North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Research, Planning, and Program Development Department) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Research, Planning, and Program Development Department) [manuscript].

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Correspondence, statistics, notes, drafts, and other materials (about 17,000 items) from research projects and planning and program development. Major projects include a report on poverty in North Carolina; a study of record-keeping in community action programs (CAPs) aimed at producing evaluation information; profiles of community problems in areas served by the 11 Fund-supported CAPs; a survey of attitudes, values, wants, and needs as well as income, education, housing, and health of low-income families in CAP regions; a study of the community action process and decision-making, conflict resolution, and other patterns in CAP communites; and a study of hunger in North Carolina. Also included are records of the Fund's library and history and archives project. These records contain information about Fund organization and staffing, transcripts of debriefing interviews with Fund staff, and grant officers' reports on the CAPs.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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North Carolina Fund

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The North Carolina Fund, an independent, non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1968. Gov. Terry Sanford and other North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewide anti- poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plus additional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, E...

Community Action Program (U.S.)

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