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Dealing with Drug Abuse

A report prepared by the Drug Abuse Survey Project which was initiated by the Ford Foundation in 1970. It surveys the drug-abuse problem in the United States and efforts to control it, sets forth a new approach to the problem of drug abuse and recommends a variety of measures, including the establishment of the Drug Abuse Council. Also includes staff papers on drugs and their effects, drug education, treatment and rehabilitation, the economics of heroin, federal expenditures on drug-abuse control, altered states of consciousness, and narcotics addiction and control in Great Britain.

Debate on a Time to Choose, A

Critique by William P. Tavoulareas, president, Mobil Corporation, and member of the advisory committee of the Energy Policy Project, of A Time to Choose, the final report of the project. With a reply by Carl Kaysen, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Divide and Conquer: Responsible Security for America's Poor

A review of various income-maintenance programs and suggestions for change to take account of the great diversity of the poor and the needs of different groups.

Early Childhood Services

A Ford Foundation Program Paper on efforts to meet the increased demand for early childhood education and care.

Energy and Agriculture in the Third World

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that seeks to explore how energy, in forms including wood, animal dung and crop residues as well as commercial fuels, may best help to transform agriculture, raise enough food and provide other necessities for people of the third world.

Energy and U.S. Foreign Policy

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the international problems, specifically related to the Persian Gulf, arising from the production and trade in energy. Focuses on what the U.S. can do about the problems and analyzes and proposes a range of policy alternatives.

Energy Conservation Papers, The

Contains the following studies: Energy thrift in urban transportation: options for the future; energy, employment, and dollar impacts of alternative transportation options; energy, employment, and dollar impacts of certain consumer options; potential energy conservation from recycling metals in urban solid wastes; The potential for energy recovery from organic wastes; and energy needs for pollution control.

Energy Policy: Industry Perspectives

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the issues facing the oil, electric utilities, gas and coal industries separately, and provides conclusions and recommendations for each.

Energy Prices 1960-73: A Report to the Energy Policy Project of the FF

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that provides historical data on price changes for energy from 1960 to 1973. Part one contains retail and wholesale price information for the year 1973, when energy prices rose dramatically. Part two covers 1960 to 1972, years of only moderate increase.

Energy Research and Development

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation consisting of two papers. In the first, international energy consultant Michael Grenon surveys energy research in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden and the U.K. In the second, J. Herbert Hollomon and colleagues examine energy research and development policy issues in the U.S. within the framework of the energy marketplace.

Energy Taxes and Subsidies

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of energy subsidies and taxes as instruments of government policy. Seeks to explore how subsidies and taxation affected the “energy crisis” of the early 70's and how they could be utilized to generate positive responses and outcomes to the crisis.

Energy: The Next Twenty Years

An analysis of the world's energy options, conducted by 19 scientists and scholars led by Hans Landsberg of Resources for the Future; sponsored by the Ford Foundation. This report gives particular emphasis to the role of market forces in energy policy.

Feminism in the Mid-1970s

A detailed analysis of American feminism by the author of The New Feminist Movement (Russel Sage, 1974).

Feminist Pluralism

Remarks delivered at the Women's Program Forum, Ford Foundation, September 29, 1986.

Finances of the Performing Arts, The

Reports on a market research study conducted in 1970-71 by Eric Marder Associates, Inc. of performing arts audiences and potential audiences in 12 cities.

Financial Support of Women's Programs in the 1970's

A survey of the work of foundations, the federal government and international organizations on behalf of women.

Financing the Energy Industry

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation which estimates the capital investment outlays of the petroleum and electric utility industries and determines how these outlays are to be financed. Seeks to ascertain the extent to which financing problems might threaten the ability of the energy industry to meet demands placed upon it.

Ford Foundation Activities in Noncommercial Broadcasting 1951-1976.

A brief comprehensive history of Foundation support of noncommercial broadcasting from 1951 through 1976, with particular attention to educational and instructional broadcasting and the building of the contemporary public television system.

Ford Foundation and China, The

A review of Foundation programs in China focusing on legal education, economics training and rural development. In Chinese and English.

Ford Foundation and the United Nations

A report, written by Shepard Forman, that reviews the Foundation's support for the work of the United Nations, its programs, and related activities since 1951. Includes a foreword by Brian Urquhart.

Ford Foundation at Work

A review of the decision-making process in the Ford Foundation since its expansion to a national institution in 1950. Includes 16 case studies of key programs.

Ford Foundation International Programs

A general review of the international programs that the Ford Foundation supported from 1950 to 1979. Describes programs pertaining to agriculture and population control as well as training, research, education, environmental and other programs in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and Africa.

Ford Foundation Management and Program Trends in the Fifties and Sixties, The

Provides statistical information about Foundation management patterns and grant-making activities during the 1950's and 60's.

Ford Foundation Support for the Arts In The United States

A Working Paper on new emphases in the Ford Foundation's arts program.

Ford Foundation's Work in Population, The

This working paper is a result of a review of the Ford Foundation's work to slow population growth against the background of a reduction in U.S. government support for population-related activities in the early 1980's. The report outlines key demographic issues, reviews the Foundation's work in population, and sets forth a strategy for future work that includes reducing infant mortality and enhancing women's economic participation, improving the quality of family planning services and informing population policy.

Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development

Describes how woodland communities in Asia are using community forestry to raise incomes and protect the environment.

Forty Years: A Learning Curve: The Ford Foundation in India 1952-1992

A thematic history of the Ford Foundation's programs in India 1952-1992.

Foundation Goes to School, A

A report on the Ford Foundation's Comprehensive School Improvement Program of the 1960's.

Foundations and Public-Private Ventures

Discusses cooperation between business corporations, government agencies and foundations to address social problems in an entrepreneurial manner. Reprinted from the 1979 Ford Foundation Annual Report.

Fulfilling America's Promise

A speech delivered at the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, April 23, 1991. A discussion of programs that are meeting the challenges of renewing American communities and rebuilding lives burdened by poverty.

Fundação Ford No Brasil 1998/1999., A

Overview of the Foundation and its work in Brazil, in Portuguese and English.