Full financial responsibility for 11 of the 19 agencies affiliated with the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations here will be assumed by the Los Angeles Community Chest beginning March 1, 1956, it was announced today The arrangement vitally affects the entire Jewish community.
According to the announcement, the Chest’s acceptance of this financial responsibility means it will appropriate an additional $440,000 yearly to local Jewish health and social welfare agencies. This sum will augment its current annual support of $616,000, giving these agencies approximately $1,100,000 from the coming campaign. In order to implement the plan of full Chest support of the 11 agencies, it was agreed that the United Jewish Welfare Fund contribute to the Chest this year. $200,000 from its 1956 campaign, and gradually declining sums until 1959, at which time the plan will be concluded.
The announcement pointed up the fact that this arrangement with the Chest relieves the United Jewish Welfare Fund of providing an equal amount toward the budgets of these agencies, a responsibility which it has been shouldering for many years. Henceforth, they will depend upon the Chest as their only source of monetary support. The other eight agencies of Federation will continue to receive their full support from the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
The new financial arrangement was the unanimous recommendation of a joint committee representing the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations, the Jewish Community Council and the Community Chest, and was accepted following a vote of approval by the boards of trustees of the three groups. Garner Beckett, president of the Community Chest said the full inclusion of these agencies is a “step in the direction of real unity in fund-raising for local health and welfare services. We are confident that Jewish support of these agencies will be continued through the Community Chest in this next campaign and in succeeding united appeals, “he added.
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