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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1983







Grants and Projects

FISCAL YEAR 1983

The "Approvals" column shows grants and delegated-authority projects approved in fiscal year 1983. The "Payments" column shows payments on grants and projects that were approved in 1983 or 1982. (In a few cases, payments on grants approved prior to 1982 are listed.) Brackets show the original approval amounts of earlier grants and projects from which 1983 payments were made or refunds applied. A list of grants and projects approved under the previous program structure of the Foundation and on which there was activity in 1983 appears on page 80.

Urban Poverty
UNITED STATES Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Delegated-authority project: small program actions [$2,500,000—1982] $ (248,591) $ 127,900
PHYSICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL REVITALIZATION
Neighborhood reinvestment and conservation
Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association (Bronx, N.Y.) 45,620 45,620
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia) [$150,000—1982] 150,000
Harlem Interfaith Counseling Service (New York) 38,500
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York) [$5,250,000—1982] 4,000,000 9,250,000
National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (Washington, D.C.) [$400,000—1982] 200,000
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States (Washington, D.C.) [$75,000—1982] 37,500
National Urban Coalition (Washington, D.C.) [$350,000—1982] 306,251
Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City [$100,000—1982] 100,000
Sports Foundation (Bronx, N.Y.) [$150,000—1982] 54,000
Community development corporations
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Brooklyn, N.Y.) [$850,000—1982] 300,000 725,000
Chicanos Por La Causa (Phoenix) [$150,000—1982] 150,000 243,750
Mexican American Unity Council (San Antonio) [$300,000—1982] 102,000 252,000
Southeast Development, Inc. (Baltimore) [$250,000—1982] 100,000
Spanish Speaking Unity Council (Oakland) [$300,000—1982] 170,000 320,000
Watts Labor Community Action Committee (Los Angeles) [$450,000—1982] 225,000
Emerging community development corporations
Barrio Education Project (San Antonio) 150,000 75,000
Central Germantown Council (Philadelphia) 208,000 108,200
Community Development Corporation of Boston 45,000 45,000
Community Development Corporation of Kansas City 20,500 20,500
Drew Economic Development Corporation (Los Angeles) 100,000
East Liberty Development Corporation (Pittsburgh) 76,000 45,000
GLIE Community Youth Program (Bronx, N.Y.) 50,000 50,000
Homewood-Brushton Revitalization and Development Corporation (Pittsburgh) 87,000
Manchester Citizens Corporation (Pittsburgh) 101,000 55,800
North Side Civic Development Council (Pittsburgh) 68,650 34,790
Northside Preservation Commission (St. Louis) 150,000 41,667
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (Pittsburgh) 76,350 42,000
Tacolcy Economic Development Corporation (Miami) 200,000 125,000
Economic development, technical assistance, and evaluation
Center for Community Change (Washington, D.C.) [$370,000—1982] 180,000
Citizens Forum on Self-Government/National Municipal League (New York) 124,000 38,000


Footnotes
Footnote :

* Delegated-authority projects are allocations of Foundation funds for a specified philanthropic purpose from which grants of up to $50,000 and other expenditures are made. The amounts shown in the "Approvals" column are residual, i.e., the original approval amount has been reduced by delegated-authority grants, which appear elsewhere on the list.

loans to minority-owned businesses in economically depressed neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

  • Famicos Foundation, $1.1 million, for an apartment complex in the predominantly black Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. The project is also being financed by the city, Ameri Trust Bank, lisc, and the Cleveland and Gund foundations.

  • Illinois Neighborhood Development Corporation, $1 million, for working capital for two of its subsidiaries: the South Shore Bank, which provides housing and economic development loans in one of Chicago's major black communities, and City Lands, a real-estate development corporation that rehabilitates housing for low- and moderate-income families.

  • Jazzmobile, $425,000, for the renovation of a new headquarters building in Harlem. One of the nation's best-known nonprofit jazz organizations, Jazzmobile is undertaking this development effort with federal, state, and municipal financial assistance. The Foundation's loan has been matched by a loan from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.

Arson and Crime Prevention.

In 1982, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated losses from arson at $1.75 billion, not including the loss of tax revenues or the cost of injuries and deaths. Arson can also wipe out years of effort that cdcs and other community organizations undertake to revitalize low-income neigh-borhoods. To help community groups fight the continuing menace of arson, the Foundation