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Ford Foundation records, International Affairs Program, Department Chronological Correspondence Files, 1978-1996 23.56 Cubic Feet
The collection contains department correspondence sent by Ford Foundation staff in the International Affairs Program as well as reports, grant status reports, and grant program action forms. The correspondence is typically notices of grant approvals or grant declinations on projects related to international law and the environment, international peace and security, international human rights, international economics and development, U.S. foreign policy, and relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Ford Foundation records, International Division, European and International Affairs Program (EIA), Office Files of Peter Ruof, 1973-1982 2.47 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the staff subject files of Peter Ruof who worked as a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's European and International Affairs Program (EIA) between 1973 and 1981 and then as an international consultant for the Foundation's International Affairs Program (IAP) for a brief period after that. The EIA was situated within the Foundation's International Division. Materials in the collection relate how it was replaced by the IAP in the early 1980s. Ruof's records are comprised of chronological files that were created between 1973 and 1978 and between 1981 and 1982. Files originating from the period between November 1978 and September 1981 are missing from the collection.
Ford Foundation records, International Division, Office Files of Robert H. Edwards, 1968-1977 3.28 Cubic Feet
The collection includes transcripts of 12 sessions of the Proceedings of the Survey Committee on Program Review of the Ford Foundation (also known as the McCloy Committee or the Special Committee on Program Review of the Ford Foundation). The McCloy Committee met in March and April 1962 to discuss potential program goals in Education, Economics, International Relations, Science and Technology, and the Arts.
Ford Foundation records, Peace and Social Justice Program (PSJ), Office Files of Natalia Kanem, 2000-2004 0.76 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the office Files Natalia Kanem created and organized when she served as Deputy Vice President of the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program (PSJ). It consists of one series of briefing books, reports, and various kinds of publications. The briefing books document Kanem's participation at different PSJ and larger Foundation meetings she attended between 2000 and 2004. Materials within the collection chiefly concern the state and development of civil society and peace and international cooperation throughout the world as well as the Foundation's support of research and programs focusing on those areas.
Ford Foundation records, United States International Affairs Program (USIAP), Office Files of Enid C.B. Schoettle, 1976-1991 6.65 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the office files of Ford Foundation program executive Enid C.B. (Curtis Bok) Schoettle. From 1976 to 1993, Schoettle occupied a number of positions in the Foundation's International Affairs Program (IAP), a unit that was once organized under the Foundation's United States and International Affairs Program (USIAP). Schoettle served as Program Officer, Program Officer in Charge, and Director of IAP. Her work primarily focused on managing grants for international security and arms control research and initiatives.
Briefing books assembled by Foundation staff in the International Affairs program for the meeting of the Board of Trustees held in Eastern Europe, Fall 1993.
Peter F. Geithner papers, 1951-2011 55.77 Cubic Feet
This collection holds the papers of Peter F. Geithner who served as Regional Director of Asia Programs for the Ford Foundation between 1990 and 1996. It contains both professional and personal material, and although it chiefly consists of records created during the course of Geithner's long career in philanthropy, it was maintained by Geithner as an individual person and stored at his home in Orleans, Massachusetts. See the Other Finding Aids note to locate Ford Foundation records created by Geithner during his time as Regional Director of Asia Programs.