http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dwomen's%20history;smode%3Dadvanced;f1-subject%3DSocial%20settlements%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland. Results for your query: freeformQuery=women's history;smode=advanced;f1-subject=Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3401.xml Alta House was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 as a day care nursery for working mothers in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood. It quickly grew into a full service community center, offering recreational and social activities as well as social services. The Rockefeller family were major contributors and advisors to Alta House. The collection consists of minutes, reports, financial records, and correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3401.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Alta House was established in 1895 as a day care nursery for working mothers in the "Little Italy" neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It quickly grew into a full service community center, offering recreational and social activities as well as social services. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, financial records, papers relating to the centers' programs, and records of the Little Italy Development Corporation and the Little Italy Redevelopment Project. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3568.xml East End Neighborhood House was founded in the Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907 by Hedwig Kosbob, as a sewing school in the predominantly Hungarian and Slovak neighborhood of Buckeye-Woodland. It was incorporated in 1910. By 1914 it began cultural and recreational programs, and by the Great Depression it grew into a full service community center, adding such services as day care nurseries, Americanization classes, and aid to Japanese Americans relocated to Cleveland during World War II. The collection consists of organizational proceedings, membership records, correspondence, program reports, group worker reports, announcements, scrapbooks, and printed materials. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3568.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3526.xml The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, settlement house founded in 1874 by members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It offered a full range of services and social activities, including an outreach program for delinquent boys. Its service area became the center of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of minutes, financial statements, reports, evaluations, club journals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, expense accounts, and records of the Women's Philanthropic Union. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3526.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4259.xml The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1874 by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and located in various city neighborhoods, including Broadway and Central, Woodland, and Carver Park Estates. The collection consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed materials. The collection is primarily concerned with the Junior Board and includes material relating to its fund raising activities, the 75th anniversary celebration, and other activities. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4259.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3505.xml Goodrich Social Settlement was founded in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Flora Stone Mather and initially supported by her. Its financial support was later provided by the Cleveland Community Fund. It provided a full range of services to the various ethnic groups which resided in its area. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, news sheets, settlement manuals, anniversary publications, registration forms and financial records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3505.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3319.xml Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3319.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4769.xml Jason D. Rich was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Cornell University in 1929, and earned a master's degree in social work administration from the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences. He then joined the staff as a social worker at the Council Educational Alliance settlement house in Cleveland, working there throughout the 1930s. After several years in New York, where he continued in social work, he returned to Cleveland and until his retirement worked at the Jewish Vocational Service as a social worker. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports and program material relating to Rich's employment at the Council Educational Alliance and general material about social work. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4769.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4606.xml Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing African American population, in order to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. The Playhouse Settlement was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927. By 1941, the entire settlement had taken the name Karamu House. The Dumas Dramatic Club was created to support and encourage interest and activities in the performing arts. In 1922, the theater troupe's name was changed to The Gilpin Players in honor of noted African American actor Charles Gilpin. During the 1920s and 1930s, works by many accomplished playwrights were produced at Karamu, including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Euge... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4606.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4030.xml Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919 by the National Catholic War Council and the Christ Child Society and named on honor of Mary Virginia Merrick, the Society's founder. Merrick House is located in the Tremont district on Cleveland's near West Side. It serves as a non-sectarian community center, providing social services and promoting community action. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, budgets, correspondence, registration cards, questionnaires, club records, surveys, camping reports, day nursery records, community service program materials, records of affiliated organizations such as the Welfare Federation and Community Chest, newspaper clippings, published reports and printed materials. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4030.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4737.xml Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe were social workers who in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club of Cleveland, Ohio, founded the Neighborhood Association, popularly known as the Playhouse Settlement, in 1915. Founded primarily to aid African Americans who had migrated to Cleveland from the rural South, Playhouse Settlement offered the usual social services, but gained note for its dramatic and artistic programs. In 1927 the Jelliffes acquired property which was remodeled as a theater and named the Karamu Theater. In 1941, the Settlement was renamed Karamu House. The Jelliffes shared the directorship of Karamu House until their retirement in 1963, after which they served as trustees of the Karamu Foundation. Russell Jelliffe was also an active member of the Urban League, the Cleveland Community Relations Council on Race Relations, the executive committee of the local branch of the NAACP, and the Board of the Cleveland Council of Human Relations. He was involved with the Group Work C... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4737.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3564.xml The University Settlement was a social settlement founded in a predominantly Polish neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally named the University Neighborhood Centers and was operated by the School of Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve University as a training program for graduate students while providing a full range of community services and activities. In 1936 it changed its affiliation to the Welfare Federation of Cleveland and its name to the University Settlement. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, membership cards, statistical reports, correspondence, 65 theses from the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences, and a subject file containing reports, correspondence, minutes, lists, and pamphlets. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3564.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3938.xml West Side Community House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, 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. The collection consists of 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 of Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, the National Federation of Settlements, the Cleveland Federation of Settlements and the Case Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences, subject files, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3938.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT