Cjfwf Board Calls for National Coordination of Bond Drive and UJA

Formation of a national coordinating group composed of the Israel bond drive, the United Jewish Appeal and representatives of Jewish communities was urged today by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. The Council revealed the text of resolutions adopted Sunday by its board of directors stressing the “urgent necessity” of securing effective national coordination of the bond drive and UJA campaigns and instructing the Council’s national-local relations committee to take immediate steps to achieve the desired coordination.

“Maximum funds can be raised for both the UJA and from the sale of bonds only if the two organized efforts are not conducted simultaneously or competitively in any community. but rather through the concentrated efforts of each of them at separate times during the year,” the board declared. It added that “it has been demonstrated that national coordination is urgently necessary through some instrument in which the UJA, the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel and the organized Jewish communities will be represented. The purpose of this national instrument will be to develop national planning of timing, publicity, use of field staff and other national campaign procedures.”

The board commended the national UJA for “its repeated and continuing efforts to obtain such coordination” and urged the AFDCI to cooperate with the UJA and the CJFWF in achieving the necessary agreement.

In other resolutions, the board condemned the bond drive organization for its recent actions in Indianapolis and called on communities to exert all efforts to make maximum cash funds available to the UJA. The board also considered coordinated planning and financing of national community relations programs and other communal problems.