[5][10] Fels was 16[10] when she graduated from the Keokuk high school, 1879; and in 1880, she studied at Saint Mary's College[13] of Notre Dame, Indiana.

[14] She also attended University of Pennsylvania for one year and completed special courses at Bedford College, London, England.

In May, Fels attended the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

When her husband was alive, he had been trying to set business and industry free from the tolls of monopoly and the tribute exacted by special privilege.

[4] Have been in fullest sympathy with her husband's campaign for economic justice, Fels philanthropy continued on the same generous plan.

For every dollar given by another in the U.S., England, France, Spain, Denmark, and Australia, for the bringing into realization of a single tax state, she would be the largest contributor to the propagation of the economic ideology of Henry George in the world.

[b] She effected the creation of school gardens, and was a pioneer in the farm colony movement to cope with unemployment and to bring people back to land.

The foundation, of which she was the president, was created to work towards the "Jewish resettlement and nonpolitical reorganization of Palestine"; for "enlightenment in the field of land taxation and general taxation"; and for "in general, the awakening of religious and spiritual thought, the furtherance of improved economic conditions, and the promotion of human betterment".