The term "charitable society" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it for any organization that is established for charitable purposes. For example, "The local charitable society helps feed the homeless in our city."
He was a founding member and the first president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was involved with the Massachusetts Humane Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith among the Indians, and a charitable society that supported Congregationalist ministers.
Meanwhile, in Spain a charitable society opened a public theatre in a courtyard in the Calle de Sol in 1568, and in 1574 Spain's first purpose-built public theatre was constructed in Sevilla as a courtyard theatre.
At the time the club boasted about 65 to 70 volunteers, all women (men were not admitted as members of the charitable society until 1985), who took on the cost of postage through dues and fund-raising.
With like-minded companions I set fire to video stores selling Western movies and even burned down a charitable society for widows and orphans in our village because we were convinced it would lead to the liberation of women.
The following week, at a vocational training center run by a women's charitable society called Al Nahda, I watched as the instructor in a course for prospective saleswomen showed her students a wide smile, appropriate for female customers, and a split-second, perfunctory smile for men.
And save time for kayak outings (Swartswood State Park, July 29), a blueberry festival (Lebanon State Forest, June 30), meteor watching (Vorhees State Park, Aug. 11) and -- spare the six-pack -- an 1830's temperance rally and charitable society fair (Allaire State Park, July 29).
The work of city missions resembles that of settlement houses, institutional churches, and charitable societies, but city missions usually also emphasize religious conversion through evangelistic preaching services.
The reporter talked with a hippie who identified himself simply as "Bill" who said that his participation in the clean up drive made him a Digger, a member of one of the charitable societies which clean up areas and run free stores for hippies in many cities.
IIMs have not been set up as universities through an act of Parliament but as charitable societies.
He rented pews in many New York churches, supported approximately twelve missionaries worldwide, and was described as a liberal donor to hospitals and charitable societies.
For example, partial subsidies have been provided by the government and free surgeries have been donated by charitable societies.
