North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (The Opportunity Corporation) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (The Opportunity Corporation) [manuscript].

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Records (about 3,000 items) relating to The Opportunity Corporation (TOC), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Asheville and Buncombe County, N.C. The program was called the Opportunity Corporaton of Asheville-Buncombe County before February 1967 and the Opportunity Corporation of Madison-Buncombe Counties after that. Included are planning papers, a Poor People's Evaluation of TOC, and general office records. Also included are files on TOC programs: day care, Sandy Mush rural health program, Head Start, the Hillcrest Rent Strike, and the community action program grant.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366945

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...

Opportunity Corporation of Madison-Buncombe Counties

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Community Action Program (U.S.)

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Hillcrest Community Organization.

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Opportunity Corporation of Asheville-Buncombe County

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