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United Way of Minneapolis.
A United Way typically serves two main functions for private-sector social agencies in a community: planning and fund raising. The need for coordinated efforts in these areas became evident in Minneapolis with the proliferation of social agencies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which resulted in duplication of some types of services while other areas of need were neglected. In 1915 a number of social agency executives took the initiative in forming a Central Council of Social Agencies to provide a means of better coordination. Initially 39 private and eight public agencies were represented.
The War Chest of 1918 represented the first effort at consolidated fund raising. The majority of funds raised by that solicitation were directed to various war-related welfare services, but $700,000 was set aside to support ongoing programs of members of the Council of Social Agencies who agreed not to conduct their own competing fund drives. In 1919 the War Chest was dissolved but the Council repeated the consolidated fund drive, known that year as the Town Tea Kettle and thereafter, from 1920 until 1942, as the Community Fund.
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United Way of Minneapolis Area
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The collection contains extensive documentation of the planning and budget-allocation and, to a lesser extent, fund-raising, activities of the United Way of Minneapolis -- previously known as the United Fund, the Community Chest, and the Council of Social Agencies -- for the period 1920-67. A War Chest series deals with the special arrangements for war-relief and war-related fund raising during the World War II era. Topics include the full range of social services provided under United Way auspi...
