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Development of the Individual Child in Institutions for Dependents

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C. Spencer Richardson
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16 pages

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This booklet suggests how religious, moral, economic, recreational, and social training can help children in orphanages grow up to be effective citizens.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON worked in the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Community Programs for Subsistence Gardens

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Joanna C. Colcord and Mary Johnston
Ebook
Publication Date
38 pages

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This booklet offers guidance to relief committees that may be promoting subsistence gardens. Appendix I contains a questionnaire and a list of cites and states that replied. Appendix II contains forms used in various garden projects.

JOANNA C. COLCORD and MARY JOHNSTON worked in the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Community Planning in Unemployment Emergencies

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Joanna C. Colcord
Ebook
Publication Date
84 pages

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This booklet brings together recommendations for community action to meet emergent unemployment. It includes a list of the books and pamphlets quoted.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was the director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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American Friends in France, 1917–1919

Published with Problems Involved in Administering Relief Abroad, by Clarence M. Pickett
Author
Rufus M. Jones
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Publication Date
28 pages

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American Friends in France, 1917–1919 is the fifth of a series of occasional papers under the editorship of Donald S. Howard. Topics include organization and personnel, health and child care, house building, education, relief, and agricultural reconstruction.

Problems Involved in Administering Relief Abroad contains excerpts from an address by Clarence E. Pickett delivered before the School of Training in International Administration of Columbia University on November 19, 1942.

RUFUS M. JONES was editor of Friends Review and taught philosophy for forty years at Haverford College.

CLARENCE E. PICKETT was executive secretary of American Friends Service Committee.

DONALD S. HOWARD was assistant director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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American Aid to Germany, 1918-1925

Published with The Long Mile Beyond Berlin, by Shelby M. Harrison
Author
Sidney Brooks
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28 pages

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American Aid to Germany, 1918–1925 is the fourth of a series of occasional papers under the editorship of Donald S. Howard. It contains excerpts from the book America and Germany, 1918–1925, by Sidney Brooks. Topics include conditions in Germany after World War I, transport and finance problems, the child-feeding program administered by the American Friends Service Committee, and clothing distribution by the Friends.

The Long Mile Beyond Berlin is excerpted from an address by Shelby M. Harrison before the New York Academy of Public Education on November 19, 1942. It discusses the tasks of relief and reconstruction that will face the United States after the current war.

SIDNEY BROOKS was the author of America and Germany, 1918–1925 (Macmillan, 1925).

SHELBY M. HARRISON was general director of the Russell Sage Foundation.

DONALD S. HOWARD was assistant director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Social Welfare Program for the State of Florida

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Hastings H. Hart and Clarence L. Stonaker
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Publication Date
50 pages

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This booklet outlines the social work of the state of Florida. Among the topics discussed are war activities, care of soldiers and their families, food conservation, education in patriotism, administration of boards and institutions, the public health service, the prison system, infant mortality, child labor, recreation, public education, and care of the poor.

HASTINGS H. HART was the director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE L. STONAKER was a staff member of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association of New Jersey.

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Social Case Workers and Better Industrial Conditions

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Shelby M. Harrison
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24 pages

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This booklet discusses social case workers and how they contribute to better industrial conditions. Topics include how information spreads, investigation of industrial facts, adequate plan of treatment, the personal equipment of the case worker, health and income, health and hours of labor, appreciation of the relation between labor conditions and social conditions, and making case data accessible to inquirers.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of surveys and exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Relief: A Primer for the Family Rehabilitation Work of the Buffalo Charity Organization Society Prepared by Its Secretary

Author
Frederic Almy
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36 pages

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This booklet provides general principles for charity work. It discusses lack of male support, disability, children, volunteer visitors, churches, city aid, new applications, pensions, budgets, loans, pauperizing, and prevention.

FREDERIC ALMY was secretary of the Buffalo Charity Organization.  

 

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Passing On as a Method of Charitable Relief

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Russell Sage Foundation
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36 pages

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This booklet examines transportation as a form of charitable aid, its effects on recipients, and better ways of helping.

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On Being a Director: An Open Letter to One of the Board of a Society for Organizing Charity

Author
Alexander Johnson
Ebook
Publication Date
4 pages

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In this letter, Alexander Johnson reminds the director of a charity organization of the difference between managing a business and managing a charity.

ALEXANDER JOHNSON was general secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Correction.  

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