Download or read book The Resources for Social Service, Charitable, Civic, Educational, Religious, of Newark, New Jersey: A Classified and Descriptive Directory (Classic Re written by A. W. Macdougall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Resources for Social Service, Charitable, Civic, Educational, Religious, of Newark, New Jersey: A Classified and Descriptive Directory Newark is a growing city with a present population of 350,000. It is spending in private and public philanthropy over $500,000 a year. There has grown up a network of benevolent agencies. The time has come to provide a guide to these agencies and to classify their work. Without it there is increasing opportunity for confusion of effort and loss of time and money. More important than this, those for whose benefit these agencies exist are made to stiffer. "Whatever helps us to work together without friction and without waste, helps the poor too. It is they who suffer when we use the wrong agency; it is they who suffer when we do the most convenient instead of the best thing, or when, by lack of forethought, we-encourage them to run hither and yonder getting a little inadequate help from each of many unrelated charities." To meet the need this Directory is issued by the Bureau of Associated Charities with the financial help and co-operation of the other private charities. It is the first Charities Directory of Newark, except a small pamphlet issued by the Female Charitable Society in 1892 giving the legal titles of the eleven societies then existing. There are now over sixty private agencies alone. The aim of the Directory is to give as complete a record as possible of the charitable and beneficent resources of the city - the city's social service equipment - together with the county, state, and national agencies available. The Directory is intended to fulfill the following specific purposes: I. To Act as a Guide in Relieving Individual Cases of Need The first essential to the successful practice of the art of charity is a knowledge of the tools one is to use. Newark has an elaborate equipment for the relief of suffering. The average householder, however, when appealed to for assistance, finds himself with but little knowledge of this equipment. The Directory's classification of the charities and its definite information about each should enable him to select the agency best fitted to aid the given case or to assist him to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.