This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.
This document is a reprint by the Russell Sage Foundation of an editorial in the New York Evening Journal of January 20, 1911. It notes that public schools are unused an average of sixty-one hours out of every one hundred hours and proposes that the schools be used as centers of social life.
This pamphlet contains what, at the time, were confidential exchanges among various charitable societies. Topics discussed include volunteer services in connection with emergency work and information regarding salaries, office hours, and vacation periods.
MARY E. RICHMOND was chair of the Field Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.
The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1913 through November 1914 cover topics such as the culture of family life, fundraising, large families with small wages, and vacations and office hours at charity organizations.
The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1912 through November 1913 cover topics such as training in casework, financial appeals, salaries in charity organization societies, and the training of volunteers.
This article, from the Woman’s Medical Journal of January 2013, is a reprint of a 1912 report by the Russell Sage Foundation. It deals with infant mortality and the means of combating it by the instruction and care of expectant mothers. It provides a summary of characteristic features of certain cities personally investigated by the author.
ELLEN C. BABBITT worked in the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance; and achievements.
JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.
This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance, and achievements.
JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.
This booklet provides guidance on setting up a program of work relief. Topics include underlying work relief, finances, advanced planning, personnel, the office system, registration of applicants, determination of need, choice of work projects, work assignments, transfer and dismissal, reassignments, wage rates and hours, method of payment, and protection against injury.
JOANNA C. COLCORD was the director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This illustrated booklet focuses on the causes of poverty and ways to alleviate it. It asks such questions as which is better: helping the poor in their poverty or helping the poor out of their poverty and is it money alone that the poor need?