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  1. 1Eglantyne JebbEglantyne JebbSave the Children's familiar name leads back to Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, who established the fund in 1919 amid the suffering that followed the First World War. Their campaigning needed an organisation able to raise money and turn concern into continuing relief. Jebb is a rewarding…0i
  2. 2Lillian WaldLillian WaldBorn 10 Mar 1867Henry Street Settlement began with Wald and fellow nurse Mary Brewster working on New York's Lower East Side in 1893. Care in people's homes grew into an organisation with social services, classes and places for children to play. Donors such as Jacob Schiff helped provide buildings, while nurses…0i
  3. 3Mahendralal SarkarMahendralal SarkarThe Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science gives Sarkar's educational ambition a continuing physical and intellectual home. Established in Calcutta in 1876, it sought to make scientific work possible through an Indian-supported institution in a colonial setting. Fundraising and the…0i
  4. 4Tsuda UmekoTsuda UmekoBorn 31 Dec 1864Tsuda University traces its beginnings to the school for women that Tsuda opened in Tokyo in 1900. Her project joined a particular educational purpose to the practical task of sustaining a place where women could study. Supporters and the early teachers and students belonged to that foundation,…0i
  5. 5Abraham FlexnerAbraham FlexnerAt the Institute for Advanced Study, Flexner helped turn an educational vision into a research community free to pursue questions without an ordinary teaching timetable. Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld supplied the founding gift in 1930, and Flexner became the first director. Holding…0i
  6. 6Enriqueta Augustina RylandsEnriqueta Augustina RylandsThe John Rylands Library carries her husband's name, but Enriqueta founded it as his memorial. She commissioned Basil Champneys to design the building and assembled collections for a library that opened to readers in 1900. Its later incorporation into the University of Manchester's library created…0i
  7. 7Thomas CoramThomas CoramCoram's long campaign led to the charter for London's Foundling Hospital in 1739. Influential women who backed the project, donors and the people who cared for children were part of making it function. Today's Coram charity continues a much-changed body of work for children and families. Reading…0i
  8. 8Catherine BoothCatherine BoothCatherine and William Booth began the London mission in 1865 that developed into the Salvation Army. Catherine's place in that joint foundation is worth recovering when a familiar organisation is reduced to one founder's name. Its combination of religious purpose and practical service needed…0i
  9. 9Cecil Jackson-ColeCecil Jackson-ColeJackson-Cole was part of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief founded in 1942, serving as its first honorary secretary and helping its post-war growth into Oxfam. The permanent Broad Street shop opened in 1947 gives the story a useful practical focus: a cause needs ways to bring in support…0
  10. 10Henry Pomeroy DavisonHenry Pomeroy DavisonBorn 12 Jun 1867Davison helped convene the national Red Cross societies that formed the League of Red Cross Societies in 1919, now the IFRC. The aim was to carry wartime experience into peacetime health and relief work. Distinguish this foundation from the earlier creation of the ICRC and from the national…0i