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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1966







Statement of Projects for the year ended September 30, 1966

(Projects are activities administered directly by the Foundation rather than by grantees. The first and fourth columns show unexpended project balances at the end of the respective fiscal years. The second column shows projects approved during fiscal 1966. The column in color shows total 1966 expenditures for projects approved in fiscal 1966 or earlier.)

Changes during the fiscal year
UNEXPENDED BALANCE Sept, 30, 1965 PROJECTS AUTHORIZED (Reductions) EXPENDITURES UNEXPENDED BALANCE Sept. 30, 1966
Special Programs
Study of satellite use for domestic television $150,000 $149,750 $250
Public Affairs
Comprehensive urban neighborhood development and evaluation $35,134 26,232 8,902
Evaluations of national defender program and other grant-supported projects 343,744 24,378 319,366
Education
Conferences and seminars on teacher education 24,939 12,808 12,131
Conferences on urban community colleges 25,000 25,000
Consultants and evaluation for technical and comprehensive education programs 56,045 50,222 5,823
Improvement of instructional television 64,574 15,172 49,402
Science and Engineering
Discontinuous national park study 28,000 12,000 16,000
Residencies in industry for engineering professors 203,720 734,409 76,510 861,619
Humanities and the Arts
Administration of grants-in-aid to artists 12,140 120,000 21,669 110,471
Commissions for new American opera and music 15,036 23,664 36,500 2,200
Planning for Henry Ford Memorial Library 16,398 (398) 16,000
Purchase of works by American artists 41,716 (41,716)
Resident theater program for playwrights 313,429 36,612 276,817
Training of fine-arts museum personnel 359,957 78,793 281,164
Economic Development and Administration
Evaluation of business education program 23,945 2,956 20,989
Publication of doctoral dissertations on business 3,924 (3,738) 186
Population
Specialists to encourage population research 103,680 81,204 22,476
Symposium on physiology of human reproduction 40,000 27,829 12,171
International Affairs
Administration of aid to institutions in Berlin 52,226 47,970 4,256
Conferences on European higher education 20,891 20,891
Evaluation of Athens Technological Organization 4,251 (4,251)