1876
The Ethical Culture Movement begins
1878
Founding of Workingman’s School, later the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
1889
Founding of American Ethical Union
1891
Founding of Blythedale Children’s Hospital – Originally the Teaching and Visiting Guild for Crippled Children (Hawthorne, NY)
1910
Construction of the Ethical Culture building -Meeting House- begins on Central Park West.
1946
Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at the Society
1950
Women’s Conference founds the first Planned Parenthood on Upper West Side.
Ethical Culture leader Algernon Black named vice president of the national NAACP.
1982
Ethical Culture opens the Maria Fridman Homeless Women’s Shelter in New York City.
1998
The Non-Custodial Parent Visitation program is initiated from Ethical Culture.
2014 – 2018
Up2Us and Drawdown Climate Week Conferences are hosted at the Meeting House.
2017
Jeffrey Sachs global poverty series, starting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ky Moon.
2023
As part of their Social Justice initiatives, the Society founds the Ethical Neighbors Program to support NYCHA Amsterdam Houses.