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The National Social Work Council records were a gift from the National Social Welfare Assembly, the Council's successor organization. The records arrived in two shipments, the first in 1966 and the second in 1968.
The National Social Welfare Assembly (NSWA) sent a large volume of its historical records to the Social Welfare History Archives between 1966 and 1983. The first two shipments, containing records from its predecessor, the National Social Work Council (NSWC), ca. 1920-1945, were arranged and described as two separate entities: the National Social Welfare Assembly Records, and the National Social Welfare Assembly, Supplement 1. Paper copies of those detailed finding aids have been available in the Archives since the 1970s. More recent records from the post-1945 reorganization to form the NSWA were arranged and described separately as National Social Welfare Assembly, Supplement 2.
As a part of the preparation of the online Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids, the archives decided to distinguish the National Social Work Council from the National Social Welfare Assembly. The records of the former are described in this finding aid, and those of the NSWA are described separately. This allows researchers to focus either on the inter-war period or on the post-World War II period.
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Recognizing the similarities of their problems and desiring closer coordination of their work, executives representing twelve leading national social work organizations began regular monthly meetings in 1920 for conference. Formally organized in 1923, the National Social Work Council (NSWC) retained the same spirit and method until 1945 when, upon revision of its by-laws, the Council expanded its functions and became the National Social Welfare Assembly.
The National Social Work Council did not undertake any new activities of its own, but sought, rather, to help existing agencies better fulfill their functions by mutual informational exchanges and open discussion of common problems. Until 1925, administrative work incidental to arranging meetings and the printing and distribution of materials was undertaken on a volunteer basis by two executives of national organizations, Howard S. Braucher and David H. Holbrook. After that date, David Holbrook served as full-time secretary to the Council through 1945.
Representatives of government, philanthropic foundations and agencies outside the NSWC were frequently invited to speak at the Council's monthly meetings and examine with its members topics of mutual concern. Other meetings revolved around reports from member agencies of programs and projects undertaken, and topics of current importance for social work which were discussed at the Council's "Round-Table Meetings."
Meeting topics and studies originated by committees of the Council reflect the changing attitudes and objectives of voluntary social work organizations and developments in the larger society in which they evolved. Early NSWC meetings were largely concerned with bases of financial support, budgets, and endorsement. Subsequent topics of discussion included: attempts to achieve better understanding and closer cooperation between agencies functioning in related areas or the same communities; relationships between national organizations and their local agencies; problems arising from the Depression, including the financial pressures toward retrenchment in a period of increasing welfare and relief requests; defense mobilization and its social repercussions; and, a few years later, demobilization and the social needs and problems created by massive relocation.
At an all-day meeting January 18, 1945, Council members concluded that some structural and functional alterations were necessary in order to create an organization capable of meeting more effectively the diverse social welfare problems in the post-war community. A Special Committee on Reorganization was appointed and worked through 1945 to design a more functional framework for the Council. The Special Committee's Proposed Constitution was approved by the membership, and at its December 1945 meeting, the National Social Work Council became the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Prior to assuming executive responsibilities for the Council in 1925, David H. Holbrook had served as Executive Director of the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work. This Association, originally the American Association of Societies for Organizing Charities, was formed in 1911 and was the forerunner of the Family Service Association of America. Francis Herbert McLean, a pioneer in social welfare and charity organization, was largely responsible for bringing together the participating charity agencies in the AASOC and remained an important and active force in the Association through its subsequent reorganizations. David Holbrook retained a special interest in family social work and close ties with McLean through the years he served the Council.
In 1923, a number of social agency executives in the casework field came together on the invitation of David Holbrook to discuss informally and unofficially their various specialties of work with the hope of achieving clearer understandings and cooperation in over-lapping areas. Taking its name from the town of Milford, Pennsylvania where the first meeting was held in 1923, the Milford Conference continued to meet annually until 1929. In 1928 the American Association of Social Workers published a report of the Milford Conference, Social Case Work, Generic and Specific, which emphasized the common base of practice among all social caseworkers regardless of areas of specialization.
Exigencies of the depression period prevented meetings of the Milford Conference for several years until 1932, when the "mass methods" being called into use in relief work and other problems arising out of the national situation indicated the desirability of calling another conference for discussion. The Milford Conference met again in 1933 and issued a report on social casework in 1934. As the initiator of the Conference in which he remained an active participant, David Holbrook retained correspondence, papers and reports of the Milford Conference among the NSWC files.
The two broad functions of the National Social Welfare Assembly, according to the 1965 edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work, were to define and study problems of broad social policy affecting the needs of people and to plan action to meet these needs and, also, to serve national organizations and local communities in developing effective programs, operations, and administration in the field of social welfare.
In 1942, six national agencies, five of which were members of the National Social Work Council, combined to promote joint financing and joint planning of their war service projects in local communities. Established as the American War Community Services (AWCS) and certified by the War Relief Control Board, the agencies undertook cooperative projects of health and welfare services in local communities where the war effort had created serious problems. The functional group of the AWCS, the Service Cooperation Committee, made field studies and coordinated services in those communities selected as projects. On May 1, 1946 the minutes of the Service Cooperation Committee and the files of the AWCS were deposited with the NSWA. After June 1, 1946 the Service Cooperation Committee of the AWCS also served as the Service Cooperation Committee of the NSWA and continued its functions under the Assembly after the dissolution of the AWCS in 1947.
The social health and welfare problems accompanying the relocation of Japanese-Americans during the war were studied by the National Social Work Council and again became a topic of concern for the Assembly when the difficult post-war resettlement began. The Assembly's Committee on Japanese Americans prepared a series of bulletins covering problems related to discrimination in housing and employment, legislation under consideration and prejudices against Japanese-Americans.
Social welfare agencies serving the interest of youth combined in several bodies of the Assembly to coordinate their work and undertake special projects. One such association, the Young Adult Council (YAC), was founded in 1948 as the coordinating organization for 28 national student and young worker organizations. Particularly concerned with youth in the 18-30 year age group, YAC sponsored a United States Assembly of Youth in 1953 at Ann Arbor, Michigan and also represented young adult organizations in the United States to the World Assembly of Youth (WAY).
