Collection holds the office files of Ford Foundation Program Officer Stephen P. Marks. The files were created during Marks' time in the Human Rights and Governance Program (HRG) at Ford where he was responsible for grant-making decisions related to international human rights.
Collection contains the office files that Gloria Walters created when she served as Archivist/Records Retention Manager at the Ford Foundation and was based in the Foundation's Information Services, Archives and Records Retention unit. The collection is comprised of 3 series. The first series, Subject files, documents Walters' general activities in leading the Foundation's archives and records retention functions and supporting the larger Information Services department, primarily between 1993 and 1996, whereas the second series, Automation project files, specifically concerns the archive's automation project. Files in the third series, Researcher files, were removed from the Subject files series during processing and closed to access because of concerns over the privacy of the Foundation archive's researchers.
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.
The collection consists of Dr. Gary Sick's correspondence with grantees regarding ongoing grants, grant rejection and acceptance letters, and requests for further information on proposed projects. The collection also contains Dr. Sick's inter-office memos with Ford Foundation International Affairs program staff regarding grantmaking decisions, Recommended Grant Action forms (RGAs), trip and conference summaries, Dr. Sick's publications, and discussions of how to evenly allocate funding to underserved areas of study.
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.
Collection contains the staff subject files of Ruth D. Carter, an Assistant Administrative Officer in the Ford Foundation's European and International Affairs Program (EIA). The EIA was situated within the Foundation's International Division. During the time that Carter worked there, it was headed by Craufurd Goodwin and then, starting in 1977, by Francis Sutton. Carter's records are comprised of chronological files that chiefly originate from between 1968 and 1980.
The collection primarily contains correspondence related to the logistics and findings of the Ford Foundation's International Urbanization Survey. The Survey was conducted between 1970-1972 to review and assess the effects of urbanization in the developing world. The Foundation used their findings to plan international programming related to urbanization and publish working papers based on their observations.
Collection contains the staff subject files Betty Skolnick created during her time in the Ford Foundation's Middle East and Africa Program (MEA). Between 1973 and 1975, Skolnick served in the MEA, first as a Training Associate and then as an Assistant Program Officer. Materials within the collection document her assistance on Foundation projects aimed at supporting language development research. Records such as correspondence, memos, notes, reports, articles, and brochures show the Foundation's interest in engaging and promoting research regarding language in education, language policy and planning, and linguistics. This research primarily concerns language development in African countries such as Nigeria and Tanzania. Some records document the Foundation's grant support to institutions in African countries for development oriented language research and training.
Lowell Hardin worked for the Ford Foundation from 1965-1981 in the field of international agriculture research and training. This collection of Hardin's office files contains reports related to agricultural training and production, budget and program planning documents from agricultural research and training centers, planning documents and reports from the Arid Lands Agricultural Development (ALAD) Program in Beirut, and meeting materials from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
The collection contains correspondence and memoranda from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Program, including general chronological correspondence files and correspondence from the field offices of Cairo, Lagos, Beirut, Ankara, Nairobi, and Tunis. The collection spans from 1960-1970.
