- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- 1938-2008
- Physical Description
- 2.18 m of textual records and other materials
- Admin History/Bio
- Superseding the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the first Annual Campaign of the new United Jewish Welfare Fund took place in 1938. It combined the appeals of 37 organizations into one, eliminating much of the inefficiency and competition of the previous twenty years. Money raised was for agencies and causes new and traditional, local and overseas. Recipients included; the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, Canadian Jewish Congress, the United Jewish Relief Agencies, the Joint Distribution Committee, and Palestine. In 1938, Campaign could be completed within a mere two weeks and raised $161,000. This figure rose to $348,000 in 1942 and surpassed one million dollars in 1951. When the State of Israel was established in 1948, Campaign was combined with the CJC and the United Palestine appeals into a new, combined campaign and re-named The United Jewish Appeal (UJA).
- With different local and world challenges and crises over time, annual campaigns have had a variety of foci: for example, the plight of Displaced Persons in Europe after the Second World War; the 1957 Rescue Campaign for refugees in Russia, Europe and North Africa; the first Emergency Campaign in 1967 in response to the Six Days’ War; and Operation Exodus 1990-1991, which raised funds to aid Soviet Jews.
- Early Campaign leadership was provided by lay people. Chairmen of the Campaign Cabinet included Samuel Godfrey, Ben Sadowski, Samuel J. Granatstein, Bernard Vise, Morris S. Till, and Samuel J. Zacks. A small administration committee carried out daily operations, but the bulk of the fundraising work was performed by the Service Council, a group of volunteers who planned, canvassed and evaluated each campaign, as well as organizing educational programs and public meetings. A Women’s Service Council and a Young Peoples’ Service Council also played key fundraising roles.
- Canvassing was conducted by volunteers from each professional or trade Division, such as doctors, lawyers, retail sales, etc. The volunteers were responsible for canvassing the members of their own group. A special Women’s Campaign had its own chair, sub-committees and programming. Divisions were further added to reflect the amounts of donations, Top Gifts, and Major Gifts for example. By the 1980s, the Service Councils had given way to professional Campaign Associates employed by UJWF. With further changes to UJWF/UJA Federation’s structure, Campaign first fell under the Financial Resource Development Department, then Integrated Development, and, in 2009, the Centre for Philanthropy. It is now supported by the Donor Relations Management, Donor Research, and Missions/VIP departments which cater to the diverse interests of individual donors.
- Through the 1940s and 1950s, face-to-face canvassing was the norm, with donor’s names and gifts published in the UJWF annual report. By the 1960s, an expanding community and a need for efficiency increased the use of the telephone, with regular telethons involving hundreds of volunteers. In 1970, a regular springtime Walk with Israel was included within the rest of Campaign events. In the 21st Century, the internet is used to solicit donations, publicize campaign news and events, and register volunteers for telethons and events like the Walk.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of two sub-series, Walk with Israel (sub-series 17-1) and General Campaign Records (sub-series 17-2).
- Notes
- Physical description note: Includes photographs, videocassettes, posters, DVDs, artfacts and books.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1941-1990
- Physical Description
- 30 cm textual records
- 13 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25 x 20 cm and 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of a variety of files concerning various aspects of campaign. These are frequently all the textual records that survive from the 1940s through the mid-1970s and offer just glimpses of the activities that were involved in raising funds for the UJWF and its agencies. Included are brochures, event invitations, reports, and worker kits. Also included are a few file of various campaign events photographs.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1939-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two editions of a UJWF fundraising circular organized and laid out as tabloid newspapers. Each contains a variety of short "articles" on the need for increase donations towards the Toronto campaign to support local Toronto agencies and assists in international aid for Jewish refugees.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- August 1960
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The organization's full name is United Appeal of Metropolitan Toronto.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two copies of the report "An Analysis of Giving by Members of the Jewish Community of Toronto to the 1959 United Appeal of Toronto Campaign" by Dr. Albert Rose.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 11 Jun. 1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a bound report about the UJA Appeal from September 1961 to June 1963. Included are various financial reports and meeting minutes of committees involved in Campaign.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1960, 1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of 1960 and 1963 UJWF reports about the need for Toronto's Jewish community participation in the fundraising efforts of the United Appeal of Greater Toronto.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 25
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-] and 1968
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two photographs of fund-raising events; the first a meeting of the Produce Division fundraisers in the 1940s, and the second of volunteer teenagers raising funds by running a car-wash event.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [197-?]-2008
- Physical Description
- 1.8 m of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- UJA Federation’s Walk with Israel was first held in May 1970, when it was called the UJA Walkathon. The first walk was organized quickly with no advance publicity, yet it still raised $55,000. In the early years, funds raised in the walk went into UJA’s Israel Special Fund. Since then, the money has supported particular projects in Israel that often involve children, since children are the main fundraisers in the event. The Walk with Israel has grown into the largest event in the Toronto Jewish community, with over twenty thousand people participating as volunteers or walkers and funds raised reaching as high as $400,000. The event has had several name changes since 1970: Walk for Israel (1978–1993); Community March for Israel (1994–1996); Israel Funwalk (1998–2002); and the current name, Walk with Israel.
