What is MACRO UNITED?
Macro United is a coalition of social work organizations with the mission to promote macro practice within the profession.
Meet the Coalition
ACOSA
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The Association for Community Organization and Social Action (ACOSA) is an interdisciplinary professional association grounded in the social work profession. Its mission is to promote social change by strengthening community practice in social work. ACOSA promotes social work education, research, and practice in all areas of community practice including community organizing, community planning and development, organizational leadership, policy practice, and social action. ACOSA fosters global perspectives on social work practice and social welfare policy, advances racial, environmental, and social justice, values interdisciplinary collaboration, improves the social and economic well-being of marginalized communities, and supports human rights for all.
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Clark-Fox Policy Institute
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Established by the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, the Maxine Clark and Bob Fox Policy Institute is a center for public policy engagement. Our mission is to advance social and economic justice by working collaboratively to connect evidence-based policy solutions to public awareness, practitioner training, and policy decision-making.
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Congressional Research Institute For Social Work Policy (CRISP)
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Our mission is to use the power of social work on the Hill. If you have suggestions or ideas that you think should be reviewed on the Hill, we value your input. Write to us to further discuss your thoughts. Social workers face many challenges on the Hill. It’s people like you standing behind social workers with time and resources that help them gain victory on their initiatives. They’re led by the issues that also matter to you in your everyday life. The well-being of every citizen in our local area and nationwide is contingent on the extension of their efforts. They also work diligently to get to the underlying problem. We challenge you to get involved with the candidates being elected at district, county, and state levels in your community. Crispinc.org is prepared to partner with you for a brighter future.
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Grand Challenges for Social Work
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Initiated by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Grand Challenges for Social Work is a groundbreaking initiative to champion social progress powered by science. It’s a call to action for all of us to work together to tackle our nation’s toughest social problems.
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Influencing Social Policy
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We are Influencing Social Policy (ISP), a nonprofit organization for social work educators, students, and practitioners with a passion for policy! We aim to facilitate the excellence of Social Policy within the profession and field of Social Work. Our goal is to prepare and motivate social workers to play an active role in shaping the social policies that impact our clients and communities. We provide workshops, collaborate with other organizations, and help host the MACRO United Conference. We also help you connect with our amazing network of social work educators and policy-focused peers.
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Macro Social Work Student Network
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The mission of the Macro Social Work Student Network, founded at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, is to develop a geographically diverse network of and for macro-practice social work undergraduate and graduate students in order to share and augment macro practice knowledge, maintain self-awareness of macro practice as a minority method in the social work field, and share our work with the rest of the social work field.
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#MacroSW
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The mission of #MacroSW is to promote macro-focused social work practice and education, while creating a community for social workers
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Network for Social Work Management
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The Network for Social Work Management is an international organization focused on strengthening and advancing social work management and leadership within health, social, and human services. We are the only social work leadership organization serving social workers and human services professionals across a broad and diverse range of organizations to support their professional growth holistically. We provide our members with a platform to communicate, collaborate, engage, and encourage one another to grow within their professional careers and to become exemplary leaders in their chosen vocation.
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Social Justice Initiative
The Social Justice Initiative (SJI) was established in 2016. It was conceived and continues to be led by Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., Professor, now Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and Special Assistant to the President for Community Partnerships. With a deeply engaged Advisory Council and hard working administration, the SJI is devoted to the international exploration and enacting of knowledge, values, and skills that are essential to ensuring a more just world for all.
Special Commission to Advance Macro Social Work
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The Special Commission has been building a movement since its inception in the summer 2013 to redress the imbalance between macro and micro practice in our profession. The relatively low numbers of students being trained as macro social workers (community organizers, planners, developers, policy practitioners, administrators, managers, and leaders) threatened our profession's ability to shape public policy, social service provisions and community well-being. This is especially so today when we practice in a context greatly impacted by dramatically increased economic inequality and poverty, deteriorating police-community relations, institutional racism, sexual violence, xenophobia, and environmental degradation.
The Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice in Social Work is a collective of social work faculty, staff, and community- based professionals who seek to promote the visibility and importance of macro practice in the social work profession. |
