Voluntary Contributions Support Ethnic Desks
Diocesan Press Service. May 6, 1970 [87-3]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- Voluntary contributions from individuals, parishes and Dioceses of the Episcopal Church to the National Committee of Black Churchmen now total $225, 167, according to Dr. Lindley M. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's Executive Council.
The fund was authorized at a special General Convention of the Church at South Bend, Ind., in September, 1969, and called for a minimum of $200,000 to go to the N. C. B.C. for black community development. A principal recipient of the funds has been the Black Economic Development Conference.
A second fund established at South Bend asked for a minimum of $100,000 to be raised for Indian and Eskimo community development.
Dr. Franklin reported that $101,175 in voluntary contributions has been received to assist Indian and Eskimo work and that the funds will go to the National Committee on Indian Work, an agency of the Episcopal Church.