The Junior League: A Synopsis The Junior League was formed in New York in 1901 as the Junior League of the Settlement Movement. The league’s founders, Mary Harriman and Nathalie Henderson, were motivated by a sense of social responsibility and the idea of trained women volunteers working for community improvement. Harriman and Henderson, with the…
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Schiff, Philip: An Address 1954
Address by Phil Schiff at The Annual Meeting of Alumni and Friends of Madison House, Inc. “When did we come in? Where are we? Where are we going? Where did we come in?”
Continue Reading »Social Work and Social Action-1945
For the purpose of this discussion we shall define social action as the systematic, conscious effort directly to influence the basic social conditions and policies out of which arise the problems of social adjustment and maladjustment to which our service as social workers is addressed. This definition itself may not satisfy all of us to begin with, for it has at least one debatable limitation. While it does not deny, neither does it specifically acknowledge or emphasize the potential and actual indirect influence upon the total social scene which may emanate from the specific services social workers render to particular individuals and groups, through the traditional primary task of helping people to find and use their own strength and the resources around them for the solution of their own problems and the fulfillment of their own lives.
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Written by John E. Hansan, Ph.D. “The Hudson Guild is a community-based social services organization rooted in and primarily focused on the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.”
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John Lovejoy Elliot (December 2, 1868—April 12, 1942): Founder of Hudson Guild Settlement House and Ethical Culture Society Leader. John Lovejoy Elliot was born in Princeton, Illinois, the son of Isaac Elliot and Elizabeth (nee Denham) Lovejoy. He attended Cornell University, where he was elected as class president. In 1889 he attended an event…
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Written by John E. Hansan, Ph.D. “The house is designed to stand for the single idea of resident study and work in the neighborhood where it may be located. . . . The whole aim and motive is religious, but the method is educational rather than evangelistic. A second, though hardly secondary, object….will be to create a center, for those within reach, of social study, discussion, and organization.”
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Robert Archey Woods (December 9, 1865—February 18, 1925) — Settlement House Pioneer, Founder of South End House the First Settlement in Boston, Social Reformer, Author and Educator Introduction: Robert A. Woods was born in Pittsburgh, PA., on Dec. 9, 1865, the fourth of five children in a family of Scottish-Irish immigrants. His father, Robert, was…
Continue Reading »Madison House and the Great Depression
This retrospective view of Madison House highlights the contributions of Felix Adler and the Ethical Culture Society. Madison House was funded by the Ethical Culture Society but was governed democratically by club members and staff who planned activities and programs for all ages. By Jeanne Talpers, Daughter of Philip Schiff, Headworker of Madison House 1934-1939
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Christina Isobel MacColl (December 1864 – 1939): Founder of Christodora House on the Lower East Side of New York By June Hopkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Armstrong Atlantic State University There have been countless lives lived by women who had a very significant and enduring impact on the direction of history. Many of these women exercised…
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Albert J. Kennedy (1879-1968) — Settlement House Pioneer, Researcher, Author and Community Advocate Introduction: Albert Joseph Kennedy was a pioneer in the U. S. settlement house movement. He was associated with settlement house work and the National Federation of Settlements for nearly sixty years. The social settlement movement was based on the idea that those…
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