The United Jewish Appeal collected $326.5 million in cash in calendar year 1983 to set a new peacetime record, UJA national cash chairman Bernard Borine announced.
The total, collected among 627 campaigning communities nationwide, is $1.5 million more than was projected for the year by American campaign leaders during budget meetings of the Jewish Agency — the principal beneficiary of UJA/Community campaign –last February, Borine said.
“Despite difficult economic conditions created by cutbacks in federal and state spending for social welfare programs in communities, American Jewry once again has responded with generosity and compassion to the ongoing needs of the world Jewish family,” Borine said, “This remarkable performance demonstrates our enduring commitment to the quality and continuity of Jewish life everywhere it exists.”
A total of $67.9 million has been pledged to the Special Fund to date to help provide additional support for civilian social welfare, education and health programs and services threatened by reductions or curtailment in the economic wake of the Galilee operation. Cash collected in 1983 included $19 million earmarked for the Israel Special Fund, Borine said.
He stated that the 1983 cash total includes $283 million For the 1983 Regular Campaign to support Jewish Agency programs for housing, financial aid, health care, job training and Hebrew instruction for Israel’s new. immigrants; the establishment of rural settlements in the Galilee, Arava and Negev; youth aliya facilities for the education and care of youngsters who remain outside the mainstream of Israeli society, and special programs for the elderly.
Funds from UJA/Community campaigns also go to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which aids Jews in more than 30 countries, including Moslem states and lands of distress.
The total also includes $20.6 million for Project Renewal, the sweeping economic, social and cultural rehabilitation program created to improve the quality of life in Israel’s distressed neighborhoods, Borine added.
Borine said UJA has launched an accelerated cash program in 1984 that aims at collection of unpaid pledges from 1984 and prior Regular Campaigns; fulfillment of commitments to the residents of Project Renewal neighborhoods, and total redemption of unpaid pledges to the Israel Special Fund. In addition, communities are being urged to remit cash to UJA for all allocated needs in equal monthly payments.
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