The English Judaic Council was a semi-religious organization founded by Donald Sutcliffe in late 1955 to help encourage immigration to and the reconstruction of England during the aftermatn of the Anarchy. While largely a Jewish organization whose initial mission statement described its aspiration to rebuild and restore England's ravaged Jewish population, the EJC eventually came to be a major driver in recruitment of employees of all faiths and ethnicities for various construction jobs and was one of the largest private organizations receiving Phoenix Program funds by the beginning of that policy in 1958. The EJC, by 1962, ran almost 70% of England's homeless shelters, worked hand-in-hand with employers and employees alike to get businesses and construction projects off the ground and act