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ange in Structure in Agency Allocating Funds Is Reviewed
(Editor's note: Richard H
Travis, campaign chairman
for the 1958-59 United Med
ford Crusade, reports on a
change in structure in the
agency which allocates
funds for child-care institu
tions of Oregon, and de
scribes how Jackson county
benefits from them.)
By RICHARD H. TRAVIS
UMC Campaign Chairman
Three years ago I began to
take real interest in the work
of volunteer agencies repre
sented in the United Medford
Crusade. When I attended a
training session prior to the
campaign and heard about
the work the agencies were
doing, I felt that it was worth
a great deal of time and ef
fort to see that the agencies
were supplied with enough
money.
Of course, I knew some
thing about the Salvation Ar
my, Red Cross, the Cancer
Society, the Scouts, the Camp
Fire Girls, the YMCA, and
the Child Guidance Clinic,
but did not begin to realize
the importance of the serv
ices to the life of our com
munity until I made it my
business to find out.
Suffering Real Loss
I learned that we could
not do without the services
of any one of the agencies
without suffering a real loss
in our community welfare.
Each agency is so much a
part of the fabric of our com
munity life that ie services
complement each other and
form a pattern of social help
that we need.
I was even less familiar
with the services of agencies
located in or .near Portland
for which we helped to raise
money for support each year.
There were 16 agencies rep
resented by the Oregon Chest.
Eleven of these agencies were
institutions for children.
The others' were the Mental
Health association, the Ore
gon Prison association, USO,
YMCA youth and govern
ment services, and the Amer
ican Social Hygiene . associa
tion.
Serve Useful Purpose
All of these agencies serve
a useful purpose and are
worth attention and support.
But, like most people, I
acquired special interests and
became particularly concern
ed with the , child care in
stitutions. Because of this in
terest, I was appointed to the
Oregon Chest board of dir
ectors by the UMC board, and
attended the Oregon Chest
annual meeting held last Jan
uary. I met executives of the
child care institutions for the
first time, learned something
of their problems, and heard
for ' the first time that the
Oregon Chest was to undergo
a change in structure.
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After I was named cam
paign chairman for the
United Medford Crusade's
1958-59 campaign, believing
others living here should
know more about the child
care agencies, I arranged for
a group of eight men to visit
them.
We could not visit all 11
of the child care agencies,
but managed to spend time in
six of them, talking with the
supervisors and the children,
and inspecting their facilities
All of them serve all counties
of the state, and some of the
children we saw were from
our own community.
Pleased With Visits
It is an understatement to
say that we were pleased with
what we saw and heard on
the visits. It is heart-breaking
to think of children who
have been living with hard
ship, some of them from
broken homes, some orphans,
some neglected or mistreated,
some afflicted with handi
caps such as blindness, dis
ease or mental illness. How
ever, it was a pleasure to see
that most of the children had
a bright future because of
the care they were given.
They had clean clothing,
good food, proper training,
loving care, and the attention
of the best medical, surgical,
and psychological care. Most
of the children will be adopt
ed eventually, by foster par
ents carefully chosen for the
best interests of the child.
Others, because of severe
handicaps, (who 1 wants to
adopt a child without arms?),
will be cared for by the in
stitution for years to come.
It was interesting for us to
learn that during the past
year, 121 children from Jack
son county were cared for by
these agencies. This figure
does not seem large, perhaps,
compared to the total of 5,420
cases cared for by the agenc
ies in the same year. How
ever, the 121 cases from our
county totaled 17,453 days of
care.
Average Cost Per Day
The average cost of a day
of care for all the institutions
is between $3 and $4 dollars,
About two-thirds of the total
cost is borne by state, federal.
and county, funds, fees from
relatives, and individual do
nations. The remaining third
amounting to about $700,000
was raised through Com
munity Chests and United
Funds throughout Oregon
Last year, the United Med
ford Crusade raised $16,200
for all Oregon Chest agencies
of whidalmost $13,000 was
devoted to the child care
agencies. In spite of the fact
that response from the pub
lic has been so generous, the
child care agencies finished
the year with a deficit of
about $75,000. The Boys and
Girls Aid Society, one of the
finest and oldest of the agenc
ies devoted to child care, had
an office in Medford until
last July. It was discoun-
tinued because of lack of
funds. The agency still seryes
this community, but at a dis
advantage compared to the
superior service offered by a
worker stationed here.
