Resources

The following resources provided critical background information for A Century of Service:

• Archives of Family Service Association of America, 1908–1988, housed at the Social Welfare History Archives, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 

• Annual reports, board and committee minutes, newsletters, journals, white papers, reports, and other archival materials of Family Service America and the Alliance for Children and Families, housed at theSeverson National Information Center, Milwaukee, WI 

• Archival materials, histories, annual reports, newsletters, and web sites of members of the Alliance for Children and Families and of United Neighborhood Centers of America 

• Position papers, reports, the Washington Insider, and other information from the Alliance Public Policy Office in Washington, D.C. 

• Surveys, reports, and articles from the Alliance Department of Research and Evaluation 

• Articles and columns in Alliance for Children & Families Magazine and Nonprofit Director  

• The Family (1920–1946), The Journal of Social Casework (1947–1949), Social Casework, (1950–1989) and Families in Society (1990–present) 

• Archival materials of the National Association of Homes and Services for Children 

• Archives of Child Welfare League of America, housed at the Social Welfare History Archives, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 

• Annual reports, surveys, publications, and website of United Way of America 

• “A Belief in People: A History of Family Social Work,” Margaret E. Rich, Family Service Association of America, 1956 

• A History of Social Welfare and Social Work in the United States, James Leiby, Columbia University Press, 1978 

• American Charities and Social Work, Fourth Edition, Amos G. Warner, Stuart A. Queen and Ernest B. Harper, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1937 

• Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America, John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, Sage Publications Inc., 2004 

• From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America, Sixth Edition Walter I. Trattner, The Free Press, New York, 1999 

• Holding the Center: America’s Nonprofit Sector at a Crossroads, Lester L. Salamon, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, 1997 

• The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal through the Great Society, Andrew J.F. Morris, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009 

• “Mental Health, United States, 2000,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, National Mental Health Information Center 

• Nonprofit Governance: The Why, What, and How of Nonprofit Boardship, John Tropman and Thomas J. Harvey, Corby Publishing, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2009 

• “Overview of Mental Health in New York and the Nation,” New York State archives 

• “Privatization of Public Social Services: A Background Paper,” Demetra Smith Nightingale, Nancy M. Pindus, Urban Institute, Washington D.C., 1997Several journal articles that were cited only once and specific publications from member agencies are not listed above.