Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI EDUCATIONAL SERVICE OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR ORGANIZING CHARITY See Charities Review for December, 1891, April, 1893, on charities buildings ; October, 1900, on care of poor in their homes ; and American Journal of Sociology for May, 1901, on differences among associations. The history of the rise of these associations Associations has been given by Mr. Charles D. Kellogg for organiz- in his report to the national conference in lgc any- 1893, and by Warner in his "American charities." Of the recent progress in charity they are both important means and significant manifestations. They will be considered here in their function as educational or supervisory agencies. We should recall that a generation ago the prevailing, if not pervading ideas in charity work were that money expended for charity should be spent as much as possible in relief, and little or none in administration ; that care was the aim rather than cure or prevention; while the prevailing methods resulted in mechanically given and often inadequate relief, in lack of cooperation, in little education of individual givers and workers. There were exceptions, of course, The first established in 1877. Over a score formed within five years, nearly a hundred within fifteen years. Both a mani- festation and a means of the progress in educational charity. but these were the prevailing conceptions and methods everywheie, and little earnest, persistent effort was being made to change them. We see the survivals only too often to-day. The movement of the associations for improving the condition of the poor, in so far as we can separate the various agencies and movements, had lost whatever grip it had once got on the throat of bad conditions. Just as a generation earlier the need of reform, accentuated...