Collection contains the papers of Alberta Arthurs, a consultant in the cultural and philanthropy fields and a former Director of the Arts and Humanities Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. Most of the papers regard Arthurs' career in philanthropy from when she departed the Rockefeller Foundation in 1996 to about 2006. Papers, speeches, drafts, notes, proposals, research materials, correspondence, photographs, and conference materials provide evidence of the various projects Arthurs managed and supported during this time period. Some of the key focuses of these initiatives and studies include the relationship between nonprofit and for-profit organizations within the arts field, cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, the relationship between culture and development, the role of emerging technologies within the arts, communication and convening in the arts field, and convening for cultural policy.

The collection contains 1/4 inch audio cassette recordings of the "Apna Street" and "Life in an Indian Village" radio series produced and narrated by Julian Crandall Hollick for NPR's Weekend Edition-Sunday.

The collection contains the office files of Marcia T. Thompson, program officer in the Office of the Humanities and the Arts at the Ford Foundation from 1953-1983. Contents include background papers, reports, correspondence, grant files, and materials relating to the Symphony Orchestra Program, the Cash Reserve Program, the Ford Foundation Stabilization Program, the Office of the Humanities and the Arts, the Education and Culture Program, and the National Arts Stabilization Fund (NASF).

This collection contains grant files, chronological correspondence files, reports, meeting notes, and conference materials of E. Walter Coward, Jr.

Collection consists of photographs and associated materials that document the art collection the Ford Foundation acquired between 1966 and 1967 through the Art Purchase Program. The collection is comprised of one series of artwork photograph files. These files generally contain photographs, photograph negatives, and invoices that regard a piece of art (or a set of art) that the Foundation purchased for the New York City headquarters building it opened in 1967. The files provide photographic evidence of the artwork, information about the artist who created it, information about the material details and dimensions of the artwork, and information about the purchase of the item. They are organized by the name of the artist.

The collection includes correspondence related to pending grant proposals, requests for testimony before Congress, internal Foundation memos, clippings of the Congressional Record related to Foundation issues, and acknowledgments of receipt of Ford Foundation publications.

This collection holds the office files of Ford Foundation executive staff member Maya Harris. However, the records in the collection were not actually created by Harris. They all originate from the Office of Ford Foundation Peace and Social Justice Program Vice President Bradford K. Smith. Inventory information provided by Ford to the RAC described the materials as historical documents, suggesting that Harris had inherited Smith's files and that her Office absorbed those documents into its own records. Harris served as Vice President for Ford's Democracy, Rights, and Justice Program between 2008 and 2013. This program likely succeeded the Peace and Social Justice Program that Smith served. Future accessions may expand the collection so that it includes documents produced by Harris' Office.

Collection contains the staff subject files of Peter F. Geithner that Geithner created during the time he served as Program Officer in Charge of the Ford Foundation's Developing Countries Program (DCP) between 1981 and 1987. The collection so far consists only of Geithner's meeting and trip files. Meeting files contain correspondence, memos, drafts, notes, papers, agendas, active grants lists, invitation lists, brochures, publications, guides, and summaries that document the work that Geithner, other Ford Foundation staff members such as the different Country Representatives, and external individuals and organizations completed for organizing, participating in, and reporting on various Ford Foundation program meetings and other types of events and conferences. Trip files contain the same type of materials found in the meeting files as well as itineraries and travel information memos and documents. Geithner created these files to document his visits to various countries and Ford Foundation field offices as well as the visits he helped organize for individuals like Foundation Board of Trustees Members. There are also a few photographs within the collection.

Oral history.

The collection contains the formative documents of the Ford Foundation's program in Economic Development and Administration, including the meeting materials and correspondence of the initial advisory group. The collection also holds memos, reports, grant proposals, fellowship files, and budget information pertaining to initiatives to improve education and research in the fields of business and economics. The collection spans from 1950-1967.

The collection contains correspondence, meeting materials, grant approval materials, reports, and memos related to the Ford Foundation's Problems of the Aging program within the Economic Development and Administration department. The collection primarily consists of the office files of Stacey Widdicombe, a program associate who led the Problems of the Aging program. Materials within the collection relate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging, the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, the National Committee on Aging, research into social issues of older Americans, social security issues, economic and housing issues for older individuals, and rights of older workers.

The collection contains Alison Bernstein's correspondence with grantees and colleagues at the Ford Foundation during her time as a program officer and director in the Foundation's Education and Culture program area. The collection also houses reports, correspondence, and office files relating to programs for women, education in Africa, and Ford Foundation Education and Culture programs abroad.

Collection holds the office files of Ford Foundation Program Officer John Phillip Santos. The files were created during Santos' time in the Media, Arts, and Culture Unit (MAC) of the Education, Media, Arts, and Culture Program (EMAC).

The collection consists of the Executive Officer Subject Files of Susan Berresford, including correspondence, project proposals, newsletters, press materials, and other documents from projects and programs overseen by Susan Berresford, many related to Woman's Programs. The majority of materials were created in the late 1970s to early 1980s. During this period, Berresford held many roles at the Foundation, including program assistant and program officer in the Division of National Affairs, officer in charge of Women's Programs, and Vice President for US and International Affairs Programs.

The collection consists of the Executive Officer Subject Files of Verne S. Atwater, including correspondence, reports, financial statements, and meeting minutes related to the Ford Foundation's administrative activities, organizational structure, and new building project. The collection also houses reports and correspondence concerning the Satellite Project, a Ford Foundation initiative to build a satellite to broadcast educational television programs.

Reprints, reports, Ph.D. theses, and books created by Ford Foundation Fellowship recipients in Economic Development and Administration.

The collection is comprised of material related to the Ford Foundation History Project led by Lloyd Garrison, former Director of the Ford Foundation's Office of Communications. The collection contains chapter outlines, chapter drafts, lists of other corporate/institutional history projects, research materials, project updates, meeting notes, and memos primarily from 1995-1996.

This collection contains books that were published with the support of Ford Foundation grants. The majority of books in this collection are from the National Poetry Series. Established in 1978, the National Poetry Series is a literary awards program that supports the publication of five books of poetry every year selected from an open competition.

The collection contains grant approval letters, correspondence, financial information, reports, and clippings related to Ford Foundation grants from 1936-1977.

The collection contains press clippings, photographs, slides, digital media, brochures, and other ephemera related to various Ford Foundation grants from the 1990s to the 2000s. These materials were retained as part of a grant's attachments file. More information about individual grants can be found in the Ford Foundation's microfilmed grant records collections.

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.

Dr. Hill's files include reports, correspondence, memos, photographs, and meeting minutes that document his efforts to establish and sustain international research centers, including the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria. The files detail his continuing work in agricultural development and his relationships with others in the field. In addition, they contain information about the development of Foundation overseas policies and a proposed, but eventually rejected, Foundation office in Afghanistan (1956-1963).

Robert H. (Hazard) Edwards joined the Ford Foundation as a program officer for the International Division in 1965. In 1968, Mr. Edwards served as the Foundation's Representative in Pakistan. He later transferred to the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Program in the early 1970s where he would serve as Deputy Head under William Fredericks. In 1973, he succeeded Fredericks as MEA Head. Mr. Edwards left the Foundation in 1977 to accept an appointment as President of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The Office Files of Robert H. Edwards span from 1968 to 1977 and comprise the files that Mr. Edwards kept as Head of the International Division's MEA Program. The collection is organized into three series: program management files, subject files, and chronological files. The program management files primarily consist of memoranda but also correspondence, notes, reports, and papers relating to the work of Mr. Edwards's program officer Lowell S. Hardin. Mr. Edwards's subject files contain memoranda, correspondence, papers, speeches, reports, meeting materials, and background primarily pertaining to the Foundation's programs in the Middle East and Africa. His chronological files of correspondence and memoranda from the year 1968 and the years between 1972 and 1977 are also available.

