charity Betydning & definition

Eksempler på charity

• There are, of course, other cantonal and municipal institutions as well as private charities that supplement the two primary sources of social security.

• In some ways, the payment card resembles a familiar pledge card used by charities or conservation organizations to elicit donations.

• As hospitals began to take on the air of public institutions as opposed to private charities, they gained respectability among the middle classes.

• A number of charities were founded around 1700 to support and enlarge the school and finance apprenticeships.

• Much information, for example, comes from reports intended for the public that also provided the charities with financial support.

• Throughout the eighteenth century, pensioners' cash stipends were supplemented with assistance in kind received from the overseers, and, to a lesser extent, from charities.

• Opponents of medical charities bemoaned the negative effect of free care on the independence, dignity, and self-sufficiency of the poor.

• Less inherently indefensible but still potentially pauperising were the recurrent metropolitan emergency relief charities.