A community center for youth, sponsored originally by the Joint Distribution Committee and aided by grants from the Ford Foundation, was opened here today and hailed as a “unique example of cooperation between international social welfare agencies.”
The building was purchased through a Ford Foundation contribution, while furniture and equipment were furnished by the JDC and the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Upkeep of the Center has been taken over by SJU – the central Jewish welfare organization of France.
Conduct of the center will be patterned after the best practices of American institutions of this nature. Plans and the program for the center had been drawn up by Louis Kraft, JDC consultant on community centers and director of the World Federation of Young Men’s Hebrew Associations. Henri Nilstein, executive director of the Center, spent a year in the United States under a Ford Foundation grant studying similar programs in the United States.
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