- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Board of Directors and Executive Committee sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1984
- Physical Description
- 11 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Men's Service Group's board of directors was responsible for the management of all of the MSG's activities and programs. The MSG's executive committee was responsible for carrying out the MSG's business in the interim between the meetings of the board of directors. All decisions of the executive committee were subject to the board's approval. The board of directors met at least three times each year and had between fifty and seventy-five members. The executive committee met at least six times per year and was made up of MSG's elected officers, committee chairmen, and other members of the board of directors. The officers of the Men's Service Group consisted of a president, four vice-presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer. The president presided over all meetings of both the board of directors and the executive committee.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records documenting the activities of the MSG's board of directors and executive committee. Included are meeting notices, agendas, and minutes, slate of officers lists, reports, speeches, annual reports, and invitations.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Annual and general meetings sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1958-1987
- Physical Description
- 10 cm of textual records
- 1 photograph
- Admin History/Bio
- The Men's Service held at least two general meetings each year. The first meeting was typically held in the spring and consisted of the installation of the elected officers and Board of Directors, the presentation of the annual report, and any other necessary business. In 1962, after the MSG established its "Man of the Year" award, the spring meeting often included the presentation of this award as well as other honours and awards. Other meetings were usually held in the fall and winter and often had varied agendas.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and graphic material documenting the planning and implementation of the Men's Service Group's annual and general meetings as well as the selection of award recipients who were honoured at these meetings. Included are invitations, agendas, meeting minutes, meeting notices, programs, speeches, reports, lists, correspondence, financial reports, flyers, a press release, a photograph, and a dinner menu.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Committees sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1958-1982
- Physical Description
- 4 folders of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records documenting various committees of the Men's Service Group. Included are meeting notices, agendas, and minutes, lists, job descriptions, reports and correspondence.
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- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Fundraising sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1963-1981
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- 2 posters
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and graphic material documenting the MSG's fundraising activities. Included are meeting notices, agendas and minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, lists, flyers, posters, programs, cards, and a certificate.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Membership sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1957-1979
- Physical Description
- 7 folders of textual records
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and graphic material documenting the Men's Service Group's membership recruitment and recognition. Included are meeting notices and minutes, a report, correspondence, invitations, and a photograph.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Honour Roll sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1963-2005
- Physical Description
- 44 cm of textual records
- 1 photograph
- Admin History/Bio
- The Men's Service Group's Honour Roll publication was first issued in 1964 and continues to be published annually. It was primarily conceived of as a fundraising project to raise funds for equipment and research at Baycrest. Individuals and organizations that give donations are honoured in the publication. The Honour Roll also acts as a public relations tool, informing the public about the activities and new developments at Baycrest. As such, it contains articles describing the programs, events, recipients of the "Man of the Year" award, and other important individuals and initiatives at Baycrest.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records documenting the MSG's planning, fundraising, and publication of the Honour Roll. Included are meeting notices and minutes, reports, correspondence, an invitation, a photograph, and issues of the Honour Roll.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Programs and events sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1957-1982
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records
- 3 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records and graphic material documenting the MSG's programs and events. Included are meeting notices, agendas and minutes, reports, invitations, correspondence, programs, flyers, press releases, articles, lists, and photographs.
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- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Protest activities sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1967-1988
- Physical Description
- 70 cm of textual records
- 1238 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- Activities undertaken by the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Ontario and its affiliated partner organizations included political lobbying, telephone and letter-writing campaigns, product boycotting, symposiums, public rallies, petitions, marches and demonstrations. Among the highest profile activities were the annual Simcha Torah rallies in October and the annual commemorations of the execution of twenty-four Soviet Jewish writers and intellectuals, which had occurred on August 12, 1952 at Moscow's Liubianka prison. As well as organizing public protest activities, the Committee for Soviet Jewry established, in the 1980s, the Ida Nudel Humanitarian Award which emphasized the humanitarian work of a number of prominent Canadian women. Other non-protest activities included bar/ bat mitzvah twinning, family and prisoner sponsorships, and holiday greetings, all programmes that tied the daily lives of Soviet Jews to their Canadian counterparts.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of records documenting the wide range of above-listed protest activities in which the CJC and various affiliated organizations participated. The files include numerous photographs of mass rallies and group demonstrations, planning notes, correspondence, event notices and other promotional materials.
- Subjects
- Demonstrations
- Arrangement
- Records of protest activities in this sub-series have been organized chronologically and by event. Indicated date ranges at the file level are of the documents themselves and are not necessarily indicative of the dates of specific events, such as rallies or marches, though such dates are noted in the file description where known.
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- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Board of directors and executive committee series
- Fiscal Committee sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 1-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1999
- Physical Description
- 102 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- From 1949 to 1968, the Budget and Finance Committee was the standing committee responsible for financial matters of the board and affiliated schools. The committee's work involved reviewing the budgets of affiliated schools on an ongoing basis, calculating the subsidies to be granted to schools, and also developing the budget for the BJE itself. Following the reorganization of the bureau as the Board of Jewish Education, in 1968, the Fiscal Committee was one of two permanent committees of the board. The functions of the committee include receiving school budgets and reviewing them as a check on the spending of subsidized schools, negotiating teachers' contracts with teachers' unions, reviewing areas for possible savings for schools, establishing tuition fee assessment guidelines and determining the actual tuition levied in all subsidized schools, regulating and enforcing a uniform salary scale for teachers in subsidized schools, and periodically recommending policies to the BJE board on fiscal management.
- The formulae used to determine school subsidies have changed several times over the decades, as the Fiscal Committee sought to balance the financial needs of the schools against the ever-increasing costs to the UJWF and its successors of supporting the school system. Initially, subsidies were simply calculated based on the gap between a school's budget and the money raised by the school through tuition fees and other forms of fundraising. In the late 1950s, the BJE attempted to cut costs by eliminating building maintenance from the budget items eligible for subsidization, but this resulted in many schools developing large deficits by the early- to mid-1960s. This, in turn, led to special fundraising programs sponsored by the UJWF to assist the schools in eliminating those deficits. In the 1970s, following the recommendations of the UJWF Study Committee on Jewish Education, efforts were made to develop a funding formula based on budget models for different categories of schools. Since the schools and BJE were unable to reach a consensus on these models, the actual school budgets of 1977-1978 were used as a base for calculating future budgets, with changes calculated based on the rate of inflation, changes in enrollment and school staffing, and other factors. Budgets submitted by the schools were assessed against these calculations. Further changes to the formulae were made in the 1980s and 1990s, with a shift towards calculating the grants to schools as tuition subsidies in support of families unable to pay the full cost of their children's education, with full tuition calculated as the per capita cost of the school's operations.
- Scope and Content
- The sub-series documents the work of the Fiscal Committee in reviewing school budgets and working with the schools on new funding formulae. The sub-series includes meeting minutes and reports of both the Fiscal Committee and its predecessor, the Budget and Finance Committee, correspondence with schools and memoranda. The sub-series also includes records of the "Fiscal Forums", organized by the Fiscal Committee in the early 1990s to work with affiliated schools to address funding reductions caused by shortfalls in the annual UJA fundraising campaigns, and of the Mandate Sub-Committee, formed in 1997 to evaluate new school funding models, including school voucher and tuition loan systems.
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- Archival Descriptions