The Oregon Chest was
started 15 years ago at the
outbreak of World War II, as
an emergency measure. It was
well supported, as were all
state chests during the period
of the war. Other1 states dis
continued the state chests
after the war, and fo some
time, Oregon alone had such
an organization.
.Primarily, the reason for
this was the fact that Oregon
had no child care institutions
except in Multnomah county;
other counties had no local in
stitutions, and could not af
fort to build and maintain
them. They were, therefore,
glad to use the state-wide
services offered. Many of the
children referred to the child
care institutions are sent by
juvenile courts. For example,
19 girls committed by our
Jackson County Circuit Court
were cared for last year in
the St. Rose Industrial home.
Problems Arise
However, during the .last
15 years, some problems
arose for the Oregon Chest
that remained uncorrected un
til this year. One of the prob
lems concerned the financing
of Oregon -Cheset agencies in
cooperation with the Mult
nomah County United Fund.
This Fund had accepted the
responsibility for raising 60
per cent of the total of all
the Oregon Chest child care
agency budgets. The Oregon
Chest did not aid in raising
the money contributed by the
Multnomah County United
Fund. Therefore, there was
some unwillingness on the
part of the directors of the
United Fund to continue pay
ing a large percentage of the
administratis costs of the
Oregon Chest.
This spring, the Oregon
Chest has been replaced by a
new agency called the Oregon
United Appeal, with new con
stitution and by-laws. The of
ficers and directors of . the
Oregon Chest will continue
w i t h the new organization
until the next annual meet
ing, which will be held in
. rrn - . i m I
lHOa. ine uregon ineat wju
rnot be dissolved until the
I end of 1958.
The Oregon United Appeal
does not automatically in
clude all agencies previously
included in the Oregon Chest.
Each agency was invited to
apply for membership, sub
ject to a new membership
agreement.
The principal feature of
the new agreement is that no
member-agency of the Oregon
United Appeal could accept
direct support from a Com
munity Chest or United
Fund, but would accept sup
port only through the Oregon
United Appeal.
Written Agreements
It is the policy of the Ore
gon United Appeal to enter
into written agreements with
the local united funds. These
agreements specify the terms
on which campaign funds will
be allocated. The new organ
ization is thoroughly demo
cratic. The board and its com
mittees are composed of rep
resentatives from all counties
in the state.
The Oregon Chest employ
ed a fair-share quota plan to
allocate its total budge to all
Oregon countries. The quota
formula included a number
of factors such as the actual
county use of the child care
institutions, population, ex
perience in fund-raising, etc.
Quotas allocated to some
counties were not realized if
there was not a federated
fund in the county to accept
the quota and raise the
money.
Several counties had no
federated fund organization at
all, others have a united fund
that covered only a portion
of the county. Because of this,
quotas were allocatedto non-J
productive areas from which
there was no possibility of in
come. Oregon Chest agency
budgets were often trimmed
times before quotas were ac
cepted by United Funds. The
Multnomah County United
Fund trimmed the budget re
quests, the Oregon Chest
budget committee trimmed it
more, and the local federated
funds trimmed them, again
when they felt that they could
not raise the amount re
quested. The Oregon United Appeal
seeks to solve the problem
by allocating quotas only to
productive areas, and to en
deavor to get the agreement
of each united fund in Ore
gon to accept a fair-share
quota. The change will not
guarantee that the Oregon
United Appeal goal for 1959
will be reached, but it should
aid greatly in getting a bet
ter jo done.
- At this timo, most of the
agencies of the Oregon Chest
have applied for membership
and have been accepted by
the Oregon United Appeal
Qualifications committee.
Did Not Apply
The Oregon Mental Health
association did not apply for
inclusion. The Salvation Army
White Shield home will not
join, but will place its budget
requests through local Salva
tion Army units. The applica
tion of the Oregon Prison as
sociation was rejected by the
committee. I was privileged
to serve on this committee,
which met the second week
in May .Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Reter of Medford also
served.
In my judgment, the fair
share quota asked of the Unit
ed Medford Crusade will ex
ceed last year's request, be
cause of the changes iri pro
cedure noted above. I am
hopeful that our UMC budget
committee will support the
Oregon United Appeal quota
as liberally as may be consist
ent with the ability of our
community to provide the
money.
If the Oregon United Ap
peal child care agencies were
to exact payment for every
day of care given Jackson
county children, or if our
community had to build and
support child care institutions .
to meet our needs, the bill
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one we are asked to pay by
voluntary gifts.
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