Settlement houses mainly transformed their wealthy service givers into national leaders

Evidence

Ironically, however, the most significant long-term effect of the settlement house movement was not on the recipients of service, but on the service givers. Jane Addams had hoped that firsthand contact with the harsher realities of life would give meaning to the lives of young college graduates. The range of leaders who came out of the experience of the settlement houses was extraordinary—not merely scores of social reformers like Florence Kelley and Eleanor Roosevelt, but also future public-spirited business magnates like Gerard Swope (president of General Electric, 1922–1944) and Walter Sherman Gifford (president of AT&T, 1925–1948). — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1418

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to article on sacrifice: the settlements’ real product was not charity for the poor but formation of the givers — a parallel inversion worth noting.
• XREF: connects to: World War I transformed shop stewards from union appointees into rank-and-file leaders — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1673

Broader Connections

• World War I transformed shop stewards from union appointees into rank-and-file leaders #corroborates (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1673