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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1983







Program-Related Investments

PROGRAM-RELATED INVESTMENTS Approvals Invested or Guaranteed
Program-related investments are capital funds invested in socially important enterprises in various fields of Foundation interest. Investments approved in fiscal 1983 are listed below, together with earlier-year commitments on which there were disbursements during the year. The "Approvals" column shows amounts of commitments and "Invested or Guaranteed" shows amounts loaned, invested, or guaranteed in fiscal 1983.
1983 Approvals
URBAN POVERTY
Economic Resources Corp. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Loan fund for minority businesses $1,500,000
Famicos Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio)
Housing for low- and moderate-income families 1,100,000
Jazzmobile, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Renovation of a facility for Harlem arts operation center 425,000
Illinois Neighborhood Development Corp. (Chicago, Ill.)
Investment in South Shore Bank and City Lands, Inc., to strengthen community development activities
Eight-year loan, 5% 1,000,000 1,000,000
Industrial Cooperative Association (Somerville, Mass.)
Revolving loan fund for low-income, worker-owned cooperatives
Five-year loan, 6% 500,000 500,000
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. (New York, N.Y.)
Loan fund for revenue-generating work programs
Five-year loan, 6% 267,000 267,000
Neighborhood Institute (Chicago, Ill.)
Commercial strip revitalization 250,000
RURAL POVERTY AND RESOURCES
Artisans Cooperative (Chadds Ford, Pa.)
Working capital for marketing arm of craft cooperative
Eight-year loan, 5% 125,000 125,000
Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (Wiscasset, Maine)
Small-business investment and employment project 750,000
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (Berea, Ky.)
Housing for low- and moderate-income families
Five-year loan, 3% 925,000 925,000
EDUCATION AND CULTURE
National Association of College and University Business Officers (Washington, D.C.)
Loan-guarantee program for community-based colleges 1,000,000
GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Public Interest Law Center (New York, N.Y.)
Renovation of office space 670,565
1982 Approvals
URBAN POVERTY
Chicanos Por La Causa (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Acquisition and rehabilitation of office building
Five-year loan, 5% 762,000
Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.)
Assistance to community organizations for low-income housing development
Six-year loan, 6% 500,000
Tennessee Valley Center for Minority Economic Development (Memphis, Tenn.)
Investment fund for minority businesses
Six-year loan, 6% 1,500,000
RURAL POVERTY AND RESOURCES
National Rural Development and Finance Corp. (Washington, D.C.)
Rural economic development projects
Six-year loan, 6% 1,000,000
EDUCATION AND CULTURE
North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Renovation of performing arts center
Five-year loan, 5% 1,000,000
Pre-1982 Approvals
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Independence Capital Formation, Inc. (Inner-City Business Improvement Forum) (Detroit, Mich.)
Loan pool for minority businesses
Note, 8% 35,000 35,000
PUBLIC TELEVISION
WHYY, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Restoration of television station
Five-year loan, 8% 123,000