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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1973







Brown University on statistical problems relating to human fertility. Professor Potter has developed a computer model that can project the birth control practice required for stipulated reductions in birth or population growth. The model is being applied to actual population data in Asia.

Professor Alfred Blumstein at Carnegie-Mellon University has developed a computer simulation model that is a potential tool for improving the management of family planning programs. Under a Foundation grant this year to Tulane University, efforts will be made to adapt the model to requirements of family-planning programs in developing countries. The model can be used by family-planning administrators for making decisions on the allocation of resources, for identifying groups of people for familyplanning services, and for determining the best mix of contraceptive methods to be offered.

Funds were set aside for the fourth year for scholarly awards for the study of population policy issues. Jointly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the program has supported research by 76 scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and law. Research on population policy issues is recognized as increasingly important as national and local governments consider legal and administrative actions designed to affect population growth rates and distribution. Topics for research range from the socio-psychological factors relevant to fertility in Ireland and Mexico to the effect of welfare policy in the United States on fertility and population redistribution.

General

Two actions in 1973 were related to the Foundation's traditional interests in Michigan, the Foundation's first home and still the place of its incorporation. A third concerned New York City, the present headquarters.

The Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit was founded in 1915. Henry Ford and his son Edsel Ford established the Foundation in 1936. Even after the Foundation shifted in 1950 from a program of philanthropy mainly in the Detroit area to its present

GRANTS AND PROJECTS—INTERNATIONAL DIVISION Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Population Council
General support 2,000,000 2,000,000
Information service for family-planning administrators [$450,000—1972] 393,750
FAMILY PLANNING IN THE UNITED STATES
Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland
Education program for teen-agers [$250,000—1968] (2,312)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Assistance to family-planning agencies; publications [$850,000—1971] 151,600
Tulane University
Family-planning demonstration program [$475,000—1970] 41,315 127,990
Wake Forest College
Research to improve clinic programs [$370,000—1966] 27,758
POPULATION STUDIES
Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (Honolulu)
Workshop on population education 45,000 15,600
Population Reference Bureau
Dissemination of information on population [$468,000—1971] 156,000
Social science research on population policy
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences [$120,000—1971] 68,600
Barnard College 35,000 2,500
Center of Concern (Washington, D.C.) 50,000
Research awards to social scientists: Foundation-managed project [$916,161—1972] 192,459 514,480
Training and research in population
Brown University 130,995 43,331
California, University of (Berkeley) [$671,647—1968] 116,255
Chicago, University of [$938,000—1971, 1972] 289,184
Cornell University [$225,000—1970] 49,500 56,250
Dartmouth College 16,982 8,000
Georgetown University [$200,000—1971] 100,000
Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences [$68,200—1971] 25,575
London School of Economics and Political Science [$230,000—1969] 49,014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [$38,500—1971] (16,982) (1,482)
Michigan, University of [$1,000,000—1972] 427,000 653,192
National Bureau of Economic Research [$250,000—1970] 41,668
North Carolina, University of [$1,750,000—1969, 1971] 307,592
Pennsylvania, University of 200,000 78,110
Princeton University [$271,000—1971] 26,500
RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY
Albany Medical College (New York) [$338,525—1968] 281,843
Baylor College of Medicine 139,826
Birmingham, University of [$173,570—1968] 35,000
Brussels, Free University of [$367,000—1972] 82,200
California, University of (Los Angeles) 426,030 8,000
Cambridge University [$245,000—1970] 39,000
Case Western Reserve University [$689,000—1967] 78,150
Catholic University of Louvain [$200,000—1970] 65,000
Central Institute for Experimental Animals (Japan) 440,550
Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer (Israel) [$305,000—1972] 74,000
Chicago, University of [$1,713,765—1969, 1970] 296,380
Children's Hospital Medical Center (Boston) 43,670
Columbia University (International Institute for Study of Human Reproduction) [$8,743,000—1966, 1968] 597,189
Cornell University 511,000 367,417
Edinburgh, University of [$307,500—1972] 78,503
Emory University [$359,000—1969] 75,552
Foundation-managed project: consultants 125,000 63,497
Genetics Society of America [$20,000—1972] 20,000
Geneva, University of [$176,500—1971] 33,863
Georgia, University of [$330,000—1971] 66,000
Harvard University, School of Medicine [$825,000—1972] 312,500
Helsinki, University of [$790,000—1971] 150,449
Illinois, University of [$600,000—1970] 98,501
Institute of International Education [$125,000—1972] 104,934