The Russell Sage Foundation began to publish compilations of bibliographies and directories of American foundations in 1915. This 1946 volume is an outgrowth of the foundation’s early reference work. In addition to listing and describing foundations, this book discusses their history, organization, resources, fields of activity, and general trends useful to foundation boards and the general public alike. It contains a descriptive directory of 505 foundations.

Shelby M. Harrison was general director of the Russell Sage Foundation.

F. Emerson Andrews was director of publications at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

The purpose of this handbook is to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them. The material is arranged in such a way as to serve readily community-center officials who view problems of organization objectively, who regard themselves as trustees of certain spaces and facilities in a school building which they are to utilize for the enhancement of the neighborhood’s common life.

Clarence Arthur Perry, Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation

A report on the relations, organized under the Rockefeller Plan, between the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a company operating several coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad, and its employees, part of a series of inquiries into industrial relations.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Mary van Kleeck, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

An extension of the 1916 “Industrial Disputes and the Canadian Act, Facts about Nine Years’ Experience with Compulsory Investigation in Canada” pamphlet, with a focus on whether the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act could be replicated in the United States.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

A report on conditions and care of mental health patients in the United States, with details on attempts to alleviate the dilemmas faced by large public mental hospitals in different parts of the country.

Otto von Mering, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Stanley H. King, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

Proving that any program designed to change our social behavior is doing what it set out to do is one of the most difficult problems faced by social science. Yet those responsible for such a program must attempt an evaluation of its results if they are to achieve the support they need. Edward A. Suchman, one of the world's foremost experts in measuring social behavior, presents the most comprehensive study of evaluation available to date.

In Evaluative Research he describes the techniques used to determine empirically the extent to which social goals are actually being achieved, to locate the barriers to the achievement of these goals, and to discover the unanticipated consequences of social actions.

The book is divided into three main sections, representing the conceptual, the methodological, and the administrative aspects of evaluation. It begins with a brief historical account and a general critique of the current status of evaluation studies. The introduction is followed by a conceptual analysis of the evaluative process, including a discussion of different levels of objectives. The methodological section includes an analysis of various research designs applicable to evaluative research. The place of evaluation in the administrative process is related to program planning, demonstration, and operation. Administrative resistance and barriers to evaluation are examined along with the problems in the utilization of the findings.

The book concludes with a brief exposition on the relationship of evaluative research to social experimentation stressing the potential contribution which public service and social action programs can make to our knowledge of administrative science and social change.

This book will have many uses. It will aid the evaluative research person in striking a balance between rigorous method and the situation in which he must function. For the operating practitioner, the book will explain what competent evaluation involves. Administrators will find the volume and invaluable aid.

This book examines the work of early-twentieth century charity organizations, in particular those in urban environments.

Mary E. Richmond was the author of “Friendly Visiting Among the Poor,” general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity

The organization and methods of relief used after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, compiled from studies by Charles J. O’Connor, Francis H. McLean, Helen Swett Artieda, James Marvin Motley, Jessica Peixotto, and Mary Roberts Coolidge, offering a book of ready reference for use on occasions of special emergency.

A survey of public schools conducted by the Department of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation under the direction of Leonard P. Ayres. Part of the Springfield Survey.