The Barry C. Smith papers include Commonwealth Fund Annual Reports (1919-1941), personal and professional correspondence and a variety of personal items.

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

Contains publications, grant records, documentation of surveys and symposia, as well as materials pertaining to Harkness Fellowships.

The Commonwealth Fund office used these files as a cross reference system for the grants. The files concentrate from the 1950s to 1981. The folders consist of cross reference sheets and correspondence. There are some reports and photographs. Original boxes 317, 325, 326, 332, 333, 341, and 342 were not sent to the Archives; consequently files from D, E, P, and W are missing. Folders for The Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts General Hospital are also missing.

Types of records include: officers' files.

Fellowships are an integral part of the Commonwealth Fund's history, and continually supported the varied public health, mental hygiene, and rural hospital programs of the CF. The advanced medical fellowships were first awarded in 1937, and although they primarily aided medical school teachers and research workers, individuals in other areas of health work also received financial assistance. About twenty fellowships per year were granted during 1950-1959, many of which entailed interdisciplinary studies, and by 1965 well over sixty fellowships were awarded yearly.

The Affordable Health Insurance series contains background information and reports of health care reform 2007-2009, including issue briefs, and analysis, comparisons, and drafts of congressional bills.

Series 4 contains annual reports from 1919-2002. A complete run of bound reports is available in the RAC Library. Individual soft cover reports are available in the archival collection. The Annual Report for 1986 is not available in the archival collection, but it is accessible in the RAC Library. Series 4 also contains a small selection of other reports and pamphlets spanning the mid-1980's through 1994.

Types of records include: manuscripts and library records.

An outgrowth of the Commonwealth Fund's relief activities in Eastern and Central Europe after World War I, the Austrian Program provided vital help in improving the health of children in Austria. From 1923 until 1929 the CF maintained an office in Vienna, and conducted a program of health and preventive medicine for children. Child health demonstrations were conducted in Salzburg, and similar activities transpired in Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, and elsewhere.

Records primarily contain analysis and dissemination of the Minority Health Survey (Grant 95451), as well as the Women's Health Survey, and Women's Health Survey II, and development files for the Minority Health Chart Book. This series also documents the 1990s activities of Karen Scott Collins, and provides the 1990s presentation files of Karen Davis and Karen Scott Collins including presentations pertaining to women's health, minority health, and health care reform.

Types of records include: meeting minutes, financial statements, and reports.

Types of records include: meeting minutes and reports.

Types of records include: correspondence, meeting minutes, proposals, and financial material.

Types of records include: administrative and grant files.

Primarily contains correspondence and grant records.

This series documents the work of the Commonwealth Fund Child Development and Preventive Care department, including the Youth Mentoring Program. 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 Commonwealth Fund announced its Child Health Program on June 29, 1922. The goals of the five year program were "safe-guarding the health of the mother-to-be, laying a good health foundation for children in the early sensitive and formative period of their growth and health supervision and the formation of the essential health habits in school children." The responsibility for the conduct of the demonstrations rested with the American Child Health Association, which had been recently formed through the merger of the American Child Hygiene Association and the Child Health Organization of America. The Child Health Demonstration Committee of the Commonwealth Fund oversaw the program, with Barry C. Smith chairman and Courtenay Dinwiddie executive director. Other notable participants in the program include Philip Van Ingen, Richard A. Bolt, L. Emmett Holt, Sally Lucas Jean, Livingston Farrand, Donald B. Armstrong, and Barbara S. Quin.

This series contains meeting books of the Commonwealth Fund Commission for a High Performance Health System, including but not limited to: agendas, background information, commission members, participants, attendees, and schedule of speakers and events.

Types of records include: correspondence, grants, meeting minutes, publications, and personnel files.

This series contains program files and planning records of the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Health Policy. The majority of the material is grant administration files documenting the planning and implementation of the Fellowship. These records often include: proposals, administration and budget files, grant products, evaluation reports, related correspondence and background material.

Types of records include: correspondence, clippings, programs, and publications.

