The Public’s View

Doug White

Chapter Chapter One in The Nonprofit Challenge, 2010, pp 17-35 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Describing the suffering among England’s inhabitants in 1852, thus acknowledging that things weren’t what they should be for such a wealthy country as England, the London Times, in a story headlined “Destitution in London,” wondered why “one person out of twenty of the inhabitants of this luxurious metropolis is every day destitute of food and employment, and every night without a place for shelter or repose.” Still, following the criticism—of the government, of society in general?—the article decreed, rather protectively, “Let us not be interpreted as casting a slur upon English charity—its schools, its hospitals, its benevolent institutions …” for, in fact, “there is no charity like English charity—there is no country in the world where such strenuous efforts have been made to relieve the destitution and minister to the wants of the suffering classes.”1

Keywords: Nonprofit Sector; Charitable Organization; Good Deed; Financial Fraud; Charity Commission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230114005_2

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