From the beginning of its history, Peoples Temple opened its doors to the poor and minority populations of Indianapolis, and soon began offering programs beyond those of a regular church, such as a community kitchen and clothing distribution program. It also began soliciting contributions and donations specifically to support these extracurricular activities, including during its own services and on its weekly radio broadcast. <\/p>\n
In November 1960, the Temple learned that those solicitation efforts required a permit from the city, when the Charity Solicitations Commission sent a notice that the church was not in compliance with an ordinance and regulations covering charitable groups. And while the Temple complied with the city\u2019s request to apply for a permit, it was not without some quibbling.<\/p>\n
The documents on this page include the Temple application for a public solicitation permit, several letters from the city reminding the Temple of its obligation to comply with the ordinance (the first of which includes a handwritten note of complaint at the bottom of the page), and memos from the Better Business Bureau reflecting the inquiries which the Temple made about the ordinance.<\/p>\n
Peoples Temple Solicitation Permit<\/strong> From the beginning of its history, Peoples Temple opened its doors to the poor and minority populations of Indianapolis, and soon began offering programs beyond those of a regular church, such as a community kitchen and clothing distribution program. It also began soliciting contributions and donations specifically to support these extracurricular activities, including during its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13787,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94285,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94278\/revisions\/94285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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