---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 4
published: 1899-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Our Work: General Improvement Fund,\" *Improvement Era* 2, no. 4 (February 1899): 315."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera24unse
start_page: 315
end_page: 315
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24unse
  publication_year: 1899
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Our Work: General Improvement Fund

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OUR WORK.
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND.
We desire to remind the Superintendents of Stakes and the Presidents
of Associations and the members generally that by action of the Y. M.
M. I. A. General Conference, held in May last, what had up to that time
been called the "fifty cent fund" was changed in title to General Improvement Fund; and the amount to be contributed by each member of the
associations to meet the general expenses of this institution, was cut
down from fifty cents to twenty-five cents; the full amount however to
be remitted by the proper officers of the associations to the General
Treasurer, Thomas Hull.
The first week in December and the first week in February were
decided upon as Collection Weeks for this fund, and it was further decided
that the ward treasurers should make remittance to the stake superintendents on January 1st and February 20th; and that the respective
stake treasurers should remit immediately to the General Treasurer at
Salt Lake City. We call attention to this matter at this time because
the last week set apart as Collection Week for this fund has now arrived;
and up to the present time the returns from the December collections
have been very, very meagre; and we wish to urge upon the officers in
the stakes and the wards that the collection of this fund ought to be
vigorously pushed.
We suggest to presidents that it would be a good thing to organize
a large committee to attend to this business; and apportion the names
of members of the associations to individuals of said committee, giving
each person say from eight to ten or twelve names, and charge him with
the duty of seeing each of the persons whose names are assigned to him
during Collection Week, and make this collection. If the work is thus