Board Positions
This Board officer is responsible for tracking attendance at board meetings, serves on the Executive Committee, certifies the election slate, and takes minutes.
Who is the Secretary?
While staff is responsible for day-to-day operations, this group is responsible for the direction and vision including the budget, for the Chapter.
What is the Chapter Board of Directors?
NASW is made up of 55 of these throughout the US and its territories.
What are Chapters?
This committee consists of the officers and is responsible for providing consultation to the president and executive director, serving as the human resources committee and often approving the budget.
What is the Executive Committee?
This past president of the NASW IA Board is a Iowa State Representative from the Beaverdale neighborhood of Des Moines.
Who is Marti Anderson?
This officer collaborates with the Executive Director, provides consultation for NASW-IA strategic activities, develops the board meeting agenda, leads the board meetings and executive committee meetings, and works with National on the Executive Director's review.
Who is the President?
Chapter Board members should make decisions that are in line with these guiding documents.
What are the mission, strategic plan and budget?
There are more than 100,000 of these in the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world.
What are NASW members?
Mandated by the National office, this committee participates in requests for professional review and meditations and provides consultation to members and the executive director.
What is the Ethics Committee?
This LISW is the chair of the Iowa State House Health and Human Services Budget Committee.
Who is N. Joel Fry?
This officer provides a fiscal report at board meetings, serves as the primary liaison between the Chapter board and the Executive Director on financial matters, ensures adherence to required financial policies and practices and works with the Executive Director to develop the Chapter budget.
Who is the Vice President for Budget and Finance?
Board members act in the best interest of the organization and the members when exercising this important legal duty.
What is the duty of loyalty?
This reads "NASW is a membership organization that promotes, develops, and protects the practice of social work and social workers. NASW also seeks to enhance the effective functioning and well-being of individuals, families and communities through its work and through its advocacy."
What is NASW's mission statement?
The acronym PACE stands for this committee, which recommends the endorsement of candidates and makes contributions to candidates.
What is Political Action for Candidate Election?
This day in February, the second largest event our chapter holds, attracts about 180 social work students and professors to rally around the social work profession and advocate to our elected officials on legislative matters.
What is Legislative Day?
This Board position is responsible for providing CEU events within their Branch and serving as a more local face for members within the branch.
Who are the Branch Chairs?
What are potential conflicts of interest?
This subsidiary of NASW is a risk-retention group responsible for designing insurance, financial, and other programs for social workers.
What is Assurance Services, Inc?
This committee is responsible for recommending diverse candidates for the Board of Directors, selecting the recipient of the Catherine G. Williams Award, and assisting with the development, planning and execution of inclusive programming.
What is the Diversity Committee?
This member of NASW is retiring from the Iowa legislature at the end of the 2020 term.
Who is State Rep. Mark D. Smith LISW?
This member of the executive committee is responsible for assisting with the planning and development for the Continuing Education events put on the NASW IA Chapter.
Who is the Vice President for Education and Training?
Unless Board members clarify that they are speaking for themselves only, it will be assumed that they are to be speaking for the entire organization, due to this principle.
What is Apparent authority?
NASW's 501-c6 tax status, which allows for professional expense deductions, unlimited advocacy, and the endorsement of candidates through a PAC, does NOT include this.
What is tax-exemption?
This committee reviews and approves candidates who wish to run for the Board, and certifies the election slate.
What is the Chapter Committee for Nominations and Leadership Identification (CCNLI)?
This annual event, held in October, traditionally nets approximately $14,000 for the NASW IA budget.
What is Symposium?