National Conference of Charities and Correction

National Conference of Charities and Correction (NCCC) was an American organization focused on social welfare.

During that trip, it was talked generally that it would be a good thing for the boards of the states of Michigan, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin to meet together, become better acquainted with each other, exchange views on subjects in which all were interested, and try and obtain such information as would the better enable them to do their work in a proper manner; and it was agreed that the secretary of the Illinois state board should, when it was deemed a suitable time, notify each member of each of said state boards to meet and confer together at Chicago.

These conferences attracted so much attention that the American Social Science Association in its call for a meeting to be held in New York City on May 19, 1874, invited the State Boards of Charities in the several states to send delegates, and hold a conference in connection with it.

Topics similar to those discussed at the conferences at Chicago and Milwaukee were brought before the meeting, which met as a distinct body on the second day of that of the Social Science Association.

Thereafter, the National Conference of Charities, as such, did not make much show in the reports, and its proceedings as a distinct organization were not published.

One concession was made to the demand of the State Boards of Charities, and the proceedings of the conference for the first time had a separate publication.

The Social Science Association was placed in the foreground, and the delegation from Wisconsin gave notice to the conference that this would be their last appearance in the role of assisting to make a side show for the big performance.

It had been predicted that owing to the cutting loose from the Social Science Association, the meeting would be small in numbers; but on the contrary, it was larger.

Valuable papers were read, and the subjects of insanity, pauperism and crime were discussed with reference to the application of preventive measures.

The committee on organization recommended that the president of the next conference should commence his duties at the close of the present year's sessions, which was adopted.