Plans for a $2,000,000 drive next fall to offset a threatened deficit in its budget were discussed by 200 business and professional leaders at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Plaza last night of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
The deficit the Federation is facing, it was pointed out by Waldemar Kops, chairman of the Business Men’s Council Executive Committee, comes at a time when the ninety-one affiliated philanthropic agencies are coping with the greatest problems in their history.
Stressing the huge increase, which had come in the need for free service in the Federation institutions, Kops presented charts which showed graphically how this need had risen from 1928 to 1933. In the seven affiliated hospitals, the charts revealed the number of patients treated yearly has grown from 11,138 in 1928 to 22,236 in 1932, an increase of 100 per cent. In the same period the number of days of care given to free patients has increased 54.3 per cent.
During these years of increasing need for free service, Kops stated, funds have decreased in an alarming manner. He presented another chart showing the annual contributions of members which in 1928 amounted to $3,727,367, by 1934 had fallen to $1,600,624, a drop of 43 per cent. In the same period the number of annual contributors has decreased 51.4 per cent, declining from 24,065 in 1929 to 12,359 in the present year.
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