At the time of its reorganization in December 1945, the National Social Work Council membership included the following organizations:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
National Social Work Council constitutions and amendments, and a copy of the constitution under which the National Social Welfare Assembly began operations in 1945.
These statements re the National Social Work Council’s development were probably written by David H. Holbrook.
Formal NSWC statements describing Council activities.
Correspondence and memoranda discussing Council functions or possible changes in functions. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard S, Braucher, John H. Glenn, A.P. Williams, Robert E. Bondy, Russell H. Kurtz, and Ralph Blanchard.
Formal reports of the NSWC and David Holbrook’s meetings with organizations and individuals.
Rosters of active NSWC members and official delegates.
Letters and reports of the Committee recommend officers for the National Social Work Council. Chairmen of the Committee were Benson Y. Landis, Dorothy Deming, Emma Hirth, Eleanore Brown Merrill, and Lillie M. Peck.
The Committee selected subjects for the Council’s monthly meetings* Minutes, informal notes on meetings, announcements of coming meetings, and correspondence are included in these folders. Folders also contain responses from various organizations to a 1931 letter from David Holbrook re the direction the Council should take. Correspondents include Holbrook, Robert Bondy, Howard Braucher, Linton Swift, Earl N. Parker, and Shelby M. Harrison.
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Daily log of conferences attended, correspondence received and sent, advice and information given, etc. by Council’s Executive Secretary, David Holbrook.
Arranged chronologically, Materials generally included are: minutes and discussion summaries from meetings, financial statements, special studies and reports, and reprints of journal articles. Most of the folders contain an index of the materials included.
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The folder contains an index to included materials. Recurring topics are demobilization and problems of veterans.
A-Z name and subject index for monthly meetings of NSWC, 1926-1945
Minutes of the Conference of Executives of National Organizations and of its successor, the National Social Work Council. (See the inventory of the original collection for a list of tonics discussed.)
Summary compilations of meetings note topic, speaker, etc.
The Renewed Interest in Community Survey,’ Shelby M. Harrison (Russell Sage Foundation).
The Purposes, Methods and Results of Annual Conferences or Conventions of National Agencies."
Under What Conditions Should Local, State, and National Social Work Be Given Over to Governmental Agencies?" Dr. William F. Snow (American Social Hygiene Association).
The Relation Between Scientific Research and the Development and Administration of Social Work," Rowland C. Haynes (Cleveland Welfare Federation).
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped report of meeting. Topic: The National Information Bureau.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped report of meeting. Topic: "The Endorsement of Local and National Civic, Educational and Social Undertakings," Henry Stewart (Subscriptions Investi-gating Committee, Chicago Association of Commerce).
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped report of meeting. Topic: "The Study of Financial Support of National Organizations," Pierce Williams (National Information Bureau).
Correspondence and stenotyped report of annual meeting. Topic: "What Services Does Bridgeport Feel the Need of Having from the National Social Work Organizations?"
Stenotyped report of meeting. Topics for discussion: "The National Conference of Social Work Meeting" and "Unfinished Matters in NSWC."
Minutes and stenotyped report of meeting. Topic: "What Has Been the Most Significant Achievement in Each Field of Work During the Last Twelve Months, the Greatest Failure and the Greatest Present
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Social Work as an Art," Joseph Lee.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Russell Sage Foundation, John M. Glenn.
Minutes. Topic: "Budgets and Budget Making in National Social Work Organizations."
Special meeting re money raising methods of member organizations.
The Financing of National Social Work Movements, John M. Glenn (Russell Sage Foundation).
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Summary of discussions of past three meetings on financial problems.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Commonwealth fund, Barry C. Smith.
Stenotyped record of special meeting. Topic: "Classification of Income and Expenditures."
Minutes and stenotyped record of annual meeting. Topic: The Rockefeller Foundation, George E.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Milbank Memorial Fund, John A. Kingsbury.
Minutes of a special meeting to discuss the possibility of holding a White House conference on children and the problem of publicity for social welfare activities.
Minutes and notes on meeting. Topic: "Cooperation in financial and fiduciary Matters," A.W. Anthony (Committee on financial and fiduciary matters of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America).
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Carnegie Corporation, Frederic P. Keppel.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses of Foundations as Observed and Felt Through Our Experiences with Them?" The folder includes a summary of Council meetings with foundations prepared by Margaret F. Byington
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Field Work Problems."
Stenotyped minutes of special meeting to consider the tables sent to Council members entitled "Some Financial Information Regarding Twenty National Social Work Organizations."
Minutes and summary of discussion. Topic: "Eadburn, New Jersey, the New Town" (a project of the City Housing Corporation).
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Questions raised at the Community Chest Conference of Laymen at Washington, February, 1928.
Minutes of a special meeting featuring Mark Jones, a Rockefeller Foundation staff member, and a discussion of the problems of fund-raising among national social welfare organizations.
Correspondence and minutes. Topic: Agency Budgets.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of annual meeting. Topic: "Cooperation Between National Welfare Organizations and Local Communities," Henry G. Stevens.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Welfare Council of New York City, William Hodson.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Work of the Council from the Secretary’s Point of View," David H. Holbrook. Stenotyped record includes a report by Mrs. Glenn on the International Conference of Social Work held in July 1928.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Discussion of work of the Council by its members.
Report on meeting with A.W. McMillan re Registration of Social Statistics (project of the University of Chicago and Association of Community Chests and Councils).
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Conferences and Convention Methods," Howard R. Knight (National Conference of Social Work).
Minutes and stenotyped record of special meeting about lay participation.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Interpretation of National Social Work Movements to Community Chests."
Minutes and stenotyped record of special meeting. Revision of by-laws re delegates was considered and steps to form a Joint Committee with the Association of Community Chests and Councils were
Minutes and stenotyped record of special conference of board members. Topic: "What America is Spending for National Social Work - Budgets of National Social Work Organizations."
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Local councils of social agencies.
Report of Special Committee to meet with the Association of Community Chests and Councils.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Important Things in the National Social Work field and the Place That the National Social Work Council Should Have," H.S. Braucher, Chairman of NSWC.
Minutes and stenotyped record of extra meeting. Topic: Howard Braucher’s Report given at the last meeting.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "The Alleged Neglect of Rural Communities and Problems by National Social Work Organizations."
