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Social Unit Plan

The social unit plan aims to bring about a genuine and efficient democracy by showing the rank and file how to secure for themselves a clear idea of their own needs and by helping them to organize for the satisfaction of those needs the best skill and the wisest advice available. Practical health work is the point of attack because it is one of the sorest immediate needs and the one of which people are most conscious.

The laboratory chosen for the working out of this new concept of democracy is a typical district of Cincinnati containing approximately fifteen thousand people. In this district, under the control of the citizens who reside in it and with the co-operation of citizens throughout the entire city as well as of the city government, it is planned to develop an organization which, if successful, may later, with minor modifications, be capable of application in other sections of the city and in cities throughout the country.

Council on Social Work Education: Dr. Kendall’s Appointment

Dr. Katherine A. Kendall Appointed New Executive Director of CSWE President Roger Cumming opened the meeting of the Board of Directors on October 26, 1963, with this announcement: “Today we begin our work with a happy event emerging from the Committee on Search and Selection for an Executive Director to replace Dr. Ernest Witte. In…

National Recreation Association Philosophy

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE NATIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION PHILOSOPHY By Weaver Pangburn (Circ. 1936-1940) Ed. Note: The National Recreation Association was originally founded in 1906 as the Playground Association of America. Over the years, reflecting the organization’s changing mission, it changed its name to the Playground and Recreation Association of America (1911-1930) and the National Recreation…

Playground Association of America: Early Days

Founding and early history of The Playground Association of America.

Playground Association of America Progress Report: January 20, 1910

Playground Association of America Report of the Secretary to the Executive Committee covering the period: September 1, 1909 – January 20, 1910 at their Meeting on January 20, 1910 Ed. Note: Over the years, reflecting the organization’s changing mission, the Playground Association of America evolved. The organization changed its name to the Playground and Recreation…

National Recreation Association

National Recreation Association Introduction: The National Recreation Association was founded in 1906 as the Playground Association of America (PAA) by eighteen men and women from playground associations, public school and municipal recreation departments, settlements, teachers’ colleges, the kindergarten movement, and charity organizations. Industrialization and growing urbanization prompted a perceived need to encourage positive citizenship through…

American Social Hygiene Association History and a Forecast

This entry is an extensive history of the early years of the American Social Hygiene Association. The exact date of the report is not known; however, it is sometime immediately after World War I.

American Association of Social Workers

American Association of Social Workers (AASW) — (1918-1955) Introduction: Established in 1917 as the National Social Workers’ Exchange and reorganized in 1921 as the American Association of Social Workers, the organization addressed issues of concern, set professional standards, and (in the early years) served as a placement bureau for social workers. It was one…

Community Chest Spending Circa 1941

How the Chests Spend the Money By ALLEN T. BURNS, Executive Vice-President and BRADLEY BUELL, Field Director, Community Chests and Councils, Inc An Article from The Survey Midmonthly, September, 1941 (pp. 256-259) COLLECTING, spending. Throughout the quarter century of Community Chest history, these responsibilities have been Siamese twins guiding the contributor’s dollar through its philanthropic…