I. Jewish Community Council of Essex County, New Jersey, 1945

Article I

CHARACTER AND PURPOSES

Section 1. Character of Organization. So far as possible, the Council shall seek to be representative of all Jews and all Jewish groups having a constructive interest in Jewish life, located in Essex County and its neighboring municipalities. It shall be a voluntary association, following democratic procedures and seeking the maximum participation of its membership.

Section 2. Purposes. The Council shall endeavor to perform the community responsibilities of the Jews of Essex County and its neighboring municipalities for the needs of Jewish life – locally, nationally, and overseas. Specifically, the Council shall:

A. assume general responsibility for the conduct and support of essential local services;

B. seek to coordinate or conduct, when desirable, all appeals for funds made to the general community; and

C. help to maintain the dignity and integrity of Jewish life by

1) developing an intelligent and effective understanding of Jewish problems and interests;
2) encouraging the amicable adjustment of differences among Jews or Jewish organizations, through conciliation or arbitration; and
3) safeguarding the civil, political, economic, and religious rights to which Jews are entitled with all Americans.

Article II

Section 3. Members of the Council. Every adult Jewish contributor of $3.00 or more to the most recently completed fund-raising campaign of the Council shall be a member of the Council . . .

II. Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver, 1949

PREAMBLE

Recognizing that a unity of purpose and a totality of programs in Jewish life is best achieved by the more democratic process of full representation, the Council hereby broadens its organization to include agency representation so that its purposes will be achieved democratically by and with the consent of the organizations and the Jewish Community at large.

Article I
NAME

Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the Allied Jewish Community Council of Denver.

Article II
PURPOSE

Section 1. The purpose of the organization shall be:

(a) To further the welfare of the Jewish Community of Denver; to determine and recommend matters of policy; to represent the community in all matters of general Jewish interest, other than religious, where concerted action is desirable.
(b) To unite the Jewish Community for the purpose of one centralized appeal, collection, and allocation of funds to Jewish causes; to determine which causes have a justified claim on the community for support; to eliminate frequent and separate appeals and solicitations on the community; to evaluate by approval or disapproval fund-raising drives or solicitations of funds, for Jewish causes in Denver.
(c) To engage in social planning in all fields of community service, and tot take such steps as are necessary to implement such planning.
(d) To encourage the amicable adjustment of differences between individuals and organizations by providing the appropriate machinery for conciliation and arbitration.
(e) To coordinate the activities of agencies and services, and to review agency programs and make recommendations.
(f) To encourage good public relations within the Jewish community and the community-at-large.

Article III
MEMBERS

Section 1. Members will be of two types, as follows:
(a) Any adult Jewish resident of Denver or vicinity who has contributed a minimum of $10.00 to the Council.
(b) Any agency or organization meeting the qualifications set down in this constitution . . .

Article XIV
CONSTITUENT AGENCIES

Section 1. Qualifications:
(a) Any Jewish organization, congregation, or functional organization composed of residents of Denver, purely local in its purposes, may be eligible for membership to the Council.
(b) Any group or organization of residents of Denver of not less than twenty-five (25) members representing any national or international organization may be eligible for membership. The number of delegates to which such organization is entitled shall be based on the numerical membership of the Denver group . . .