North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (WAMY Community Action, Inc.) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (WAMY Community Action, Inc.) [manuscript].

Records (about 5,000 items) relating to WAMY Community Action, Inc., a North Carolina Fund community action program in Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties in western North Carolina. Included are a special report on WAMY's subcontracting practices; files on incentive grants in the four counties; and files on a craft marketing cooperative, a Neighborhood Youth Corps project, a news demonstration project, and manpower projects.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

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Community Action Program (U.S.)

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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...

WAMY Community Action, Inc.

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Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.)

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