Material in this Communications series includes: Press Clippings 2000-2002, Commonwealth Fund Publications 2001-2008, and a variety of historical files documenting the history of the Fund, its programs, and it's headquarters - the Harkness House. This series also contains a print archive of the Commonwealth Fund website 2003-2009, including monthly snapshots of the website. Available records also document the Fund's 75th Anniversary celebration and related publications.

The work of the Division on Community Clinics continued the efforts of Division II of the Program for the Prevention of Delinquency. Division II began its first demonstration child guidance clinic at St. Louis on May 10, 1922. With the expiration of the CF's five year program, the Cleveland Clinic's (December 31, 1926) and the Philadelphia Clinic's (June 30, 1927), demonstration nature ended, and they became permanent independent bodies. The entire Division II program was revised to stress increased use of the supervisory and consulting functions of the Division's field consultant staff, and promoted 1) continued contact with and supervision of the permanent clinics, and 2) additional field service to cities requesting assistance and advice regarding mental hygiene problems and programs.

The Commonwealth Fund established the Division of Health Studies as a separate division on April 1, 1931. The purposes of the organization were 1) to make periodic studies of the health conditions in the various communities in which the Commonwealth Fund worked, 2) assist in the development of division programs through the planning of administrative records and the appraisal of results, 3) conduct special studies in the field of health as from time to time seemed important in the development of the work of the Fund or would be of broad application.

The Commonwealth Fund's Division of Publications series is concerned with the publishing of books, journals, articles, and pamphlets. This series consists of correspondence, reports, financial papers, and a few pamphlets and books. The documents are mostly concerned with the financing and publishing of books, and the relationship of the Division with the authors and publishing companies.

The Commonwealth Fund announced in late 1929 a new project that began operation on January 1, 1930, and promoted rural health and medical service in the United States. The new program, instead of emphasizing child care, comprised all health services in rural communities. Initially the project was limited to two states, Tennessee (1930-1945) and Massachusetts (1930-1945), and to two counties or districts in each state. Later the program was also active in Mississippi (1931-1947), Oklahoma (1938-1949), Alabama (1938-1942), Arkansas (1945-1947), California, Florida (1945-1947), Kentucky (1945-1947), Louisiana (1946), Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington. Dr. William J. French, the first director of the CF's child-health demonstration in Fargo, North Dakota, and former head of the CF's Austrian Program, was named director. French resigned his post on April 4, 1931, and on May 15, 1931, Clarence L. Scamman became the new director of the Division.

Prior to 1925 the Commonwealth Fund granted only limited monies for the building or enlargement of hospitals, i.e., to Yale University for improvements to the New Haven Hospital, to the Grenfell Association for small hospitals in Newfoundland, to the Presbyterian Board of Missions for a hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska, and to Memorial Hospital in New York City to aid in the construction of a new building. The Fund's experiences with the Child Health Demonstrations included more than just child health services and brought the realization of the need for improved medical and surgical facilities in rural America. In June 1925 Henry C. Wright, hospital consultant, studied the possibilities of improving rural hospital services. Wright's study led to the establishment of the Division of Rural Hospitals and the appointment, in March 1926, of a director, Henry J. Southmayd, who served in that capacity throughout the division's existence.

Only two files from the Commonwealth Fund's Educational Research Program remain. The rest were destroyed on February 25, 1949, under Barry C. Smith's instructions. The first file, The Survey of Rural Education in New York State, was appeal #287 and received the Commonwealth code designation 1225-S. This survey, begun in 1920, represents one of the earliest projects funded by the CF. A "Committee of Twenty One" comprised of noted New York educators oversaw the survey project. Members from the Dairyman's League, The New York State Department of Education, the Farm Bureau Federation, the State Grange, the State College of Agriculture, the New York State Teachers Association, and the New York State Federation of Home Bureaus actively participated in the survey. Samuel C. Fairley, assistant director of the Commonwealth Fund, George M. Wiley of the University of the State of New York, and John H. Finley, New York State Commissioner of Education, directed the survey.

This series documents the Commonwealth Fund's activities in the area of elderly care including but not necessarily limited to medicare, medicaid, nursing home care, treatment, as well as chronic illness and end of life care. The records consist of staff program files, advisory committee meeting records, program reviews, and pertinent grants. The grant files often contain records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files.

This series contains Executive Vice President for Programs, Stephen Schoenbaum's files of the Program Monitoring Advisory Committee Meetings, 1995-2003. Each meeting book provides the agenda and discussions, committee members and participants, budget plan, goals, program overviews and reports, and Fund quarterly reports.

Contains administrative records for the Harkness Fellowships, with a limited volume of files pertaining to the Atlantic Fellowships in Public Policy, and the Ian Axford Fellowships in Public Policy.

Types of records include: budgets, correspondence, and meeting minutes.

A selection of grant, project and program review sessions from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s.

Grants Management office files including but not limited to: Program Reviews and Grant Lists 1983-1990; Program Management Committee files, grant administration files, and associated background papers, correspondence and several financial reports and budgets.

Primaily consists of grant administration records as well as records created and mantained by the Grants Management Office.

This accession contains grant administration files, program files and associated meeting records, conferences, and briefings pertaining to the Alliance for Health Reform, 2005-2010.

This accession contains grant administration files for grants awarded 2003-2008. The records primarily consist of grant proposals and development, budget and administration records, correspondence, associated articles, and grant products.

Primaily consists of grant administration records as well as budgets, reports, proposals, planning documents, meeting records, and program plans.

The material in this collection documents The Commonwealth Fund's grant-making from the early 2000s through to the early 2010s. The grant files typically include the official paperwork including correspondence, proposal developments, and grant products.

Grant actions comprise the largest series of the Commonwealth Fund records. The earliest grants funded a broad range of projects and associations and reflected the diverse and varied program of the Fund's beginning years. In many cases the grants were parallel or ancillary to existing Commonwealth Fund projects. Often, however, unrelated or special short-term grants were awarded. When the Commonwealth Fund's program became more oriented toward medical education and research, the grant actions mirrored this policy alteration. The records found in the Grants Series are the combination of the unprocessed Grants and Expired Grants Series.

Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files. The grants represented in this series primarily span 2000-2010.

Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files. The material represented in this series also contains a selection of program files, program reviews and evaluations, grant authorizations and declinations.

The Harkness Family Papers are the private records of Edward S. and Mary S. Harkness. These documents are concerned with their donations to universities, schools, institutions and individuals. There is a great quantity of information on donations to schools and universities like Phillips Exeter Academy, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and others. There is a book on the residential halls of Yale University in the Harkness Family Volumes. The Harkness Family provided funds for organizations like the Pilgrim Trust in which further information can be found in the Harkness Family Volumes. There are other institutions which the Harkness family contributed to like Presbyterian Hospital, New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gifts and donations for servants, friends and family are documented. Members of the family include the Russels, the Stillmans and the Taylors. There are records of the Harkness family. These are mostly concerned with Edward S. Harkness' Estate and Trust after his death. The Harkness Family Volumes contains condolences offered at his death. The Harkness Family papers were examined by Malcolm P. Aldrich, Trustee of the Edward S. Harkness Estate. These documents consist mostly of correspondence, financial data, legal documents and reports.

The records of the Harkness Fellowships reflect the close personal relationship the Fund Instituted with over 1,800 fellows.

The records of the Harkness Fellowships reflect the close personal relationship the Fund Instituted with over 1,800 fellows. A typical file in Series 20.2 contains a fellow's application, his curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation, his fellowship report, and photographs. It was not unusual for fellows and officials at the Commonwealth Fund to maintain correspondence for more than twenty years, and files often contain family photographs, professional writings, and newspaper clippings from fellows who succeeded in a wide variety of fields. Such files clearly demonstrate that close and personal relationships were maintained by the Fund and the Harkness fellows.

Consists of approximately 700 oversized drawings ranging in date from James Gamble Rogers originals in 1907 through the renovations completed in the 1980s.

This series documents the grant administration files and associated program files for the Commonwealth Fund Health Care in New York City program. Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related files. The resulting Louis Harris and Associates survey is also included.

Contains documentation of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program, from its inception through the mid-2000s, including planning documents, correspondence, reports, program and site evaluations, and related grant records.