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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







in New Mexico, and the Navajo Community College's program to help reservation Indians improve their ranges and livestock and learn modern marketing practices. In Mississippi, grants were made to the Medgar Evers Fund to help attract job-creating industry to Jefferson County, the fourth poorest in the nation, and to the Delta Foundation and the Mississippi Action for Community Education for community development work with blacks in fifteen Delta counties. The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, which helps farmers raise their income by such measures as crop diversification and group purchasing and marketing, received a $525,000 supplement for loangrant packages to ten participating cooperatives. For continued comprehensive training and economic development work among blacks in the rural and small-town areas of North Carolina, the Foundation for Community Development was granted $442,000.

The Center for Community Change was granted $750,000 for its work in helping such groups as Chicago's Woodlawn Organization to organize economic development, housing, and health, social, and legal services. The National Urban League received $1,725,000 to advance its "new thrust" program of effecting social change through such means as economic development, consumer protection, and health services; and a $500,000 grant went to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Special Contribution Fund.

Minority Enterprise.

In addition to minority businesses that are a feature of community development projects assisted by the Foundation, several independent ventures were supported.

With grants and investments totaling some $3 million, the Foundation became the largest private contributor to Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies (MESBICs), which mobilize

GRANTS—NATIONAL AFFAIRS:

The first column shows grants approved in 1971; the second, payments on new grants or grants approved in earlier years. The original amounts and dates of earlier grants that were not fully paid at the beginning of fiscal 1971 are given in brackets []after the names of grant recipients.

Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY
COMMUNITY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
American Friends Service Committee
Family aid fund for civil rights workers [$200,000—1969] $100,000 $50,000
American Indian opportunity and leadership development
Alaska Federation of Natives 135,829 135,829
American Indian Historical Society 65,225 65,225
Americans for Indian Opportunity 170,000 170,000
Amik Association 50,000 50,000
Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indians 100,000 100,000
Navajo Community College [$250,000—1970] 285,160 240,723
Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity [$54,450—1970] 20,000
Business assistance for social progress
National Urban Coalition [$2,340,000—1969, 1970] 840,000
New Detroit [$1,442,500—1969] 192,500
United States Jaycees' Foundation [$250,000—1969] 75,000
Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black Students
Emergency assistance for University of Massachusetts students 150,000 150,000
Community development and training
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation [$1,800,000—1969] 843,308 1,518,308
Center for Community Change [$3,725,000—1969, 1970] 750,000 1,198,969
City of Oakland (37,725) (37,725)
Community Renewal Society (Chicago) 150,000 75,000
East Los Angeles Community Union 123,000 73,000
Foundation for Community Development (North Carolina) [$540,000—1970] 442,000 478,889
Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations [$2,500,000—1961] 25,000
Mississippi Action for Community Education [$531,000—1970] 200,000 265,500
Resident Advisory Board (Philadelphia) 180,000 15,000
Woodlawn Organization (Chicago) 100,000 100,000
Zion Non-Profit Charitable Trust [$575,360—1970] 300,000 422,360
Leadership training for public office and urban affairs
California, University of (Berkeley) [$190,300—1969] 200,000 190,300
Howard University [$820,000—1970] 20,000 452,533
Institute of Politics (New Orleans) [$159,620—1970] 86,200
League of Cities/Conference of Mayors [$842,000—1970] 680,000 560,000
Urban Affairs Institute (California) [$500,000—1968] 210,000 98,000
Metropolitan Applied Research Center
Civil rights internships and staff expansion [$1,343,110—1967, 1968, 1970] 300,000 392,938
Mexican American community development and research
Mexican American Council of Arts, Letters, and Science [$51,500—1970] 51,500
Southwest Council of La Raza [$1,303,700—1970] 655,451
National Center for Voluntary Action
Organization of local volunteer groups for social action [$600,000—1970] 200,000
National and regional services to black community advancement
A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund [$176,000—1968] 18,450
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [$586,000—1970] 500,000 537,000
National Urban League 1,725,000 1,725,000
Southern Regional Council [$1,630,500—1969] (180,000) 401,000
Voter Education Project
Voter registration in the South [$300,000—1970] 180,000 70,000
Youth development and understanding; delinquency prevention
Arlington Public Schools (Massachusetts) 39,770 39,770
Art and Architecture Center (Washington, D. C.) [$150,000—1970] 150,000 163,752
Aspira of America [$750,000—1969] 218,811
California, University of (Berkeley) [$183,557—1969] 200,000 157,032
Copenhagen, University of (11,936) (11,936)
Illinois, University of 4,630 4,630
New York Institute for Human Development [$80,000—1969] 8,750
United Progress (Trenton) [$46,500—1969] 20,000