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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1966







Statement of Appropriations for year ended September 30, 1966

(Appropriations are funds earmarked by approval of the trustees for subsequent grants and projects. The first and fourth columns show the balances of appropriations at the end of the respective fiscal years. The column in color shows appropriations approved during fiscal 1966. The third column shows the total grants and projects approved in 1966 from this year's or previous appropriations.)

changes during the fiscal year
BALANCE Sept. 30, 1965 NEW APPROPRIATIONS (Reductions) GRANTS & PROJECTS APPROVED (Reductions) BALANCE Sept. 30, 1966
Special Programs
Assistance for urban university development $35,000,000 $35,000,000
Development of noncommercial television $10,000,000 20,000,000 $9,981,200 20,018,800
$10,000,000 $55,000,000 $9,981,200 $55,018,800
Public Affairs
Advancing equality of opportunity $4,000,000 $4,000,000
Career education for government officials $1,250,000 $1,250,000
Comprehensive urban neighborhood development 2,506,311 2,504,000 2,311
Legal internship and criminal-law training 2,400,000 2,400,000
Metropolitan Fund (Detroit) 125,000 125,000
North Carolina education, antipoverty program 3,000,000 3,000,000
Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware Metropolitan Project 185,000 30,000 155,000
Research and experimentation in legal education 1,500,000 1,420,000 80,000
Research and training in urban affairs 17,406 (37,278) (37,278) 17,406
Technical assistance in nonprofit housing 2,250,000 600,000 1,650,000
Testing of cases significant for social change 1,000,000 1,000,000
Training of community-development workers 1,250,000 375,000 875,000
Urban extension projects in universities 667,500 656,500 11,000
$11,501,217 $8,612,722 $6,798,222 $13,315,717
Education
Activation of television channels and networks; experiments in instructional television $770,000 ($253) ($253) $770,000
Center for Research and Education in American Liberties 225,000 225,000
Comprehensive school-improvement programs 1,093,500 200,000 893,500
Experiments in cooperative education 805,000 805,000
Higher-education experiments for gifted students 458,000 300,000 158,000
Management training for small colleges (29,935) (29,935)
New England School Development Council 600,000 600,000
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools 1,659,000 340,780 1,318,220
Strengthening preparation of college teachers 1,403,300 442,500 960,800
Strengthening preparation of schoolteachers 512,850 371,000 141,850
Teacher-training for two-year colleges 735,000 103,000 632,000
$4,237,650 $3,993,812 $1,727,092 $6,504,370