Logue, coordinator of housing and redevelopment in Boston. An
analysis of agencies working on welfare, youth, community action,
and job training was made by Mitchell Sviridoff, head of the New
Haven antipoverty program, one of the pre-Federal efforts the
Foundation helped establish; following adoption of his report, he
was named head of New York's new Human Resources
Administration.
Another early
Foundation-supported program, Action for Boston Community
Development, was granted an additional $1,245,000, particularly for
employment and other manpower programs and for neighborhood centers
to help residents with social, legal, and economic problems. In
strife-torn Watts and adjoining racial ghettoes of Los Angeles, the
Foundation made grants totaling $650,000 for a program to train
unemployed residents in jobs with a future. (The McCone Commission
study of Watts, which the Foundation helped finance the year
before, had indicted unemployment as one of the roots of Negro
frustration.) Conducted by Opportunities Industrialization Center,
a Negro-operated organization that develops skills and working
habits, the program receives equipment and training and placement
services from the Management Council for Merit Employment, Training
and Research, an employer group, and from a local association of
training directors in large plants.
In another
scene of racial rioting, Cleveland, where several local foundations
in 1961 organized to coordinate efforts to solve community problems
with the aid of Foundation support, $1,250,000 was granted for five
more years, with emphasis on research and action in housing, race
relations, delinquency, police training, and community
leadership.
The
Foundation commissioned a report by the Columbia University School
of Social Work on ways to bring citizens closer to the information
and services they need in the welter of government and private
programs in today's large cities. Proposing neighborhood
information centers that would be as free of stigma as the post
office, the report stimulated widespread discussion.
Race
Relations
The Southern
Regional Council, one of the most experienced interracial agencies
working to eliminate discrimination and strengthen intergroup
relations, received grants totaling $1,272,000 to assist
antipoverty and economic-development efforts and to strengthen
human-relations councils in eleven southern states. The funds will
be used for additional staff; to monitor the effectiveness of
Federal and state programs in education, employment, health, and
housing; and to assist Negro and other groups working on community
organization, credit unions, agricultural cooperatives, legal
rights, and voter registration.
Brandeis
University received $170,000 for a survey of white and Negro
attitudes toward racial violence. The survey, carried out in cities
where outbreaks occurred in 1966 and in others which remained
quiet, is expected to be of value to scholars and community
groups.
In further
support of a major study of the nation's Mexican-American
community, the Foundation granted $198,000 to the University of
California (Los Angeles).
Housing
As Congress
debated laws to remove racial barriers to housing, the Foundation
assisted programs aimed at improved access and availability of
better housing for Negroes and other minority groups. The National
Urban League received a $1.5 million grant for pilot projects in up
to eight cities. In storefront offices in slum areas, families will
receive help in improving their housing or moving into better
neighborhoods. The League will also work with fair-housing groups,
real estate interests, and churches to expand the housing supply
and to prevent the flight of white families as neighborhoods become
integrated. The National Committee Against Discrimination in
Housing, a coordinating body of forty-one