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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION


#4710
NORTH CAROLINA FUND RECORDS


Table of Contents:
   Abstracts
       General Abstract
       Administrative Series Abstract
       Volunteer Programs Series Abstract
       Training Programs Series Abstract
       Community Action Programs Series Abstracts
           Charlotte Area Fund Abstract
           Choanoke Area Development Association Abstract
           Coastal Progress, Inc., Abstract
           Experiment for Self-Reliance Abstract
           Macon Program for Progress Abstract
           Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development Abstract
           Operation Breakthrough Abstract
           The Opportunity Corporation Abstract
           Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council Abstract
           Tri-County Community Action Abstract
           WAMY Community Action, Inc., Abstract
       Manpower Programs Series Abstract
       Research Department Series Abstract
       Study Committees Series Abstract
       Public Information Department Series Abstract
   Introduction
       Historical Note
       Collection Overview
   Series Descriptions
       Series 1.   Administration
       Series 2.   Volunteer Programs
       Series 3.   Training Programs
       Series 4.   Community Action Programs
       Series 5.   Manpower Programs
       Series 6.   Research, Planning and Program Development
                   Department
       Series 7.   Study Committees
       Series 8.   Public Information Department
       Series 9.   Financial Records
   Shelf List

Size:  About 187,000 items (330.0 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from North Carolina Fund in 1969 and from
               George Esser in 1977. 

Access:    RESTRICTED (Subseries 2.1.2; 2.1.3; 2.1.4; 3.5; 5.1):
               In order to protect the privacy of volunteers,
               applicants to the volunteer programs, team
               directors, and clients of the volunteer program,
               researchers who wish to use files containing
               information about these people must agree not to
               identify them in the products of research without
               written permission from the subjects.  
           RESTRICTED (Subseries 8.3):  Use of materials in this
               series may require production of listening and/or
               viewing copies.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support, in
                   part, from the National Endowment for the
                   Humanities, Division of Preservation and
                   Access.

Related Collections:   Terry Sanford Papers (#3531);
                       John Ehle Papers (#4555);
                       Youth Education Services (YES) Records
                       (#3807);
                       North Carolina Fund Scrapbooks, North
                       Carolina Collection, UNC-CH;
                       Billy Barnes Photograph Collection, North
                       Carolina Collection, UNC-CH. 

