Acting in accordance with a resolution adopted last year by the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and welfare Funds, calling for the unification of the programs of the four major Jewish agencies engaged in civic protective activities, a committee appointed by the Council’s Board will meet this week to review the status of a proposal which it made to the agencies involved and to prepare a report for submission to the 1943 General Assembly which opens in Cleveland on January 16, it was announced here today.
The proposal made by the committee to the civic-protective groups is reported to include “a comprehensive plan looking towards the creation of a central operating body for defense work in the United States.” The plan was prepared following a series of conferences with representatives of the four major agencies.
Prominent on the agenda of the 1943 General Assembly are problems of wartime maintenance and financing of local Jewish community organizations established over a period of years to meet local, national and overseas Jewish needs. The opening session on Saturday night will be devoted to a discussion of welfare problems and programs in wartime. In his presidential address, Sidney Hollander of Baltimore will analyze the Council’s activities in 1942, with particular emphasis on the phases of the national program undertaken in behalf of the member agencies. James Marshall of New York, chairman of the Assembly Program Committee, will review the economic developments arising from the war and the impact of current conditions on welfare programs and interests.
JEWISH FUND-RAISING PROBLEMS FOR 1943 WILL BE DISCUSSED
The Sunday session will be devoted to reports from the Committee on Fund-Raising Policies and from the Committee on Civic-Protective Organizations. A summary of war chest developments in 1942 will be given. Also considered will be fund-raising problems for 1943, including the effects of war-time taxation and other economic factors on the income of private philanthropic agencies. Reports will be heard also from the Committee on local Community Organization which has made a study of the basic questions of the structure and objectives of local community organizations and from the Budget Research Committee, which was authorized by the 1942 Assembly and which has made intensive studies of three overseas organizations supported by local welfare funds.
The Board last year appointed, as a direct war measure, a Committee on Relation of National Organizations to Regional Activities, to economize on time, energy and costs, and to seek to relate the promotional and educational activities of the organizations which conduct regional programs to the needs of its member agencies and organized regions. This Committee will meet with the major national organizations before the Assembly and will submit its recommendations.
The participation of Federal welfare agencies in the task of post-war planning and rehabilitation will be discussed at the Sunday evening session by Charles P. Taft, assistant director of the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services, and a member of the President’s War Relief Control Board. Mr. Taft’s address will cover also the place of social welfare planning in war-time and the relation of voluntary to private agencies. William J. Shredder of Cincinnati, chairman of the Council’s Board, will close the session with a summary of the Assembly proceedings.
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