San Francisco Jewish Community Chest Shows Progress in Second Drive

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The sum of $238,653 was raised here in the second annual drive of the National Jewish Welfare Fund, a Jewish community chest for national purposes. The goal this year was the same as last, $250,000. Last year only $160,000 was raised, each of the beneficiary agencies therefore receiving 65 percent of their original allotment.

The beneficiary organizations this year are: American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, American Pro-Falasha Committee, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Equipment Fund, National Jewish Hospital of Denver, Ex-Patients Tubercular Home, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Histadruth Ivrith, Intercollegiate Menorah Society, Jewish Chatauqua Society, Jewish Consumptive Relief, Duarte, Jewish Educational Society, San Francisco, United Jewish Campaign, Jewish Institute of Religion, Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association, Jewish Publication Society, Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish Welfare Board, National Farm School, National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Denver, Talmud Torah of San Francisco, Training School for Jewish Social Service, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, United Palestine Appeal, United Synagogue of America.

San Francisco and Oakland, California, are the only two cities in the United States which have developed organizations for an annual drive to cover their respective obligations to national and foreign philanthropic agencies.

The success of such a method of meeting a community’s responsibility has proved to be a success and leaders here feel that there can be no return to the old method.

This new departure is of great significance in relation to the plan recently discussed in New York for the establishment of a “Jewish National Chest.”