Types of records include: administrative and grant files.

Contains IHPP Program staff files including Harkness Fellowship applications and incoming and outgoing mail files for the period 1999-2000.

This series documents the administration of the International Program in Health Care Policy (IHP) including records documenting symposiums, conferences and workshops, program planning, correspondence and reports and chronological files, as well as records of the associated fellowship programs including the Harkness Fellowships, Atlantic Fellowships and Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowships. The bulk of the material represented in this series spans the 1990s through the early 2000s.

Contains documentation of annual meetings, board of directors and special meetings, grants, fellowships, scholarships, sabbaticals, accepted and rejected proposals, finacial reports and correspondence.

This set of John E. Craig files, covering the period 1975-1996, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, speeches, papers, and a small selection of background files pertaining to the Commonwealth Fund's congressional activities and lobbying efforts.

Types of records include: grant files and applications.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the Commonwealth Fund provided financial support for several unique projects concerning psychiatry, pediatrics, and the teaching/training of psychiatrists. Public and private institutions, as well as individuals, were recipients of these grants, with the majority going to universities and colleges. The records for the special studies consist mainly of correspondence and general files relating to a specific grant. Financial records are also found in the folders titled "General Files and Correspondence." A list of the original Commonwealth Fund code assigned to the grants is available in the print version of the finding aid.

This series contains program files, planning, and meeting records of the Picker/Commonwealth Fund Scholars Program. The majority of the material is grant administration files documenting the planning and implementation of the Picker Scholars Program. These records often include: proposals, administration and budget files, grant products, evaluation reports, related correspondence and background material. The series also contains files for each of the Picker Scholars 1993-1996. The scholars files include interim and final reports, administration of the fellowship, and related correspondence.

Pilgrim Trust records primarily consist of Annual Reports, Minutes, and a variety of newspaper clippings.

This collection includes copies of Karen Davis' testimonies, speeches, presentations, and publications. Drafts, related research material, and correspondence are also present throughout the collection. Davis' papers also include records of internal and external meetings, related conferences and workshops, and Commonwealth Fund program files and reviews.

The Malcolm P. Aldrich papers primarily serve to provide historical context to the work and activities of the Commonwealth Fund. The series includes historical sketches of the Harkness Fellowship Program, as well as the Fund's Publications department. The records also include select Board of Directors files as well as program reviews and recommendations. Aldrich also served as the executor of the Harkness estate, and the series contains a variety of historical files pertaining to the Harkness family.

Types of records include: meeting minutes, correspondence, speeches, and reports.

This accession contains files from the following Commonwealth Fund programs: Task Force on Academic Health Centers, State Innovation Program (Health Reform), and Child Development and Preventive Care.

This series documents the Commonwealth Fund Quality of Care for Underserved Populations program, including the Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey. The majority of the material is grant administration files. These records often include documentation of: proposals, administration and budget, grant products, related correspondence and background material. A limited selection of meeting records and program files is also included.

The Reference Files consist of ready-reference materials, primarily publications and articles, orginally compiled for the Commonwealth Fund Library.

Barry C. Smith served as General Director of the Commonwealth Fund, 1920-1947. During this period the reports were officially titled as Report of the General Director to the Directors of the Commonwealth Fund. Beginning in 1948, the offical title became known as Report of the President and Staff to Directors of the Commonwealth Fund.

Primarily contains documentation of surveys including statistics, methodology and research, as well as their resulting banner books. The surveys represented in this series include but are not limited to the Women's Health Survey (Adolescent Girls and Boys), the New York City Health Care Survey, Low Income and Access to Care, Doctors in Managed Care, the Workers Health Insurance Survey, and the Future of Medicaid (Kaiser Commission) reports.

Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, Board records, officers files, photographs and audiovisual materials.

Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, Board records, and officers files.

Contains grant actions, and associated grant administration files.

Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, task force files and officers files.

This series documents the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers. The majority of the material is grant administration files pertaining to the Task Force. These records often include documentation of: proposals, administration and budget, grant products, related correspondence and background material. A limited selection of Task Force meeting files is also included.

