North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Volunteer Programs Series) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Volunteer Programs Series) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847501

Volunteer program records (about 14,000 items) are primarily those of the North Carolina Volunteers program, which operated in 12 counties in 1964 and 25 counties in 1965. These files include information about college student volunteers, daily logs of volunteers, reports from volunteers, information about community objections to racially integrated teams of volunteers, and correspondence of staff and volunteers. Also included are files relating to Youth Educational Services (YES), a statewide tutorial project in which college students tutored disadvantaged children; a study of women volunteers in North Carolina, which resulted in "Women Volunteers in the War on Poverty" by Guion Griffis Johnson; the establishment of an Outward Bound school in North Carolina; and other special projects, including a health careers project, a migrant health project, and Upward Bound.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366948

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...

North Carolina Volunteers.

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Upward Bound Program (U.S.)

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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989

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Historian; interviewee married Guy B. Johnson. From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376707 From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620334 Guion Griffis Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a professor, author, scholar, journalist, women's a...

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Youth Educational Services, Inc.

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