Finnish Relief Fund

The Finnish Relief Fund was a humanitarian aid organization initiated by former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in December 1939.

It was intended to support Finland during the Winter War.

[1] Hoover's campaign was advertised in 1,400 newspapers across the United States.

The largest contributions came from private donors ($1.9 million), newspaper ads ($652,869), industrial companies ($318,188) and labor unions ($27,294).

[2] The income from first screening of the film Gone with the Wind in the state of Washington was forwarded to the relief fund.

Herbert Hoover , Hendrik Willem van Loon and Fiorello H. La Guardia in Madison Square Garden on December 20, 1939.