Records include: Correspondence, reports, administrative records, grant submissions, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, photographs and gallery catalogs.
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 different types of press materials from 1951 to 2002 that document the Ford Foundation's efforts to both publicize itself in the news and acquire documentation of media commentary on its ventures. Within the collection, press releases appear as the most used publicity tool for promoting the Foundation, while press clippings appear as the primary means for collecting media commentary on the Foundation's activities. Most of the press clippings found within the collection were submitted to the Foundation's Office of Communications by press clipping service providers Burrelle's Information Services and Luce Press Clippings in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The Henry Luce Foundation records, Michael Gilligan Presidential Files contain correspondence, presentation, speeches, and reports. Major topics include theological education and philanthropy, with an emphasis on non-profits and their relationships with colleges and universities.
The Henry Luce Foundation records (Record Group 10) consists primarily of grant files.
The Henry Luce Foundation records (Record Group 8) contains project files, publications, and some audio-visual material. The majority of project files are related to the American Art and Theology programs.
The Henry Luce Foundation records (Record Group 9) consists primarily of grant and professorship files. There is also a substantial amount of material regarding the United States-China Cooperative Research program.
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.
The collection contains photographs, correspondence, monthly calendars, and notebooks filled with trip reports and travel notes related to Shepard Forman's career at the Ford Foundation and transition to Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.
The objective of the Trilateral Commission is to foster discussion and cooperation among the core democratic industrialized areas of the world. David Rockefeller defined the Commission's primary focus as bringing "the best brains in the world to bear on the problems of the future."8
