The collection chiefly contains Fellow files from the Ford Foundation's Leadership Development Program. Records within the files document the entire lifespan of the LDP (1966-1977), but they also include a few materials collected about Fellows from before and after the program's existence. Fellow files are grouped according to which Regional LDP Office the represented Fellows had to report. The LDP maintained four regional offices. They included the Region-at-Large Office, the Northeast Region Office, the Southwest Region Office, and the Southeast Region Office. The collection also contains a group of Ford Foundation financial materials unrelated to the LDP. Access to the financial materials is restricted.

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.

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.

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.