Grant administration records.

Grant administration files.

Grant administration files

Grant administration records.

Grant administration records.

The collection contains the personal and professional files of Marcia T. Thompson, longtime promoter of financial stabilization projects in the arts. The collection includes reports and correspondence related to the Trude Lash Fellowship Program, reports and correspondence from Thompson's time at the Ford Foundation, and financial reports, correspondence, and long-term planning materials from the National Arts Stabilization Fund (NASF). There are many files related to the School of American Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and arts stabilization projects in major cities across the United States.

From the 1950s-1980s the Central Files included the Grants, General Correspondence, Projects, and Log Files. The Central Files were then indexed by the Central Index, and routing of documents was controlled by the Action Control Slips.

This collection contains 44,821 Grant Files documenting the Foundation's grant-making activities between 1936 and 2005.

Divisions or program areas include, but are not limited to: Africa and the Middle East; Asia, the Art Purchase program; Arts and Humanities; Asset Building and Community Develoment program (ASSETS); Behavioral Sciences; Catalogued Reports; Communications; Democracy Rights and Justice; Developing Countries program; Economic Development and Administration; Education and Culture; Governance and Public Policy; Higher Education and Research Division; Human Rights and Governance; Humanities and the Arts; the International Division; Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom; Leadership Development; Latin America and the Caribbean; the National Affairs Division; Overseas Development; Peace and Social Justice; Population; Public Broadcasting; Reproductive Health and Population; the United States International Affairs program; and Urban Poverty.

Contains Ford Foundation publication such as the Ford Foundation Letter and the Ford Foundation report, other published reports, and conference papers.