In a move designed to provide the utmost possible funds to meet the crisis in immigration overseas and to prevent further cuts in local communal services, the board of trustees of the Jewish Community Council. of Essex County voted to adopt a formula for the distribution of 1959 United Jewish Appeal funds. The formula provides that:
1. Of the net funds available for distribution of the first $2, 000, 000 gross raised in the 1959 UJA campaign — the same amount as that raised in 1958 — Israeli and other overseas agencies will receive $899,000 (national UJA will receive $828-085 of this amount); local agencies, including refugee care services, will receive $716, 000; and national service, cultural and community relations agencies, $81, 145.
2. Of all funds raised beyond $2, 000, 000, national UJA is to be allocated 75 percent, and local and other needs 25 percent.
The formula, which was presented to the board for adoption by Leo Yanoff, president of the Jewish Community Council, was arrived at a discussion between representatives of the Council and the national United Jewish Appeal. “This formula for distribution of funds provides a challenge to the contributors of our community to go beyond the $2, 000, 000 raised last year and give more to meet the pressing needs of 1959, ” Mr. Yanoff said.
“The most urgent of these needs are the emigration this year of 100, 000 Rumanian Jews to Israel, and the safeguarding–and hopefully, the restoration–of essential services vitally needed by the Jewish people of Essex County,” he stated. He stressed the point that “this formula will enable us to do better for all the agencies of our campaign–local, national, Israeli and overseas.”
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