Colorado has raised $20,000 toward a joint quota of $30,000 for that state, Wyoming and New Mexico in the campaign to raise the $2,000,000 fund of the Wider Scope Committee of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Executive Secretary of the I. O. B. B. and director of the campaign announced.
Dr. Bogen also announced that one-fourth of the quota for Omaha was raised among eleven persons who were present at a preliminary organization meeting on March 22nd.
Richard E. Gutstadt, of San Francisco, who is in charge of the drive along the Pacific Coast, reported that the State of Washington raised almost its entire quota on the second day of its campaign.
Western Pennsylvania accepted a quota of $100,000 at a conference of delegates representing the lodges of that section which was held last week at the Pittsburgh Y.M.H.A. Leonard S. Levin, chairman of the Western Pennsylvania committee, presided at the conference.
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