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Capacity Building Legacies: Boards Of The Richmond Male Orphan Asylum For Destitute Boys & The Protestant Episcopal Church Home For Infirm Ladies 1870-1900, F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, David P. Fauri
Capacity Building Legacies: Boards Of The Richmond Male Orphan Asylum For Destitute Boys & The Protestant Episcopal Church Home For Infirm Ladies 1870-1900, F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, David P. Fauri
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
What strategies did early boards of managers of charitable human service agencies pursue to build capacity in a way that sustained their efforts for more than a hundred years? Using primary and secondary documents to focus on two organizations- The Male Orphan Asylum (1846) and the Protestant Episcopal Church Home (1875)-three norms emerged: run it like a business, keep it like a house, and base it in the community, along with a host of associated activities. Based on these norms and activities, three strategies were identified: diversification of resources, working boards, and leadership continuity, all of which have implications for …
Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart
Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart
Dissertations
The people of the Dutch-American community constructed and maintained a strong ethnoreligion identity in the twentieth despite pressures to join the mainstream of the United States. A strong institutional completeness of congregations and schools resulted from and contributed to this identity. The people in these institutions created a shared identity by demanding the loyalty of members as well as constructing narratives that convinced people of the need for the ethnoreligious institutions.
The narratives of the Dutch-American community reflected and reinforced a shared identity, which relied on a collective memory. The framing, maintaining, altering, and remodeling of the collective memory from …
The Military At Fort St. Joseph, Scott T. Macpherson
The Military At Fort St. Joseph, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Showing the Flag, Troupes de la Marine, Militia, and Fort St. Joseph’s Military Actions.
Fort St. Joseph And The American Revolution, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph And The American Revolution, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Bennett’s Expedition 1779, Raid on Fort St. Joseph 1780, The “Spanish Raid” 1781, Deportation of the French, and Demise of Fort St. Joseph.