Organized Charity Weighed in the Balance


 

Publication Date: December 1914

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s):

Research Area: Banking and finance; Social conditions

Keywords: Communal Organization; Policy; Social Services

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author describes two cases where well meaning governmental efforts to address issues of poverty fumbled badly because their instigators did not take the time to work with existing charity infrastructures.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:5