Almanac Timeline

• 1853
• Religion

New York Children’s Aid Society

• 1853
• Prosperity

Connecting Orphans to Families

• 1851
• Religion

YMCA Comes to America

• 1849
• Religion

Perpetual Emigration Fund

• 1848
• Public-Policy Reform

Adding Active Resistance to Abolitionism

• 1847
• Overseas

Responding to the Great Famine of Ireland

• 1846
• Public-Policy Reform

American Missionary Association

• 1846
• Arts & Culture

Smithsonian Institution

• 1845
• Religion

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

• 1843
• Prosperity

Fighting Poverty in a Personal Way

• 1843
• Education

Western Colleges, Eastern Money

• 1843
• Prosperity

Fighting Poverty in a Personal Way

• 1842
• Prosperity

Fraternal Lodges Supply Health Benefits

• 1842
• Arts & Culture

Wadsworth Atheneum

• 1842
• Religion

Religious Colleges Come (and Go) in Waves

• 1841
• Public-Policy Reform

Amistad Decision

• 1841
• Prosperity

Purifying the Air of American Business

• 1837
• Prosperity

Building the Underground Railway

• 1837
• Prosperity

Initiating Black Colleges

• 1836
• Arts & Culture

Preservation of Monticello

• 1834
• Religion

Modern Medical Missionary

• 1833
• Public-Policy Reform

American Anti-Slavery Society

• 1833
• Education

A College Against Slavery

• 1831
• Education

Educating the Orphaned

• 1829
• Prosperity

Educating the Blind

• 1827
• Religion

Evangelical Do-gooding by the Tappan Brothers

• 1826
• Education

Western Reserve University

• 1825
• Prosperity

A Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents

• 1824
• Education

Rensselaer School and the Rise of Scientific Education

• 1821
• Overseas

Support for Greek Independence

• 1820
• Overseas

Pioneer Missions to Hawaii

• 1819
• Prosperity

A Bank for Modest-income Workers

• 1816
• Religion

American Colonization Society

• 1815
• Arts & Culture

Re-Founding the Library of Congress

• 1812
• Prosperity

A Privately Won War

• 1810
• Overseas

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• 1809
• Religion

Catholic Schools Launched by the Sisters of Charity

• 1809
• Religion

Bible Societies

• 1807
• Religion

Andover Theological Seminary

• 1806
• Prosperity

An Orphanage for New York

• 1805
• Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

• 1805
• Education

New York Free School Society

• 1804
• Religion

Building Evangelicalism

• 1801
• Prosperity

Serving Elderly Sailors in America’s First Secular Charity

• 1801
• Religion

Charleston’s Hebrew Orphan Society

• 1801
• Religion

Rebecca Gratz

• 1799
• Prosperity

Fighting Ships by Subscription

• 1799
• Arts & Culture

Art from the Sea

• 1797
• Prosperity

A Charity By Women for Women

• 1797
• Prosperity

A Charity By Women for Women

• 1796
• Education

Washington and Lee University

• 1792
• Religion

Sunday Schools Spread Literacy and Constructive Behavior

• 1791
• Medicine & Health

New York Dispensary

• 1786
• Medicine & Health

A Revolutionary Medical Clinic

• 1785
• Prosperity

Manumission in New York

• 1780
• Education

A University Across the Woods

• 1776
• Prosperity

Financing our Revolution

• 1770
• Prosperity

Charity for State-side Britons

• 1770
• Religion

Benezet and the Quakers Aid the Forgotten

• 1768
• Religion

California’s Missions

• 1763
• Religion

A Shrine to Religious Liberty

• 1751
• Medicine & Health

Rescuing the “Sick Poor and Lunaticks”

• 1743
• Prosperity

Ben Franklin Advances Learning

• 1740
• Religion

A Great Awakening of Mass Philanthropy

• 1735
• Medicine & Health

A Dying Sailor Endows the First U.S. Charity Hospital

• 1732
• Prosperity

Funding Resettlement of the Religiously Persecuted

• 1731
• Education

Philadelphia Library Company

• 1731
• Prosperity

Improving the Almshouse

• 1727
• Prosperity

Franklin’s Network for Good

• 1727
• Religion

Ursuline School, Hospital, and Orphanage in New Orleans

• 1724
• NULL

Early Education of Blacks and Indians

• 1721
• Education

Endowed College Chairs

• 1704
• Education

A School for Slaves

• 1681
• Religion

Quaker Prison Reform

• 1657
• Prosperity

The Continent’s First Ethnic Charity

• 1643
• Education

First Fundraising Campaign

• 1636
• Education

Early American Colleges