The Jewish Welfare Federation of this city received $137,182 from the Community Chest during the past year, and will require from the Chest over $160,000 for the year 1930, according to an announcement issued by Oscar Leonard, Executive Director of the Federation. The Community Chest, embracing practically all of the leading charitable and welfare institutions of the various creeds in the city, was established a year ago.
According to the announcement, the Jewish Welfare Federation includes the Hebrew Home for the Aged, which drew $26,455.80 for its work in 1929, caring for 74 aged persons; the United Hebrew Relief Society, which received $35,780 in 1929, assisting 680 families in which there were 495 children and a total number of 1,281 persons in these families; the Jewish Foster Home, whose 1929 budget was $17,240.91 and cared for 45 children; and the Juanita K. Nye Council House, 1929 budget $4,575.90, with an attendance during the year of 19,639, and including 11 boys’ clubs and 14 girls’ clubs.
All these institutions will require increased budgets for 1930, Mr. Leonard indicated.
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