Charities
Here are entered works on privately supported welfare activities. Works on tax-supported welfare activities are entered under Public welfare. Works on the methods employed in social work, public or private, are entered under Social service. Works that discuss collectively the various policies, programs, services, and facilities to meet basic human needs relating to the quality of life, such as education, health, welfare, etc. are entered under Human services.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Charities -- Canada
- Charities -- Confederate States of America
- Charities -- Corrupt practices
- Charities -- England
- Charities -- France
- Charities -- Great Britain
- Charities -- History
- Charities -- Illinois
- Charities -- Isle of Man
- Charities -- Italy
- Charities -- Manitoba
- Charities -- Massachusetts
- Charities -- Mexico
- Charities -- New York (State)
- Charities -- Periodicals
- Charities -- Political aspects
- Charities -- Spain
- Charities -- United States
- Charities -- Washington (D.C.)
- Charities -- Wisconsin
- Almshouses
- Asylums
- Blind -- Institutional care
- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
- Charities, Medical
- Charity laws and legislation
- Charity-schools
- Church charities
- Deaf -- Institutional care
- Humanitarianism
- International relief
- Merchant mariners -- Missions and charities
- Sisterhoods
- Social settlements
- Women in charitable work
- African Americans -- Charities
- Catholic Church -- Charities
- Jews -- Charities
- Women -- Charities
- Alms and almsgiving
- Benevolent institutions
- Charitable institutions
- Charities -- Societies, etc.
- Endowed charities
- Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic
- Philanthropy
- Poor relief
- Private nonprofit social work
- Relief (Aid)
- Social welfare
- Charitable organization
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Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)- House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
- Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
- Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Historical Sketch of the Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Co., 1899), by Mrs. George Bryce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
- Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
- An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)
- Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)
- London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
- Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
- Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
- extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
- extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
- Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- A Girl of the People, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
- A Girl of the People: A Novel (Montreal: J. Lovell, c1890), by L. T. Meade (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
- Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
- How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others (fourth edition; London: Charity Organisation Society and Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
- Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
- A Study of Black Self Help (San Francisco: R&E Research Associates, 1978), by William L. Pollard (page images at Cornell)
- Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)
- Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages and a Congested District of Chicago, Together With Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions, contrib. by Jane Addams
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes (copyright 1910; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), by Jane Addams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Isle of Man Charities (1831), by J. McHutchin and George Quirk (HTML at Manx Note Book)
- Intorno all'Ospizio Provinciale Degli Esposti e Delle Partorienti in Milano, by Ospizio provinciale degli esposti e delle partorienti (Milan, Italy), contrib. by Romolo Griffini (partial serial archives)
- History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)
- Account of the Poor Fund and Other Charities Held in Trust by the Old South Society, City of Boston (Boston: Press of G. C. Rand and Avery, 1868), by Joseph Ballard (page images at MOA)
- Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Informe Sobre los Establecimientos de Beneficencia y Correccion de Esta Capital: Su Estado Actual; Noticia de Sus Fondos; Reformas Que Desde Luego Necesitan y Plan General de su Arreglo, Presentado por José Maria Andrade, Méjico, 1864 (in Spanish; Mexico: Moderna Libreria Religiosa de J. L. Vallejo; et al., 1907), by Joaquín García Icazbalceta, ed. by Luis García Pimentel, contrib. by José Maria Tavares de Andrade
- Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
- The Leaven in a Great City (New York: Dodd, Mead and company, 1902), by Lillian Williams Betts (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Annual Report of the Colored Home, by Colored Home (New York, N.Y.) (partial serial archives)
- The Charities Review (full serial archives)
- The Charity Organisation Review (partial serial archives)
- The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (full serial archives)
- Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
- American Charities (revised edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1908), by Amos Griswold Warner and Mary Roberts Coolidge, contrib. by George Elliott Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Handbook of Organization and Method in Hospital Social Service: An Outline of Policies As Practiced at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1922), by Margaret Smith Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)
- The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by James L. Barton, contrib. by Calvin Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
- Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
- Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
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