The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American Philanthropy, Volume 19Macmillan, 1922 - 560 pages A history of the public welfare movement in the United States. |
Other editions - View all
The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American ... Frank Dekker Watson No preview available - 2014 |
The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American ... Frank Dekker Watson No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
activities adequate American Annual Report Associated Charities Board Boston Boston Associated Bureau of Charities causes of poverty Central Council Charities and Correction Charities Review charity organiza Charity Organization Department charity organization movement charity organization society charity organization workers Chicago churches ciety citizens committee Conference of Charities coöperation distress district efforts Elberfeld system fact family social Federation field Francis H friendly visitors ganization give individual institutions interest investigation Josephine Shaw Lowell labor launched material relief meeting ment National Conference Octavia Hill Organizing Charity pauperism Philanthropy places poor prevention problem public outdoor relief reform relief fund relief societies result Robert Treat Paine Russell Sage Foundation secretary social agencies social workers Societies for Organizing standards Survey tion society to-day trained treatment tuberculosis Vincent de Paul visiting volunteer welfare York City York Society
Popular passages
Page 117 - I gave a beggar from my little store Of well-earned gold. He spent the shining ore And came again, and yet again, still cold And hungry as before. I gave a thought, and through that thought of mine, He found himself a man, supreme, divine, Bold, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold, And now he begs no more.
Page 397 - ... welfare of such child to remain at home, the court may enter an order finding such facts and fixing the amount of money necessary to enable the parent or parents to properly care for such child, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the County Board, through its County Agent or otherwise, to pay to such...
Page 69 - Report of the Secretary of State in 1824 on the Relief and Settlement of the Poor," reprinted in the 34th Annual Report of the State Board of Charities of the State of \ew York, 1900.
Page 149 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 377 - To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
Page 32 - To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it has generally been supposed necessary, first, to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order! Why not make them first happy, and then virtuous ! If happiness and virtue be inseparable, the end will be as certainly obtained by the one method as by the other ; and it is most undoubtedly much easier to contribute to the happiness and comfort of persons in a state of poverty and misery than by admonitions and punishments to reform their morals.
Page 546 - Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter.
Page 397 - If the parent or parents of such dependent or neglected child are poor and unable to properly care for the said child, but are otherwise proper guardians and it is for the welfare of such child to remain at home, the court may enter an order finding such facts and fixing the amount of money necessary to enable the parent or parents to properly care for such child, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the county board, through its county agent or otherwise, to pay...
Page 42 - It humiliates when there is no reciprocity, when you give the poor man nothing but bread, or clothes, or a bundle of straw — what, in fact, there is no likelihood of his ever giving you in return.
Page 117 - the attempt to arrive at as exact a definition as possible of the social situation and personality of a given client.