Records 1890-1973.

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Records 1890-1973.

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Constitutions, by-laws, minutes, budgets, financial records, personnel and membership files, registration forms, evaluations of individuals and groups, correspondence of the Community House, the Welfare Federation, the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Assoc., the National Federation of Settlements, the Cleveland Federation of Settlements and the C.W.R.U. School of Applied Social Sciences, subject files, clippings, and scrapbooks.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Case Western Reserve University. School of Applied Social Sciences

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West Side Cottage (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Cleveland Federation of Settlements.

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National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers

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The National Federation of Settlements (NFS) was founded in 1911 by leaders in the settlement house movement, including Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Robert A. Woods. The NFS was a social welfare organization devoted to the promotion and improvement of the settlement movement throughout the United States. The social settlement was based on the idea that those who wanted to help the poor would live ("settle") in the neighborhoods that they hoped to improve, often in a building purchased or dona...

West Side Community House (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Founded in 1890 by Methodist deaconesses. Early services included nursing, industrial, and domestic classes. Ongoing services included day care, clubs and classes for both boys and girls, sunday school, vacation bible school, christian reading clubs, an americanization program, and classes in citizenship and English. In 1944 the Community House became non-denominational and adopted a professional social service approach. From the description of Records 1890-1973. (Rhinelander Distric...

Welfare Federation of Cleveland

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Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association

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The first settlement organization in the U.S. designed to plan, budget and coordinate settlement services on a metropolitan-wide scale. It was organized in 1948, by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland (later the Federation for Community Planning), and called the Neighborhood Settlement Association. The NSA merged in 1963 with the United Neighborhood Centers to form the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association. The GCNCA absorbed the Cleveland Federation of Settlements in 1963. ...

Methodist-Episcopal Deaconess Home (Cleveland, Ohio)

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