The Office Files of William D. Carmichael document Ford Foundation overseas grants during the period 1968-1989, with an emphasis on the 1980s. The bulk of the records concern Carmichael's work as Vice President, Developing Country Programs, and consist of correspondence, memos and reports pertaining to the administration and grant activities of Ford Foundation field offices around the world. The collection also documents the relationship between overseas offices of the Ford Foundation and the headquarters in New York City. There are substantial records documenting Carmichael's travel and attendance at conferences, his participation in Board of Trustee meetings and his role in coordinating Board meetings convened overseas. Also included are budget planning records, program review documents, and subject files relating to numerous program initiatives and administrative matters of concern to Carmichael. The collection is particularly rich in material concerning the daily operations of field offices around the world, Ford Foundation-funded educational programs in South Africa, and the international component of the Foundation's Women's Program.

Contains reviews of the following programs - Middle East and Africa, International Division, and Developing Country Programs.

In the summer of 1985, these papers from the Santiago, Chile field office were given to the Archives by Jeffrey Puryear. They were processed in the fall of 1985, and are contained in two Hollinger boxes in the Records Storage Center. The bulk of the papers cover the period 1973 to 1974, but also include a few documents from 1971 and 1978. The records were re-housed into a single Hollinger box in 2015.