This collection contains office files of Becky Lentz, who held positions as a Program Officer of Media, Arts, and Culture and a Program Officer for Electronic Media Policy. Materials include grant records, grant-funded materials, Requests for Grant Action (RGA), proposals, grant status reports, books, newsletters, working drafts, memos, publications, and correspondence.

Collection contains the office files Orlando Bagwell created when he worked as a Program Officer in the Media, Arts, and Culture Unit (MAC) of the Ford Foundation's Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom Program (KCF). It consists of one series of subject files. These files document the activities Bagwell performed when carrying out his responsibilities for managing a grant portfolio focused on public media and media rights and access and for leading the Foundation's five-year Global Perspectives in a Digital Age: Transforming Public Service Media initiative. Some of the files in the series were inherited from Bagwell's MAC predecessors.

Collection contains the office files that Robert Mayer created during his time as Officer-in-Charge of the Ford Foundation's Logistical Services unit. Logistical Services operated within the Foundation's Division of Administration and included both a Records Services and Buildings Services department. Materials in the collection appear to chiefly relate to Mayer's responsibilities over the Records Services department as well as his involvement in the larger activities of the Division of Administration.

Collection contains the office files of Robert Williams who occupied different records management related positions in the Ford Foundation's Logistical Services unit between 1969 and 1974. Logistical Services operated within the Foundation's Division of Administration, and Williams was hired as a Records Analyst before becoming Records Services Manager. The collection consists of one series of subject files. Williams' staff subject files include a lot of material that originated from before he joined the Foundation and some material that appears to have been created by Robert Mayer who was Officer-in-Charge of Logistical Services. This material may have been collected by Williams or may have been mixed in with his subject files at some point by the Foundation's archives.

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.

The Ford Foundation records, Media Policy Collection consists of reports, correspondence, and court briefs from 1968-1992. The materials originate from the Ford Foundation Grant #06800203 awarded to the United Church of Christ to combat racial discrimination in broadcasting and broadcast employment.

This collection primarily consists of correspondence (defined by the Ford Foundation as subject files) received by the Ford Foundation's Mexico City Field Office. The correspondence is related to the Ford Foundation's work in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The topics covered in the correspondence include: agriculture, anthropology, communication, economics, education, work with foundations, human rights, international relations, law and society, Mexico-US relations, nutrition, pollution, population, public management, resources and the environment, rural development, science and technology, social sciences, urban studies, conference files, and trip files.

Ford Foundation records, Multimedia Material, Accession 2017:067 contains photographs, negatives, slides, and films related to Ford Foundation press materials, publications, and projects, including the 1991 and 1992 Annual Reports, international women's programs in the 1980s, and activities of the Fund for Adult Education.

Collection contains the office files of Ford Foundation Program Advisor George Esser. Esser served as Program Advisor for the South in the Foundation's National Affairs Division between the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection is comprised of two types of records housed within two separate series. The first series contains Esser's subject files, while the second contains his correspondence files.

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, and grant documents from the Ford Foundation's work in India between 1952 and 1971. The files relate to the Ford Foundation's travel logistics in India (primarily connected with the Ford Foundation's private aircraft), Ford Foundation films "The Stranger" and "Gaon Sathis," agriculture programs, education programs, social science research, and community development programs.

The collection includes background information on New York City schools, meeting notes, recommendations from experts in the field of education, drafts of the Mayor's Advisory Panel on Decentralization final report: Reconnection for Learning: A Community School System for New York City York City Schools, correspondence with New Yorkers angered by the New York City teachers' strike, and clippings related to school decentralization in New York City and across the country. The collection spans from 1962 to 1973.