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

                            ABSTRACTS

GENERAL ABSTRACT:      
   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. Department of Labor; U.S. Dept. of
Health, Education, and Welfare; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban
Development; and the Office of Economic Opportunity--enabled the
Fund to support a broad program of education, community action,
manpower development, research and planning, and other efforts to
fight poverty.    
   Records of the North Carolina Fund, primarily the files of the
central office staff, especially executive director George
Hyndman Esser (1921- ), and records of the Manpower Improvement
Through Community Effort (MITCE) Program.  Among the programs
documented are the North Carolina Volunteers; training of
community action technicians (CAT) to work in North Carolina and
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); a summer internship and
curriculum development program; and research on poverty in North
Carolina, community problems in areas served by community action
programs, the community action process, and manpower and economic
development.  Also documented are programs funded by the North
Carolina Fund, chief among them the 11 community action agencies
and the projects they operated.  Two grassroots organizations of
poor people also received financial support from the North
Carolina Fund, as did programs to improve education in North
Carolina, manpower programs, and low-income housing programs. 
Records related to attacks on the North Carolina Fund's programs
shed light on politics and race relations, as well as on economic
and social conditions in North Carolina in the 1960s.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development corporations--North Carolina.
   Community development personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
   Community leadership--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development--North Carolina.
   Educational innovations--North Carolina.
   Esser, George H.
   Ford Foundation.
   Housing--North Carolina.
   Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.
   Manpower policy--North Carolina.
   North Carolina--Economic conditions.
   North Carolina Fund.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
   North Carolina--Social conditions.
   North Carolina--Race relations.
   North Carolina Volunteers.
   Poor--Health and hygiene--North Carolina.
   Poor--Housing--North Carolina.
   Poor--Societies, etc.--North Carolina.
   Poor--North Carolina.
   Poverty--North Carolina.
   Poverty--Research--North Carolina.
   Sanford, Terry, 1917- .
   Volunteers in Service to America. 
   Volunteer workers in community development--North Carolina.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERIES ABSTRACT:
   Administrative and financial records (about 32,000 items),
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 and grants;
materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford
Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the
Foundation for Community Development (FCD), the Low-Income
Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC), and other organizations;
subject files; clippings; audit reports; and financial
correspondence and other financial records.  There is also
material about Congressman Jim Gardner's 1967 attacks on Fund
activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over
political activity of staff members in areas served by Nash-
Edgecombe Economic Development (NEED) and Craven Operation
Progress (COP).  Other material relates to How North Carolina
Whites and Blacks View:  Each Other, Government and Police,
Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment, an opinion poll
conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968.  Also included are
proposals and grant applications for housing, education,
community development, job training, leadership, and rural
development programs; the North Carolina Voter Education Project;
and proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Attitudes.
   Community development--Finance--North Carolina.
   Community development personnel--Political activity--North
       Carolina.
   Craven County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Craven Operation Progress.
   Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development--North Carolina.
   Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Educational innovations--North Carolina.
   Esser, George H.
   Ford Foundation.
   Foundation for Community Development.
   Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
   Housing--North Carolina.
   How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View:  Each Other,
       Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and
       Employment.
   Low-Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina.
   Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development.
   North Carolina--Race relations.
   North Carolina Voter Education Project.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Race relations--North Carolina.
   Rural development--North Carolina.
   Social surveys--North Carolina.
   State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.
   United States. Office of Economic Opportunity.
   Voters--Education--North Carolina.
   Whites--North Carolina--Attitudes.

VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACT:
   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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-American college students--North Carolina.
   College students--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- .
   Migrant labor--North Carolina--Health and hygiene. 
   North Carolina--Race relations.
   North Carolina Fund.
   North Carolina Outward Bound School.
   North Carolina Volunteers.
   Outward Bound schools--North Carolina.
   Public health personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
   Tutors and tutoring--North Carolina.
   Upward Bound.
   Volunteer workers in community development--North Carolina.
   Women Volunteers in the War on Poverty.
   Women volunteers in social service--North Carolina.
   Voluntarism--North Carolina.
   Youth Educational Services.

TRAINING PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACT:
   Training Department records (about 18,000 items) include
plans, reports, trainee files, and other material.  The Community
Service Consultants (CSC) program is the earliest program
documented.  Other programs include a community development
worker training center at UNC; a training program for Volunteers
in Service to America (VISTA); the Community Action Technician
(CAT) training program, which trained neighborhood workers,
Headstart and Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) supervisors, and
other community action and anti-poverty workers; and summer
internship and curriculum development programs.  The internship
program for 1967 was established and operated by the Fund's
Department of Community Organization under Howard Fuller to train
college students at Catawba College, Livingstone College, and
Shaw University for community work.  Shaw University, North
Carolina College, St. Augustine's, Livingstone College, and
Catawba College operated a joint internship program in 1968.  CAT
files also include information about selective service policies
and draft deferments for trainees.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-American college students--North Carolina.
   Catawba College--Students.
   College students--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community development personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
   Draft--United States.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Fuller, Howard.
   Internship programs--North Carolina.
   Livingstone College--Students.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Central University--History.
   North Carolina College at Durham--Students.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Shaw University--Students.
   Saint Augustine's College (Raleigh, N.C.)--Students.
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students.
   Volunteers in Service to America.

COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACTS:

CHARLOTTE AREA FUND ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 4,000 items) relating to the Charlotte Area
Fund (CAF), a North Carolina Fund community action program in the
Charlotte, N.C., area.  Included are reports on CAF operations
and many files relating to the CAF's manpower program, which
caused conflict between the Charlotte Bureau of Employment,
Training, and Placement (CBEPT) and the Opportunities
Industrialization Center (OIC).  Other documented programs
include neighborhood centers, Domestics United, legal services,
planning for a model cities proposal to the U.S. Dept. of Housing
and Urban Development, planning for a unified approach to school
desegregation, and scholarships for arts enrichment programs. 
Also included are press releases, information about press
coverage of CAF programs, and an almost complete set television
station WBT's editorials, 1966-1968. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   Charlotte (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Charlotte Area Fund.
   Charlotte Bureau of Employment, Training, and Placement. 
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community centers--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Domestics United.
   Domestics--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Job creation--North Carolina.
   Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina
   Opportunities Industrialization Center (Charlotte, N.C.).
   School integration--North Carolina.
   United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
   Urban renewal--North Carolina.
   Vocational education--North Carolina.
   WBTV (Telvision station : Charlotte, N.C.).

CHOANOKE AREA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 3,000 items) of the Choanoke Area Development
Association (CADA), a North Carolina Fund community action
program in Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, and Northampton counties,
N.C., in the basin of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers.  Included
are files documenting CADA's early emphasis on job training. 
CADA was originally established in 1961 as an area industrial
development organization.  Also included are files on Head Start,
Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC), multi-purpose centers, and other
programs.  There are also files of the People's Program on
Poverty (PPOP), an anti-poverty organization of people, primarily
poor and African American, from Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, and
Northampton counties.  The July 1966 People's Conference on
Poverty, sponsored by PPOP, was attended by 500-1,000 people. 
PPOP received a grant from the North Carolina Fund to support its
operation and pursued a program of promoting adult basic
education, recreation, sanitation, and low-cost housing. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   Adult education--North Carolina.
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Social conditions.
   Bertie County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Choanoke Area Development Association.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community centers--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community organization--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Head Start programs--North Carolina.
   Hertford County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Housing--North Carolina. 
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Northampton County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   People's Conference on Poverty (Woodland, N.C. : 30 July
       1966).
   People's Program on Poverty.
   Recreation--North Carolina.
   Rural sanitation--North Carolina.
   Sanitation--North Carolina.

COASTAL PROGRESS, INC., ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 4,000 items) of Coastal Progress, Inc. (CPI), a
North Carolina Fund community action program in Craven, Jones,
and Pamlico counties, N.C.  Included are records of Craven
Operation Progress (COP), organized in 1964 and, in 1966,
combined with Jones County Economic Development Corporation and
Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation to form Coastal
Progress, Inc.  These files are especially good for information
about administrative policies and procedures and public relations
efforts.  Programs documented include Neighborhood Youth Corps,
adult basic education recruitment, small business development
center, day care centers, home management aides, rural
environmental sanitation, a federal credit union, and a
strawberry marketing co-op.  

Online Catalog Terms:
   Adult education--North Carolina.
   Coastal Progress, Inc.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Craven County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Craven Operation Progress.
   Credit unions--North Carolina.
   Day care centers--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Jones County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Jones County Economic Development Corporation.
   Marketing cooperatives--North Carolina.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Pamlico County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation.
   Producer cooperatives--North Carolina.
   Rural sanitation--North Carolina.
   Small business--North Carolina--Finance.
   Strawberries--Marketing--North Carolina.

EXPERIMENT FOR SELF-RELIANCE ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 4,000 items) relating to the Experiment for
Self-Reliance (ESR), a North Carolina Fund community action
program in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, N.C.  Included are a
strong public information component, with articles and clippings
as well as newsletters of ESR and of the Neighborhood Youth
Corps.  ESR programs documented best include the Winston-Salem
Police Community Services Unit, for which there are proposals,
reports, a review, and clippings; a Wider Job Opportunities
program; and a legal services program.  There are also files on
an after-school tutorial program, a Boys Club program, and a
community organization summer program.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Boys Clubs of America.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community policing--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Experiment for Self-Reliance.
   Forsyth County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Tutors and tutoring--North Carolina.
   Wider Job Opportunities.
   Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Winston-Salem Police Community Services Unit.

MACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 3,000 items) relating to the Macon Program for
Progress (MPP), a North Carolina Fund community action program in
Macon County.  Included are files on a manpower program, a health
services program, a mental health program, and an agricultural
development program.  There are also files on neighborhood
workers, Head Start, self-help housing, a credit union, day care
and child development, small business development, the Macon
County Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Inc., a family
planning clinic, adult education, and a senior citizens program.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Adult education--North Carolina.
   Aged--Services for--North Carolina.
   Agricultural development projects--North Carolina.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North CArolina.
   Community health services--North Carolina.
   Community mental health services--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Credit unions--North Carolina.
   Day care centers--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Family planning--North Carolina.
   Head Start programs--North Carolina.
   Housing--North Carolina.
   Macon County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Macon County Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Inc.
   Macon Program for Progress.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Small business--Finance--North Carolina.

NASH-EDGECOMBE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 3,000 items) relating to the Nash-Edgecombe
Economic Development (NEED), a North Carolina Fund community
action agency in Nash and Edgecombe counties, N.C.  Included are
files that document the agency's emphasis, under Director R.
Timothy Brinn, on industry and jobs rather than on community
organization and participation of the poor.  The program's
priorities changed in 1967 when Edgar Odum took over as director.

Documented NEED programs include the community action program
proposal, the manpower program, the small business development
center, and Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Industrial promotion--North Carolina.
   Job creation--North Carolina.
   Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Small business--Finance--North Carolina.

OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 6,000 items) relating to Operation Breakthrough
(OBT), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Durham,
N.C.  Included are a report of a management survey in June 1966,
proposals and files on a mental retardation training conference,
a day camp, Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, a New Careers
program, a legal assistance program, Community House, the
Education Improvement Project, an arts project, and a child case
conference program to coordinate the work of social agencies with
children.  Attacks by Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick
Galiafianakis on North Carolina Fund activities, especially on
the work of Howard Fuller in summer 1967, are documented. 
Reports and legal papers relate to a rent strike in Durham.  Also
included are files on the United Organizations for Community
Improvement (UOCI), an organization of neighborhood councils,
especially relating to the controversies about housing for low-
income people in Durham, and a proposal for a credit union.  Many
of the tenants involved in the rent strike and neighborhood
activists who presented grievances to the Durham City Council
were African American.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Politics and government.
   Children--North Carolina--Services for.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community centers--North Carolina.
   Community development corporations--Organization and 
       administration--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Credit unions--North Carolina.
   Day camps--North Carolina.
   Durham (N.C.)--Race relations.
   Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Education Improvement Project.
   Educational innovations--North Carolina.
   Fuller, Howard.
   Galiafianakis, Nick.
   Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
   Head Start programs--North Carolina.
   Housing--North Carolina.
   Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
   Mental retardation facilities--North Carolina.
   Neighborhood government--North Carolina.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   New Careers.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Operation Breakthrough.
   Rent strikes--North Carolina.
   United Organizations for Community Improvement.

THE OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ABSTRACT:
   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.  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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Asheville (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Evaluation--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Day care centers--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Head Start programs--North Carolina.
   Hillcrest Community Organization.
   North Carolina Fund.
   The Opportunity Corporation.
   Rent strikes--North Carolina.
   Rural health clinics--North Carolina.

SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 2,000 items) relating to the Salisbury-Rowan
Community Service Council (SRCSC), a North Carolina Fund
community action program in Salisbury and Rowan County, N.C. 
Included are files on a legal services program and a home
managers program.  There are also files relating to a change in
directors.  Also included is a memo from Reginald Durante of the
North Carolina Fund to Heslip Lee, SRCSC director, expressing his
concern that SRCSC's multipurpose centers were providing only
recreation and day care programs, not real organization of the
poor, and that their boards of directors had too many middle
class people.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development corporations--Organization and
       administration--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
   North Carolin Fund.
   Poor--North Carolina.
   Rowan County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Salisbury (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council.

TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 2,000 items) relating to Tri-County Community
Action (TCCA), a North Carolina Fund community action program in
Robeson, Richmond, and Scotland counties, N.C.  Included are
administrative files and materials documenting struggles over
representation of the area's African-American and Native American
populations on the Board of Directors and staff as well as
information about programs for African-American and Native
American people in the tri-county area.  Prominent programs of
TCCA included Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, neighborhood
organizers, and work training and other manpower programs.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Social conditions.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development corporations--Organization and
       administration--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Head Start programs--North Carolina.
   Indians of North America--North Carolina--Social conditions.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Richmond County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Robeson County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Scotland County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Tri-County Community Action.

WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION, INC., ABSTRACT:
   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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Avery County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community organization--North Carolina.
   Community power--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Marketing cooperatives--North Carolina.
   Mitchell County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   WAMY Community Action, Inc.
   Watauga County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Yancey County (N.C.)--Social conditions.

MANPOWER PROGRAMS ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 42,000 items) of manpower programs supported by
the North Carolina Fund.  Included are Manpower Improvement
Through Community Effort (MITCE) headquaters and field staff
files, documenting efforts to assist families in meeting their
employment and other family needs by using resources available in
Nash, Edgecombe, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Craven, and
Guilford counties, N.C.  Proposals and reports give an overview
of the program's operation.  There are also records of the
institutional training and on-the-job-training programs. 
Mobility program records include proposals, reports, and
correspondence concerning a program that recruited unemployed
rural people in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for
them in industrial areas, and assisted them in moving and
adapting to their new job and living environments.  Files on the
Manpower Development Corporation (now MDC, Inc.) contain much
material relating to operational studies on computer job
matching, program planning and budgeting, housing, basic
education, industrial training capacity, skill training, Work
Oriented Retraining Centers (WORC), New Careers, transportation,
and outreach techniques and supportive services in manpower
programs.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Adult education--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.  
   Craven County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Guilford County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Housing--North Carolina.
   Manpower Development Corporation.
   Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.
   Manpower policy--North Carolina. 
   MDC, Inc.
   Mobility Program.
   Nash County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   New Careers.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Occupational mobility--North Carolina.
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Richmond County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Robeson County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Rural unemployment--North Carolina.
   Scotland County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
   Transportation--Planning--North Carolina.
   Work Oriented Retraining Centers.

RESEARCH, PLANNING, AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ABSTRACT:
   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 communities; and a study of hunger in North Carolina.  Also
included are records of the Fund's library and history and
archives project.  These history and archives project records
contain information about Fund organization and staffing,
transcripts of debriefing interviews with Fund staff, and grant
officers' reports on the CAPs.  

Online Catalog Terms:
   Avery County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Bertie County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Charlotte (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development--Evaluation--North Carolina.
   Community development--Research--North Carolina.
   Community health services--North Carolina.
   Craven County (N.C.)--Social condtions.
   Durham County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditons.
   Forsyth County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Hertford County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Jones County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Macon County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Mitchell County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   North Carolina Fund.
   Northampton County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Pamlico County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Poverty--Research--North Carolina.
   Richmond County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Robeson County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Rowan County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Salisbury (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Scotland County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Watauga County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
   Yancey County (N.C)--Social conditions.

