- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Executive Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1939-1975
- Physical Description
- 4.45 m of textual records
- 2 photographs
- Admin History/Bio
- The Executive Committee of the United Jewish Welfare Fund was the successor organization to the Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto. Its first Executive Director was Mr. Martin Cohn, whose responsibilities also included attending meetings of the Administrative Committee. Like its predecessor, the UJWF Executive Committee consisted of members appointed from and by the Board of Directors to manage the day-to-day activities and responsibilities of the UJWF. As the UJWF expanded its responsibilities, this committees' members also came to include the chairs of the most important permanent committees; Budget, Administration, and Social Planning. Based on the agendas of specific meetings, other committee chairs might also attend when requested. The Executive Committee included the Executive Director of the UJWF, who was also appointed by the Board. Meetings of this committee were chaired by various members, including the Executive Director.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of the records of the Executive Committee of the United Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto. Records include minutes of all regular meetings of the Committee, various records of the Executive Directors of the Committee, and minutes of various special and sub-committee meetings on topics concerning joint fundraising efforts, education, and self-study.
- Records in this series have been arranged into seven sub-series: (5-1) Meeting Minutes; (5-2) New Mount Sinai fundraising; (5-3) Jewish Home for the Aged fundraising; (5-4) Earmarked gifts; (5-5) Executive Director; (5-6) Special Committee on Jewish Education; and (5-7) Self-Study Committee.
- Notes
- Access restriction note: Records documenting the meeting minutes and activities of this committee are CLOSED until they are more than ten years old.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 66, series 5 for records of the Executive Committee of the predecessor organization, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto fonds
- Executive Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 66
- Series
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1918-1924
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Executive Committee of the FJPT was the original management team responsible for the ongoing operations of the organization. It consisted of the officers of the FJPT: the honorary president, the president (who acted as committee chair), all four vice-presidents, the treasurer, the honorary secretary, and the executive director. Regular meetings were held monthly, but occasional special meetings were sometimes called to deal with emergencies or special events. All of its policy and procedures recommendations were passed to the Board of Trustees for final approval. Edmund Scheuer was its first chair and remained on the committee as honorary president throughout the 1920s.
- Although this committee was established in 1918, and existed until at least 1934, no meeting minutes remain from the years between 1924 and 1937.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of meeting minutes of the Executive Committee of the FJPT.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 67, Series 5 for records of the Executive Committee of the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Board of Jewish Education fonds
- Board of directors and executive committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 48
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1999
- Physical Description
- 1.8 m of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Between 1949 and 1968, the board was comprised of representatives from each of the affiliated schools, the United Jewish Welfare Fund, Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region, and members representing the community at large. The BJE Board of Directors was responsible for managing the affairs of the bureau, although the UJWF had final say over budgetary matters and changes to the BJE constitution required the approval of its sponsoring organizations, the UJWF and CJC Central Region. Standing committees were formed to oversee the activities and programs of the bureau. These included the Public Relations Committee, Planning and Capital Repairs Committee, Constitution Committee, Adult Education Committee, Budget and Finance Committee, Publications Committee, Personnel Committee, Youth Education Committee, and School Committee. Given the size of the board of directors, much of the board's routine work -- such as receiving reports from committees and reviewing requests and inquiries from schools -- was delegated to an executive committee comprised of the officers of the board, chairmen of the standing committees, the executive director, and several other members of the board appointed by the committee.
- By the mid-1960s, the board had grown to more than 80 members, including the representatives of all affiliated schools. There was a growing perception in the community and within the UJWF that the BJE was no longer an effective body, and had become primarily an agent for the schools (whose representatives might outnumber the representatives of other constituencies in board meetings) and their special interests, rather than an arms-length body representing both the schools and the UJWF. Following an informal review by the UJWF and representatives of the CJC Central Region of the workings of the BJE, the Bureau of Jewish Eeducation was reorganized and renamed the Board of Jewish Education in 1968.
- The board was reduced in size to twenty members, appointed by the UJWF, with no less than ten members from the UJWF Board of Directors, including the BJE Chairman and Vice-Chairman. The standing committees of the bureau were eliminated -- including the executive committee -- and were replaced by two permanent committees: the Committee on Pedagogic Matters and the Committee on Fiscal Matters. The Committee on Pedagogic Matters was concerned with issues such as teacher training, teacher certification standards, inter-school programs, and other matters. The Committee on Fiscal Matters was concerned with reviewing school budgets, establishing guidelines for the assessment of tuition fees, and regulating and enforcing a uniform salary scale for teachers in subsidized schools. These committees had the authority to establish sub-committees to carry out some of their responsibilities.
- Following the 1975 report of the UJWF Study Committee on Jewish Education, this committee structure was altered to allow for more standing committees reporting directly to the board. An informal executive committee, the BJE Steering Committee, was established by the chairman of the board in the early 1970s, to assist the chairman between meetings of the full board, and to review matters considered by the chairman and executive director to be too sensitive for the full board. This committee became a formal committee of the BJE in 1976, its size and role were expanded in 1978, and in the early 1990s again became the BJE Executive Committee.
- In the mid- to late-1990s, following the reports of the BJE Strategic Planning Committee and the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto Commission on Jewish Education, the board returned to a committee structure similar to that established in 1968, with a Fiscal Committee and Educational Services Committee as the two primary committees and sub-committees reporting to these committees. The number of board members has been increased on several occasions after 1968, with twenty-four active community volunteers sitting on the BJE Board as of 1999. The chair of the BJE Board is appointed by the President of UJA Federation for a two year term. The members of the board are appointed by the chair of the board of the BJE, upon the recommendation of a BJE nominations committee.
- The board of directors currently holds at least seven meetings annually, in addition to an annual general meeting and special meetings as required. As of 2006, the major committees on the board include the Fiscal Committee, Educational Services Committee, Education Research Committee, Marketing Committee, Financial Services Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, Tuition Fee Subsidy Guidelines Committee, Affiliation and Compliance Committee, Supplementary School Committee, High School Funding Committee, and Tikun Chaim Committee.
- Scope and Content
- The series documents the work of the BJE Board of Directors and its executive committee in setting policy for the BJE and overseeing its operations, providing guidance and coordination for Jewish education in Toronto, in allocating funds to schools and monitoring the financial performance of these schools, and in representing the interests of affiliated schools within the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and its predecessors, the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, the Toronto Jewish Congress, and the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
- The series contains six sub-series of records relating to the work of the following committees: the Fiscal Committee, Educational Services Committee, the Affiliation Requirements Committee and other committees reviewing affiliation requirements, Guidance and Counselling Steering Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, and the Board of License and Review.
- The series also includes meeting minutes of the board of directors and the executive committee, which were often interfiled, and files of committee minutes and other records whose volume did not warrant establishing separate sub-series -- for example, the Teacher Recruitment Committee, a short-lived ad-hoc committee of the board.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions