Three Jewish agencies involved in aiding Jewish poor on the Lower East Side and the Bronx, received grants from the city’s Human Resources Administration totaling $250,000. The grant contracts were signed several days ago by Mayor John V. Lindsay. The quarter of a million dollars is intended for the Jewish poor who live outside the city’s 26 designated poverty areas or in poverty pockets within these areas.
The recipient agencies were: the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty, an umbrella organization of more than 30 Jewish groups on the East Side, $86,480; the Concourse Jewish Community Council, a newly formed group working in the Grand Concourse area of the Bronx, $81,760; and the United Jewish Council of the East Side, $81,760.
At the ceremony marking the signing of the contracts in the office of the UJC, Jule Sugarman, HRA administrator, stated that the contracts resulted “from our careful review of the 1970 census tract data which revealed widespread poverty among groups that previously had not attempted to benefit from government efforts to assist the poor.” The contracts were prepared by the HRA and approved by the Board of Estimate on Jan. 25.
There will be no Daily News Bulletin Monday, February 19 due to Washington’s birthday.
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