Correspondence and minutes of special meeting. Topic: financing the NSWC.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Tax Supported Social Work," Sherrard Ewing (National Association of Travelers Aid Societies).
Notes on special meeting. Sadie Orr Dunbar, Portland, Oregon, spoke informally on social work.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "What Consolidation, if any, Should be Considered in the National Social Work Field?"
Minutes and correspondence. Topic: "The Social Needs of Village and Farm People." Representatives of fourteen organizations made brief reports on their experiences regarding the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.
Minutes and stenotyped record of nesting. Topic: "Is Public Tax Support an Ultimate Goal for All Social Work?" Mrs. John M. Glenn (Family Welfare Association of America).
Minutes and stenotyped record of annual meeting. Topic: Joint and related services of national social work organizations. The record contains a report by Linton Swift on his impressions gained on a recent trip West re unemployment and relief problems.
Stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Consideration of special problems raised by members of the
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: Research work being carried on by organizations in the Council.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Field Work of National Social Work Organizations in Some of Its More Practical Aspects."
Notes from special meeting on research.
Notes from special meeting. Topic: White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.
Minutes and stenotyped record of special meeting. Topic: D. H. Holbrook speaking on the work the NSWC has been doing through its secretary.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Interpretation to the General Public of What Is Being Done by the National Social Work Organizations."
Correspondence and agenda for meeting with Ohio State University class in Social Administration.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Training Methods in National Social Work," Emma P. Hirth (YWCA).
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Social Work Under Religious Auspices," B.Y. Landis (Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.). The record contains a talk by Courtney Dinwiddie, "Is the Work of the National Child Labor Committee Done?"
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "What Is at Stake for National Agencies in the Present Industrial Emergency?" Barlow S. Person (Taylor Society).
Minutes and stenotyped report of annual meeting. Topic: "What New Projects Have Been Undertaken by the Foundations During the Last Two Years?" Dr. William Snow.
Stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "National Cooperation in Helping Communities Plan Their Local Social Work, with Particular Reference to Portland, Oregon," Homer W. Borst (Association of Community Chests and Councils).
Notes on special meeting of NSWC to discuss National Conference of Social Work.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Local, State and National Planning for Meeting the Relief Situation This Winter."
Stenotyped report of meeting. Topic: "The Place of Federal Aid in Unemployment Relief and the Implications for Social Work." The folder includes papers written by Henry C. Taylor and Harry L. Lurie on federal aid.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "The Present Problems of National Social Work Organizations in financing Their Work."
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Social Aspects of National Planning - The Kind of National Planning in Which National Social Work Organizations Should Be Interested," Mary Van Kleeck (Russell Sage Foundation).
Minutes and stenotyped record of the meeting. Topic: "The future of National Public Health Organization Work," Dr. Kendall Emerson (National Tuberculosis Association and American Public Health
Minutes and stenographic record of meeting, Topic: "The Local Community and National Agencies," C.M. Bookman (Executive Director, Cincinnati Community Chest).
Minutes of the General Meeting of the Representatives of National Social Work Agencies, held immediately preceding the Council meeting to consider the proposal for a United Educational Campaign. Correspondence, minutes and notes from the Council meeting at which action was taken on the proposal of the General Meeting are also included.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Guiding Principles in the Allocation of Funds -— Local and National -— In This Emergency Period.’
Minutes and stenotyped record of annual meeting. Topic: "Some High Spots in a Reconnaissance Trip to the Far West,’ Miss J.C. Colcord (Russell Sage Foundation). Miss Colcord, in reporting on relief and welfare programs in the West, described the unique plan of the Seattle "Unemployed Citizens League" which ran twenty-two commissaries and provided for its members a wide range of goods and services.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "The Educational-Recreational Movements in Social Work."
Minutes and notes on special meeting. Topic: Reports of the United Educational Program*
Correspondence and minutes* Topic: "Social Work Education, Not Propaganda — How Shall We Do It and Why?" Clare M. Tousley (New York Charity Organization Society).
Minutes and proceedings. Discussion with local Community Chest executives re securing national support for local communities.
Minutes and notes on special meeting. Recommendations for the Program Committee and Education Com-mittee were presented to and accepted by the Council. Julius Amberg and Howard 0. Hunter discussed some of the problems of Grand Rapids, Michigan with the na
Minutes. Topic: "What Share Should and Can National Social Work Agencies Have in the Reorganization Plan Now Taking Shape in Many Localities?"
Stenotyped record of extra meeting. Discussion of the report of the President’s Research Committee on Social Trends with Dr. William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago.
Minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "The Type of Planning and Study Incumbent Upon Social Agencies, Suggested or Implied by the Report of the President’s Committee on Social Trends," Dr. Sydnor Walker (Rockefeller Foundation).
Minutes. Topic: "Fundamental Economic Problems Which Social Workers Need to Be Thinking About in the Present Emergency,’ David Cushman Coyle.
Minutes and notes on annual meeting. Topic: "What a Social Worker Needs to Know About Taxation in the Present Emergency," Frank A. Fetter and Denzel Cline (Princeton University).
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: "Planning to Meet Local Community Needs," Arch Mandel, (Council of Social Agencies in Dayton, Ohio).
Correspondence, minutes and summaries of extra meeting. Topic: "What the Service of National Social Work Organizations to the Whole Field Should and Can Be at This Critical Time."
Meeting with Charles F. Horner (National Recovery Administration).
Material re Proposed Employment Code for Social Health and Welfare Organizations in Support of President’s Re-employment Agreement. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, spoke about the National Administration program.
What Is Social Work’s Part in the Whole National Effort for Recovery and Reconstruction?
Minimum Employment Provisions for Non-Professional Employees in Social Work and Health
Social Work Mirrors of Washington, Linton B. Swift, and "Program of Social Legislation and Public Welfare Activities," Dr. Hertha M. Kraus.
What Kind of a Community Does Social Work Want? Karl De Schweinitz.
Are Citizens’ Boards Essential? Louis Brownlow, (Public Administration Clearing House in Chicago).
How the Challenge of New Opportunities Is Being Met by National Social Work Organizations.
Annual Meeting. "National Organizations as a Group in the Field of Social Work,’ James L. Fieser (Vice Chairman in Charge of Domestic Operations of the American Red Cross).
The Present Status of the Efforts Being Made for a Greater Social Security, Barbara N. Armstrong (President’s Committee on Economic Security).
