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Membership in
MASW
Social and Economic Justice have
had a home for over 100 years in the Missouri Association for Social
Welfare. As the only generalist, volunteer social welfare organization
that views Missouri social conditions as a whole, membership is
the backbone of MASW. Whatever your interests or background, there
is a place for you within MASW.
The Benefits of Membership
- A
bi-monthly newsletter on pressing social issues
- New
member advocacy packet
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Newsletters and e-mail alerts on Legislative issues during the
Missouri Legislative Session
- Weekly
e-mail notifications of funding grant opportunities through GrantStation
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Invitations to public forums, conferences and events
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Opportunities to participate on issue committees and chapters
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Connections to a statewide network of members and advocates concerned
about social justice
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Chances to impact legislation and policy
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Your voice joined with kindred voices on behalf of a humane mission
Membership
Catagories
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Individual Member - individual (not organization or business)
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Student or Low Income Member - self determined (no verification
necessary)
- Organizational
Member - membership in the name of an organization with two
individuals named to receive publications and notifications and
one member receiving voting rights
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Special Category Member - Provides additional support
for organization, member receives special recognition in publications
and reports
What Members say about MASW...
“I
have continued my membership in MAW because of its concern for justice
and equality among all people. I plan to remain a member to my dying
day.”
Reverend
Harsh Brown, Columbia
“Does great work! It’s not a big-time, over-financed
event. Grass roots. People getting involved because they care about
people. Fault: so much to do – easy to be spread thin. But
it is hard to put a lid on caring.”
Representative
Marsha Campbell
Missouri House of Representatives
President MASW, 1985-86
“MASW was the first social welfare organization that I joined
when I became a ‘visitor’, as we were called in 1944,
for the St. Louis City Welfare Office. I was appalled at the low
welfare budgets I was being asked to administer and at the lack
of understanding of what this was doing to families in my caseload.
My first introduction to MASW won me over…because of…brilliant
papers at the annual conference in 1945 on the many injustices and
human sufferings that were occurring because of the low legislative
appropriations and our lack of staff.”
Jane
Bierdeman-Fike, former director
Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Fulton State Hospital
“It
is so reassuring to have MASW in our midst. May MASW continue to
stir our conscience and spur our efforts for a better society.”
Rabbi
Jerome W. Grollman, St. Louis
“MASW
keeps concerned legislators from getting lonely. If MASW did not
exist a hundred people from across the state would be floundering
around trying to create it. There is no other effective network
that links principled advocacy efforts for social justice.”
Harriet
Woods, former Lieutenant Governor
“Most characteristic of MASW is its constancy of purpose in
good times and bad. It may do best when it is obviously bucking
the political and social tides. It is a pleasure to think of all
of the wonderful people I have worked with in the ninety year tradition
of MASW and to know the work is being carried forward by a new and
able generation of problem solvers.”
Ralph
Pumphrey, Professor, Washington University
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