Jews in Boston were urged to grant an overwhelming portion of their philanthropy dollars to the Combined Jewish Appeal in a call issued here by Jewish community leaders following an all-day conference at which plans were mapped for the 1955 CJA campaign which gets under way in a few weeks.
The all-day planning conference adopted a resolution calling attention to the growing multiplicity of independent fund raising campaigns which constitute a threat to the central Jewish community organization which shoulders the responsibility of financing a network of 201 health, welfare, education and recreation agencies helping Jewry at home, nationally overseas and in Israel. It reaffirmed the basic principle that “all valid Jewish appeals deserving the support of the full Jewish community belong in the Combined Jewish Appeal, except when there is mutual agreement between it and an outside agency that the latter shall conduct its own campaign.”
“In such an event,” the resolution stated, “the timing and other conditions governing such campaigns should be worked out in agreement with the Combined Jewish Appeal” since “it is only through orderly and responsible processes that maximum support can be obtained, while maintaining the principle of flexibility for the initiation and growth of worthy new causes where required. “The resolution emphasized that it has the responsibility of developing community cooperation “to the point where prospective contributors will clear with the CJA before making contributions to independent drives and clearance of CJA.
While a considerable portion of the planning conference was devoted to problem of fund raising, the community leaders spent much time discussion other vital problems A major portion of the day’s deliberations was devoted to a discussion and exchange of ideas regarding the population shifts taking place in the Greater Boston area and the growth of suburbia. The conference called for the conduct of a community survey which would provide information about the nature of the old and new Jewish communities.
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