The collection contains prints, negatives, transparencies, slides, and contact sheets that document Ford Foundation projects around the world as well as headshots of staff, executive officers, and trustees for the Ford Foundation's Office of Communications. Many photographs appear in annual reports and other Ford Foundation publications and promotional materials.

The collection is composed of files from the Ford Foundation's Office of Communications, including correspondence, annual report draft files, draft files for other Ford Foundation reports, and files related to the creation of the Ford Foundation's early website. The bulk of the material in the collection spans from 1995-1999.

Collection holds the office files of Ford Foundation staff member Kyle Reis. The files were created during Reis' time at Ford's Office of Management Services and Office of Program Management. Documents within the collection suggest that the Office of Management Services became the Office of Program Management around the year 2006. The timeframe within which the records were created encompasses Reis's positions as Field Office Liaison and Regional Grants Manager for the Africa Program (1994-1999), Senior Grants Manager for the Overseas Program and Special Projects (1999-2006), and Assistant Manager for Program Staff Development (2007-2009). Ford Foundation Office of Management Services staff members like Reis were responsible for grants administration and overseas operations within the foundation's Program Division.

Collection contains the staff subject files of Nancy Boggs who worked as an Administrative Officer and Graphics Manager in the Ford Foundation's Office of Reports. Files contain correspondence, memos, drafts, scripts, notes, invoices, expense reports, inventories, contracts and agreements, schedules, newspaper clippings, and photographs that document Boggs work on the Foundation's sponsored films and other media projects. The records regard the promotion and distribution of the films as well as the production and planning of those movies. The films that the documents regard concerned subjects like primary healthcare, education, and jobs.

Contains correspondence, memoranda, publications and subject files.

Collection contains records that the Ford Foundation Office of Reports created to plan and document various photograph exhibit projects. Exhibits were produced to promote the work of the Ford Foundation in broad program areas such as support for American theater and women in developing countries as well as the work of individual initiatives and artists.

The collection consists of Recommended Grant Action documents (RGAs) for a small subset of Ford Foundation grants from the 1970s and 1980s. These documents describe the grant amount, the start and end date of a grant, a general description, the source of funds, other grantees included, the division/office in charge of the grant, and the responsible program officer. Some files only have one RGA while others might have many (depending on grant renewals, supplementary funding, or grants for different activities). Some files also include affirmative action statements regarding a grantee's board of directors or employees.

The Office of the Secretary was established in 1950 and the Office of the General Counsel was established in 1971. The two offices merged in the early 1980s. The Grants Processing Unit within the Office of the Secretary was responsible for maintaining official copies of Recommended Grant Actions forms and Delegated Authority Projects, memoranda, and official files relating to the tax status and classification of grantee organizations.

Contains Ford Foundation organization charts, staff directories, biographies of staff (including employment and educational histories), and staff photographs.

The collection documents Michael Lipsky's work as a program officer for the Ford Foundation in the fields of governance, civil society, and peace and social justice. In particular, the collection highlights Lipsky's leading role in organizing the Innovations in American Government awards program from 1991-2001. Records related to the program include correspondence with government officials, reports, publications, application materials, and event materials. Another program established by Lipsky's work with the Foundation was the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a program to provide research, policy analysis, public education and coalition building for state budgets across the United States. The collection contains SFAI reports from state organizations, grant proposals, and correspondence.

Joseph Schull served as a program officer and deputy director of the International Affairs and the Governance and Civil Society programs at the Ford Foundation between 1991 and 1998. His work focused on creating new foundation initiatives in Russia and Eastern Europe. The collection is comprised of trip reports, articles on civil society issues, Ford program review materials, background papers, policy documents, and conference materials.

The collection contains miscellaneous office files of Sara Rios, former Director of the Human Rights and Governance Unit within the Peace and Social Justice Division at the Ford Foundation. Her office files contain conference files, reports, press materials, correspondence, and publications. Many grant-related materials in the collection between 1997 and 2000 are the files of Alan Jenkins. Jenkins preceded Rios in her role as Program Officer in the Peace and Social Justice Program from 1997-2000. Some correspondence with grantees and potential grantees is also present after 2000, when Jenkins became Deputy Director of Human Rights and International Cooperation at the Ford Foundation and when he was appointed Director of the reorganized Human Rights Program in 2001.

