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Maximizing Mission-Driven Profits

Maximizing Mission-Driven Profits

By Sekou "Koe" Murphy, MBA, BBA What are mission-driven profits? It simply means that an organization doesn’t generate profits for profits’ sake, but those profits are generated for a higher ideal. Such as being used to expand services to the needy, invest in its...

NASW Sets Social Justice Priorities for 2017

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has set five social justice priorities to address over the next year -- voting rights, criminal justice reforms, juvenile justice, immigration reform and economic justice and equity. Within this set of social justice...

Join #SWRocktheVote Campaign!

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is proud to join Social Work Helper Magazine and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) and Council on Social Work Education in a voter registration campaign from Rock the Vote . Social workers...

Supervisory leaders in aging complete training

  By Paul R. Pace, News staff The population of Floridians over age 85 is expected to double by 2020, says Jim Akin, executive director of the NASW Florida Chapter. “Services to older adults continues to be a challenge,” Akin said. “The number of people living...

Coordinators aim to resolve family conflicts

By Paul R. Pace, News staff Five states are conducting pilot projects that aim to resolve high-conflict disputes among families and older adults through a new dispute-resolution process called eldercaring coordination. The Association for Conflict Resolution Task...