B’nai B’rith has increased its annual budget 18.2 percent to a record $15,684,558 for its 1969 operations. The B’nai B’rith board of governors, concluding its annual meeting here today, also allocated $6,629,750 of the budget for its specialized teen-age, college campus and career counseling activities, an increase of $702,582 over 1968 allocations. B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations were authorized to spend $3,008,192 this year–the first time in the 48-year history of the campus program that its budget reached the $3 million mark.
The board also approved the establishment of the Hillel Foundations program at six additional colleges, raising the number of campuses served to 273. The six schools are Connecticut College, New London; Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Va.; Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn.; University of Sussex in Britain; the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and University of Haifa in Israel. A part-time Hillel program at Southern Illinois. University in Carbondale, Ill., which now has some 2,500 Jewish students, was advanced to full-time status.
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