities

1. Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace:
Investing in the Study of Critical Languages
Full Scholarships for Intensive Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools in: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/applications/kwd.htm

2. National Geographic Student Expeditions Scholarship Program

http://ngstudentexpeditions.com/about/scholarships/

3. Taiwan Tech Trek Internship : www.nsc.gov. tw/ttt

Two types of internships are available:

a. Individual internships: The TTT Program Office will arrange internship positions at various host institutes and companies in Taiwan based on participants' choices.

b. Special group projects: Interns will be teamed in groups of 4~12 people to conduct in-depth research into major issues in Taiwan such as future technology, Taiwan's international status, etc. At the end of the internship, each group is required to submit a group project report to TTT Office.