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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







GRANTS-NATIONAL AFFAIRS Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Princeton University [$228,534-1968] 99,810
Purdue University [$181,500-1961] (1,447) 8,553
Rand Corporation 340,000 340,000
Urban Institute [$400,000-1970] 1,250,000 1,345,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute [$94,000-1969] 38,514
Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies [$300,000-1969] 10,000
Wayne State University [$102,000-1970] 42,500
Studies of state and local revenue sources
New York, State University of (Albany) [$50,000-1970] 18,750
Rand Corporation [$200,000-1970] 50,000
United Nations area development
Fund for Area Planning and Development [$100,000-1969] (31,208)
United Nations Development Corporation [$2,880,000-1969] 521,420
GOVERNMENTAL PROCESSES
Brookings Institution
Economic research internships in Federal agencies [$600,000-1967] 110,000 244,754
Study of government regulation of industry [$1,400,000-1970] 446,000
California, University of (Los Angeles)
Analysis of urban representation in Congress [$35,500-1968] 35,500
National Affairs, Inc.
Publication of the journal, The Public Interest [$75,000-1969] 25,000
Public service training and research
American Political Science Association (43,179) (43,179)
Governmental Affairs Institute [$24,000-1970] 24,000
National Center for Education in Politics (18,838) (18,838)
National Institute of Public Affairs [$70,000-1970] 70,000
Virginia, University of [$131,000-1969] 39,000
Research, training, and conferences on public affairs
Allegheny College (13,112) (13,112)
Buffalo, University of [$15,500-1970] 2,000
California, University of (Berkeley) [$273,406-1970] 12,764
Citizens' Research Foundation [$300,000-1970] 90,000
National Academy of Public Administration Foundation 208,272 83,272
Sabre Foundation (Wisconsin) 49,320 49,320
Social Science Research Council [$300,000-1969] 50,577
Washington, University of [$49,600-1970] 24,798
Studies of political campaigning and election procedures
Brookings Institution [$230,000-1970] 138,598
Governmental Affairs Institute [$179,000-1967] 14,800
League of Women Voters Education Fund 180,000 52,360
National Municipal League 262,000 55,000
North Carolina, University of [$391,329-1967] 51,428
Total grants, National Affairs $41,223,403 $54,440,530


FOUNDATION MANAGED CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES are administered directly by the Foundation rather than by grantees. The first column shows activities approved during fiscal 1971; the second, total 1971 expenditures for activities approved in fiscal 1971 or earlier.

Authorized (Reductions) Expenditures
Conferences and studies on urban problems $(2,936)
Conferences of white ethnic and nonwhite minority groups $45,000
Evaluation of defender program and other projects (37,622)
Inventory of urban grants 30,815
Journalism training for minorities 114,700 77,211
Metropolitan Applied Research Center special projects (93,610)
Project monitoring and technical assistance 331,190 109,812
Studies of drug abuse 132,000 164,429
Waste management studies 101,065 82,100
Total Foundation Managed Charitable Activities, National Affairs $544,787 $509,367

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to which the Foundation has been a major contributor since 1967, received $530,000. The committee, which has projects in fourteen cities, has been expanding its role from defending demonstrators against criminal charges to important cases affirming a broader realization of civil rights. For instance, parade ordinances, a requirement that only landowners could hold office, and a provision making more than one illegitimate child a crime were held unconstitutional in cases filed by the committee's Jackson, Mississippi, office.

Additional actions were taken to raise the number and caliber of minority-group lawyers and judges. The National Bar Foundation received funds for a study of the economic status of the black lawyer, and for national conferences of black law professors and judges. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund received a Foundation grant of $517,500, along with a similar sum from Carnegie Corporation, to expand its scholarships for black law students in the South. The need was documented by a recent survey that counted only 208 blacks out of a total enrollment of 12,440 students in predominantly white law schools in the South.

ENVIRONMENT

Policy and Administration.

Three public interest law centers focusing on the environment received grants this year: the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

NRDC was established in 1970 to make governmental machinery for protecting the environment more effective. The Environmental Defense Fund, an organization of scientists that began litigating in 1966 to limit the use of DDT, is concerned today with a wide range of issues stemming from technological damage to the environment. The Sierra Club legal fund litigates on its own, chiefly in California, and also oversees a national program carried out by cooperating attorneys.

Newly heightened concern with the role of the states was exemplified this year in the