Children’s Defense Fund

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Marian Wright Edelman The week honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in our nation ended under a barrage of threats to Dr. Kings vision and values and attacks on long-deserved, hard-earned protections and progress for millions of people. It is a shameful moment. But it is also a moment to return to something Dr. King taught again and again over the years: progress against forces of regression can never be taken for granted, and will always rely on the hard work of committed, creative, faithful

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Staff shortages pose a risk to government plans to bolster the safeguarding of the growing number of children not in school, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president has warned. Andy Smith told MPs this week that several councils had less than one full-time equivalent elective home education worker, meaning the workforce was “significantly insufficien

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 24, 2025

Professor Linda Chatters received the Distinguished Career Award from the Society for Social Work and Research at the SSWR Annual Conference in Seattle last week. I am very honored and humbled to receive this award and thankful for this recognition, said Chatters. I am especially indebted to my colleagues within the School of Social Work who have supported and encouraged me over the years.

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Schools 52

Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 24, 2025

January is always a good time to sort your stuff out and before starting my new role, I took the opportunity to clear out my cupboard. It was interesting to see what I had kept over the years from the days when policy documents came in bound hard copy - it is easy to think that some things dont change! Amongst other papers, I found a CQC special study on hospital discharge from 2004, the 2008 End of Life Care strategy (another hot topic as the Assisted Dying Bill progresses) and from 2009, a vis

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

Behavior Analysis

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor Among the almost 100 executive orders enacted during President Trump’s first day in office, the administration included an order that has rolled back all federal programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). That inclusion was a significant regression from the Biden administration’s approach to advancing racial equity and for remedying systemic racism.

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