Receipts to Relief Fund Highest in Many Years
Diocesan Press Service. December 12, 1974 [74354]
GREENWICH, Conn. -- Receipts to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief of the Episcopal Church are higher in 1974 than any year since the late 1940's, according to Lindley M. Franklin, treasurer of the Executive Council.
As of November 30, receipts to the Fund amounted to $926,831.78. This compares with $830,615 for all of 1973.
The Fund's board reported to the Council that more and more of its grants are being made to drought/famine/hunger areas of the world.
[Contact Archives for a list of grants made by the board of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief - Ed.]