The United Jewish Appeal’s Super Sunday 1984 on January 15 raised $13,448,609 for the 1984 Regular Campaign and Project Renewal in 69 reporting communities, Jerome Dick, UJA Super Sunday national chairman, said today.
“But we’ve only just begun,” said Dick, a UJA national vice chairman who has led the event since it began nationally in 1981. “Eight communities held Super Sundays before the January 18 national date, raising $1.2 million, and 65 more — including such major communities as Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia — will be conducting their telephone marathons in the coming weeks and months.”
The UJA of Greater Washington, D.C., broke its own record by raising more than $2 million. In Boston, the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Super Sunday raised more than $1,000,000, a 40 percent increase over 1983.
“We’re confident that when the last community Super Sunday has taken place this spring, the national record set last year of $31.3 million will be shattered,” Dick said. Some 11,400 volunteers took part in the nationwide Super Sunday, obtaining more than 77,000 commitments.
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