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Man pasting a billboard for the Omaha Community Chest. (Photo: Mike Goad)

Birth of the Community Chest movement.

1913

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Man pasting a billboard for the Omaha Community Chest. (Photo: Mike Goad)

A precursor of the United Way and its health and welfare councils, Community Chest organizations raise money from businesses to fund community social welfare projects.