Committee of Seventy

Committee of Seventy
Committee of Seventy
Motto Clean and effective government. Fair Elections. Informed Citizens.
Formation 1904
Purpose/focus Good government
Headquarters

Eight Penn Center

1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1002
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Region served Philadelphia and five suburban counties
President and CEO Zack Stalberg
Staff 6
Website http://www.seventy.org/

The Committee of Seventy is a good government group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 1904. It is a nonpartisan organization perhaps best known for monitoring elections in the city and its suburbs. Zack Stalberg is President and Chief Executive Officer and Daniel K. Fitzpatrick, President of Citizens Financial Group for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Contents

Reports

The Committee is known for issuing detailed reports describing problems of city government and proposing various reforms.[1] Zack Stalberg, former editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, often testifies to City Council about the reports, the city budget, and other matters.

Funding

This independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit group gets most of its funding from foundations. For example, it received a grant of $35,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2006.[2]

Name

The name comes from the Bible. According to the organization's website, "Chronicling the Israelites’ journey through the desert, Exodus tells of seventy elders who were appointed to assist Moses in the governance of the people. In 1904, this Committee of Seventy was so named to represent an analogous function: to be the ethical backbone of a city forgetting its conscience." The references appear in Exodus 24:1-9, in which God instructs Moses how to proceed once Israel accepts the Covenant: "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off." — Exodus 24:1.

A Committee of Seventy already existed in 19th-century New York City.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Committee of Seventy: The Catalyst for True Reform". Committee of Seventy Web Site. Committee of Seventy. 2010-02-11. http://www.seventy.org/OurViews_Our_Views.aspx. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 
  2. ^ "The Committee of Seventy". Knight Foundation web site. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 2006-11-10. http://www.knightfdn.org/grants/grant_detail.dot?id=214256. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 
  3. ^ Beckert, Sven: "Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York" in Past and Present (February 2002), pp. 114–155.

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