, 1923-10-21

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During the past year a 6
Icouraged by Casper's most promir
bent citizens. have studied the pos
|sIbnity of a Community Chest for
'orm city. However. the success Of
Ems undertaking depends upon the
|fact whether the people Of Casper
Irsallze the need and the advantage
II a community chest. That this
might be. different features OF a
Community chest will be explained
H. YOU during the next few months
Through various channels. At the
Ipresent time let us answer the
.auestion: What is a Community
Chest?
1t is an association organized for
tae purpose Of establishing a cen
raj bureau. with which may be af-
@kiiated the various social. civic, edu-
Rational. and charitable organiza-
kions supported in whole or in part
NV the voluntary contributions of
the public. with the object of secur.
tng cooperation and unity of &C.
lion between the same. and of pro-
noting in general tho social welfare
pf the community. The control OF
this association is vested in a man
aging body under whose supervision
ail of the business is transacted.
bach organization belonging TO 1t
Is required to live up to certain
standards of efficiency. Before the
field year begins 1t prepares a care
tul budget of it's needs. which is
studied thoroughly and passed upon
by a central budget committee.
fwhen this committees work is done,
J the complete budget for all the af-
filiated agencies is determined. The
community is asked to make cen
tributlons for a years period to
finance this program. This is done
generally through a special cam
paign for funds. similar to cam.
paigns made during the war for
governmental operation. The funds
khus raised r held in trust and
Nrned over monthly to the diff
ferent agencies. who are required
o spend them according TO the
budget and program OF work laid
hown at tho beginning of the year.
In addition TO raising funds for
4 he affiliated organizations the COM
fnunity chest plan is calculated to
Improve the efficiency of the work
bone, to bring about more harmon
1ous relations between the different
agencies and to see to it in genera
that the social needs of the com
1nunity are adequately met. Each
hgency's books are carefully audit
I'D, it's program of work thoroughly
Studied, social problems OF the com
hnunity are surveyed, and where
new needs exist. provision is made
FOR meeting them. Indeed one could
Justify the existence of a community
chest by it's efficient economical
administration OF charitable and so.
cial work
1t is the applying OF hard-headed
business principles I o charity: a
hitchine Of n communities lar-e-
heartedness to common sense TINT
WI strive to exercise the trucst
Parity viz. to produce the greatest
good 10 the greatest number.
does not near that che in
erna' infringement of a given or.
E~anization will be inierfered with.
has it's own board of directors
$ usual; II hires it's own staff; con.
ucts Us W work. 1t retains it's
Wn IDENTITY. Each organization
pun has the opportunity and should
issue such educational and publicity
natter as is necessary to inform
rs friends and the general public
the work 1t is doing.
This briefly gives you the purpose
the community chest. It's zen.
raj idea is better cooperation in
he matter Of raising funds and in
Planning and doing welfare work
turing the war when all of our
faues were asked TO raise certain
quotas needed to maintain the q
sous war agencies, tho advantage
some central collection system
pecame apparent. About so cities
puopted the idea and developed
That is commonly known as the
War Chest" The plan worked so
uccessfully in this large field that
nany of the cities decided to con.
Snue their organizations for peace
time work, such organizations being
thown as Community Chests"
Yer since the movement toward
MS form of cooperative organiza-
aon is spreading rapidly.
1t has invariably resulted in the
faising of much larger funds than
ne agencies individually were able
Q collect. In st. Paul. Minnesota,
he local agencies had been able to
taise individually not over 1926. 900.
their first community [hest cam
palgn 5000 900 was asked and an
Pversubscription was received. Thus
ne community chest is a more Of.
lcient and a more successful way
raise money than when each
'gency works for itself. The secret
this lies in the fact that the
ommunity chest drive has invar.
Aoty resulted in a large increase of
ohtrioutors. Thus, for instance, in
y. Paul the number OF givers
owards the drives of the different
sencies before the community chest
formed was about 5000. In
tho first community chest drive 49,.
u9ssubscribed. In other cities the
Perease was even larger. In Cieve.
and. Ohio, 1t increased from 1900
b 5000.
Then. too, the community chest
fesults in better service on the part
the Individual organizations and
more intelligent and effective serv.