Ford Foundation records, Governance and Public Policy (GPP), Department Chronological Correspondence Files, 1991-1995
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Ford Foundation
- Extent:
- 1.14 Cubic Feet 3 letter document boxes
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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The Ford Foundation's Governance and Public Policy Program (GPP) operated during the early to mid-1990s. It oversaw grants for programs and projects involved with citizen participation and electoral politics, policy think tanks and interdisciplinary approaches to economic and social policy, improving state and local government, increasing the number of minorities in the public policy field, and philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. GPP grantees included the Woodrow Wilson Program, the Innovations in American Government Awards Program, and the Public Agenda Foundation among many others.
Jan Jaffe served as Acting Director for the program during a transition period between 1992 and 1993. June Zeitlin then became Director in 1993 and continued to lead the program when it transitioned to become the Governance and Civil Society Program in 1996.
Ford Foundation GPP staff members included:
Jan Jaffe - Acting Director
June Zeitlin - Director
Maria Buck - Program Assistant
Emmett Carson - Program Officer
William Diaz - Program Officer
Maxine Gaddis - Assistant Grants Administrator
Lance Lindblom - Program Officer
Michael Lipsky - Program Officer
Lori Matia - Grants Administrator
Michael Seltzer - Program Officer
Marcia Smith - Program Officer
Ivy Steber - Assistant Grants Administrator
- Acquisition information:
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Ford Foundation archive was deposited at the RAC in 2011. Ford Foundation records, correspondence, reports, program files, and officers' papers were transferred to and accessioned by the RAC beginning in 2011.
This material was transferred to the RAC in 2019 and was ingested by the RAC as part of Accession 2019:090 Ford Foundation records, Staff Subject Files, Jan Jaffe.
Accessions continue as necessary.
- Arrangement:
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Collection is comprised of two series. Files in Series 1 were arranged in order to restore the intended chronological organization.
Collection arrangement is as follows:
Series 1. Chronological files, 1991-1995
Series 2. Log files, 1993
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Brittle or damaged items are available at the discretion of RAC.
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