History of CO

• The first efforts at community organisation for socia lwelfare initiated in the united kingdom during the 19th century to overcome the problem of acute poverty which led to beggary.

• Thus, the London society of organizing charitable relief and repressing mendicancy was formed.

• Its functions were to organise the poor, collect funds to meet their base need and enable them to lead moral lives through education and thus assimilate them into english society.

• The settlement house movement originated in england during 1880.

• This house created to meet the needs of rural poor who flocked into the cities.

• In 1880 the charity organization society started in the USA.

• This was the first attempt in the USA to put rational order in the area of charity and relief.

• This charity started to combat social problems created by the economic depression of 1873.

• And also for the rapid movement of the rural poor into urban areas due to industrialization for discrimination.

• The early part of the 20th century - birth of community councils in the USA, these functioned ,

• To increase efficiency• To encourage specialization• To set standards for service• To provide the leadership to member agencies

for joint planning

• Later world war 1 gave rise to war chests in many communities,

• To promote central fund raising• Coordination of services• Control of spending