The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American Philanthropy, Svazek 19

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Macmillan, 1922 - Počet stran: 560
A history of the public welfare movement in the United States.
 

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Strana 363 - to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in times of peace, and apply the same in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
Strana 383 - 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
Strana 149 - Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. James Russell Lowell. The
Strana 117 - Social diagnosis is the attempt to arrive at as exact a definition as possible of the social situation and personality of a given client. The gathering of evidence, or investigation, begins the process, the critical examination and comparison of evidence follows, and last come its interpretation and the definition of the social difficulty.
Strana 196 - The preamble and resolution were as follows: "Whereas, There are in the City of New York a large number of independent societies engaged in teaching and relieving the poor of the city in their own homes, and "Whereas, There is at present no system of cooperation by which
Strana 196 - the New York City Commissioners of the State Board of Charities "to take such steps as they may deem wise to inaugurate a system of mutual help and cooperation" among the societies "engaged in teaching and relieving the poor of the city in their own homes.
Strana 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, the man, supreme, divine! Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold, And now he begs no more. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Strana 32 - 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
Strana 383 - be the duty of the County Board, through its County Agent or otherwise, to pay such parent or parents at' such times as said order may designate the amount so
Strana 57 - He at once came forward," she writes, "with all the money necessary and took the whole risk of the undertaking upon himself. He showed me, however, that it would be far more useful if it could be made to pay; that a working-man ought to be able to pay for his own house.

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