Charities
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 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.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1242
Overview:
The records include a copy of a constitution, minutes of annual meetings, financial accounts, and correspondence. These papers are also known as the Connecticut Education Society Records.
Dates:
1814-1909
Edwin Rogers Embree papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 198
Overview:
The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence; family journals (1918-1949) of trips to Europe, China, Samoa, Java and Central America; and articles, book reviews and speeches on cultural anthropology (particularly on the Pacific), education, medicine, American race relations, and philanthropic institutions. Among Embree's professional papers are also financial statements and other materials relating to the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and other...
Dates:
1903-1956
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Edwin Rogers Embree papers
Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Inc. records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1808
Overview:
The Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Inc. records document the administrative history of a local social welfare agency from 1881 to 2000. The records consist largely of annual reports and minute records of the board of directors, other sub-committee minute records and reports, financial, fund raising records, correspondence, case files, newsletters, New Haven Register column "What's Your Problem?," scrapbooks, photographs and slides.
Dates:
1881-2000
John Hay Whitney Foundation records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1952
Overview:
The records document the organization and activities of the John Hay Whitney Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and social welfare. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, project and program files, fellowship recipient files, and financial records created and maintained by the organization. The records cover all aspects of the organization’s activities from its inception in 1946 to shortly after its dissolution in 1983.
Dates:
1946-1994
Records of Religious and Benevolent Societies, Organizations, and Meetings
Collection
Call Number: RG 34
Overview:
This collection contains publications of primarily American and British organizations, societies, conferences, and councils. The publications provide primary source documentation of organizations that focused on a wide variety of issues, ranging from sabbath observance to tract and Bible distribution to support of widows to religious education to ecumenical programs, etc.
Dates:
1804-1987
Technoserve Records
Collection
Call Number: MS 2083
Overview:
The collection documents Technoserve's efforts to combat poverty in the developing world. The papers consist of administrative files, records from Technoserve presidents Edward P. Bullard and Peter Reiling, files and grant information related to Technoserve's work in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and newsletters.
Dates:
1963-2012
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Technoserve Records
Whyte Family Correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MSS 19
Overview:
The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.
Dates:
1880-1892