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.