Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond City Limits. Between the hard-won dollar from the woman in Newark and the resounding windfall in Detroit, the story was the same: some 2,000 communities in the U.S. last week were winding up their annual Community Chest and United Fund campaigns, which this year will top 1955's record of $340 million. The results attest to the resounding success of large-scale, organized giving, in which a single-fund appeal raises more money than was once raised for charity by a score of individual appeals.* Moreover, this new organizational know-how has brought millions of Americans...
...outpouring, say united community fund-raisers, is not merely a sign that U.S. givers are better heeled this year, but, more importantly, that they are more civic-minded. The spirit has even overwhelmed interurban bickerings. For example, in "The Heart of America" United Campaign, the Kansas City metropolitan area appeal stretches across the state line from Missouri into Kansas City, Kans., embraces all or parts of five counties in one "united-response" drive. Per capita contributions from 800,000 people...
Unexpected Dividends. Once business, labor and other community leaders are organized for fund raising, their combined brainpower frequently pays unexpected dividends in civic improvements. In Seattle the "United Good Neighbor" appeal led to successful campaigning for bond issues for a new civic center, school improvements, a new main library...
...lecture series is under the joint sponsorship of the University and the Fund for Adult Education...
Soloway opposes a sales tax, even as a stop-gap, fund-raising measure. He attacks it for the increased costs of administrating a new tax as well as unfairness to taxpayers and denies that any sales tax is necessary, since a "properly revised income tax can produce as much tax revenue as we need...