The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare funds today issued its annual series of “budget digests” designed “to aid local budget committees in determining appropriations proportionate to relative needs.”
The C.J.F.W.F. pointed out that these “budget digests were necessary “with communities being asked to give $250,000,000 to the United Jewish Appeal and with 67 other major agencies having an aggregate 1949 goal of approximately $68,000,000.” The Council notes that the goals for 1949 “represent approximately a 50 percent rise over the 1948 expenditures of $45,000,000 of these agencies.”
In the study on overseas agencies, the budget note that seven organization, outside the U.J.A., “show 1948 expenditures of $5,289,000 as against a 1949 goal of $9,250,000.” In the section devoted to agencies for Israel, the series reports that eleven organizations outside the U.J.A. spent $19,290,000 in 1948 while their goal this year is $31,438,000. Religious agencies last year expended a total f $1,820,000, the Council report said, adding that in 1949 they are seeking $2,509,000.
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