STUDY COMMITTEES SERIES ABSTRACT:
   Leadership Training Committee records (about 500 items)
document community leadership development laboratories, the Urban
Training Center, and Affiliated Training and Action Centers
(ATAC) for New Mission.  Voter Education Project (VEP) Committee
records (about 700 items) include items from the Southern
Regional Council's Voter Education Project; brochures on
government and voter registration; information on African-
Americans in political office and Congressional redistricting;
and proposals for citizen education and a Bertie County Voter
Education Project.  Education Study Committee records (about
1,500 items) include information on the  Comprehensive School
Improvement Program (CSIP), 1964; the Learning Institute of North
Carolina (LINC), 1964-1968; the Advancement School; a Regional
Education Laboratory proposal, 1966; and school drop-outs, 1962. 
Legal Services and Consumer Education Study Committee records
(about 1,000 items) include materials on legal problems of the
poor, a summer legal intern program, and producer and consumer
co-ops, the latter proposed by Floyd McKissick's N.C. Leadership
Conference on Economic Development.  Housing Committee records
(about 1,500 items) include materials on the Low-Income Housing
Development Corporation (LIHDC) and a computer-aided design
system to produce good, cheap housing.  Committee on Manpower and
Economic Development (COMED) records (about 5,000 items) include
a 1967 food price survey and 1966-1968 cost-benefit study of the
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) program.   

Online Catalog Terms:
   Advancement School.
   Afro-Americans--Political activity--North Carolina.
   Apportionment (Election law)--North Carolina.
   Bertie County Voter Education Project.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Community leadership--North Carolina.
   Consumer cooperatives--North Carolina.
   Consumer education--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Economic development projects--North Carolina.
   Food prices--North Carolina.
   Housing--North Carolina.
   Learning Institute of North Carolina.
   Legal asssistance to the poor--North Carolina.
   Low-Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina.
   Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.   
   Manpower policy--North Carolina.
   McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922- .
   North Carolina Fund.
   North Carolina Leadership Conference on Economic Development.
   North Carolina Voter Education Project.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1951- .
   Occupational training--North Carolina.
   Regional education laboratories--North Carolina.
   School dropouts--North Carolina.
   Urban Training Center.
   Voters--Education--North Carolina.
   Voter registration--North Carolina.

PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT SERIES ABSTRACT:
   Records (about 9,000 items) of the Public Information
Department include files of Billy Barnes and other staff members
about Fund press and public relations; assistance to community
action programs through public information efforts; and Fund
publications, films, slide shows, radio shows, and other efforts.

Much of the 1967 correspondence deals with press coverage of
attacks on the Fund by Representatives Jim Gardner and Nick
Galiafanakis.   There are also records of a special project that
assembled packets of article reprints on poverty and race and
mailed them to community leaders throughout the state.  Also
included are audiotapes, films, radio show transcripts, film
scripts, and of some slide shows.  Films include No Hand-Outs for
Mrs. Hedgpeth (28-minutes, color, April 1968) on the life of a
domestic worker in Durham, N.C.; a film explaining the Fund's
program; and a film about the summer anti-poverty work of the 100
North Carolina Volunteers in 1964. In 1967, the Public
Information Department produced a weekly radio show, "New Voices
in Carolina," and distributed it to 35 North Carolina stations. 
For each show, John Morgan interviewed people participating in
anti-poverty work as clients, staff, or volunteers.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Barnes, Billy E.
   Community Action Program (U.S.).
   Community development personnel--North Carolina.
   Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
   Community development--North Carolina.
   Domestics--North Carolina.
   Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
   Galiafanakis, Nick.
   Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
   "New Voices in Carolina." 
   No Hand-Outs for Mrs. Hedgpeth.
   North Carolina Fund.
   North Carolina Volunteers.
   North Carolina--Race relations.
   Poverty--North Carolina.
   Race relations--North Carolina.
   Voluntarism--North Carolina.

                          INTRODUCTION

Historical Note

   The North Carolina Fund was incorporated in July 1963 as an
independent, non-profit, charitable corporation to seek and
dispense funds to attack the cycle of poverty in North Carolina. 
At the instigation of John Ehle, Governor Terry Sanford had met
in New York with representatives of the Ford Foundation, which
was funding model anti-poverty programs.  Early in 1963, Ford
Foundation leaders toured communities in North Carolina and met
with leaders of grassroots organizations.  After six months of
negotiations, the North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation
to fund its first statewide anti-poverty project, one which would
be aimed at rural as well as urban communities.  The Ford
Foundation provided initial funding of $7 million for a
demonstration program, with the condition that the program would
be dissolved after five years.  

