Bahá’í News/Inserts/Issue 279/World Crusade Budget-Second Year/Text
WORLD CRUSADE BUDGET[edit]
SECOND YEAR[edit]
Dearly beloved friends:
Grateful for the privilege we have had to render service in the opening phase of the World Crusade, we dedicate ourselves anew to the tasks that challenge us in the year that lies ahead, determined to reach a level of accomplishment that will merit the high station to which we have been summoned.
With the growing awareness of the vital and fundamental role which the Institution of the National Fund must play in sustaining all of the World Crusade activities in which the American Bahá’í Community is participating, your National Assembly feels assured that the entire body of believers will demonstrate a true spirit of unity in fulfilling the financial objectives called for in our National Budget for this year.
The total amount of the World Crusade Budget for this year is $475,000.00.
In the light of past experience, and with the strong endorsement of the Convention delegates, your National Assembly has adopted the Resolve Plan as the most direct and simplest means of meeting this Budget.
Every individual, Local Assembly and Group is invited to subscribe to this Plan.
It is hoped that contributions from individuals will provide at least $325,000.00, and that contributions from Local Assemblies and Groups will provide at least $150,000.00.
In order to set forth clearly and simply the various Funds to which all of us will wish to contribute, the following may be used as a guide:
1. The “International Fund,” contributions to which go directly to the Guardian in Haifa to assist in the promotion of the essential and far-flung activities at the World Center.
2. Contributions should be sent directly to the National Fund, both by individuals and Local Assemblies and Groups in support of the Resolve Plan.
- A. For the convenience of the individual contributor, a schedule of categories with method of payment is set forth.
- B. The Local Assemblies and Groups should subscribe to the Resolve Plan on a basis of their past experience and an evaluation of their greatest capacity this year to support the Fund.
3. The Local Fund is supported by contributions made by believers residing in local communities. Such contributions are in addition to and do not take the place of contributions sent directly to the National Fund.
4. Believers, if they prefer, may transmit their Resolve contributions to the National Fund through their Local Treasurers.
For purposes of clarification, we point out that the first item of the Budget — “World Center Fund..... $40,000.00” — is a contribution to the Guardian by the American Bahá’í Community, and is in addition to the contributions that each individual believer is privileged to make directly to the Guardian for support of the work at the World Center.
In the year just ended your National Assembly was forced to exhaust all Reserve Funds in order to make up the very large differences between the total expenditures and total contributions.
As a consequence, although there is no deficit carry-over, we commence the year without any financial reserve, and must therefore look to an immediate and sustained flow of contributions from every individual believer, Local Assembly and Group.
We are confident that in the days that lie ahead, the spiritual and financial life-line that we are extending to our heroic Crusaders in the far-flung corners of the globe will be sustained and strengthened in a manner befitting the remarkable achievements that have brought such intense joy to our beloved Guardian.
Faithfully yours,
NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY
| Contributions should be sent and checks made payable to: |
1. For International Fund:
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2. For World Crusade Budget:
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Second Year 1954-1955[edit]
WORLD CENTER FUND[edit]
| ...........................................$ 40,000.00 |
This fund is of primary importance in view of the rapidly expanding activities being initiated by the Guardian at the World Center.
AUXILIARY BOARD OF HANDS OF CAUSE IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE[edit]
| ........................................... 9,000.00 |
This complies with the appeal of the Guardian to “insure a steady augmentation of Funds through annual assignment in National Budgets.”
FOUR AUXILIARY BOARDS OF HANDS OF CAUSE IN OTHER CONTINENTS[edit]
| ........................................... 1,000.00 |
This is a token gift to be equally divided among these Boards for assistance in their teaching work.
WORLD CRUSADE TEACHING[edit]
| Intercontinental: | |||
| Africa ............................. | $ 35,000.00 | ||
| Europe .................... $33,500.00 | |||
| Assistance to Italo-Swiss N.S.A. and pioneers in their territory .................... 9,000.00 | 42,500.00 | ||
| Asia ............................... | 15,000.00 | ||
| Western Hemisphere 30,000.00 | |||
| Assistance to Central and South American N.S.A.’s ................. 12,000.00 | 42,000.00 | ||
| U.S. National | |||
| Teaching Committee | 17,500.00 | ||
| American Indian Service Committee | 2,000.00 | ||
| Inter-Racial Teaching Committee ... | 1,000.00 | 20,500.00 | 155,000.00 |
INTERNATIONAL — MISCELLANEOUS[edit]
| Geneva Bureau ...................... | 1,500.00 | |
| Maintained as strategic international office at request of Guardian. | ||
| George Townshend ................... | 600.00 | |
| United Nations Committee .......... | 600.00 | |
| Contribution to Central America N.S.A. for completion purchase Temple site ..................... | 1,750.00 | |
| Other Temple Site Contributions: | ||
| Johannesburg .................... | 1,000.00 | |
| Kampala ......................... | 1,000.00 | |
| Cairo ........................... | 500.00 | |
| Assistance in Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds site or building purchase in: | ||
| Anchorage, Brussels, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, The Hague, Helsingfors, Tokyo, Luxembourg, Madrid, Asuncion .............................. | 5,000.00 | 11,950.00 |
NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION[edit]
| ........................................... 55,000.00 |
This supports your National offices of Secretary and Treasury, which have had to be expanded in personnel and service facilities in keeping with the rapidly widening activities of the Faith. It pays for the printing and mailing of Bahá’í News; it finances the National and State Conventions, N.S.A. meetings, and covers cost of cablegrams to the Guardian and to other National Assemblies, as well as all printings and mailings from the N.S.A. to the believers.
TRUSTEESHIPS[edit]
Temple
| First stage completion of landscaping (one-third of total estimated cost) .......................... | 75,000.00 |
| Maintenance of existing landscaping ..................... | 15,000.00 |
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This pays salaries of supervisor and gardeners, as well as supplies and plant replacements.
Temple building Maintenance ........ 35,000.00
This covers salaries of personnel, lighting, heating, and all repairs ........ 125,000.00
BOSCH (Geyserville School) ............ 1,200.00 EGGLESTON (Louhelen Summer School) ..... 2,400.00 MATHEWS (Temerity Summer school) ..... 1,800.00 GREEN ACRES ...... 4,000.00 9,400.00 134,400.00
This pays for repairs and maintenance of extensive properties represented by these four Trusteeships.
NATIONAL COMMITTEES[edit]
Archives ....................... 25.00 Bahá’í News Service ............ 1,500.00 Child Education ................ 50.00 Library ........................ 50.00 Questionnaire .................. 50.00 Reference Library .............. 250.00 Service to Blind ............... 250.00 Souvenir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ...... 50.00
Summer School Programs (Four Committees) ......... 1,500.00 Temple Worship ................. 500.00 Temple Guiding ................. 4,000.00 Temple Music ................... 5,900.00 Temple Public Meetings ....... 500.00 Visual Education ............... 500.00 Youth .......................... 500.00 15,625.00
FINANCIAL[edit]
Goldblatt Mortgage — Principal ................... 5,000.00 Goldblatt Mortgage — Interest . 1,000.00 Interest on $60,000 Bank Loan @ 4¼% .................... 2,550.00 Insurance ...................... 7,500.00 16,050.00
COLLINS MEMORIAL FUND[edit]
Replacement of approximately one-third entire principal amount of $77,000 in this Endowment Fund which was used to meet last year’s Budget requirements ........................ 25,000.00
CONTINGENCY FUND[edit]
................................ 11,975.00
TOTAL WORLD CRUSADE BUDGET 1954-1955 ..........$475,000.00