- The Walk with Israel is one of the programs mounted by the Annual Campaign department of UJA Federation. It is planned by a Cabinet Committee, with one or two laypeople as chairs, and numerous sub-committees. The main UJA staff undertaking the planning and execution is the walk coordinator. Each year, sub-committees are formed for recruitment, logistics, marketing, and public relations, the festival, food, entertainment, etc. The walk also involves many outside entities: companies approached for prizes, donations or sponsorship; entertainment groups; the Toronto police force, which provides traffic control, marshalling and a parade permit; city government, for park use permits and outdoor signage; community groups mounting displays; costumed character rental companies; and manufacturers of the T-shirts, hats and buttons produced each year for walk participants.
- In addition to being a major fundraiser, the walk fashioned itself initially as a fitness challenge to children and athletes, with a route as long as thirty-one kilometres in 1976. Over the years, this length has been reduced significantly, with the event evolving into a more manageable and family-oriented event. In the last decade, with periods of tension overseas, it has been framed as a demonstration of solidarity with Israel. Alongside the main event, alternative fundraisers such as a large raffle, dance-a-thon, aerob-a-thon and learn-a-thon for Eitz Chaim day schools, have been held in some years to encourage more people to contribute. Incentives for those who collect sponsors have grown over the years, from free T-shirts to a succession of prizes depending on the amount of funds raised. The grand prize draw for many years was two El Al airline tickets to Israel.
- The location of the walk has moved from the Bathurst Street "corridor" of the Jewish community to a downtown route that for some years went through the historic Jewish neighbourhood of Kensington Market and, more recently, begins and ends at Coronation Park by the lakeshore and winds around the downtown streets. There is now also a kick-off party at the walk’s starting point. Since 1984, the walk has culminated in a big festival, featuring rides, petting zoos, a barbecue, musical entertainment, clowns, and other attractions. This was usually held in a park or the BJCC parking lot. When the walk route moved downtown, the festival shifted to Ontario Place, and, more recently, it has taken place on the CNE grounds by the lakeshore. Since 2007, the festival has been sponsored by RioCan, and "yogen fruz" became a major sponsor of the walk in 2008. Other walk sponsors have included Roots Canada (supplier of T-shirts), Shopper’s Drug Mart, Henry’s Camera Centre, Canada Trust, National Bank Financial Group, and the Canadian Zionist Federation.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series contains records that document the planning and coordination of the Walk for Israel each year, as well as photographs and other records from the day itself and post-walk evaluation and wrap-up activities. The records include meeting notices, agendas and minutes, information sheets, lists, schedules, sitemaps, correspondence, school presentations, permits, press releases, design work, invoices, flyers, and photographs. Materials distibuted to participants include walker passports that had to be verified at each checkpoint, sponsor books, collection envelopes, tickets, and other ephemera.
- Most of the records have been arranged by year, broken down by function, in the following order: walk oversight (the Walk Committee and chairs); recruitment of participants; volunteers; logistics such as route and police/security coverage; publicity and public relations, design of memorabilia (e.g., hats); sponsorship and prizes; financial management; the walk event itself; the festival; related fundraisers, particularly the Eitz Chaim Day Schools Learnathon; and post-event evaluation. The festival records document the planning of food, entertainment, displays, amusements, and volunteers, and include photographs taken on the day of the event.
- Sub-series 17-1 also includes individual files containing photographs from ranges of years. These were added to this series after the major portion of the "Walk" records had already been processed.
- Notes
- Physical description note: Includes ca. 4513 photographs (1948 negatives, 431 jpgs), 8 videocassettes, 4 optical discs (videos), 12 posters, 13 T-shirts, 4 buttons, 2 shoelaces, 1 jacket and several hats.
- Reproduction restriction note: Though there is no textual evidence indicating ownership of copyright, it is believed that all rights to the Graphic Artists negatives in this sub-series were transferred to UJA Federation (Communications department), since they were the ultimate possessors of the negatives. Copyright for photographs by Stephen Epstein remains in his possession. Other UJA staff photographs by Eve Marks are the physical and intellectual property of UJA Federation.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 4 contact sheets (105 images) : b&w
- Scope and Content
- File contains contact sheets from 35 mm film featuring images of checkpoint staff at picnic tables; walkers at the starting line; groups with banners, and representatives, of Beth Tikvah Hebrew School and United Synagogue Day School; a bagpiper; "Mr. Peanut" character in costume; juice stop; speakers; "Happy Birthday Israel" cake; CB radio operators; and groups of young people. Identified in the photographs is Al Waxman signing autographs. There are also men, who may have been popular sports figures at the time signing autographs.
- Notes
- Photography by Action Photographics (Miles Spencer Nadal).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1
- Material Format
- object
- Date
- [198-]
- Physical Description
- 1 hat
- Scope and Content
- Item is a blue and white painter's cap that reads "UJA Walk for Israel" along the front. There is a footprint printed on the top and the sponsors' logos are across the back. The sponsors are Paul Slavens Real Estate Limited, Coca-Cola, H. Halpern men's shirts and accessories, Shoppers Drug Mart, Henry's camera centre, and Beaver Canoe clothing company.
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 19
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1974-1990
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs : 20x25 cm and 10x15 cm, b&w and col.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs of participants and invited dignitaries for formal events supporting the United Israel Appeal campaign. Images include those of Yitzak Rabin, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yittzak Shamir, Henry Kissinger, and Women's Campaign Chair Julia Koschitzky.
- Name Access
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
- Koschitzky, Julia, 1943-
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
- Netanyahu, Binyamin, 1949-
- Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-1995
- Shamir, Itzhak, 1915-2012
- Subjects
- Prime ministers
- Statesmen
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 21
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1990
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w and col. ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs of participants in four or five Campaign events. The only person identified is Judy Engel, from the Women's Campaign.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1952-1954
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Custodial History
- This group established as part of Campaign to ensure proper training of future leaders of the Toronto Jewish community.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of meeting minutes and reports concerning the Leadership Institute of the Young Men's Council of the United Jewish Appeal.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 30
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of kits used by UJA Campaign workers. These contain information brochures, fact cards, donation receipts, pledge cards, and other assorted materials to assist the campaign worker.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 31
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1954-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of various campaign promotional materials such as brochures and information cards. Also includes material for 1954 Community Chest of Greater Toronto campaign.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 36
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of "Portfolio of Giving," a softcover bound magazine describing the various charities in Toronto and abroad which the UJA supports with its Campaign funds.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- General Campaign records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-2
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1943-1953
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of various promotional materials such as brochures, flyers, hand-outs, and campaign newspapers. Of special note is a 1947 UJWF campaign comic for the Youth Campaign, drawn by Winslow Mortimer, famous for his drawings of Batman and Superman.
- Name Access
- Mortimer, Win
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1974 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Apr. 1974
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The 1974 Walk for Israel was "a family affair" that attracted 5,000 participants, including a busload of students from Kingston. It took place on Sunday, 12 May. The route started at Lawrence and Bathurst, went downtown, and then north again to the BJCC. Walk pledges were collected on a per-mile basis, with money being collected after the walk took place.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of photographs of the walk.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1974 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 22 Apr. 1974
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of five images of a group of people with a costumed fox, presumably a mascot that year, and a Walk sign. The images were taken at 11 Goldfinch Court in the Finch and Bathurst area, which appears to be simply an apartment building complex.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Photography by Graphic Artists Photographers.
- Name Access
- UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
- Subjects
- Fund raising
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1976 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 9 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- 1 poster : 34 x 51 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The 1976 Walkathon was held on 30 May. Funds raised went towards UJA's Israel Special Fund. This year's walk was the first in which community groups took charge of each of the checkpoints, beginning a long tradition of B'nai Brith's involvement in the walk.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1976 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- 1 poster : 34 x 51 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains images of three runners in motion in the parking lot outside The Fitness Institute. File also includes a green and white poster for the UJA Walkathon on May 30, 1976, featuring a stylized hand holding a Jewish star.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Photography by Graphic Artists Photographers.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1976 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-2
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 30 May 1976
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains five images of a crowd of children with Al Waxman walking along Augusta St., and two images of people at a checkpoint table along a Toronto residential street.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Photography by Graphic Artists Photographers.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1977 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 poster : 33 x 51 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1977, the 8th annual UJA Walkathon was part of the UJA of Metropolitan Toronto's Maccabiah '77 games. The Maccabiah is a "Jewish Olympics" that offers Jewish athletes a premier opportunity to compete and, more generally, encourages the community to participate in a day of sports and activity. The games were first held in Toronto in 1970. For Maccabiah '77, the walk took place alongside a fundraising run for UJA-B'nai Brith and a YM-YWHA Swimathon. One feature of this walk were amateur radio stations set up at the checkpoints for walkers to send out messages. The route took participants from Baycrest Centre, downtown to the Bloor JCC, then north to Bathurst and Sheppard.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walkathon 1977 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 poster : 33 x 51 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a poster, white with green printing, of the United Jewish Appeal of Metropolitan Toronto Maccabiah '77, taking place Sunday, May 29. It lists three component events: 8th annual UJA Walkathon, UJA-B'nai B'rith Runathon, and YM-YWHA Swimathon. The slogan reads "Join the community-wide sport day for UJA." Poster also features a symbol of the event: a Star of David with a walker, runner and swimmer inside it.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
