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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







York City for the creation of a civilian management team to help improve decision-making and planning);

    publication and distribution of analytical reports on such issues as civil service and pension reform.

      The Foundation also made grants designed to improve the law's protection of victims of crimes or accidents, and to make legal services more accessible. The Battelle Memorial Institute received funds for a comprehensive study of accident-victim compensation, including a review of attempts to provide redress for injuries resulting from criminal acts. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws was granted $100,000 to aid in preparation of a model statute for no-fault automobile insurance; the aim is to avoid the confusion of a multiplicity of diverse state laws.

      A two-year demonstration of prepaid legal insurance was assisted under a grant to the American Bar Association Fund for Public Education. The plan, being carried out jointly by the Shreveport (Louisiana) Bar Association and a local labor union, is designed to give low-and middle-income people inexpensive access to general legal services.

      Minority Rights.

      Preliminary assistance went to the Native American Rights Fund, a new agency devoted to the assertion and protection of American Indian legal rights. Since it was established a year ago by the California Indian Legal Services under an earlier Foundation grant, the new fund has initiated or joined nationally significant legal actions affecting fishing rights, school discrimination, and despoilment of reservation resources. Three of the fund's best-known cases deal with the threat posed to Indian resources in the Four Corners area of the Southwest (the border points of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) by plans for six big coal-burning plants.

      The Center for National Policy Review, part of the Catholic University Law School, received a two-year supplement to provide nonpartisan research and technical assistance to groups concerned with national policy in civil rights and race relations.

      GRANTS—NATIONAL AFFAIRS Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
      Detroit, University of [$45,000—1967] (37,800) (15,000)
      League of Cities/Conference of Mayors [$250,000—1969] 24,175
      Graduate student and faculty internships in state legislatures
      Kansas, University of [$114,000—1961] (38,132) (19,132)
      Oklahoma State Legislative Council [$117,000—1961] (44,052)
      International City Management Association
      Urban Corps National Service Center 88,500 46,275
      New York City governmental studies and projects
      Fund for the City of New York [$1,100,000—1970] 1,100,000 500,000
      Institute of Public Administration [$96,910—1969] 21,910
      New York City-Rand Institute [$886,233—1970] 622,233
      Public service training and recruitment
      Administration and Management Research Association of New York City [$110,000—1970] 41,550
      American Society for Public Administration (48,272) (48,272)
      Council of State Governments [$222,000—1966] 12,500
      International City Management Association 30,000 30,000
      National Civil Service League [$100,000—1968] 307,000 96,750
      State University of New York Research Foundation 71,000
      Wisconsin, University of [$50,000—1969] 22,500
      Regional and metropolitan planning and research
      Alaska, University of [$550,000—1967] 45,000
      Cornell University [$250,000—1967] 22,368
      National Association of Counties Research Foundation [$265,000—1969] 90,000 75,000
      National Service to Regional Councils [$305,000—1970] 125,000 95,000
      Regional Plan Association (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) [$130,000—1970] 252,600 147,500
      Southeast Michigan Council of Governments 100,000 100,000
      Spindletop Research [$400,000—1970] 165,000 237,000
      Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies 200,000 120,000
      Research and advisory services for state and local government
      Center for Governmental Studies 250,000 140,000
      Citizens Conference on State Legislatures [$600,000—1969, 1970] 175,000
      National Municipal League [$918,500—1965] 42,945
      National Urban Coalition [$194,572—1969] 29,572
      New Jersey State Department of Labor and Industry 40,000
      Saint John's University (Minn.) [$118,000—1970] 65,000
      Washington, University of 130,000 50,000
      Rutgers University (Eagleton Institute of Politics)
      Education, research, and training in state government 365,000
      South Carolina Council on Human Relations
      Monitoring governmental effectiveness in welfare and law 140,000 34,250
      URBAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
      Experiments in applying systems analysis, advanced technology, and other innovations to governmental operations
      California, University of (Los Angeles) [$275,000—1967] 88,097
      George Washington University (11,975) (11,975)
      Institute of Social Technology (San Juan) 75,000
      International City Management Association [$350,000—1970] 149,000
      Los Angeles Technical Services Corporation [$300,000—1967] 90,000
      Michigan, University of 60,000
      Upper Midwest Research and Development Council 5,000 5,000
      Vera Institute of Justice 100,000 70,000
      International conferences on urban problems
      Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee 100,000 100,000
      Resources for the Future 8,500 8,500
      Research, study, and training on urban policy and problems
      Boston University 15,200 15,200
      Canadian Council on Urban and Regional Research [$200,000—1969] 101,036
      Centre for Environmental Studies (London) 26,000 26,000
      Columbia University Urban Center 1,764,339 1,071,110
      Harvard University [$35,000—1970] 35,000
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology (10,048) (10,048)
      Metropolitan Fund (Detroit) [$200,000—1968] 50,000
      Michigan, University of 65,938 49,700
      National Planning Association [$420,000—1967] 96,847
      New York City Health Services Administration 100,000