The Task Force on Health Insurance series contains grant administration files from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Commonwealth Fund Low Income Coverage and Access Project: State Case Studies, Phase Two (Grant Number: 980198). The material documents the plannng and implementation of the study including: proposals, administration and budget files, grant products, reports and papers, related correspondence and background material.

Types of records include: financial material and general files.

The material in this collection documents the work of The Commonwealth Fund's United States Program from the late 1990s through 2004/2005, although some material dates from as early as 1983 and as late as 2007. Grants comprise the bulk of the material.

Contains issues of the Venture Capital Journal, 1982-1986 as well as the Venture Capital Yearbook, 1986.

This series is a vertical file created by Reginald H. Fitz consisting of articles, reports, studies, reprints and other associated subject matter.

This series contains video records from the Commonwealth Fund archives.

Types of records include: blueprints, photographs, and maps. Images document the Harkness Family, Harkness House, Harkness Fellows. This series also contains a variety of material separated from the body of the early Commonwealth Fund grant records including grants in public health, rural hositals and disease research (FA290 Commonwealth Fund Grants, SG 1, Series 18.1) as well as the Division of Publications (FA285 SG 1, Series 13).

Significant records in this series include the Adolescent Girls Health Study of 1997 and the Commonwealth Fund's second Women's Study of 1999.

The Conrad W. Anner papers include correspondence and reports relating to his employment by the China Medical Board of The Rockefeller Foundation and the China Medical Board of New York, Inc., during which time he worked on construction projects at Peking Union Medical College. A few items relate to his work at Colonial Williamsburg.

Collection contains annual reports.

The records of the Council on Foundations, Inc., which span the years 1949 to 1981, cover the years from the formation of the Council until Landrum R. Bolling's tenure as chief executive officer in the late 1970s. The bulk of the material in this collection, however, concerns the Council's response to tax reform efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s that would have profound effects on foundations. Also documented is the Council's relationship with the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs (usually referred to as the Filer Commission), a privately funded panel formed in late 1973 to conduct a study of the source, scope, and impact of charitable giving in the United States.

Collection contains only one document.

Daniel Kevles, a leading historian of science, then at the California Institute of Technology, conducted a series of interviews in the early 1980s as research for his book, "In the Name of Eugenics", first published in 1985. As part of his project, he had interviewed 39 key medical, human, and molecular geneticists from the US and UK. He selected these scientists, based on their involvement from the 1930s to 1950s, with the process to establish human and medical genetics on an epistemologically-sound footing, devoid of the class and race biases and the methodological flaws that had infused the study of human heredity during the heyday of the eugenics movement. The interviewees included Alexander Bearn, Walter Bodmer, Barton Childs, Harry Harris, Patricia Jacobs, Joshua Lederberg, Jerome Lejeune, Victor McKusick, James R. Neel, Paul E. Polani, Laurence Snyder, and Arthur Steinberg.

The David H. Stevens papers contain little material of a personal nature. Consisting of reports, correspondence, pamphlets, articles, speeches, and a book manuscript, the papers focus narrowly upon Stevens's term as Director of the Humanities Division of The Rockefeller Foundation (1932-1949) and upon some of his retirement activities. Such correspondence as exists in this collection is mainly concerned with Stevens's contacts among Foundation personnel and grantees or the disposition of his papers with the Foundation archives. Approximately eighty percent of the material in this collection consists of reports and other records related to the operations of the Humanities Division. None of the material relates to Stevens's service with the General Education Board.

This series photographically documents David Rockefeller's life and career including his business activities, his philanthropic activities, government service and related events. The material also includes a wide variety of individual portraits and informal and candid shots of David Rockefeller, as well as individual and group portraits of his immediate family and relatives. The holdings also include a vast collection of David Rockefeller's travel as well as photographs of David with many business and political dignitaries and heads of state.

This set of general files chronicles management of the philanthropic affairs of David Rockefeller during the period 1992-1996. when he was naturally beginning to curtail his activities.

Collections within the David Rockefeller papers currently include personal and professional papers, office files, papers and files of associates, photographic material, as well as Rockefeller Family and Associates (Room 5600), General Files. Additional materials will be available as records are processed and open for research.

Currently consists of the Warren T. Lindquist papers, and the files of Olive Braggazi pertaining to David Rockefeller's art collection. Additional collections will be available as records are processed and open for research.

These records document Warren T. Lindquist's tenure as associate to David Rockefeller, from 1951 to 1977. He was particularly involved in Mr. Rockefeller's real estate investments and efforts to improve urban housing opportunities during the mid-twentieth century. Mr. Lindquist also served as Mr. Rockefeller's proxy with organizations focused on urban development in New York City and throughout the country, as reflected in the folders on the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, the Embarcadero Center, Morningside Heights Inc., the Pacific Air Commerce Center, and Westbay Associates. Additionally, there are extensive files on Fazenda Bodoquena, a large cattle ranch in Brazil in which Mr. Rockefeller purchased an interest in 1962.

Consists primarily of albums, portraits, and family photographs. Additional material will be available as records are processed and open for research.

The albums in this collection primarily contain images of David Rockefeller (DR) with his family, friends, personal office staff, or Chase Manhattan Bank colleagues during his travels throughout the globe. A second common album theme is DR with Peggy, his wife, at one of their homes: Hudson Pines in Pocantico Hills, New York; their townhouse on East 65th Street in Manhattan; Ringing Point in Seal Harbor, Maine; or Colombier, on St. Bart's, in the Caribbean. However, there are also hundreds of images from DR's childhood and from his service in Europe during World War II.

This collection documents David Rockefeller's personal, professional and quasi-professional activities. Currently available material primarily consists of correspondence files maintained by the the Rockefeller family office, otherwise known as the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller (Room 5600) as well as David Rockefeller's rolodex card files. Additional material will be available as records are processed and open for research.

This is a collection of books of clippings from newspapers and periodicals that document the interests and activities of David Rockefeller through his retirement from Chase Manhattan Bank in 1980.

David Rockefeller's staff at Chase Manhattan Bank maintained a 5-foot-wide card index of business, personal, civic, and philanthropic contacts, and a set of this card file was shared with, and further maintained by, the Rockefeller family office staff at Room 5600 in Rockefeller Center. David Rockefeller's network of contacts was estimated at 100,000 names documented across 200,000 cards.

This collection contains correspondence, dockets, financial reports, minutes, and manuals relating to the Davison Fund, Inc.

Davison Fund I records were kept by the Fund's treasurer and include minutes of trustee and committee meetings and financial materials.

The records comprising collection I were created and maintained by the Davison Fund treasurer, who also concurrently served as treasurer of the Rockefeller Foundation. Collection II comprises the records of the Davison Fund itself.

The Dean Rusk Papers document the non-official professional activities of Dean Rusk (1909-1994), carried out during his tenure as president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1952 to 1961. There are no personal papers in this small collection.

Acronym Key AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science; AALDI Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists in India; AIBDA Asociacion Interamericana de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas Agricolas (Interamerican Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists); AID Agency for International Development (U.S. Department of State); CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; CIMMYT Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center); IAALD International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists; IADS International Agricultural Development Service; IAP Indian Agricultural Program; IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute; ICA Instituto Colombiano Agropêcuario (Colombian Farming Institute); ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research; ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics; IDRC International Development Research Center; IICA Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agricolas (Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences); IITA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; INCAP Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama; IRRI International Rice Research Institute; NAL National Agricultural Library;

Types of records include: correspondence, travel logs, brochures and pamphlets, photographs, and newspaper articles.

The collection documents all aspects of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association's activities from its creation, with the consolidation of the Downtown Manhattan Association and the Committee on Lower Manhattan in 1958, through its most active and successful years of 1958-1974, through the mid-1990s with its participation in the Lower Manhattan Project and its resulting updated Lower Manhattan Plan, and the role played by the DLMA as the supporting organization for Lower Manhattan's Business Improvement District (BID), the Alliance for Downtown New York. The material encompasses the meeting records of the Board of Directors, Members, Executive Committee, Planning Committee, and other prominent committees, a limited selection of officers files, financial records, membership records, projects, DLMA publications, and reports and studies.

Duncan Ferguson was a New York City-based sculptor and the husband of Alice Decker. Many of the photographs were taken in China, as his father, John Calvin Ferguson, was the founder and president of Nanking University and an advisor to the Chinese Government. Mary Ferguson, whose papers are held at the Rockefeller Archive Center, was his sister.

The E. C. Stakman Papers contain few items of a personal nature. Consisting of clippings, correspondence, program notes listing Dr. Stakman as a speaker, reprints, and speeches (mostly testimonials to Dr. Stakman), the papers reflect only the public side of his career. Over three-quarters of this collection consists of reprints. Most of the correspondence here is incoming rather than from the hand of Dr. Stakman. Only a few items reflect his activities on behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a nonprofit institution dedicated to fostering the arts of opera, music, dance, drama, and arts education. Its objective is not only to exist as a physical place where the arts are created and performed, but also to promote and facilitate access to the arts to as wide an audience as possible.

Material primarily pertains to the 1970 Gubernatorial Campaign of Nelson A. Rockefeller and the Environmental Bond Coalition. Records include travel arrangements, schedules, itineraries.

The Edward Pendleton Herring papers primarily consist of materials related to Herring's long-time role as president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), but also contain reports, correspondence, and clippings connected to his military advisory positions during World War II and his leadership in societies and clubs, including the American Political Science Association, the International Political Science Association, the Comitato per le Scienze Politiche e Sociali (COSPOS), the International Social Science Council, and the Cosmos Club. The institutional files and correspondence reflect Herring's capacity as a foundation executive and academic political science researcher as well as his participation in international projects like Growth of Democracy Abroad (GODA) and the Foreign Area Fellowship Program (FAFP).

Important subjects covered in this collection include: the early history and interrelationships of the Rockefeller Foundation, General Education Board, Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, China Medical Board, International Health Board, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial; and the 1928 reorganization of the Foundation.

The file includes correspondence, Debevoise's meeting notes, transcripts of public hearings, clippings, background materials and reports.

This collection is primarily made up of correspondence but also includes biographical information, conference materials, publications, and news releases.

Type of records include: Reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, maps, CDs, and monographs

Important subjects in this collection include World War I in Albania and malaria control in Greece, Albania, Costa Rica, British Honduras, and Brazil.

General Papers of F. Champion Ward

The collection includes Flow Fund reports, financial reports, correspondence, testimonials, and a variety of associated audio-visual and digital media. Still images documenting the experience are often an itegral part of the Flow Fund reports.

The collection consists of grant files, the correspondence and reports of program and executive officers from the Ford Foundation, catalogued reports, administrative records, films, photographs, building records, and other materials that document the philanthropic work of the Ford Foundation.

Action Control Slips were used by the Ford Foundation to route incoming correspondence and project proposals. The Action Control Slips can be used in conjunction with the Ford Foundation's Central Index cards (FA736) to identify where correspondence was filed within the Ford Foundation's central records (Grant files, Project files, Log files, and General Correspondence files).

Includes the records of the following offices or departments: Office of the President, Office of the Vice President, Associate Director, Board of Trustees, Building Services, Comptroller, Executive Officer Files, Information Services, Personnel Services, Board on Overseas Training and Research, Office of Communications, Office of Finance, Office of Management Services and Office of Reports.

The New Building Planning and Construction Files span from 1951 to 1998, with the bulk of the files documenting the construction and initial occupation of the building (1964-1969). The files originate from the Foundation's Administrative Division and touch upon all aspects of the design and construction process. The earliest documents in the collection concern the acquisition of the property at 320 E. 43rd Street, site demolition, and the architectural design. The files document all aspects of the construction of the building, as well as building operations. Other files hold publicity about the new headquarters. The collection also contains photographs and slides of the site demolition and construction, the garden and offices in the completed building, and several individuals including architect Kevin Roche, who achieved recognition for his creative work with glass.

The Program Management Cost Files span from 1952 to 1984 and are organized into three series: the Ford Foundation Refugee Fund (1952-1957), Travel and Study Award Policy (1957-1964), and Program Management Costs (1961-1984). Set up in 1952 and administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on behalf of the Foundation, the Refugee Fund assisted Western and Central European communities with the economic and social integration of post-war refugees. The files for the Fund document its administration and financial and logistical matters. The files for the travel and study award policy review the benefits offered to foreign nationals receiving travel and study awards and their dependents. The files for program management costs constitute the bulk of the collection and shed light on budgets and planning for divisions and programs spanning fiscal years 1961 through 1982. The management costs for International Division programs and field offices as well as the Special Retrenchment Fund are particularly well documented.

Types of records include: subject files, budgets, and salary policies.

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) Files from the Office of Richard C. Robarts were transferred to the Ford Foundation Archives in July 1982. The MEA Files include both the files which Robarts created and maintained (Series III) and those files that were created by MEA staff, including Robarts' successors Ann Lesch, Sidney Jones and Judy Barsalou, and maintained in Robarts' office (Series I and II). Arrangement within the series corresponds as closely as possible to the original order established by the MEA Office. In 1995, the Archives received files from the office of Steven M. Riskin. Riskin was as assistant program officer and program officer in MEA, January 1984-June 1992 and subsequently, a Foundation consultant. These files proved to be MEA files that had remained in Robarts' office subsequent to the transfer of Robarts' files in 1982. They have been accessioned as ACC95/1 and now constitute Series IV.

Contains subject files, organizational files, program planning and reviews, operations files, and strategy papers and reports.

Program and project files, office files, administrative records and correspondence.

The Africa and Middle East (AME) Program originated in 1958 as the Near East and Africa Program, a regional program area within Overseas Development. It became part of the International Division in 1966 when the Overseas Development Program, along with other international Foundation programs became part of one International Division. A subsequent restructuring of the International Division occurred in 1980-1981 and led to the creation of the Developing Countries Program (DCP). Three new regional offices serving Africa and the Middle East were created within DCP: Middle East and North Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West Africa. In 1989, the AME Program was reconstituted as a full program and continued to administer programs in the three regions in addition to a fourth, newly created Study Group on South Africa. The Africa and Middle East Programs files span in date from 1965-1976 and 1987-1994. The collection consists of the combined office files of AME program staff members Robert H. Edwards, Dr. John D. Gerhart, Steven M. Riskin, and Anna Wadia. File contents include correspondence, memoranda, meeting and conference minutes and agendas, reports, briefing papers, and information about various trips of Foundation Trustees to Africa. The bulk of the files are meeting and discussion group records from staff participation at internal Foundation meetings and external discussion groups facilitating collaboration with other philanthropies for common goals. One highlight is the rapporteur notes documenting the Foundation's 1989 Human Rights Meeting in Dakar, Senegal. The notes contain an overview of the Foundation's work to date in the field of Human Rights.

Office files of the Africa and Middle East Program in South Africa.

The American Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificial collection assembled by the Ford Foundation Archive's staff in the mid 1970s, in response to efforts to compile the second edition of the ALM checklist. The ALM collection includes correspondence; biographical, autobiographical, and financial information; speeches; research reports and other manuscript and typescript items. Documents in the ALM collection were culled from the Ford Foundation's (1) Grant files, (2) Project files, (3) Log files, and (4) General Correspondence files. The remaining grant, project, log, and general correspondence file material, from which the ALM manuscripts were removed, is stored on microfilm in the Ford Foundation Archive.

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.

Consists of administrative files, dealer files, artist indexes and photos.

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).

Primarily consists of program files, subject files and correspondence.

Consultants and program files.

The Asia Programs office originated in 1958 as the Office for South and Southeast Asia, a subdivision of the Overseas Development Program. After a Foundation reorganization in 1966, the Office for South and Southeast Asia became part of the International Division, and in 1968, was renamed Asia and the Pacific. In 1981, the Office for Asia and the Pacific became part of the Developing Countries Program. In 1989, the Asia Programs was constituted as a full program area. Peter F. Geithner joined the Ford Foundation in 1966 and became Assistant Representative of the India Office in 1968. He served as Representative of the Southeast Asia office and later Representative in China before being appointed Regional Director of the Asia Programs in 1990, a position he held until 1996. The Office Files of Peter F. Geithner span in date from 1990 to 1994, during the time he served as Regional Director of the Asia Programs. The bulk of the files consists of correspondence concerning the Ford Foundation's work in assisting the economic development of Vietnam. Other files document the Foundation's relations with the government of Vietnam, including the process of seeking and obtaining permission from the Vietnamese government to operate within its national borders. There are also files containing materials from the Aspen Institute Indochina Policy Project (1991-1992) and the Vietnam Reconstruction Conference in Arlington, Virginia (1992).

Subject Files, primarly regarding Vietnam

The collection primarily consists of report drafts with memos and published articles related to the Ford Foundation's efforts to establish community forestry practices in Asia.

Program files, administrative records, memoranda, correspondence, reports and subject files.

The Asset Building and Community Development Program was established in October 1996 as part of a Foundation-wide program reorganization. The new program supported the work of a range of groups and individuals seeking to build the assets and capacities of poor communities through community-based activities, research, policy analysis, and advocacy. The Assets Program had three program units: Economic Development; Community and Resource Development (CRD); and Human Development and Reproductive Health. Carl Anthony joined the Ford Foundation as a Program Officer within the Assets Program's CRD Unit in 2001. In 2003, he became Deputy Director of Community and Resource Development and in 2004, Acting Director. As Program Officer, Anthony directed the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative (SMCI), the Foundation's grantmaking portfolio in equitable and sustainable community development. He also participated in making substantial cross-portfolio investments in Regional Equity Demonstrations (REDs, singular RED). The Office Files of Carl Anthony span in date from 1999 to 2006 and primarily document his work as Program Officer. The bulk of the collection consists of grantee files, primarily of SMCI and RED grant recipients. These files contain correspondence, project updates, conference materials, products of Ford-funded research, and background information about grantees and projects. The collection also contains files on trips, conferences and meetings Anthony attended in his capacity as Program Officer and Acting Director.

Subject files.

Grant Files.

Millard Owens ASSETS files.

HDRH files of Virginia Davis Floyd.

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

The collection contains Marian Krauskopf's office files, including replication studies, files relating to the Innovations in American Government program, and proposals for the New Leaders in a Changing World.

Primarily contains records of meetings and presentations.

Documentation focuses on Africa Foundations Learning Group (AFLG).

The Asset Building and Community Development Program was established in October 1996 as part of a Foundation-wide program reorganization. The new program supported the work of a range of groups and individuals seeking to build the assets and capacities of poor communities through community-based activities, research, policy analysis, and advocacy. In 2009, the Asset Building and Community Development Program became the Economic Opportunity and Assets Program. Dr. Melvin L. Oliver joined the Ford Foundation in 1996. He served as the Foundation's first Vice President for Asset Building and Community Development and worked on issues relating to poverty, community economic development, and reproductive health. The Office Files of Melvin L. Oliver document his professional activities as Vice President of the Assets Program between 1996 and 2009. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence concerning such subjects as ongoing grant activity, potential grantees, and Foundation policy, and briefing books from meetings, conferences, and field visits. A couple of files pertaining to Dr. Oliver's pre-Ford research and writing in Sociology during the 1980s can also be found in the collection.

The Office Files of William McPeak provide a partial record of his activities as Associate Director and, later Vice President, at the Ford Foundation between 1950-1964. The files have been in the Foundation Archives since the 1970s. It was not possible to reconstruct the original order of the files because, at some point, the Office Files were reorganized. Evidence of this is the placement of items in folders bearing titles which are different from the notation written on the upper right-hand corner of the item. For example, letters marked "Consultants - Fels, Wm. C." were refiled under "CEEB." For this reason the processor imposed an artificial order and created series.