Participants in the United Jewish Appeal’s Washington Mission Program pledged nearly $13 million to the 1983 UJA/Community campaign in the first three months of 1983, Jerome Dick of Washington, D.C. the program’s national chairman, announced today.
Dick, a UJA national vice chairman, said that 821 community leaders from throughout the nation participating in 21 missions pledged more than $9.8 million to the 1983 Regular campaign– an increase of 24.1 percent over their gifts during the same period in 1983 — in addition to almost $1.5 million to the Israel Special Fund and more than $1.6 million to Project Renewal.
“The Washington Mission Program has been sponsored by UJA in cooperation with the Council of Jewish Federations since 1980, ” Dick said, “and it has solidly established its value. In 1982, 1,698 people participated in 62 Washington Missions, which raised more than $22.2 million.
“The program, however, raises consciousness as well as funds, ” Dick stated, “by giving our leaders an ‘insider’s’ view of the decision-making process on foreign and domestic issues of concern to the Jewish community.”
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