The United Jewish Appeal 1981 regular campaign, still in progress, recorded a total of $511.0 million in pledges as of last Friday, a new peacetime high. The previous record for a year without open war involving Israel was the $508.5 million registered by the total 1980 campaign.
According to the report released by national UJA headquarters today, Friday’s milestone achievement represents a card-for-card increase of 11.8 percent over the previous year. Final returns for 1981 will be announced shortly after the end of the year. The report also indicated that prospects are bright for the new record to be surpassed again by the 1982 regular campaign, launched two and a half months ago. The new drive, showing a pledge total of $81.9 million to date, is running 24.0 percent ahead of 1981.
ISRAEL MISSION SPURRING 1982 DRIVE
Marked progress is also being made in Project Renewal, the report revealed, with total pledges for the vast social and physical rehabilitation program for distressed Israel neighborhoods nearing the $100 million mark since its inception. New pledges made to Project Renewal since the 1982 campaign began registered $3.6 million in last Friday’s report.
Much of the current regular campaign’s success is attributed by the report to the continuing high level of 1982 fundraising achievement produced by UJA’s intensified program of missions to Israel. Four missions returning last week, involving 520 participants, amassed a regular campaign pledge total of $5,764,301 compared to $4,357,070 from the same contributors last year, for an increase of 32.3 percent.
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