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Improving people's lives, a history of the Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital Area, by Isadore (Sam) Seeman, M.P.H

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Improving people's lives

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by Isadore (Sam) Seeman, M.P.H

a history of the Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital Area

This is a history of the Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital Area (HWC) as the author experienced it as its Executive Director from its founding on June 13, 1957 to the time he resigned in 1972, just two years before the Council and the United Givers Fund were merged into the United Way of the National Capital Area in 1974 and HWC ceased to function as an independent organization. During the period of 1957 to 1972, HWC was engaged in many major projects designed and executed to improve the health and welfare of the people of the Metropolitan Washington community. The author hopes this record will inform and inspire others to pursue similar goals in the United Way movement. The United Givers Fund was formed in 1956, and partnered with HWC until the 1974 merger into the United Way of the National Capital Area. The core financial support for the HWC staff was provided by the United Givers Fund. When HWC was formed in 1957, there was a Council in Washington D.C., called United Community Services. There were also Community Chests and Councils in each of the five neighboring jurisdictions, in Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, and in Arlington County, Fairfax County, and the city of Alexandria in Virginia. Each of these community chests raised funds in their community and made allocations to their member agencies, but to facilitate fundraising from Federal employees and from employees in companies serving the entire Metropolitan region, a Community Chest Federation was organized to guide the campaigns

History of the Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital Area