Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 1958), pp. Richmond advocated for professional training and standards, and then she began to arrange formal instruction for friendly visitors and district agents. She felt that professionalization of social service would mean that poor families would receive better treatment and therefore improve their circumstances (Social Welfare History Project, 2011). In response to the North Side Fire of 1912, the agency distributed nearly $20,000 in relief. Retrieved from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-work/richmond-mary/, Trolander, J.A. See John Synge, The Aran Islands, (Boston: John W. Luce, 1911). The not alms, but a friend philosophy adopted in 1879 by the Associated Charities of Boston, which is todays Family Services of Greater Boston, was the motto for most charitable organization societies. In 1877, the Charity Organization Society was established, the first such city-wide organization in the United States. Her first principle was that care had to focus on the person within their situation. The carnival funding enabled the fledgling agency to hire an investigator to identify worthwhile causes in the cityan early needs assessment. Download preview PDF. Unlike such contemporaries as Jane Addams and Charlotte Gilman (they were all born within one year of one another) Richmond did not participate in the idealistic currents of reform associated with settlement house work, social feminism and feminist-influenced progressivism. Compare Roy Lubove, The Struggle for Social Security, 19001935 (Cambridge, Mass. The association was founded, and continues to exist, as a membership federation of and for its members. James Langford, LCSW and Craig Keaton, PhD, LMSW, Introduction to Social Work: A Look Across the Profession, https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/f52b2130-1a05-0134-1d6d-0050569601ca-f, https://historyofsocialwork.org/eng/details.php?cps=7&canon_id=133, http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/hunter-robert/, http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-work/richmond-mary/, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/009614429101700404, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The New York Charity Organization Society hired Richmond in 1898 to develop curriculum and teach courses at its new Summer School of Applied Philanthropy. The Charity Organization Society of New York City, predecessor of the Community Service Society of New York, was founded in 1882 by Josephine Shaw Lowell. The impact of their work on ideological tensions that exist within the profession today is also discussed. Two years later, the Russell Sage Foundation took over responsibility for the Exchange Branch, creating the Charity Organization Department with Richmond as chair and McLean as chief executive. Englishman Reverend S.H. It had the authority to recommend higher standards for admission and could drop from membership any societies that did not maintain minimum standards. The board hoped that the Charity Organization Society of New York Citys scientific investigation of need would eliminate the rampant spoils system.