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Definition of Community chest
1. Noun. A charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare.
Definition of Community chest
1. Noun. A fund financed privately, for helping various local welfare agencies or charitable organisations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Community Chest
Literary usage of Community chest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"We have passed out of a period of reaction against community chest campaigns.
... Most certainly the successful prosecution of our last community chest ..."
2. Community Boy Leadership: A Manual for Scout Executives by Boy Scouts of America (1922)
"10) The community chest Viewed from the angle of the contributor, the Community
... The name community chest, however, should only be used where all the ..."
3. Luther's Pastors: The Reformation in the Ernestine Countryside by Susan C. Karant-Nunn (1979)
"At the end of their term of office, outgoing committee members were to offer the
new ones instruction in supervising the community chest. 27 WA : 12, p. 12. ..."
4. Auxiliary Education by Bruno Maennel (1909)
"Since 1920 the council of social agencies movement has been closely allied with
the community chest movement. National promotion of both these organizations ..."
5. Proceedings [of The] Convention (1904)
"I haven't heard anybody say anything about the community chest here, ... I just
want to say one word about the community chest, the way it was operated in ..."
6. Proceedingsby Minnesota State Conference of Social Work, Minnesota State Conference of Charities and Correction by Minnesota State Conference of Social Work, Minnesota State Conference of Charities and Correction (1905)
"18, 1929: "Experience of community-chest agencies contacting Spanish-Americans
and Mexicans is that on the whole they are ambitious, ..."
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