Significant experience in both the ACORN and DART networks; extended campaign to greatly increase access to public transit. ACORN organizer in St. Paul, MN, and Miami, FL. Switched to DART network (congregation-based). Recently became ED of National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, an advocacy organization that tries to get foundations to commit more funding to community organizing.
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Dorfman, Aaron, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