   In its five years, the North Carolina Fund received and spent
more than $16 million in what director George Hyndman Esser
(1921- ) described as a "quest for new ways to enable the poor to
become productive citizens, to encourage self-reliance, and to
foster institutional, political, economic, and social change
designed to strengthen the functioning of democratic society." 
Funding from the Ford Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, the U.S.
Department of Labor, the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the
Office of Economic Opportunity enabled the Fund to support a
broad program of manpower development, community action,
education, research and planning, and other efforts to fight
poverty.

   The early emphasis of the North Carolina Fund program was on
education.  Two million dollars of the original Ford Foundation
grant went to the state Department of Public Instruction to
improve elementary schools.  The Fund's focus then shifted to
community action and manpower development programs.  The Fund
supported eleven community action agencies across the state--in
the mountains, in the Piedmont, and in coastal counties.  Of
these, ten are still in operation.  Other organizations created
under the Fund's aegis included the Foundation for Community
Development, the North Carolina Low Income Housing Development
Corp., and the Manpower Development Corporation (now known as
MDC, Inc.).

   An overview of the funds received, the distribution of funds
by percentage, and a list of the major programs supported
follows:

SOURCES OF FUNDS
   Ford Foundation                         $7,000,000
   Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation        1,625,000
     (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
   Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation           875,000
     (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
   U.S. government                          7,042,753
     (contracts and grants from the 
      Office of Economic Opportunity;
      U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban
      Development; U.S. Dept. of Health,
      Education, and Welfare; U.S. Dept.
      of Labor)

FUNDS EXPENDED
   Manpower Development                        43.7%
   Education                                   21.0%
   Grants to Communities for Administration    15.1%
     of Projects
   Research and Planning                        7.3%
   Housing                                      5.3%
   Motivation and Community Development         4.7%
   Human Relations in Law Enforcement           1.5%
   Health and Welfare                           0.9%
   Legal Services                               0.4%
   Day Care                                     0.1%
     Total                                    100.0%   

MAJOR PROGRAMS 

North Carolina Volunteers.  Summers 1964 and 1965.  Recruited 327
college students, who were trained and placed in service jobs
working with anti-poverty agencies throughout the state.  Funded
by $49,835 from the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare,
$274,316 from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and $85,444
from the North Carolina Fund.  

Community Action Technicians (CAT).  1964-1967.  Recruited and
trained 105 people from all economic levels to fill crucial
manpower gaps in community action programs.  Graduates of the
program served as neighborhood workers, supervisors of Headstart
and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs, and in other positions in
community action agencies and anti-poverty institutions.  Funded
by $379,049 from the Office of Economic Opportunity and $65,502
from the North Carolina Fund.  

VISTA Training.  1965-1966.  Classroom and field training and
instruction to 220 members of the federal Volunteers In Service
To America (VISTA) program.  Funded by $261,161 contract with
Office of Economic Opportunity.

Community Action Interns.  1967.  Trained 30 college students in
the basics of community organization and placed them in five
North Carolina communities where local groups had requested
summer assistance.  A follow-up phase offered undergraduate
courses in community organization to students at Catawba College,
Livingstone College, and Shaw University.  Funded by the Office
of Economic Opportunity.

Foundation for Community Development (FCD).  Founded 1967.  Non-
profit corporation working with the poor in eleven geographic
areas in North Carolina in leadership development and training,
community organization, and economic development.  Its assistance
to United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in
Durham resulted in the establishment of United Durham, Inc., a
group of poor people that established businesses owned and
operated by the poor.  Initially funded by a grant from the North
Carolina Fund of $263,838; subsequent grants from the North
Carolina Fund of $8,093, $241,625, and $210,000.  Other support
came from the Office of Economic Opportunity--a special impact
grant of $900,000 for economic development paired with a $60,000
grant from the Economic Development Agency (EDA).  Smaller
amounts of support came from a variety of other sources.