Collection contains the office files of Ford Foundation Program Officer Jacqueline Berrien. Working in the Governance and Civil Society (GCS) unit of the Peace and Social Justice Program (PSJ), Berrien managed a grant portfolio for projects concerning Participation and Representation in American Politics. The grants encompassed within this portfolio fell under two initiatives: 1) Democracy and Diversity; and 2) Reclaiming Politics for the Public. Projects related to the Democracy and Diversity initiative focused on ensuring the right to vote to more of the American public and increasing diverse participation and representation in politics. Projects related to the Reclaiming Politics for the Public initiative focused on empowering the voting public and encouraging its interest in politics.

Contains correspondence, program and project files, Cuba files, grant files, consultant files and subject files.

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.

Collection contains the office files of Ford Foundation staff member Chika A. Iritani. The files were created during the time that Iritani served in the foundation's Program Division.

The collection contains Office of Communications officers' files, supervising secretaries' meeting notes and memoranda, memoranda from the Ford Foundation president to the trustees, files related to the Foundation's office automation process, and reports to the trustees, primarily from the 1990s. "Program Strategy" is a Ford Foundation term for material that pertains to materials that move the Foundation forward and guide decision-making practices.

The collection contains oversize proofs and mock-ups of Ford Foundation publications, internal memos referencing edits to publications, photographs and negatives from various publications, and books from the Ford Foundation's library.

Ford Foundation records, Publications (Non-Grant Related), Accession 2017:050 consists of pamphlets, reprints, brochures, reports, conference papers, and other publications by the Ford Foundation or by authors involved in Ford Foundation projects.

The collection is composed of reports, correspondence, memos, and contracts that were originally stored in binders for the Ford Foundation's educational satellite project. Materials from the FCC, Howard Dressner, Fred Friendly, McGeorge Bundy, Verne S. Atwater, Richard Catalano of the Ford Foundation and David Ginsburg of the Law Offices of Ginsburg and Feldman are featured throughout the collection.

Collection contains the files of the Ford Foundation's Race and Ethnicity Task Force. It consists of one series of subject files. Documents chiefly originate from between 1972 when the task force was first created as a result of Foundation President McGeorge Bundy advocating race and ethnicity as one of ten subjects for investigation in his "Planning for the Foundation's Program in 1973 and Beyond" discussion paper and 1974 when the task force submitted its final recommendations to the Foundation Board of Trustees. Reports, papers, and other types of materials originating from the 1950s and 1960s can also be found in the collection due to the task force's efforts to gather information on the state of research regarding the nature and role of race and ethnicity. The collection's contents appear to have been principally created and organized by the task force director Basil Whiting who served as a Program Officer for the Social Development Program in the National Affairs Division and by Shirley Teper, a consultant for the task force.

Contains correspondence, consultant files, program reviews, meeting records and subject files.

The collection contains reports, correspondence, press clippings, and staff subject files related to the National-Community AIDS Partnership and the National AIDS Network.

Collection contains the staff subject files that June Zeitlin created during her tenure as Deputy Director of the Ford Foundation's Rights and Social Justice Program. Records consist solely of Zeitlin's chronological correspondence. In addition to the files Zeitlin created when she served in the Rights and Social Justice Program, there is also some material that originates from Zeitlin's time as a Program Officer in the Human Rights and Governance Program. The responsibilities of the Human Rights and Governance Program transferred to the Rights and Social Justice Program in June 1991.

