The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-04

proved by its board of directors. The
term of office is two years, one half
of each grCup to be elected each
year.
Any organization is considered eligi-
BILE to participation in the Federation
which makes to the citizens of Cleve-
land, without restriction to religious,
UNCONVENTIONAL or other special afffl-
iation, a legitimate appeal for funds
with which to further it's activities.
The following is the agreement pro-
posed between the Federation and the
organizations that will join it:
| 1. When the Federation obtains
ffrom any person gift equal to his to-
tai gifts the preceding year, it agrees
to assign to each organization an
| amount equal to the gift previously
received from the person. IF the
Federation receives from any person
a sum totalling more than ten per cent
| Of his previous years aggregate, it
agrees to divide half the increase pro
4 rata among these same organizations.
In case the total amount is less, it is
to be divided pro rata All of these
arrangements cover gifts upon which
the donor has made no conditions. If
he prefers. however, to designate the
direction of his gift, his liberty to do
SO is to be complete.
2. Each Organization, ig free to- So
licit gifts from persons not giving
through the Federation.
81 Each organization is urged tol
maintain close touch with its friends
and donors, up-to-date lists of its do
nors being furnished by the Fedora
ton. A principal duty of the Fedora
ton shall be to widen in every possible
manner the charitable philanthropic
and social interests of the whole list
of donors.
4. The agreement covers only cur
rent expense budgets. Each organ
ization agrees not to solicit gifts at
| the hands of the contributors TO the
F'ederation- The need and the meth
Cd by which shall be raised funds for
purposes outside of current expenses
are to be in each case determined by
consultation between the Federation
and the organization concerned.
In suggesting this plan for the Fed
eration's work, the committee sought
method which would tend:
First. to increase the amount CIV
en-.
Second. to increase the number Civ
ing.
Third, to do this in manner that
shall not depend upon the ability with
which this particular work or that
happens to be presented to the givers,
but rather upon its proper relation to
other activities equally worthy and to
the citys work as q whole.
Fourth, to accomplish all this by
means of a great body of givers better
educated to the aI1-around needs of
the city.
Fifth, to create this great body by
broad social and pl1fanthropic educa-
ton.
sixth, to do away with the idea that
the various institutions represent un-
related, separate needs and fields, and
emphasize the thought that all the
agencies are attacking only different
parts of one big problem.
The plan differs essentially from
any devised or practiced in other CIT
les. Tt is not a federation of insti-
tutions alone as in Denver; not of Civ
ers alone, nor of both together. It
is federation for advancing charity
and philanthropy, Of institutions, of
givers and of citizens. 1t does not
intend to be a mere collecting agency,
as is the Liverpool project, though it
does not wish to assume to direct
gifts to this or that work until it has
had at least two years of experience, |
and then only on the request of the |
Individual contributor. It does not, |
furthermore, plan to do away with |
the financial activities of the various
constituent organizations but to d. |
rect these activities towards the non
giver in the hope of bringing him into |
the fold.
Between the Federation's subscriber |
and the good work of Cleveland as a |
whole, the Federation plans to estab- |
lish a closer relation than at present. |
At the large and enthusiastic meet |
ing of the Chamber of Commerce, |
when the new enterprise was launch |
ed, Chairman Martin A. Marks of the |
committee, summed up it's advantages |
as follows:
For the institution, the plan should |
mean larger life because of more /
money, without that money being pur-
chased at the cost of the time of the |
superintendent. For the donor, it |
should mean larger satisfaction, with
out the pleasure of one gift being |
spoiled by the unhappiness of ten re-
KusaIs. For the citizen, 1T should
mean a better Cleveland-the first city /
to organize itself for becoming ''the
city of good WILL
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING