General Papers of F. Champion Ward

The Ford Foundation's Catalogued Reports collection includes policy and programming documents, program evaluations, and periodic program status reports produced by Foundation officers and staff, as well as consultants and grantees. Some published material produced by Ford Foundation grants is also included in the collection. The collection also includes some of the Ford Foundation's own publications, such as the Annual Reports and newsletters.

Frederick Champion Ward was born on December 29, 1910 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1954, Dr. Ward took leave from the University of Chicago to travel to India for the Ford Foundation. Upon his return, he joined the Foundation as Director of the Overseas Development Program for the Middle East and Africa. He later became Deputy Vice President for International Programs. In 1965, Dr. Ward was promoted to Vice President of Education and Research, a position he held until 1967 when he became a Program Advisor to International Division's Office of the Vice President. He retired from the Foundation in 1977. The office files of Dr. C.F. Ward span from 1956 to 2002, although the bulk of the files date prior to 1978. The collection describes Dr. Ward's areas of responsibility within the Ford Foundation, including education in Latin America and development in Asia and the Pacific as well as the Middle East and Africa.