The collection contains correspondence sent on behalf of the Ford Foundation Program Division, Rural Poverty and Resources Program to Ford Foundation staff, grantees, and grant applicants. Officers who sent and reviewed the correspondence include: Director of the Program, E. Walter Coward, Jr., the Deputy Director, Lisa Mensah, and Program Officers, Elizabeth C. Campbell, Doreen Dun, Eric Holst, Frances F. Korten, Jeffrey T. Olson, Chris Page, Peggy Greaves, and Sharon Ebron

Collection contains the office files of Sadako Ogata who, from between 2001 and 2003, served as Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence. It consists of one series of subject files that document Ogata's work as Co-Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Security (CHS) and as a leader in the broader international peace and governance field.

This collection is comprised of institutional self-study reports, primarily from historically black colleges and universities. It is unclear from which Ford Foundation program(s) these reports originated.

Collection is comprised of files pertaining to the preparation, production, and promotion of the South Africa UPDATE Series. The Ford Foundation initiated the UPDATE Series project in order to update the South Africa: Time Running Out report (SATRO) that was published in 1981 by the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Towards Southern Africa. The series consists of five monographs. Each book focuses on a particular theme regarding political developments in South Africa during the 1980s. Subjects covered in the series include international relations between South Africa and the United States, politics in the region of Southern Africa, political activism of black South Africans; reforms made to the Apartheid system, and the state of civil rights in South Africa.

The collection contains publications originally held in the Ford Foundation's library and archives. The subject matter of the materials reflects the work of the Foundation, the Fund for Adult Education, and the Fund for the Advancement of Education.

The collection contains program officer notes and other correspondence regarding early thoughts, design, selection, and meetings of the Rural Development and Community Foundations Initiative (RDCFI).

The collection contains Jon Funabiki's office files from the Media, Arts and Culture (MAC) Unit with the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom (KCF) Program, including grant records, grant-related materials such as RGAs, reports, article clippings, handwritten notes, grantees annual reports, financial statements, correspondence, office files, and meeting materials.

Collections holds the subject files of Ford Foundation staff member Linda Fingerson. The records were created during Fingerson's time as an Administrative Assistant in the Program Division.

The collection contains correspondence, trip itineraries, inter-office memos, files related to trustee meetings, reports, and grant-related materials.

Collection contains the staff subject files of Ted Smith (Theodore M. Smith) who worked at the Ford Foundation from between 1967 and 1979. Although Smith was primarily associated with the Jakarta, Indonesia Regional Office during his tenure at Ford, the collection so far consists only of the files Smith created during the course of his work on two other projects. First, between 1973 and 1974, he assisted Francis Sutton in reviewing the Foundation's support of public management initiatives in developing countries. Then, between 1974 and 1976, he worked on the Foundation budget under President McGeorge Bundy. Nevertheless, there is some correspondence in the collection that discusses a period of time between 1974 and 1975 where Smith returned to Indonesia at the request of the Indonesian government in order to assist the National Family Planning Coordinating Board.

Collection contains the program files of the Ford Foundation field office in Tehran, Iran. These files concern Foundation fellowships related to Iran and Iranian awardees as well as the two main focus areas of the Tehran Office's program activity: educational development and rural village development. Records are organized into three individual series based on these three different subjects. With materials spanning from 1952 to 1964, the collection documents the entire history of Ford Foundation support to Iran as conducted through the Tehran Field Office which was established in 1959. Prior to 1959, programming for Iran was run out of the Ford Foundation's Beirut, Lebanon Office.

This collection contains Videos 1-9 of the Different and the Same series on VHS partially funded by the Ford Foundation. The series was designed to help teachers and students in grades 1-3 talk about, understand, and prevent prejudice utilizing puppets designed by Susan Linn and diverse role models.

This collection is comprised of correspondence created by Barbara Hatton during the course of her work as K-12 program officer and Deputy Director of the Education and Culture program at the Ford Foundation between 1988 and 1993. The majority of the correspondence is between Dr. Hatton and grant applicants. When Dr. Hatton left the Foundation in 1993, Alison Bernstein, Director of the Education and Culture program, took responsibility for her correspondence.

