Hull House Closing Today – Story is Still Opaque but is the Meaning of the Institution Still Strong?

Ruth McCambridge

January 27, 2012

January 27, 2012; Source: NPR | NPQ is sad to note the closing of the historic Jane Addams Hull House, the first settlement house in the country and a model for thousands of community-building organizations to follow.

This is a link to an NPR story on the topic, but the story is still quite incomplete. Watch NPQ for more on this, and we would love to hear your reactions. What does Hull House mean to you? –Ruth McCambridge

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About the author

Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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