Taxation Problems, Franklin Spencer Edmonds. January - "The Necessity for Year-Round Publicity for the Welfare Needs Being Met by Social Work.’
Special Meeting. Discussion with government officials on the social security legislation under consideration by Congress.
Leroy A. Ramsdell (Hartford Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies) discussed implications of the Hartford Survey (a study to appraise the work of individual Chest-financed agencies).
Partnership of Governmental and Voluntary Organizations in the Fields of Health, Education-Recreation, Social Case Work and Social Legislation.’ April1935An Experiment in Delegating Power to One Person in Working on a Special Problem in a Locality," E
Annual Meeting. "Taxation for Social Services."
Special Meeting. "Work of the National Resources Board," Charles W. Eliot.
Discussion of National Conference of Social Work at Montreal.
Katharine Lenroot and Josephine C. Brown spoke on the activities of the federal government in certain branches of social work.
Questions Confronting National Social Work Organizations Today.
Discussion of questions underlying adequate interpretation of social work.
Some Material Interests with the Russell Sage Foundation Shelby M. Harrison.
Special Meeting. Stenotyped record included: Questions Growing Out of the Cessation of Federal Appropriations to the States for Unemployment Relief," Dorothy Kahn and Ellen C. Potter.
Problems of Youth, Dr. James S. Plant.
The Best Way for Doing What Has To Be Done Cooperatively in a Community by All the Organized Forces in the Community.’ Discussion with volunteers active in social agencies from eight cities.
Correspondence, minutes and stenotyped record of meeting. Topic: The Raising of Standards in Public Service," Professor George A. Graham (Princeton University).
Problems of National Organizations as Illustrated in the Children’s field, C.C. Carstens.
Annual Meeting . Discussion of the responsibilities of national agencies as consumers and of their relation to labor conditions, R.L. Mason (National Consumers League).
Report of Committee on Community Problems and Relationships.
Effects of the Depression on Social Work Other Than Relief, F. Stuart Chapin (University of
Questions Confronting the National Organizations Today.
Ewan Clague explained the organization and functions of the Social Security Board, Washington, D.C. January - "Standards and Criteria for the Evaluation of Local Agencies." Stenotyped record of meeting included.
Harry A. Warm spoke on the Social Planning Council at Madison, New Jersey and experiments in community organization.
Attracting, Selecting, and Training Volunteers in a Social Work Movement, Margaret Murray (Girl
Problems Involved in Board Service, Homer Folks (State Charities Aid Association).
Budgets of National Social Work and Health Organizations.
Discussion of immediate problems for the Council. November - "Securing and Maintaining Professional Personnel in a Social Work Field," H. F. Pote (Boy Scouts).
Continuation of discussion at November meeting re personnel methods and problems.
Program on Relief and Public Welfare being urged upon the U.S. Senate Committee on Unemployment and Relief was discussed by Charles P. Taft.
Federal and Local Responsibilities in a National Public Relief and Welfare Program.
Special Meeting. Consideration of the statement to the Council of the work of the Committee on Contributions to National Agencies from Community Chest Cities.
To What Lengths Should National Agencies Go in Pro-moting Their Work in Local Communities?’ Sanford Bates (Boys’ Clubs of America).May1938Annual Meeting. “The Program of the Welfare Council of New York City,’ Leonard Mayo and Robert P. Lane.June193
Open discussion with Program Committee on problems of immediate concern.
Cooperation Within the Localities as Seen by Each National Agency.
Special Meeting. Discussion of Vocational Service for Social Workers with Arthur Dunham.
What Secretaries of Social Agencies See as Their Responsibilities and Problems in Relation to National Social Work Organizations.
What Councils of Social Agencies Do, Bradley Buell (Community Chests and Councils, Inc.).
Cooperation with Social Agencies in the Social Work Planning in the Localities from the Viewpoint of Outside Organizations.’ April1939Responsibilities of National Social Work Organizations in the Face of Increasing Racial and Religious Prejudice," and
Annual Meeting. "Community Chests and Councils’ Experience with Community Surveys," Bradley
Special Meeting. Report from the Committee on Contributions to National Agencies from Community Chest Cities.
Report of "Rittenhouse Committee on Cooperation of Social Agencies, Locally, Nationally, with Each Other and with Councils of Social Agencies."
Problems Related to Children That the Council Should Face Together, Paul T. Beisser.
Special Meeting. Discussion of effects of present taxation laws regarding charitable organizations.
Social Work Strategy in World War Times.’December1939National Understanding and Cooperative Projects Between National Social Work Agencies."
Toward a National Health Program, Professor Ira V. Hiscock.
The Present Social Security Program, Alice Webber (Social Security Board).
The Place of Private Social Work in Our American Democracy,’ Robert E. Bondy.March1940Special Meeting. Consideration of What Should Be the Primary Function of the Council at this time?’
The Program of the National Social Work Council.
Annual Meeting. "Social Work’s Concern for People in Motion," Bertha McCall (National Travelers Aid Association).
Adjourned session of the Annual Meeting. "Should There Be Changes in the Council’s Policy of Refraining from Expression of Opinion as a Council?"
Effect of Present Emergency on National Social Work. October 15 - (Special Meeting). Consideration of the problems of organizations of community services for military and industrial workers.
Consideration of alternative formulations of statements of welfare standards and activities created by defense conditions.
Dinner meeting to honor Howard Braucher. Topic: "Cooperative Efforts of Citizens Agencies with Governmental Organizations in the Held of Education and Recreation in the Field of Social Work.’
General discussion of social work problems and national defense emergency.
Special Meeting. Wayne Coy, Assistant Federal Security Administrator, discussed health and welfare problems as related to defense.
Participation of National Social Work Organizations in Total Defense.
What Is Happening in Communities Re Military and Industrial National Defense? Dorothy De la Pole (National Travelers Aid Association).
Annual Meeting. "How Can the Larger City Gain Momentum in Planning to Meet its Health and Welfare Needs That Are Created or Revealed by National Defense Activities?" Anna D. Ward, Baltimore.
Reports from National Conference of Social Work at Atlantic City.
Report of Committee on Relations of National Agencies to Community Chests and Community Councils (Rittenhouse Committee).
