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Treasurer’s 2025 Annual Report

The independent audit of NASW’s July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 fiscal year was completed by BFBA, LLP, a firm based in Sacramento, Calif., that has experience working with non-profit organizations. The auditors once again issued a clean, or unqualified, opinion, which is accounting speak for a top score.

Apr. 14, 2026
Rectangular photo of Melody Glenn’s office bookshelf showing works addressing such topics as the politics of overdose, drug addicts as patients, addicts who survived, undoing drugs, addiction and women, and opium. Photo credit: Melody Glenn.

Melody Glenn—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis

Methadone is a life-saving medication upon which users are dependent in the same way people with diabetes require insulin, Melody Glenn notes. In Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis, Glenn interweaves the biography of Marie Nyswander, co-founder of methadone maintenance treatment, with experiences from her own training as an addiction physician.

Rectangular photo of Alison Pearce Stevens office bookshelf showing a children’s book, If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff that Stevens found inspiring, a book on beavers, Eager, by NASW author Ben Goldfarb, and a book on indigenous culture and plant ecology, Braided Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, along with a beaver skull showing the beaver’s distinctive orange teeth. Photo credit: Alison Pearce Stevens.

Alison Pearce Stevens—When Beavers Move In

When beavers become a nuisance in Washington State, chopping down trees and damming streams near homes, the Tulalip Tribes come to the rescue. They send biologists to transfer the beavers to ancestral tribal land in the Cascade Mountains. As Alison Pearce Stevens tells young readers in When Beavers Move In, the beavers thrive in their new homes and help restore trout and salmon populations.

Rectangular photo of Suzanne Sherman’s office bookshelf showing works on evolution, evolutionary biology, shells, mollusks and crustaceans, animals without backbones, and seashore life. The bookshelf also includes a display of similarly shaped seashells, with common cockles, most often found in Northern Europe, on the left, and prickly cockles, most often found along the coast of southwest Florida, on the right. Photo credit: Suzanne Sherman.

Suzanne Sherman—Shell Seeker: The Life, Work, and Adventures of a Blind Biologist

Growing up blind in the Netherlands, Geerat Vermeij learned to navigate the world via touch. Visits to the nearby ocean fostered his fascination with seashells and led to his discoveries on the evolution of both mollusks and their predators. In Shell Seeker: The Life, Work, and Adventures of a Blind Biologist, Suzanne Sherman highlights the value of curiosity and perseverance for K-5 readers.

Rectangular photo of Meera Subramanian’s office bookshelf showing books on climate science, climate change, and climate change denial. Photo credit: Meera Subramanian.

Meera Subramanian (NASW member) & Danica Novgorodoff—A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis

The term “climate change” is too tame, Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff assert. In their graphic nonfiction book, A Better World is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, they interweave climate science with reports from four young activists who helped organize a youth climate protest that drew over 250,000 people to New York, part of a Sept 2019 worldwide wave of climate rallies.

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Virtual freelancer meetup: Networking social

The NASW Freelance Committee virtual meetup on May 7 will be an open networking social with small group discussions in breakout rooms. Hang out with familiar faces and new colleagues to commiserate, connect, and collaborate!

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