The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most successful New Deal programs of the Great Depression. It existed for fewer than 10 years, but left a legacy of strong, handsome roads, bridges, and buildings throughout the United States.
Continue Reading »The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) grew out of child welfare advocates’ demands for better communication and regulation among agencies and institutions serving children.
Continue Reading »Written by Jack Hansan. “The League had its beginning at the time of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later known as the National Conference of Social Work) in Baltimore in 1915, when a group of executives from approximately 25 children’s agencies met together for the purpose of exchanging information and discussing the needs of the child-caring field.”
Continue Reading »How To Get And Keep Visitors By Zilpha D. Smith General Secretary, Associated Charities of Boston Editor’s Note: This is the third entry about Friendly Visitors, an important component of the Charity Organization Movement. This entry is a presentation delivered by Ms. Smith at the 1887 annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and…
Continue Reading »Friendly Visiting By Marian C. Putnam Editor’s Note: There is little or no biographical information about Ms. Putnam except references to her presentation at the 1887 Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. I have been asked to write a paper on the “theory and value of friendly visiting as compared…
Continue Reading »Volunteer Visiting: The Organization Necessary To Make It Effective. By Zilpha D. Smith Registrar Of The Boston Associated Charities. Editor’s Note: This is the first of three entries about Friendly Visitors, an important component of the Charity Organization Movement. This entry is a presentation delivered by Ms. Smith at the 1884 annual meeting of the…
Continue Reading »Speech by C.F. Palmer, Coordinator of Defense Housing. “In the twelve months ending next June 30th, we expect that an enormous army of two to three million men, women, and children will have been involved in the essential migration required by war industry and military concentration. The arrival of these millions of people in defense areas is creating a complexity of problems, in which the largest is the supply of shelter.”
Continue Reading »From the 1940s to the 1960s, NHC consisted of a coalition of public housing advocates, social workers, labor unions, and local housing authorities who pushed for housing reforms. However, by the 1970s, NHC became an ally of the federal housing bureaucracy because its membership included primary builders, construction unions, and real estate developers.
Continue Reading »Presentation by John Collier, Director, Training School for Community Workers at the National Conference Of Social Work Annual Meeting in 1919. “I want to insist at once that Community Councils are independent, self -operating neighborhood organizations…As such they remain, now that the war is over, to help in the work of reconstruction and in the upbuilding of a useful and beautiful leisure life.”
Continue Reading »From its inception, the Cleveland-area volunteers were the first in the country to set up a volunteer-driven system to study human care needs, to allocate funds, and monitor their use. The new organization added budgeting to the single campaign concept, i.e., funds were allocated to agencies on the basis of demonstrated need rather than on hopes for as much money as possible. This “citizen review process” became the model for United Way organizations across the country.
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