Governmental Organization for Defense Health and Welfare, Philip Schafer (Director of Public Assistance in Regional Office of Social Security Board).
Correspondence, proceedings and papers. All-Day Conference on Health, Welfare and Defense.
Stenotyped record of All-Day Conference on Health, Welfare and Defense.
What the War Is Going To Mean. February - The work of the Tolan Committee (re national defense migration), Robert K. Lamb.
The USO as an Experiment in Cooperative Planning and Action Among National Agencies, Louis Kraft (Jewish Welfare Board).
Proposal to create a commission of human needs in war-time as a planning and advisory body.
Annual Meeting. Report of special group considering proposal on wartime commission.
Community Organization in Wartime, Ralph Blanchard (Community Chests and Councils, Inc.).
Financing war relief projects.
Reports of the three functional Councils (National Education-Recreation Council, Social Case Work Council, and National Health Council).
Special Meeting. Discussion with representatives of War Relocation Authority re Japanese-Americans.
The Role of Social Work in Public Education.
Cooperation in field of welfare services, Chester I. Barnard (U.S.O.)
Labor’s Point of View on Social Work, Abe Bluestein, Charles Livermore.
What Is the Wartime Situation Doing to the Financing of National Social Work? Robert 0. Loosley (National War Fund).
Program making, Mrs. Paul Rittenhouse (Girl Scouts).
Special conference on wage stabilization.
Annual Meeting. "Functions and Programs of Voluntary and Governmental Agencies," Charles P. Taft (Office of Community War Services).
Cooperative efforts among national agencies: American War-Community Services and Associated Youth Serving Organizations.
Is Something New in Accrediting Needed?’ November1943Discussion of statement from Program Committee re self-analysis by the NSWC of The Contribution of National Agency Programs Toward Winning the War and the Peace That Follows."
Listing Basic Human Needs and Problems Toward Which Programs Are Being Directed by Members of the Council.
Men and Women Discharged from the Armed Forces.
Men and Women Leaving War Industry, Margaret Creech (National Travelers Aid Association).
Government’s Part in Serving Demobilized People, Howard L. Russell (American Public Welfare Association).
Problems of Young People in Wartime and During the Post-War Period, J. Edward Sproul (YMCA).
Annual Meeting. Budget presentations by the National Child Labor Committee and the National Tuberculosis Association.
British National Council of Social Service, Erwin Schuller.
Integration of Minority Groups into the Total Life of the Country - The Concern and Activities of the YWCA, Myra A. Smith.
Service to Veterans in Boston, Mass., Roland R. Darling.
The Economic Setting in Which We Must Plan Our Programs, W.S. Woytinsky (Bureau of Employment Security, Social Security Board).
The Tasks Ahead for Social Work (continued discussion of Woytinsky’ s paper presented at December meeting).
Special all-day meeting in executive session re future of the Council and enlargement of its functions.
Form and Organization of Federal Council of Churches, Samuel McCrea Cavert.
Report of Special Planning Committee on Reorganization.
Emerging Social Policies and Programs for Social Work, Louis Worth.
Tea for George Haynes, British National Council of Social Service.
Annual Meeting. "Implications of the Current International Scene for Social Work Programs in the United States," Joseph Chamberlain.
A Progress Report of Replies from National Agencies and Functional Groupings of Agencies to Proposals for Reorganization of the National Social Work Council.
Meeting with Katharine F. Lenroot re relation of U.S. Children’s Bureau to current proposals for a new Federal Department of Education, Health, and Welfare.
Progress report from Special Planning Committee on Reorganization. Proposed Constitution for a National Social Welfare Assembly included.
Suggestions for program of activities of proposed National Social Welfare Assembly.
Reorganization Meeting. Correspondence, proceedings and ballots. Major item of business was vote on The Proposed Constitution for a National Social Welfare Assembly in Amendment of the Constitution of the National Social Work Council.
Abbreviated lists of correspondence prepared by the NSWC summarizing contents of "Old Files."
Material re attempts for formal federation of social workers, coordination of various community chest activities, and meetings of the Association of National Executives. Folder includes "Proceedings of the Conference on Coordination of National Social Work Called by the National Information Bureau" (April 14, 1921) and a list of agencies whose executives were involved in the Association of National Executives’ meetings. Prominent correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard Braucher, John R. Shillady, and Mary Wilcox (Mrs. John M.) Glenn.
Material re a draft constitution for the proposed Association of National Social Work Executives, the desirability of retaining a full-time executive for the association, appeals to foundations for the financial support of such an organization, and appointment of delegates to the National Social Work Council from national social work organizations. Correspondents include Howard Braucher, David Holbrook, Philip P. Jacobs, George J. Fisher, W. Frank Persons, John Shillady, Karl de Schweinitz, Anna Stevens, and John A. Kingsbury.
Primarily correspondence of Howard Braucher and David Holbrook re meeting arrangements, appointment of Council delegates, and soliciting comments on a proposed constitution.
Primarily correspondence of Howard Braucher and David Holbrook re the NSWC constitution, meetings, and efforts to include additional social agencies in the Council,
Material re the community chest movement, particularly the problems of endorsement and fund-raising at the national and local levels. Folder also includes a copy of a 1928 speech by Howard Braucher to the Council and notes of a conference on the relation of national and local agencies to the community chest movement. Correspondents include Braucher, David Holbrook, John M. Glenn, and J.S. Tichenor.
Material re member organizations of the Council, discussions with Community Chests re the economy and the Depression, unemployment insurance, and the President’s Organization on Unemployment
Folder contains discussions re maintaining welfare organizations in the face of great demands being made on relief charities, TVA and social work agency involvement with the National Recovery Administration, and the homeless and transient. A field report from New Haven, CT is also included.
Material re community relations problems and surveying communities; a national vocational agency; member organizations of the NSWC, National Education-Recreation Council and the Social Case Work Council of National Agencies; and European war refugees. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard Braucher, Fred Athern, Ralph Blanchard, Bertha McCall, George W. Rabinoff, Linton Swift, and Robert Bondy.
Correspondence with the Community Chests and Councils, Inc. and the National Information Bureau, and material re planning for changes in social work necessitated by the impending war. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard Braucher, Robert Bondy, Harry Wann, C.D. Jackson, Allen Burns, and
Material re the Community Chests and Councils, Inc., the Tolan Committee investigation of migrating populations in wartime, social work guidelines for draft exemptions, and problems of accrediting national agencies. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard Braucher, Robert Bondy, Ralph Blanchard, and Bertha McCall.
Discussion of war work, proposed work with returning veterans, and the postwar world and the place of the NSWC and social work in it. Prominent correspondents include David Holbrook, Robert Bondy, Lyman S. Ford, Sallie E. Bright, Mary Sims, and Bertha McCall.
Folder includes minutes of relevant Council meetings and correspondence leading to the employment of Esgar on the Council staff.
Correspondence with Potter, director of medicine of the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies.
Primarily correspondence between David Holbrook and Howard Braucher.
Excerpts from minutes, correspondence, and other material expressing appreciation for Council programs and testifying to the value of Council meetings.
Correspondence, news clippings and articles indicating Holbrook’s continuing interest in the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work and personal friendship with McLean, one of the founders of the Association and a member of its staff until his retirement in 1935
Correspondence between David Holbrook and Braucher touches on almost all aspects of Council work from practical considerations of operating the Council to its long-range goals.
Correspondence and reports re field trips made by David Holbrook to Norfolk, VA; South Bend, IN; Portland, OR; Bridgeport, CT; Detroit, MI; Jersey City, NJ; Washington, DC; Cleveland, OH; Minneapolis, MN; New Haven, CT; Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Wilkes-Barre, PA; and Grand
Folder contains memoranda of discussions with Joanna C. Colcord, Margaret E. Rich, John B. Dawson, C.C. Carstens, Allen T. Burns, Porter Lee, James L, Feiser, Robert Bondy, Jane F. Culbert, Walter M. West, Mary Wilcox (Mrs. John M.) Glenn, Linton Swift, Shelby Harrison, Bradley Buell, Bertha McCall, John B. Andrews, Frances Taussig, Helen M. Crosby, Clare Tousley, Evart Routzahn, Mary Swain (Mrs. Evart) Routzahn, Katherine Tuckey, Howard R. Knight, Kendall Emerson, William Hodson, and
Folder contains memoranda of discussions with Bradley Buell, Jean B. Pinney, Ralph Blanchard, Allen T. Burns, Evelyn Davis, Edward D. Lynde, Mary Swain (Mrs. Evart) Routzahn, May H. Harding, Walter West, Alma Haupt, Jay A. Urice, Linton Swift, Bertha McCall, Howard Braucher, Harold Lund, C.C. Carstens, Mrs. A.H. Carey, Francis H. McLean, Mabel B. Ellis, Shelby Harrison, Kenneth S. Beam, and
Folder contains memoranda of discussions with Shelby Harrison, John M. Glenn, Harry Wann, May Harding, Paul Garrett, Bertha McCall, Linton Swift, Ralph Blanchard, MacEnnis Moore, Allen T. Burns, Bradley Buell, Mary Dublin, Robert Bondy, and Percival Dodge.
Folder contains memoranda of discussions with Harry Wann, Sanford Bates, Allen T. Burns, Shelby Harrison, George W. Rabinoff, M.M. Witherspoon, Bradley Buell, Bertha McCall, Clare Tousley, Linton Swift, Ralph Blanchard, Kenneth Kenneth-Smith, Howard Braucher, Robert Bondy, William F. Snow, and Kenneth Rose.
Folder contains memoranda of discussions with Ralph Blanchard, Allen T. Burns, Bertha McCall, Linton Swift, Fred K. Hoehler, Howard W. Hopkirk, Earl N. Parker, Betty Mills, Russell H. Kurtz, Howard Braucher, John M. Glenn, Joanna Colcord, Sallie E. Bright, Shelby Harrison, Helen M. Crosby, D. Paul Reed, Benson Landis, Ruth Houlton, Martha Allen, and George Rabinoff.
Material written by David Holbrook discusses such topics as vocational schools in Minneapolis, vocational education, organizing social work agencies, visiting teachers, the National Recovery Administration’s code for social work, the need for community organization, and the newly formed National Social Welfare Assembly. Folders also include a eulogy of Holbrook delivered by Robert Bondy at the 1962 annual meeting of the Assembly.
Contains an official portrait of David Holbrook prepared for printing and Holbrook's signature stamp.
The material includes correspondence, papers, and a steno-typed record of the January 1946 Working Conference on Problems Relating to Resettlement of Japanese-Americans.
These bulletins, prepared under the sponsorship of the NSWA Committee on Japanese-Americans, include material related to housing, employment, recreation, proposed legislation and attitudes toward Japanese-Americans.
Records of Council efforts to coordinate the itineraries and field programs of member organizations’ national executives.
Reports from the NSWC member organizations re size of staff in national offices, number of hours worked, length of vacations, and related matters.
Correspondence and minutes of the NSWC’s Committee on a Social Work Code and summaries of formal and informal comments from Council members re voluntary and compulsory codes. David Holbrook is the principal correspondent.
Correspondence and memoranda re the inclusion of social workers under the Social Security Act. Prominent correspondents include David Holbrook, Walter West, Owen E. Pence, and John M. Glenn.
Correspondence, memoranda, and speeches re problems involved in conducting community surveys. Folder includes material from the American Association of Organizing Charities and the NSWC’s Committee on Community Surveys. Authors and correspondents include David Holbrook, Shelby Harrison, Francis H. McLean, and Harriet E, Anderson.
Correspondence, reports, and memoranda re a World War I survey of Springfield, IL, conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation and the possibility of a follow-up survey. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Shelby Harrison, Francis McLean, and Springfield officials.
Includes correspondence and memoranda primarily re surveying the welfare organization needs of individual communities. Correspondents include Linton Swift, Howard Braucher, Edward Lynde, Bertha McCall, Allen T. Burns, and Shelby Harrison.
Includes letters, memoranda, minutes, and informal comments re meetings of NSWC committees concerned with the transition from the Council to the Assembly. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Robert Bondy, Lyman S. Ford, Russell H. Kurtz, Bertha McCall, Ralph Blanchard, Kendall Emerson, Oliver Friedman, John M. Glenn, Howard Braucher, Evelyn Adler, Ellen C. Potter, Mildred Esgar, Linton Swift, Sallie E. Bright, and Mary Sims.
