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Welcome to Issue #248 of the Social Work E-News! Thank you for subscribing to receive this email newsletter, which is brought to you by the publisher of The New Social Worker magazine, SocialWorker.com, SocialWorkJobBank.com, and other social work publications.
Is it really the middle of July already? Yes, it is, and I hope summer is going well where you are.
I wrote a couple of months ago about a new section of our website, The Online Nonprofit Information Center (TONIC), providing the full text of several nonprofit management books, available to download at NO CHARGE. Today, I am happy to let you know about a new TONIC blog, Fundraising Tech With Gary Grant. Gary is a seasoned fundraising executive and co-author (with me) of The Social Worker's Internet Handbook, a book that came out way back in 1998 and has long since been out of print. Please check out his new column/blog.
In case you missed it: Revisions to the NASW Code of Ethics went into effect on June 1! Please read our updates on these important changes:
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Highlights of this issue include: ethics and freedom to discriminate, remote field placement, macro job search, financial social work, cultural humility, virtual community organizing, literature review, the ASWB practice, analysis, book reviews, and more. This issue also includes the winning poems and honorable mentions from the University of Iowa 2021 National Poetry Contest for Social Workers. See listing below (after the "Featured Excerpt").
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- Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
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- International Day of Friendship (July 30)
- World Day Against Tafficking in Persons (July 30)
...and more.
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Job Corner/Current Job Openings |
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Boston,
MA,
United States
Children's Aid
Brooklyn,
NY,
United States
Bethany Christian Services Grand Rapids,
MI,
United States
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Catching Up: Internet Fundraising From the 1980s to the 2020s
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER website. Read the complete article at:
by Gary B. Grant
You might think that, with 35 years in development, I’m a
fundraising dinosaur, but I have worked hard to evolve and adapt to the
changing times and the changing technology. I grew up in development in
the late 1980s before the internet had its great influence on the
profession. With this perspective, I see some long-term arcs that I look
forward to sharing and to engaging others in thinking about.
I began in development as an undergraduate student calling
alumni of my college for annual gifts. Using the phone was, at the time,
a bold new trend. Prior to that, it was a simpler world. Soliciting
gifts involved sending mail (letters and sometimes more expensive glossy
pieces) or getting together either in person one-on-one for larger asks
or in groups for fundraising events.
That was basically it.
Call centers were just beginning, and universities that had
initially used alumni and student volunteers quickly transitioned to
hired students that could call every night and become well trained in
phone solicitation. I was in the second generation of such callers. It
was exciting because it worked so well. In those days, people actually
stopped what they were doing (even their meals and their movies) to
answer the phone, and although some might have felt a little put off,
the vast majority I talked with loved the contact with a friendly
student. The only challenge, really, was catching them at home.
Then the internet boomed.
The internet brought email, websites, and things that stuck—like
text messaging, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter—and things that didn’t as
much, like chat boards, and listservs. Each new communication vehicle
boggled development staff trying to figure out where to invest their
time and money.
But two things focused us.
First, as email became universal, this curtailed some of the
expensive mailings in favor of free email. Very quickly, the physical
mailbox stuffed with solicitations eased a bit. Or at least the amount
of communications dramatically increased without having to grow the
direct mail budgets.
Second, the emergence of websites gave every organization the
ability to allow visitors anywhere in the world to learn about them and
ultimately to give online by credit card. Yes, we still wrote checks
before then.
Read the rest of this article at:
Selected Articles from the Spring/Summer 2021 issue:
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Social Work and Democracy:
Next Steps in the Campaign
For the past three years, Voting is Social Work has mobilized voter registration activities in social work schools and agencies around the country. You may have participated in, know about, or just be interested in these efforts. Today, Voting Is Social Work is eager to hear your thoughts about the role social workers can or should play in voter engagement in your school or agency.
Take part in an anonymous electronic survey approved by the University of St. Joseph’s IRB. It should take approximately 20-25 minutes to complete.
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Thank you!
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