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Generosity downsized // '90s corporate giving fails to match soaring profits Series: EXECUTIVE SUITE
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From his vantage point at the Jane Addams Hull House Association,
Gordon Johnson sees some ominous changes in corporate philanthropy -
for one thing, it's harder to get.
"A lot of it has to do with corporations downsizing, of
companies merging," said Johnson, president of Hull House. "I don't
think (corporate philanthropy) is as prominent as it used to be."
He's right. Corporate observers say the massive growth in
business profits through the 1990s has not been matched by a
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Hull House labors for children Series: 20TH CENTRUY CHICAGO
Chicago Sun-Times
; At the first Hull House Christmas party, reformer Jane Addams tried giving candy to the children who came by. But a number of little girls refused it. "They worked in a candy factory and could not bear the sight of it," Addams wrote in Twenty Years at Hull House of the exhausted girls, who put in
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Suit against Hull House sets off squabble
Chicago Sun-Times
; A feud grew Thursday between the Hull House Association and its affiliate, the Clarence Darrow Center, when Darrow staff members protested a suit filed by its own board of directors against Hull House. The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court this week, alleges that Hull House violated a
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New postcard honoring Hull House to debut here
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... self-addresed labels plus 15 cents per card to "Hull House Postal Card, Postmaster, Chicago 60607-9992. The deadline is Oct. 16. CLUB NEWS: The American Philatelic Society will hold its spring meeting in conjunction with the World Columbian Stamp Expo '92, which will ...
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Hull House builds on its century-old foundation of caring
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Uptown Center of the Hull House Association recently sponsored a show of the elaborately embroidered quilts made by the women of the Hmong tribes of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Some of the quilts depict the journey of the people of Chicago's small Hmong community from their rice paddies,
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Following a rich legacy // Hull House provides a model for theaters
Chicago Sun-Times
; The words most often appended to the name of Jane Addams are "social reformer," "founder of Hull House," "pacifist" and "feminist leader." But what is frequently forgotten about the woman who devoted her life to improving the condition of immigrants and the poor was that she was a fervent believer
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