Responses of national social welfare agencies to a form letter from David Holbrook asking for opinions on proposed changes in the Council constitution,
Correspondence and a few publications re coordination of welfare work near military installations. Correspondents include Jay A. Urice, David Holbrook, John E. Manley, and E.G. Worman. Organizations represented include the National Education-Recreation Council, the NSWC, the YMCA, and the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense.
Contains summaries of responses to a David Holbrook questionnaire sent to national welfare agencies re postwar plans.
Correspondence and minutes re the Council’s attempts to prepare for impending war. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Robert Bondy, and Russell H. Kurtz.
Correspondence and memoranda on a proposed wartime statement of ideals drafted by David Holbrook and others as a joint statement of the NSWC and the Community Chests and Councils, Inc. Correspondents include Shelby Harrison, Howard Braucher, Ralph Blanchard, Robert Bondy, George Rabinoff, Frank J. Bruno, Benson Y. Landis, Jay A. Urice, and Homer Borst.
Correspondence and notes on meetings.
Correspondence and papers re the application of six agencies to the War Appeals Budget Committee for approval of their special war service projects.
By-Laws, Certificate of Incorporation, Tax Exemption Affidavit, Certificate of Dissolution, cancelled checks, etc.
By-laws, minutes of meetings, and financial reports presented to Directors.
Minutes of meetings,
Material in this folder is primarily related to the organization, program, and services of AWCS member agencies.
The War Relief Control Board certified the AWCS to the National War Fund in May 1943 and made periodic reviewals and approvals of budgets of the AWCS and its member agencies.
The correspondence is related to cooperation between this federal office and the AWCS in selecting war-affected communities and coordinating relief operations and services in those areas.
Predominantly correspondence with Msgr. John O’Grady regarding his application for inclusion of the National Conference of Catholic Charities within the AWCS.
This Committee was appointed jointly by the Community Chests and Councils, Inc. and the AWCS. The folder contains minutes of meetings and reports re budget reviewal.
Minutes and publicity releases.
The corporation was retained to assist AWCS in gaining admission to local community war chest
Correspondence and papers. As the functional body of the AWCS, the Service Cooperation Committee undertook field studies of local communities under consideration by the AWCS for war community services, formulated plans of action for the areas, and coordinated the field operations of member
The type of information requested by member agencies when considering service to war communities.
Contains an extensive study of social and economic conditions of the Negro population prepared by the National Urban League,
Report of cities serviced by the AWCS and the member agencies participating in each community.
Notes from meetings, statements from member agencies on functions in the reconversion period and the final report of the committee.
Material relating to the dissolution of AWCS and the transfer of the Service Cooperation Committee minutes and files to the NSWA.
Papers describing the function and operations of the AWCS by Harry Carey and Perry Hall.
Information re operations, finances and history of the AWCS.
Known until 1919 as the American Association of Societies for Organizing Charity. Includes reports re service, finance and membership.
Includes minutes and summaries of Association field staff conferences, correspondence re relations of Association chapters to other local groups, a 1923 group photograph including David Holbrook, and a letter written by Holbrook eulogizing Francis H. McLean. Correspondents include Holbrook, McLean, and Mary Wilcox Glenn.
Manual prepared by Francis H. McLean entitled Manual for Field Workers of the Staff of the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work.
Material re efforts to secure federal unemployment insurance. Includes material re the AASW Committee of Federal Action on Unemployment, the NSWC Committee on Unemployment Insurance, and AASW efforts on behalf of the LaFollette-Costigan bill. Principal correspondents are David
Includes correspondence and agenda, notes, and minutes of the AYSO council meetings. Principal correspondents are Bernice Bridges and Mildred Esgar. Designed to facilitate discussion and cooperation, the AYSO was a council of national youth-oriented organizations such as the YMCA, YWCA, Campfire Girls, and Boy Scouts.
Minutes, memoranda, and reports to the Committee from David Holbrook, studies of Boston and Elmira (NY), and a 1936 resume of Committee work. Correspondents include Holbrook, Bradley Buell, Allen T. Burns, Edward D. Lynde, and Linton B. Swift.
From 1933 to 1937 this Committee, sponsored by the National Probation Association, was known as the National Advisory Committee on Coordinating Councils. In 1937, when the NSWC became the Committee’s sponsor, its name was changed to the Committee on Community Coordination. Minutes of the Committee and its executive committee, correspondence, memoranda to the Committee from David Holbrook, material re coordination in Los Angeles, and a letter (October 23, 1940) terminating the Council’s relationship with the Committee are included. Correspondents include Holbrook, Kenneth S. Beam, Kenneth Kenneth-Smith, Sanford Bates, and Harry Wann.
Minutes and general correspondence of the Committee, which sought to rationalize contributions to European groups seeking aid in the wake of war. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Allen T. Burns, and Bertha McCall.
The Committee was created in response to an appeal to the NSWC from the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies, the Salvation Army, and other organizations to establish a national coordinating council. The Committee was autonomous, though still connected to the NSWC.
Contains correspondence and excerpts of committee meetings and publications of the Committee, including Ellery F, Reed’s Federal Transient Program: An Evaluation Survey, 1934. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Margaret E. Rich, Tracy McGregor, Ellen C. Potter, and Bertha McCall.
Contains correspondence between Linton Swift, Howard Braucher, and David Holbrook and the Tolan Committee re the investigation of conditions of wartime transients. Includes January 1942 Tolan Committee hearings on migration in wartime.
Minutes of this committee of national organizations which worked to mobilize support for annual Community Chest campaigns.
Includes correspondence and memoranda re Community Chest and Council cooperation with local and national social work agencies. Also includes minutes, memoranda, and correspondence of the American Association for Community Organization and the National Information Bureau, and correspondence re the Association of Community Chests and Councils and the Washington Conference on Community Responsibility for Human Welfare.
Reports, announcements, and comments re the 1928 Association of Community Chests and Councils Citizens’ Conference on Community Responsibility for Human Welfare and material re use of volunteers in social work agencies. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Linton Swift, Howard Braucher, Allen T. Burns, James L. Feiser, Robert Bondy, and Sherrard Ewing.
