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Perspective on Power

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the economic, legal and political dimensions of the electric power industry and offers a series of intermediate and long-term policy recommendations. Attempts to clear up misunderstandings between industry, economists, environmentalists and utility commissioners.

Perspectives on Partnerships

A report on the Foundation's community development partnership strategy, which brought together public and private funders in 17 communities to support neighborhood development in areas where the major community development intermediaries did not operate. Each partnership was composed of local banks, corporations, foundations and government representatives, and this report presents the perspective of these participants.

Potential Fuel Effectiveness in Industry

A technical report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, evaluating the potential for greater fuel conservation in U.S. industry. The report concludes that significant savings could be realized in many industries with technology existing at the time.

Problem of Women and Mathematics, The

A review of relevant research and possible intervention to improve women's mathematics skills and increase their participation in math-related fields.

Program-Related Investments

A report dealing with the Foundation's experiences in its first five years of work with program-related investments, in which capital funds are loaned or invested in enterprises that serve philanthropic goals, such as minority business development and low-income housing.

Quality Preschool Programs

Occasional Paper 5, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future. An analysis of what makes a quality preschool program and how early childhood education can start children on the road to achieving their potential.

Race Relations and Ethnicity

The first Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Lecture at Columbia University, Oct. 24, 1984, which discusses race, ethnic relations, and affirmative action internationally, with special emphasis on South Africa and the United States.

Recovering Our Confidence

A speech delivered at the Alumni Association of the City College of New York, Nov. 1, 1990.

Reforming Welfare with Work

Occasional Paper 2, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future. A report on a five-year study by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation examining state initiatives to help welfare recipients obtain employment.

Refugees and Migrants

A look at the causes and consequences of today's major international population flows and the Ford Foundation's new programs to address the problems of refugees and migrants in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Prepared for the December 1986 meeting of the Board of Trustees. Attachments include supporting documents and a list of grant actions concerning refugees and migrants from FY1982-1986 for the Human Rights and Social Justice, and International Affairs Programs.

Rehabilitation Potential of Western Coal Lands

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation by a study committee of the National Academy of Sciences. This report explores environmental issues related to the surface mining of coal in the arid and semi-arid Western United States, and investigates the potential for rehabilitating lands that have been mined.

Relinking Life and Work

Reports on the results of research conducted at Xerox, Tandem Computers and Corning, demonstrating that productivity can increase when changes in work practices benefit employees' personal lives. This study is part of the Foundation's efforts to advance understanding of gender and family issues and their impact on important areas of life.

Report of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program

In this seminal 1949 study, also known as the Gaither Report, recommendations are made to the Ford Foundation on how it can most effectively put its resources to work for human welfare. The report defines the meaning of the term "human welfare," examines ways in which it is thwarted and threatened and proposes programs for addressing such problems. The acceptance of these recommendations by the Board of Trustees signaled the transformation of the Foundation from a local philanthropy to one of national and international scope.

Reproductive Health

Report on a projected $125-million,10-year program in reproductive health, with a focus on the needs of disadvantaged women, particularly in developing countries. The recommended program strategy focuses on social science research, women's empowerment and communications in the areas of policy, ethics and law, and marks a shift away from programs in earlier decades which had focused on population control.

Search for a New Economic Order, The

A report that describes the main areas of economic research supported by the Ford Foundation in the 1970's, with particular emphasis given to the work in international economics.

Selected Chronology of the Ford Foundation, A

A chronological listing of major grants, events, program trends and personnel changes from 1936 to 1979.

Selected Studies on Energy

A 1980 collection of 12 background papers commissioned by the Study Group that cover in greater detail issues addressed in its 1979 publication Energy: The Next Twenty Years. Topics addressed include the role of the automobile in energy price regulation, institutional obstacles to cogeneration and a more in-depth version of the energy demand study covered in the original report.

Seminars on Media and Society, 1974-1980, The

Presents cases, consisting of scenarios and discussion questions, prepared a for series of seminars examining areas of tension between the media and those charged with the responsibility of public decision-making.

Sharps and Flats

A report on Foundation assistance to American composers, performers, and performing arts centers and efforts to train administrators of musical organizations and to increase audiences.