Scope and Content Notes

Contains revised by-laws from 1937, 1946, 1948 and 1951, as well as suggested changes in 1943.

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Contains letters, reports, and communiqués from Community Chest Presidents Theodore F. Smith and A.H. Burchfield in the 1940s, Leland Hazard 1949 to 1950, and George R. Craig, J.K. Beeson, and Carl B. Jensen in the early 1950s. Major topics concern budget procedures and allocations, insurance, and changes to the by-laws. The address given in July 1949 by President, Leland Hazard, concerns questions as to whether budgeting procedures at the Chest resulted in proper allocation, the threat to 'democratic procedures of budgeting and allocation', and the survival of the Community Chest. Presidential communications of the early 1950s address the 'crisis' in health and welfare services, the failure of the Chest to reach funding goals in most years, the need for the organization to study community needs and agency programs, and to gather feedback from Chest agencies.

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Materials of the Delegate Council include meeting announcements and proposed changes to the by-laws from 1948 to 1951. A report to the Council by President, A. H. Burchfield, Jr., discusses the February 1949 Board of Directors meeting. There is a list of allocations to Community Chest agencies for 1949, which primarily covers family and child welfare services, group work, community health services and youth services.

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Materials concerning the Community Chest Board of Directors are contained in seven folders and include agendas, memorandum, minutes, reports and resolutions. There are Board of Directors membership lists from 1941 to 1960, and board minutes from the 1940s. Folder 10 includes board minutes and a budget analysis from 1949.

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This series contains three folders that include correspondence and memoranda from three Community Chest Executive Directors, Carter Taylor (1945-1947), Robert P. Lane (1950-1952), and Robert L. Garvey (1945-1955). A letter from Tayor dated September 22, 1945 to George W. Martin, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Clairton, Pennsylvania, recommends Negro representation on the Clairton Campaign Committee of the United War Fund. In an August 1945 letter to Taylor, Helen D. Green, Executive Director of the American Services Institute, explains the role of the American Service Institute and its non-affiliation with The American Federation of International Institutes. This came in response to questions about the Mexican 'War Manpower' workers in Pittsburgh. An April 30, 1947, letter from Helen Green to Tayor documents retrenchment measures taken by the American Services Institute due to 1947 budget cuts affecting all Chest agencies. The series is arranged alphabetically by the Director's last name.

Scope and Content Notes

This series contains correspondence between Community Chest (Community Fund) and American Service Institute Executive Secretaries; Helen D. Green (1940s), Eleanor l. Ryder (1950), and Hope McDermott (1951-1960). Also includes lists of officers, board of directors, and delegates to the Chest. A letter from 1942 gives a brief history of the American Service Institute and describes the organization's activities.

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Seven Folders of material are contained in the Divisions series concerning the following units: City Neighborhood Division, Social Agencies Section, Program Services Division, School Division, Council on War Relief Agencies, and the United War Fund.

Folders 7-9 include a City Neighborhood Division Plan for the 1946 financial campaign, lists of individuals; 'Cooperation Sheets' used to collect pledges from clubs and organizations; subscription lists from the 1944-45 campaign; lists of solicited clubs and organizations; area street lists; and, a 1946 City Neighborhood Division Instruction Manual containing organizational charts and policy and procedures for conducting the 1946 Division financial campaign.

Folder 10 contains minutes and lists of representatives for the Council of War Relief Agencies of the United War Fund. There are completed questionnaires concerning agency membership and activities from the Pittsburgh Unit of French Relief, Inc., Norwegian Society of Pittsburgh, Polish American Council, British War Relief Society, Inc., and the Czechoslovak Committee.

Folder 12 contains the Community Chest Reference Manual for Schools for 1946 describing the functions of the Chest, the annual campaign, and services provided by the Chest agencies. The manual includes statistics about family welfare services from 1945. There is an 'Information Kit' from 1944 distributed to schools in Allegheny County for the purpose of educating school age children about "service to others on the war front and the home front" available through the United War Fund and the Community Fund. Also, included are an organizational chart, list of responsibilities, a plan for year-round work in educational programs for field consultants, Q A lists concerning Community Fund services, and an 'Attitude Test' concerning 'social judgement' to be utilized in the classroom.

Folder 13 contains materials relating to the United War Fund including a Neighborhood Division Campaign Manual for the United War Fund from 1944, a subscription list of foreign language organizations from 1943, and a National War Fund Directory of Member Agencies.

Scope and Content Notes

Committee material is contained in six boxes (boxes 3-8) and include correspondence, communiqués, reports, and stenographic notes relating to the Joint Study Committee, Agency Come and See Committee, Budget Committee, Fraternal and Organizations Committee and the Special Committee for Budget Problems. The bulk of the material is in the form of stenographic notes documenting the general meetings and agency budget hearings conducted by the Budget Committee from 1936 to 1942.

Folder 1 contains communiqués, correspondence and report concerns the 'audit' of budget processes conducted by the Joint Study Committee from 1947 to 1949. A plan and report of the joint, self-analytical study ('audit') of the Chest and the Federation is included. Folder 2 contains only two meeting announcements from the Agency Come and See Committee for the purpose of organizing tours and exhibitions that would showcase services of the Chest member agencies in 1948.

Budget Committee stenographic notes are contained in Box 3, Folder 3 through Box 8, Folder 5. The Budget Committee hearing schedules are divided into four groups. For each hearing cycle, there are generally lists of committee members, agency names, and schedules assigned to each group. The six boxes of stenographic notes are organized as they were originally bound, as groups, generally in chronological order.

