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The center of the African American community in Newport, as elsewhere, was the church. Newport's first African heritage church and congregation was chartered in 1824 as the Union Colored Congregational Church (49 Division Street), followed by Mount Zion AME Church in 1845 (1 Zion Place), Shiloh Baptist in 1869 (29 School Street) and Mount Olivet in 1897 (79 Thames Street).
A friendly society or benefit society is a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. These groups are also known as a fraternal benefit society, fraternal benefit order, or mutual aid organization.
Founded as the "Jolly Corks", by December of 1868, it had adopted the name Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. [2] By 1890, 173 lodges had been established throughout the United States. [4] Like many other fraternal orders, the Elks at one point sponsored an insurance fund. The Elks Mutual Benefit Association (EMBA) was founded in 1878.
Free African Society Historical Marker, 6th and Lombard Sts. Philadelphia. The Free African Society (FAS), founded in 1787, was a benevolent organization that held religious services and provided mutual aid for "free Africans and their descendants" in Philadelphia.
The organization was run by a Board of Control made up of the group's officers and representatives of the Sections, which were the state organizations. Local groups called Lodges. The ritual of the organization was based on American history and its emblem was the dome of the United States Capitol and its motto was "Charity, Union and Fellowship ...
Habitat for Humanity in the United States is a leading example of shared credit and labor pooled to help low-income people afford adequate housing. In post- disaster reactions, formal benefit societies of our time often lend aid to others outside their immediate membership, while ad hoc benefit associations form among neighbors or refugees ...
As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs remain a vital social glue.
The club secretary calling the roll of the Harting Old Club, one of the oldest friendly societies in England. A friendly society (sometimes called a benefit society, mutual aid society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA) is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking.