National Jewish Welfare Board Adopts $1, 438, 600 Budget for 1962 Program

The board of directors of the National Jewish Welfare Board voted a budget of $1, 438, 600 to cover the organization’s service program for 1962, Solomon Litt, JWB president, reported today at the close of the JWB directors’ fall meeting. He said that the organization will need an extra $157,150 over that operating budget for additional religious and morale services required by the current United States military build-up.

He pointed out that the program for the regular 1962 budget was based on several months of planning which could not anticipate the extra services to the military stemming from President Kennedy’s orders for increased military manpower. Correspondingly, he said, the JWB will need a total of $1,595,750 in 1962.

The JWB’s 1962 budget will be used for the organization’s services to its affiliated Jewish Community Centers and YM-YWHAs and for its program on behalf of Jewish Gls and hospitalized veterans. Of this total, $676,525 will be used for JWB’s services to Centers. For its regular Armed Services work, JWB will set aside $457,700 of its 1962 budget. The $157,150 additional is needed for the extra services made necessary by the present military build-up.

Mr. Litt pointed out that the 1962 JWB operating budget was fixed to provide the same level of service as in 1961, with nominal increases to meet rising costs. This is the result of action at the 1960 JWB biennial convention, at which JWB initiated its Community Fair Share Plan. This Plan, which divides the responsibility for JWB financing between its affiliated Centers and community fund-raising agencies, is based on a JWB program of service pegged at the 1960 level.

Affiliated Centers contribute to JWB on a scale adjusted to their own annual budgets, to cover the costs of JWB’s Center services. Community-wide fund-raising bodies, in cities where there are Centers, contribute to a proportion of the JWB budget concerned mainly with Armed Services work. In the New York Metropolitan area, JWB is a beneficiary of the campaign of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.