Fund-Raising - Volume 8 - The Bulletin - Number 5 - March 19, 1962

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Compilation of news and notes on fund-raising, focusing on hospital-community finance, public belief about media reports, and legislation regulating charitable organizations and professional fund raisers in Georgia. Includes a section on financial aid needed to encourage teaching, featuring teacher salary comparisons and scholarship support. Summarizes fund-raising campaigns and foundation grants, then lists major gifts for education from individuals and organizations.

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Fund-Raising

WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC BELIEVE?

FINANCIAL AID NEEDED TO ENCOURAGE TEACHING

CAMPAIGNS

FOUNDATIONS

For Education

A Compilation of News and Notes Related to # Fund-Raising Volume 8 QUOTE ## WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC BELIEVE? THE HOSPITAL,THE COMMUNITY,AND MONEY LEGISLATION Q891 # The Bu lletin Number 5 March 19,1962 "The saintly cannot be separated from the marketplace,for it is in themarketplace that man's future is being decided.' Louis Finkelstein According to a Roper survey reported in March 10 Saturday Review,an-wers to this question put to 2,000 representative Americans,'If you got conflictingor different reports of the same new s story from radio,TV,magazines,and news-papers,which...would you...believe?",revealed 39 per cent names television,newspapers second. With regard to their financial problems,ho spitals should stop being timidabout presenting these problems to the community.There is too much hush-hushabout the financial affairs of the local community hospital.An informed ho spitalcommunity is a helpful ho spital community.!James A.Ferguson,SouthemHo spitals,Nov.1961. A bill which regulates charitable organizations and professional fund raisershas been signed into law by Gov.Vandiver of Georgia.It requires charitable or-ganizations,unless specified as an exception,to register with Georgia Secretaryof State.As defined in the new law,a charitable organization is any benevolent,philanthropic,patriotic or eleemosynary group or one purporting to be such. Such persons or organizations in the future must list with the secretary ofstate names and addresses of officers,directors,trustees and executive personnel. Charity organizations must also list professional fund raisers and solicitorsrepresenting the organization or person;general purpo ses for which the organiza-tion is organized and how solicitations will be used;period of time during whichthe solicitations.will be made and how funds are to be solicited;and unauthorizeduse of name s in connection with solicitations is prohibited under the law andviolators will be considered guilty of a misdemeanor. ## FINANCIAL AID NEEDED TO ENCOURAGE TEACHING Salaries still too low:A National Education Association survey ofteachers!salaries shows teachers are the low man on the staff with the excp-tion of the registrar.Here are some comparative median figures:CollegeTeacher,$7,486;Public Relations Director,$7,659;Head Basketball Coach, $7,700;Head Football Coach,$8,554;Athletic Director,$9,930;CollegePresident,$15,375.(Salaries Paid and Salary Practices in Universities,Colleges,and Junior Colleges,1961-1962 reporting on 1,382 institutions.)Some large national corporations are taking steps to fill the salary gap and toincrease the ranks of qualified faculty members.For instance,to encouragemore science and math teaching,Shell Companies Foundation awards a fifthyear of study,at Cornell and Stanford,paying tuition,fees,cost-of-educationsupplement and $1,800 to $2,100 for personal expenses depending upon maritalstatus to Shell Merit Scholars,100 of whom are now studying in colleges anduniversities of their choice. ## CAMPAIGNS Smith College reaches $10,030,000 goal in first phase of long-range $23,580,000development campaign...St.Luke's Ho spital campaign in Kansas City shows $1,223,049 toward$1,500,000 goal at first general report meeting...John MuirMemorial Ho spital,San Francisco,raises $1,400,000 matching fund for new $4,100,000150-bed community hospital...Syracuse campaign for three newcentral Catholic high schools raises $1,500,000 over the $5,500,000 goal..。Roberts Wesleyan College,North Chili,N。Y。,start s campaign for $1,675,000expan sion needs...Denver citizens contribute over $60,000 to date in effort toraise $95,000 to buy Rembrandt painting worth $250,000 for Denver Art Museum..Boston's Smith College Alumnae contributed $1,442,150 to $10,000,000 campaignin 1961...N.Y.Times Neediest Fund closed its fiftieth annual appeal February28 with record $582,563,$9,747 over 1960...Vanderbilt U.raises $25,000,000toward $30,000,000 campaign. Total public c

FAQs

What public belief is discussed in the bulletin?

It addresses what Americans would believe when they receive conflicting reports from radio, TV, magazines, and newspapers, and notes that television and newspapers were most named.

What does the Georgia law require of charitable organizations and professional fund raisers?

Charitable organizations must register with the Georgia Secretary of State unless an exception applies, including listing officers and required solicitation details; unauthorized use of names is prohibited and violations are misdemeanors.

What types of funding support are highlighted for education?

The bulletin covers teacher salary issues and describes scholarship and study support, including grants and foundations funding study and educational programs.

Sep 21, 2026

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