With $2,071,000 needed to wipe out a deficit and balance at $3,655,000 budget, the emergency campaign of Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies officially gets under way today. The drive is scheduled to continue to the end of the year.
A dinner at the Hotel Astor will serve to launch the fund-raising effort, which must be successful if Federation is to continue supporting the ninety-one welfare agencies which are affiliated with it.
The general and executive chairmen who will direct the appeal are Arthur Lehman, Lawrence Marx, Paul M. Rosenthal and Percy S. Straus.
HOSPITALS AMONG AFFILIATES
The affiliated agencies include seven hospitals, among them Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Mount Sinai and Beth Israel; seventeen child-care institutions, such as the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Home for Hebrew Infants; and correctional institutions, a home for the aged, a family care agency and schools for the handicapped.
More than 250,000 men, women and children are served annually.
In the last month various important Jewish leaders have pointed out the menace to the entire structure of Jewish philanthropy in New York City which the present financial crisis signifies and have urged generous support of Federation to meet it.
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