North Carolina Fund Records, 1962-1971

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North Carolina Fund Records, 1962-1971

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The North Carolina Fund, an independent,non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty inNorth Carolina, 1963-1968. Governor Terry Sanford and other North Caroliniansconvinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewideanti- poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plusadditional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds BabcockFoundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare;U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; and the Office of EconomicOpportunity--enabled the Fund to support a broad program of education, communityaction, manpower development, research and planning, and other efforts to fightpoverty. Administrative and financial records (about 32,000items), including policy statements; Board of Directors minutes and other records;correspondence, speeches, and other files of Executive Director George Hyndman Esser(1921- ) and other staff members; records of meetings and conferences; proposals andgrants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, theOffice of Economic Opportunity, the Foundation for Community Development, theLow-Income Housing Development Corporation, and other organizations; subject files;clippings, audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records.There is also material about Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis's 1967attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over politicalactivity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development andCraven Operation Progress. Other material relates to an opinion poll conductedby Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grantapplications for housing, education, community development, job training,leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter EducationProject; and proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council Inc. HowNorth Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police,Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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