Endowments; Charity organization; Charity--Societies, etc.; New York (N.Y.); Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Publication Committee
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1896 and 1917?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 80
Note
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Survey Charities Publication Committee Educational Fund
The Survey had roots in several other magazines which were concerned with philanthropy. It developed from the Charities Review , a monthly organ of the New York Charity Organization Society (COS, now the Community Service Society of New York City). Fi rst issued in 1891 as a monthly journal of sociology, the Charities Review was financed by Robert W. de Forest and edited by Paul Leicester Ford and Frederick Howard Wines. In March, 1897, the Charities Review merged with Lend-A-Hand , founded and edited by Edward Everett Hale. In December, 1897, the COS began publishing a second house organ, the Charities (published with various subtitles), edited by Edward T. Devine. It was intended to be a weekly review of philanthropy that would serve COS members. In 1905, at the time that the Charities Publication Committee of the COS assumed responsibility for publishing the Charities, it was merged with the Commons, a magazine edited first by John Palmer Gavit and later by Graham Taylor, founder of the Chicago Commons settlement. As Charities and the Commons, it absorbed in 1906 Jewish Charity , edited by Lee K. Frankel. In April, 1909, the magazine took the name Survey because, as the editors stated, 'letters and messages continually received have strengthened the conviction that not by the name of charity do most men call the movements we have stood for.' The source of the name was the Pittsburgh Survey, an investigation of the 'life and labor' of the Pittsburgh steel district made under the direction of Paul Kellogg, 1907-1909. In 1912, for financial reasons and for purposes of editorial independence, the magazine broke its ties with the COS and formed an independent publishing organization, Survey Associates, Inc." [SOURCE: "Survey Associates, Inc." Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU Libraries. VCU Libraries Social Welfare History Project, https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/survey-associates-inc. Accessed 15 Oct. 2018.] "In 1905 the journal was further reinforced by the merging of 'The Commons' which had been published at the Chicago neighborhood house of that name, under the intrepid editorship of Professor Graham Taylor. The year following, 'Jewish Charity,' edited by Dr. Lee K. Frankel, was merged, and the combined periodicals continued under the joint name, 'Charities and The Commons' until April,1909, when the change was made to the name of THE SURVEY... The New York Charity Organization Society has been fortunate in suggesting undertakings which have met with notable financial approval from those who take a broad view of philanthropic outlay...In 1905, the Central Council of the society announced the appointment of a publication committee, organized to give national breadth and effect to the work of the magazine. Robert W. deForest, whose personal support and interest had made possible two of the earlier journals, became chairman of the new committee and the membership included residents of New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington... During 1905-6, $7,031 was contributed to the educational work of the committee in addition to an appropriation of $3,000 from the New York Charity Organization Society and $16,129 received from commercial receipts... At the outset of the fiscal year, 1 906-07, an educational fund of $15,000 was pledged by a group of progressive men and women in order to finance the larger work of the committee during the year. During the succeeding months, $9,879 additional was contributed to the educational fund, exclusive of $3,000 appropriated by the Charity Organization Society and $1,528 received from William Guggenheim for the United Jewish Charities... In the fiscal year, 1907-08, the year of the financial depression, the contributions to the educational fund dropped to $7,929 which sum was supplemented by $3,000 from the Charity Organization Society and an appropriation of $20,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation... THE PUBLICATION YEAR 1908-09... EDUCATIONAL FUND GENERAL CONTRIBUTORS October 1, 1908, to September 30, 1909... Carnegie, Andrew - New York City - $1,000.00" [SOURCE: Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Publication Committee.Philanthropy and Public Opinion, III : A New Year Under A New Name, a statement by the editors of The Survey in behalf of Charities Publication Committee. New York, Charities Publication Committee, Apr. 1910, pp. 35-36, 38-39, 79, 89. HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101068995594. Accessed 15 Oct. 2018.]