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Improved working conditions in factors, founded infant childcare in Great Britain, and laid the foundation of corporate movement.
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Lobbied for national voluntary relief organizations wounded soldiers during war, for development of international treaties for protection of medicos and those wounded on the battlefield, led to the creation of the International Red Cross.
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Founded the world’s first nursing school and developed modern nursing practices
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Established the East London Christian Mission in 1865 to perform evangelical, social, and charitable work and to bring the Christian message to the poor, destitute, and hungry. Eventually reorganized and renamed the Salvation Army.
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Established the Sierra Club and worked with President Roosevelt to establish the U.S. national park system
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Started “City Beautiful” movement to turn open spaces in cities into parks, which changed cities into nice places to live and work.
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Established “Casa dei Bambini" (Children's House) in Rome for idea of education based on the idea that children teach themselves, unassisted by adults, methods evolved into the famous Montessori method of early childhood education.
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Established the Tennessee Valley Authority to overcome the effects of the Great Depression.