• Although Montana now has five Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Schools and Programs, with a combined enrollment of nearly 350 students, NASW-Montana student members dramatically decreased from 2005-2011?
• The average NASW Montana member is over 51 years and has been a member for nearly 11 years?

Did you know that since September 2009?

• NASW Montana’s membership increased from 447 to 516 members—a 15% increase!
• But, thanks to you, the numbers of student and transitional (post graduation) members have been increasing at a much greater rate!

Your Montana Chapter has been conducting a very successful Social Work Student Scholarship Campaign. As a result our NASW Montana Student Membership Recruitment Drive we have been bringing in the next generation of Montana Social Workers! Thanks to you, our members have generously sponsored 85+ Social Work Student’s NASW Membership since this program began in 2009. However, we still have student social workers who need NASW student membership sponsorships!

Your NASW Montana Membership Committee is asking you, one of our loyal regular members, to consider “sponsoring” a Social Work Student’s NASW membership for one year. The cost to you would be only $48, or about ¼ the cost of a regular NASW membership and your Social Work Student will receive all the benefits of full NASW membership!

Moreover, after graduation, NASW student members enter a generous three-year transitional period that features reduced dues of $94 in years one and two, and $143 in year three. BSW students enter a two-year transitional period. However, without a previous NASW student membership, graduated social workers who were not NASW members as students cannot participate as transitional members! Regular membership annual dues are $190, so it pays for them to join as students and take advantage of NASW’s reduced transitional rates.

When Social Work students join NASW, half of their membership dues support our Montana Chapter. Your Montana Chapter is committed to being our Social Workers’ foremost “COMMUNITY OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT.” We want them to reap the benefits of local membership and help the Montana Chapter continue to be a strong fighter for our profession!

How it works…Please let us know if want to sponsor a Montana Social Work Student’s NASW membership. If so, we will “match” you with a student, preferably one close to where you live. We will provide you with the student’s name, email address and phone number. We will ask you to send us a check for $48 made out to NASW and we will forward the student’s application and your check to NASW.

Please click on the following link to open the NASW Montana Social Work Student Membership Sponsor Pledge Form.

Please consider participating in this “win-win” opportunity for our social work students, members, and our Chapter.

Thanks so much for your consideration.

Tim Dallacqua, MSW LCSW
Chair, NASW MT Membership Committee

Michael Hagenlock, MSW LCSW
President, NASW MT Board of Directors