The Building Endowment Fund Appeal (BEFA) announced a goal of $400,000, the amount prescribed by the Carnegie Foundation to receive its $600,000 trust. Fund-raising began in earnest in 1926, with preliminary work having been started in 1924 by the King's University League, or the Laymen's University League. This had been led by A.H. Whitman, who then became the general chairman of the BEFA. At the end of 1924, the League was turned over to President Moore.

The BEFA was a massive undertaking led by President Moore and General Chairman A.H. Whitman, finally succeeding in the goal of $400,000 in pledges at the end of 1927 (see our files). It took years and dozens of workers throughout the Atlantic Provinces and elsewhere to solicit and collect on all the pledges. There were volunteers working in each of the parishes throughout Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Prince Edward Island. The President's son, Rex J. Moore, was sent out during the summer of 1927 to solicit pledges and make collections throughout the Atlantic provinces. Miss Morrow, secretary to the President, helped with collections and administrative work for the campaign. King's hired a Mr. Miller from the firm Ward, Wells, Dreshman and Gates to organize the campaign. The campaign account was held at the Bank of Montreal, with A. E. Nash and then R.R. Wallace as treasurer. Money for expenses was taken from a Campaign Expense Fund.

The monies raised by the campaign was put into the Building Endowment Fund; the name was changed in 1962 to the "Property and Equipment Fund."

Sub-series consists of records relating to this fund.

Sub-series consists of minutes and a report.

Records relating to the planning, control and follow-up of the University's overall capital, operating and ancillary budgets including approved budgets, estimates and submissions, statements of revenue and expenditures, budget statements and reports, budget plans, calculations, statistics, and working papers, fiscal year-end statements of expenditures, detailed budget statements, year-end cumulative budget reports.

Board of Governors records relating to budgets.

Records from the Budget committee, including minutes, agendas, reports, and correspondence.

Sub-series consists of correspondence, resolutions, agreements, and other documents relating to bonds and shares.

Some of these records were removed from the University of King's College Board of Governors fonds.

Bonds of specific persons to the Board of Governors.

In 1907, a new fundraiser called the President's Fund, or Bobber Scheme, was begun by Prof. H. Lothar Bobber, M.A.,
Professor of Modem Languages 1892-1915, who undertook, by himself, to raise $2,500 for King's. For a time, the Treasurer of this fund was Dr. Willets, and later, the interim Bursar, Rev. Mr. Martell. This continued until 1911, and expanded into an initiative to pay the salaries of the professors who would otherwise be let go due to lack of funds.

Sub-series consists of correspondence relating to this fund.

Sub-series consists of correspondence.

Sub-series consists of subscriptions for the bicentenary forward movement fund.