Collection contains the office files of Peter W. Stanley who served as Program Officer in Charge and then Program Director of the Ford Foundation's Education and Culture Program from between 1983 and 1991. The Education and Culture Program was situated within the Foundation's United States and International Affairs Program (USIAP). In addition to holding the records that Stanley and his office created and maintained, the collection also includes some material from the larger Education and Culture Program. A few of these documents were created from before and after Stanley's tenure at the Foundation. The records' creators appear to have organized Stanley's files according to file type. The collection's arrangement scheme represents these different types with the implementation of 4 different series. The series are: Series 1. Correspondence files; Series 2. Subject files; Series 3. Meeting and trip files; and Series 4. General files. However, terms like Desk file and Work file were also used to label many of the collection's files and remain part of those files' titles. Moreover, there does not appear to be a clear distinction between the structure and content of files in Series 4. General files and some of the files in Series 1. Correspondence files. Different and evolving filing systems were probably imposed on the records throughout their creation, use, and management.

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.

Collection contains the office files Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab created during his time as a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's Urban Poverty Program. It consists of two types of files. The first group of files contain Mehreteab's correspondence from the years 1981 to 1985. The second group of files contain Recommended Grant Action records (RGAs) and related materials for the various community development corporations (CDCs) the Urban Poverty Program supported during the 1980s. Mehreteab and his successor Craig Howard oversaw grants concerned with economic development, manpower development, housing, historic preservation, commercial revitalization, political empowerment, community development strategies, and community development information sharing services.

The collection is primarily comprised of grant materials and reports related to the Ford Foundation's crime and arson prevention program to investigate the impact of street crime, arson, and violence across the country. The files in this collection are the office files of Sharon Rowser and Craig Howard, program officers in the Urban Poverty program at the Ford Foundation.

Collection contains the office files of Mark Elliott who worked as a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's Urban Poverty Program during the early to mid-1990s. The collection is comprised of one series of subject files. Elliott's subject files document his activities for managing grants to housing and economic development programs, research studies, and projects as well as his participation in the Urban Poverty Program's planning and strategizing efforts. Materials within the collection extend back from before Elliott's tenure at the Foundation up until the point where the Urban Poverty Program was set to transition to become part of the new Asset Building and Community Development Program (ASSETS) in 1996.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, desk files, and conference materials from the US and International Affairs Division, Education and Culture Program. The collection spans from 1992-1995.

The Francis X. (Frank) Sutton papers primarily consist of material related to Sutton's time at the Ford Foundation, spanning his tenure as Assistant to the Vice President, Deputy Vice President, and his work writing the history of the Ford Foundation as a consultant. This collection documents Sutton's involvement beyond the Ford Foundation as well; it contains a substantial amount of information on the Aga Khan University in Pakistan, the Rockefeller Foundation and Bellagio Conference, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Additionally, there is a small amount of material on the American Foundation for Intellectual Cooperation with Europe (AFICE) which documents its foundation and eventually, its termination. Personal files can be found at the end of the collection (Series 6) which consist of family correspondence, awards, publications, datebooks, and notebooks – most of which document Sutton's cross-organization involvement, travels, and projects.

The Life After the Ford Foundation (LAFF) Society collection contains clippings, LAFF directories, correspondence from LAFF members (relating to dues, former Ford contacts, and life updates), correspondence between LAFF leadership, LAFF Society newsletters from 1991-2016, and correspondence regarding LAFF newsletter editorial choices.

The collection contains the personal and professional files of Marcia T. Thompson, longtime promoter of financial stabilization projects in the arts. The collection includes reports and correspondence related to the Trude Lash Fellowship Program, reports and correspondence from Thompson's time at the Ford Foundation, and financial reports, correspondence, and long-term planning materials from the National Arts Stabilization Fund (NASF). There are many files related to the School of American Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and arts stabilization projects in major cities across the United States.

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.