User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Timeline of the development of the philanthropic sector (United States)

The following is a timeline of the development of the philanthropic sector in the United States.


 * April 8, 1630 John Winthrop the Younger (1606 – 1676) delivered the sermon, which was published in the 1838 by the as "A Model of Christian Charity" in which he called for his fellow emigrants to make New England a model, by living Christian values, as the eyes of the world would be watching, the "city on the hill". He told them, "We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of other's necessities". In his 1960 classic, American Philanthropy, Robert H. Bremner listed John Winthrop, William Penn, and Cotton Mather as "primary sources for philanthropic thought in the early colonial period."


 * The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Period


 * Carnegie wealthy industrialist/philanthropists