Material on the attitudes of national welfare organization executives toward the community chest movement, a national public relief campaign, the Depression, and the lack of funds available to community chests and social work agencies. Correspondents include Allen T. Burns, Florence Kelley, David Holbrook, James Feiser, Howard Braucher, and Newton D. Baker.
Correspondence and papers re relations between local community chests and local chapters of national organizations (particularly the Salvation Army and the American National Red Cross), Correspondents include Allen Burns, Edward D. Lynde, Howard Braucher, David Holbrook, Robert Bondy, Bertha McCall, and Percival Dodge,
Records of meetings between the NSWC and the Community Chests and Councils, Inc. re budget reviews of national organizations and correspondence within the NSWC on the same topic. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Russell Kurtz, and John M. Glenn.
The Committee was the successor of the Committee on Contributions to National Agencies from Community Chest Cities. Included are minutes of meetings of both groups and correspondence concerned with community chest-social welfare agency relations at local and national levels. The principal correspondents are David Holbrook and Bertha McCall. Both committees were joint NSWC and Community Chests and Councils, Inc. committees.
Formal statements of the American National Red Cross, YMCA, and the Salvation Army on cooperation with community chests.
Material re the establishment of joint meetings of the Community Chests and Councils1 Committee on Relations of National Social Work Organizations, with the NSWC’s committee of the same name. Material from meetings in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and New York City is included. These meetings were formalized and became the series of meetings described below.
Folder contains records of the joint meeting in Atlantic City, a more formal continuation of the gatherings described in the previous folder. Correspondence re the approaching meeting and relations between social work organizations and community chests is also included.
Minutes, notes, and related correspondence
Minutes, notes, and related correspondence.
Minutes, notes, and related correspondence. Folders also include stenographic notes from meetings of the budget review subcommittee on youth service and camps of the Council of Social Agencies of Metropolitan Detroit.
Minutes, notes, and related correspondence.
Primarily print or near-print materials about community chest involvement in social welfare agencies’ affairs published by various national welfare groups. Folder also contains defense of the community chest concept.
Minutes and correspondence re annual conferences. Included with material from the 1925 conference is a study of card exchanges between agencies making field reports.
Minutes and correspondence re annual conferences. Included is the final Report of the Committee of live, Social Case Work, Generic and Specific.
Proceedings of meetings, a study undertaken in North Carolina, and the 1927 report to the Conference.
Material re the formation of the National Education-Recreation Council includes delegate lists and a history of the Council by Mildred Esgar. Correspondents include the American Association of Social Workers, David Holbrook, Linton Swift, Arthur Williams, J.E. Sproul, Annamarie Schindler, Norma Sims, Lillie Peck, and Robert Bondy.
Includes the reports of the Chicago Committee of the Association of Commerce and the Chicago Investigative Committee on Charities Endorsement as well as correspondence re the formation of a national agency to endorse charities. Correspondents include Francis H. McLean, Henry T. Noyes, and Roger N. Baldwin.
Includes constitution, records of board of directors meetings, and historical statements about the Bureau. Folder also includes material re membership in the Bureau, endorsement policies of the Bureau, separation from the American Association for Community Organization, a study of the National Tuberculosis Association, and a report entitled "Control of Solicitation and Advertising," prepared by the American City Bureau Research Division. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Allen Burns, Gustavus D. Pope, and Pierce Williams.
Includes material on cooperation between the Bureau and the National Social Work Council, monthly reports on the Bureau, discussion of need for the Bureau’s services, and information re financial support of national welfare organizations. Correspondents include David Holbrook, Howard Braucher, Llnton Swift, Gustavus Pope, and Pierce Williams.
Correspondence re the sharing of David Holbrook’s time between the Bureau and the NSWC, Holbrook’s reports of his activities, and the termination of Holbrook’s work for the Bureau.
Material regarding the Bureau’s investigation of the Save the Children Fund to determine if it could be endorsed by the Bureau.
A semi-autonomous branch of the NSWC, the United Educational Program publicized the need for continued support of character-building organizations even though the Depression tended to emphasize the need for unemployment relief. Folder contains committee minutes.
Includes correspondence between the United Educational Program, the NSWC, and local organizations re the maintenance of character-building agencies during the Depression, responses to a questionnaire from David Holbrook on the uses made of UEP publicity material, and articles and clippings about character-building agencies. Folders also contain material re the "Gifford Letter" from Walter S. Gifford, director of the U.S. President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief, endorsing character-building charities during the Depression. Correspondents include Kolbrook, Gifford, Kendall Emerson, Howard Braucher, Mabel B. Ellis, and Ellen C. Potter.
Four pamphlets on character-building and "Behind the Lines," a monthly bulletin published by the UEP.
Correspondence and papers re cooperation between the Civilian Conservation Corps and NSWC member agencies, minutes of the NSWC’s Civilian Conservation Corps Committee, and copies of laws and regulations pertaining to the CCC camps. Correspondents include David Holbrook, William F. Snow, and E.G. Worman.
Correspondence and regulations re the definition of essential services; social work’s inclusion in the category of essential services is discussed. Correspondents include David Holbrook, J.E. Sproul, and Lewis B. Hershey.
Routine correspondence re the financing of the NSWC, dealing primarily with contributions from constituent organizations.
Requests submitted to the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation, the Milbank Memorial Foundation, the John and Mary Markel Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation.
Formal requests for grants are accompanied by supporting documents.
Official letters notifying the NSWC of grants awarded it by the Foundation.
Folder contains financial statements, estimates, and summaries of the Council’s financial status.
Includes financial statements and summary data re member organizations and the Association of Community Chests and Councils.
Includes responses to questions about the financial status of member organizations.
Reports on economic, personal and social adjustments of youth prepared by sub-committees of
Correspondence With University of Michigan re facilities for Assembly.
Includes correspondence surrounding investigation of political associations of some applicants.
Invitations to speakers, resource people, discussion leaders, etc., and requests for "Working Papers" to be used at the Assembly.
Information sheets from youth-related organizations.
Continued from previous box.
The bulk of the material is composed of application forms from youth of foreign countries to WAY meetings held in the U.S. A few pamphlets and brochures describing foreign youth organizations are included. Materials have been arranged alphabetically by country.
Question of treating these four areas as part of the United States or independent countries with separately organized National Committees.
Includes bibliographies of Eastern countries.