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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







companies with regular seasons and support for the recruitment and training of dancers.

The Pennsylvania Ballet Company, one of the major ballet ensembles in the United States, was granted $2.9 million this year to help stabilize its financial position. During the five-year period of the grant, the company will attempt to increase its earned income and raise more than $3 million in contributions from other sources. The Foundation's grant will also help the company to create a capital reserve fund reaching approximately $1 million by 1975.

The Foundation made a further grant to the National Ballet Society in Washington, D.C., to help stabilize its financial condition over a two-year period. The National Ballet has a longer season than most, thirty weeks, and therefore is a major outlet for the careers of professional dancers. The first part of the grant, which required one-to-one matching funds, enabled the society to finish the 1971 season; to receive the second part of the grant the society must raise sufficient funds to retire its current obligations.

To help the Chicago Dance Foundation build a wider base of financial support for its expanded program in the modern dance, the Foundation provided a three-year grant of $53,846, to be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis. The Chicago Dance Foundation has encouraged struggling modern dance companies for the past five years, organizing annual dance programs in a small theater near the University of Chicago. The operation was expanded this year and moved to a larger theater in downtown Chicago.

THE ARTS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The Foundation's assistance to minority-group arts projects is limited to those that train for professional careers, have promise of permanent support either within the community or from other sources, and have at least as much potential for achieving artistic quality as social importance.

The Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles, which has developed performing arts programs designed to reach all four minority groups in the area—Black, American Indian, Mexican American, and Asian American—received a three-year $688,700

GRANTS-HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Intermuseum Conservation Association
Training in conservation of artistic objects [$545,250-1970] 54,625
International Council of Museums
Strengthening of central services [$285,000-1968] 25,000
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
Scholarships for professional art training [$450,000-1968] 23,603
Tamarind Lithography Workshop
Development of lithographic art [$705,000-1970] 200,000
Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibits of contemporary work [$155,000-1966] 30,000
ARTS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Brooklyn College
Training of professional theater technicians [$47,647-1970] 81,979 47,647
Dallas Theater Center
Development of theater serving minority communities in the Southwest 18,250 18,250
Inner City Cultural Center (Los Angeles)
Performing arts programs serving minority communities 688,700 257,300
James Van DerZee Institute
Preservation and cataloguing of the Van DerZee photographic collection 25,190
Training programs in the arts
Art Students' League of New York 45,000
Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (Boston) [$400,000-1969] 80,000
Henry Street Settlement (New York City) [$70,000-1970] 20,000
Museum of Modern Art/Children's Art Carnival in Harlem [$60,000-1969] 20,000
Newark Community Center of the Arts [$200,000-1970] 80,000
Performing Arts Workshop (San Francisco) [$62,000-1969] 10,500
Yale University
School of Drama scholarships for minority students 150,000 60,000
MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS IN THE ARTS
Business Committee for the Arts
Programs to increase business support of the arts [$225,000-1968] 18,750
Grants-in-aid and fellowships
Administrative interns [$50,000-1969] (16,003) (810)
North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation [$1,500,000-1966] 250,000
International Council of Museums
Study of European artists and institutions [$109,500-1970] 22,698
Iowa, University of
Fellowships for Eastern European writers in the International Writing Program 100,000 40,000
HUMANITIES
Advanced field training in archaeology
Arizona, University of [$28,000-1968] 4,990
Brown University [$11,000-1968] 4,706
Bryn Mawr College [$45,000-1968] 10,874
Chicago, University of [$120,000-1968] 30,796
Cornell University [$35,000-1968] 7,000
Harvard University [$90,000-1968] 34,693
Hebrew Union College [$45,000-1968] 14,190
Minnesota, University of [$87,000-1968] 14,000
Missouri, University of [$55,000-1968] 13,000
New York University [$90,000-1968] 20,405
Pennsylvania, University of [$395,000-1968] 61,906
Texas, University of [$45,000-1968] 10,000
Toronto, University of [$19,500-1968] 6,425
Tulane University [$25,000-1968] 3,445
American Council of Learned Societies
Grants-in-aid, postdoctoral fellowships, and conferences [$7,000,000-1970] 575,000