Box 8, Folder 6 contains materials from the Fraternal and Organizations Committee that include lists of community leaders from approximately twenty-five, mostly fraternal organizations, representing a wide range of ethnic groups. A pamphlet titled, Above All the People, published by the Chest's Program Services Division in 1952 contains "Tips for Talks". There are funding percentages from 1951, goals of the 1952 campaign, 1952 service figures, and a list of Community Chest agencies.

Box 8, Folder 7 contains materials of the Special Committee for Study of the Budget Problems; they include minutes from October 1939 to March 1941; correspondence and summaries from 1940 to 1941 regarding budget processes of Community Chests located in other cities; and, the committee's final report dated May, 1941.

Scope and Content Notes

The series includes materials from the 1940s and 1950s such as correspondence, committee reports, newspaper clippings, fact sheets, and photographic illustrations of member agency services. Also included is a five-year plan for the Community Chest and Federation of Social Agencies dated 1947, a radio report of broadcasts for 1947, and a public relations report for 1950. There is a 1951 Campaign Publicity Report, a list of Chest agency television and radio appearances for 1955, and the Health and Welfare Association list of United Fund agencies and services provided in 1958.

Folder 3 contains materials concerning the Speakers Bureau from the 1940s primarily. Documents include correspondence, pamphlets, study guides for the purposes of speaking to club groups on the topics of juvenile delinquency, family breakdown, child dependency and community health.

Scope and Content Notes

The series consists of ten folders, which contain by-laws, correspondence, financial and policy statements, forms, guides, lists, minutes and reports from the 1940s and early 1950s. A Pocket Guide 1944, prepared by the Bureau of Social Research Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, contains charts and figures illustrating social service trends designed to serve as background for Budget Committees. Reports from the early 1950s contain histories and background information regarding budget policies and procedures for the Community Chest and the Federation. Funding requests from agencies explain agency services, budgets, and needs in the 1940s. The constitution and by-laws for the Federation of Social Agencies are included with reports that explain the Federation reorganization for the purpose of implementing the new budget processes in 1943. Remaining materials consist of financial statements of the Community Fund for 1941 and 1942, list of payments to Chest agencies from 1938 to 1947, blank budget forms, worksheets, recommendations, and minutes.

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Materials concerning the annual fundraising campaigns of the 1940s and 1950s are contained in one box and the folders are arranged chronologically. They include brochures, correspondence, guides, handbooks, lists, newspaper clippings, organizational charts, reports, resource materials, and sheet music. The Chest provided detailed instructions to volunteers during the annual campaigns: items include the Group Solicitation Plan, 1947, Handbook for Volunteers, Fall Campaign 1953, resource materials and instructional packet for speakers dated 1953, and Firm Chairman's Handbook, 1954 for company solicitation.

There are documents relating to after-campaign analysis and evaluations designed to improve future fundraising efforts. Some of these include: The Community Fund campaign achievements list that contains goals, pledges, actual payments and shortfalls in campaigns of the 1930s and early 1940s, list of participants and campaign results for the City Neighborhood Division in 1944-1945. Volunteer reports discuss problems related to prejudice, and the failure of community organizing, human relations, and organizational structure.

The Community Chest sought foreign language campaign volunteers through the American Service Institute. Included in the materials of the 1950s are census figures of the largest nationality groups in Allegheny County in 1953, as well as a list and description of 'key leaders' from the Polish Community.

For the 1954 campaign, the Community Chest produced a brochure called, Court 1-6010,that described the available educational films created in Allegheny County through a Chest project that utilized local writers and actors. The films had titles such as "Incident on the Hill", "Nobody's Nothin", "Outcast", and "Stigma". The brochure and a list of television play dates are in Folder 9. Located in Folder 7, is sheet music titled, "Bright Red Feather", a campaign song by Maxfield Gibbons and John Gile (no date).

Folder 10 contains materials from the 1950s related to the United Fund (United Way), including brochures describing the relationship between the Community Chest and the United Fund.

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Miscellaneous materials from 1933 to 1959 include booklets, correspondence, income and expense sheets, lists, and reports. Included are budget analysis work sheets and agencies' income and expense sheets with figures from 1939 to 1944; correspondence relating to a community service exhibit at the Carnegie Museum in October 1950, called the Agency Come and See Show; Joint Plan of Merger of the Community Fund and United War Fund dated 1946; correspondence seeking participation in the Community Chest Thank You Week where agencies plan at least one event to thank friends and supporters; lists of Community Fund Agencies dated 1945 and 1953; the 1933 Articles of Incorporation for the Welfare Federation of Cleveland and a booklet explaining the services and history of the Cleveland Chest from 1913 to 1942; and correspondence from 1946 to 1959 generally concerning administrative issues at the Community Chest's office.

Scope and Content Notes

The series contains booklets and newsletters from 1948 to 1958 including one issue of The Chest dated December 1959; seven issues of Community dating from 1948 to 1951, published by the Community Chest, the Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County; seven issues of Service from 1952 to 1958; and, two issues of UF Newsletter (United Fund) from December 1956 and November 1958. In addition there is a primer to the Community Fund agencies printed in 1953 explaining the services provided by each agency; and, a unified campaign plan specifically for companies that has no date.

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Contains annual reports of the Community Fund for 1941, The United War Fund and the Community Fund for 1943, and the Community Chest Annual Report for 1959.

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Contains clippings primarily from Pittsburgh area newspapers concerning annual campaign short falls as they relate to increasing requests for funds from agencies threatening service cuts to the community. Several of these articles focus on Community Chest funding problems in 1949, and the state of unified capital appeals.

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The series contains two bound, undated lists called, "Schedule of Code Number Groups". The lists link the Code Numbers discussed in the records to the Firm and Section Numbers of the Community Chest of Allegheny County.