Today the fund opens its annual drive, and hopes to provide vacations for more than 10,000 children.

The fund opened its current appeal Sunday but receives gifts throughout the year.

The fund, which has no load, or sales charge, opened to the public on Feb. 15.

To raise the required funds to build and open the community a TV show was organized.

The fund opened on its first day of trading around $67/share.

Profits are essential because they provide funds to open new ventures.

In July 1995, when the fund last opened to new investors, $1 billion flowed in over two days.

If those funds open their doors down the road, buy in.

The fund opened the year 1944 with 47 employers and almost 4,000 members.

Once the fund opened to outside investors, assets shot up, to $1.6 billion at the end of 1983 from $107 million two years earlier.