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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1984







Grants and Projects FISCAL YEARS PRIOR TO 1982

GRANTS AND PROJECTS Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Following is a list of Foundation grants and delegated-authority projects approved in fiscal years prior to 1982 under the previous program structure of the Foundation. Only those grants and projects are listed on which there was activity in 1984. The "Approvals" column shows supplementary approvals or reductions and the "Payments" column shows payments and refunds occurring in 1984. Brackets show the original approval amount of grants and projects.
National Affairs
Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) [$75,000—1981] $ 6,000
Delegated-authority projects: consultants, studies, conferences, and technical assistance [$535,000—1980-1981] $(274,704)
Harvard University [$175,000—1981] 107,095
Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance [$200,000—1981] 10,700
Mexican American Research Center (Austin, Texas) [$141,200—1981] 46,810
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (Washington, D.C.) [$230,000—1981] 4,000
Russell Sage Foundation (New York) [$250,000—1981] 73,000
TOTAL, NATIONAL AFFAIRS $(274,704) $247,605
Education and Public Policy
Delegated-authority projects: small grants, awards, consultants, research, training, and technical assistance [$700,000—1980-1981] $(495,202) $ 6,687
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
American Association for Higher Education (Washington, D.C.) [$94,820—1981] 29,730
American Association of State Colleges and Universities [$100,000—1981] (31,410) (31,410)
American Council on Education (Washington, D.C.) [$299,927—1981] 107,702
Arizona, University of [$235,000—1981] 78,000
Association of American Colleges (Washington, D.C.) [$100,076—1981] 6,463
Atlanta University Center [$350,000—1981] 50,000
Board of Education of the City of New York [$100,000—1981] 25,000
California, University of (Berkeley) [$250,000—1980] 17,613
Center for the Study of Community Colleges (Los Angeles) [$180,000—1981] 105,000
Council on Library Resources (Washington, D.C.) [$750,000—1979] 276,592
Education Commission of the States (Denver) [$725,000—1981] 187,475
Howard University [$225,000—1981] 75,000
Hunter College [$123,582—1981] 46,343
Institute of Judicial Administration (New York) [$219,240—1979] 78,326
Intercultural Development Research Association (San Antonio) [$150,000—1981] 23,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [$250, 124—1981] 62,531
Memphis State University [$211,547—1981] 32,478
National Academy of Education (Pittsburgh) [$153,625—1981] 83,625
New York University [$65,303—1981] (26,627) (18,464)
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York) [$200,000—1981] 74,000
Rutgers, University of [$180,000—1980] 27,000
Stanford University [$150,000—1978] 17,755
Tuskegee Institute [$341,000—1981] 236,000
Washington, University of [$126,592—1981] 39,277
Whitney M. Young, Jr., Memorial Foundation (New York) [$50,161—1981] 5,000
THE ARTS
Amherst College (for Folger Theatre Group, Washington, D.C.) [$223,205—1979] 5,000
Center Stage (Baltimore) [$52,749—1981] 13,187
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles [$250,000—1979] 62,500
Cincinnati Opera Association [$108,193—1981] 27,048
The Cleveland Play House [$50,157—1981] 25,078
Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET-TV, New York) [$800,000—1979] 200,000
Eliot Feld Ballet (Original Ballets Foundation, New York) [$280,000—1981] 6,000
Fort Worth Civic Opera [$19,155—1981] (9,577) 4,789
Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis) [$200,000—1979] (25,000)
Houston Ballet Foundation [$150,000—1981] 37,500
Houston Grand Opera Association [$150,000—1981] 37,500
International Arts Relations (New York) [$148,974—1981] 35,793
Literary Classics of the United States (New York) [$68,103—1980] 14,484
Negro Ensemble Company (New York) [$336,000—1981] 78,430
North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem) [$139,008—1979] 27,181
Opera Association of New Mexico (Santa Fe) [$87,320—1981] 21,830
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis [$111,854—1981] 27,963
San Diego Opera Association [$93,372—1981] 23,343
San Francisco Opera [$150,000—1981] (75,000)
Seattle Opera Association [$112,963—1981] 28,241
Texas Southern University [$100,000—1975] 40,000
Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation (New York) [$167,872—1979] (29,468)