The Joint Distribution Committee will provide up to $950,000 in 1951 for the work of ORT according to an agreement signed today by representatives of the two agencies. The agreement was signed by Prof. William Haber and Dr. Aron Syngalowski, representing ORT, and Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the JDC.
The pact provides that ORT will not conduct an independent fund-raising campaign in the United States, but that funds for its programs in Europe and North Africa will be made available by JDC from the income which it will receive during the coming year from the United Jewish Appeal. Similar agreements between JDC and ORT have been reached annually since 1947.
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