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Action for Equal Opportunity

Major excerpts from an address by McGeorge Bundy at the annual banquet of the National Urban League, in Philadelphia, Aug. 2, 1966. In his first major speech after becoming President of the Ford Foundation, Bundy stated that achieving full equality for African Americans was the major task facing the United States, and that this would be the major domestic focus of the Foundation in the coming years.

Affordable Housing

A Ford Foundation Program Paper on the growing housing crisis for low-income families and public and private efforts to resolve it.

Afro-American Studies

The history and future prospects of Afro-American studies, set in the context of changes in American universities and the struggles of blacks for social justice.

American Energy Consumer, The

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation in which the authors offer a broad view of energy lifestyles in America and show the correlations that exist between levels of energy usage and the socioeconomic characteristics of individual households.

Annual Reports

Annual Reports from 1950 to 1999

Backs Against the Wall

A report on a series of grants to help urban-oriented colleges and universities improve their undergraduate programs and services for inner-city students.

Balance the Basics

One in a series of papers presented at an internal Foundation seminar on research on learning in the mid-1970's. This paper argues for the importance of writing along with reading and mathematics in the basic educational curriculum, examines reasons why writing is neglected and sets forth approaches for improving the teaching of writing, particularly the process-conference method. The author won the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in English and Teaching of English for this publication.

Black & Hispanic Art Museums

A review of the genesis, current status and most pressing needs of 29 diverse institutions.

Blessing the Peacemakers

Remarks presented at the Anti-Defamation League's Civic Commitment Award Dinner, New York, Oct. 7, 1980, discussing the relationship between community development and conflict resolution.

Bridging the Divide

A report summarizing a meeting convened by the Ford Foundation on reproductive health and human development issues in Istanbul in 1998. The meeting brought together program officers in an attempt to explore issues and challenges in the areas of reproductive health, sexuality and human development specifically pertaining to the developing world.

Building Bridges

Based on research conducted in 10 urban areas between 1991 and 1993 by Carnegie Mellon University and the Economic Development Assistance Consortium of employment training activities of community development corporations. The study concludes that networks of community organizations are often the best vehicles for employment training activities.

Changing Relations

A report to the Ford Foundation by the National Board of the Changing Relations Project. The board examined the everyday interactions and relations among new immigrants and residents in six communities: Albany Park, Chicago, Illinois; Garden City, Kansas; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Monterey Park, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Child Survival/Fair Start

A Ford Foundation Working Paper that discusses the factors threatening the survival, health and cognitive development of the world's disadvantaged children. Also describes the Foundation's program to help these children get a fair start in life.

City High Schools

A report on the Foundation's City High School Recognition Program, in which 202 schools in 56 cities were honored for improved performance over the past decade.

Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Black America

A Ford Foundation Working Paper that reviews Foundation efforts to promote racial justice for black Americans.

Common Good, The

Executive summary of policy recommendation of the Executive Panel of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future.

Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future, The

Policy recommendations of the Executive Panel of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future.

Community Action

Major excerpts from an address before the "Citizen's Conference on Community Planning" in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan. 11, 1963, describing the Ford Foundation's Gray Areas programs.

Competition in the U.S. Energy Industry

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of the competition in the production of coal, oil, natural gas and uranium in the United States. The study examines both interfuel and intrafuel competition. The volume also includes supplementary studies by other authors on specific industries and markets, as well as on the political influence of the energy industries.

Consultation On Higher Education in Africa, A

A report on universities in English-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Corporate Philanthropy: Partnership for Progress

A talk given at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, India, Oct. 31, 1986.

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Institutional Investor

Surveys the history and practice of shareholder responsibility, including the use of proxy voting, social accounting and other means to focus the attention of business enterprises on their social performance, and reports on thinking among institutional investors and others on the social aspects of investment policy.

Created Equal: A Report on Ford Foundation Women's Programs

A discussion of Foundation support for efforts to enhance women's rights and opportunities in the 1970's and 1980's.