Community Action Programs.  Eleven programs in eleven North
Carolina communities over a five-year period with grants of
$30,000 to $40,000 annually for administrative support, plus a
total of 82 special grants varying from $3,000 to $150,000 for
innovative experimental programs not fundable by federal sources.

Among other projects, special grants financed the Winston-Salem
Police Department's specially-trained community services squad
for low-income neighborhoods; a mountain community action
program's plan for making small incentive grants to neighborhood
councils; and a three-year development program for enabling low-
income farmers to grow, process, and market truck crops.

Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE).  1965-
1967.  Established field offices in three eastern North Carolina
areas and sent out field workers to find the unemployed and
underemployed, analyze total family problems, and assist families
in meeting their employment and other family needs by using local
resources.  Contacted 10,000 families.  Funded through a $1.8
million contract with the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Mobility.  Established 1965.  Recruited unemployed rural people
in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for them in
industrial areas of the state, and assisted them in moving and
adapting to new job and living environments.  Relocated 1,136
families, 1965-1968.  Funded by a $628,248 contract with U.S.
Dept. of Labor.  Later operated by North Carolina Manpower
Development Corporation.

Manpower Development Corporation.  Established 1967.  Planned and
operated statewide manpower programs.  Lobbied for establishment
of a state manpower council.

Survey of Low-Income Families.  1965-1968.  Gathered data on
12,000 families living in 11 areas served by community action
programs.  Measured attitude, values, wants and needs of family
members, as well as income, education, housing, health.

Analysis of the Community Action Process.  1965-1968.  Examined
the relationship between communities and community action
agencies, analyzing general patterns in which communities make
decisions, formulate goals, and resolve conflicts.

Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC).  1964-1969.  A
private, non-profit corporation providing leadership, technical
assistance, and information to improve public education in North
Carolina.  The North Carolina Fund joined Duke University, the
Consolidated University of North Carolina, the State Board of
Education, and the State Board of Higher Education in financial
support of LINC.  North Carolina Fund share of support totaled
$362,473.

Comprehensive School Improvement Project (CSIP).  1964-1965. 
Joint effort of North Carolina Fund and State Board of Education.

Experimental programs in 228 schools reached more than 25,000
children from kindergarten through third grade.  Total cost was
$2.9 million, 55% from state government and 45% from North
Carolina Fund.

Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC).  Established
1967.  Private, non-profit corporation with a small staff of
experts who assisted North Carolina communities in developing
privately-sponsored, low-income housing.  LIHDC also explored
solutions to the problems of building decent, but economical new
housing to enable home ownership by low-income families.  Began
operation with grants of $133,530 from the North Carolina Fund
and $497,535 from the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Collection Overview

   Records of the North Carolina Fund, primarily the files of the
central office staff, are organized by program.  Also included
are files of the field offices of the Manpower Improvement
Through Community Effort (MITCE) Program.  

   North Carolina Fund records include those of the Board of
Directors and Executive Committee; the Executive Director; the
Special Projects, Training, Community Affairs (also known as
Community Development, Community Support, and Community
Organization), Research, Planning and Program Development, and
Public Information departments; programs funded by the North
Carolina Fund; and various study committees staffed and supported
by the Fund.

   Among the programs operated by the North Carolina Fund
documented in these records are the North Carolina Volunteers
program; training of community action technicians to work in
North Carolina and with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA);
a summer internship and curriculum development program; and
research on poverty in North Carolina, community problems in
areas served by community action programs, the community action
process, and manpower and economic development. 

   Also documented are the eleven community action agencies
funded by the North Carolina Fund and the projects they operated.

There are also files relating to two grassroots organizations
which received financial support from the North Carolina Fund: 
United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham
and the People's Program on Poverty (PPOP) in the Choanoke area
(Northampton, Bertie, Hertford, and Halifax counties).  Other
programs documented include the Comprehensive School Improvement
Project (CSIP), Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC),
Youth Educational Services (YES), community service consultants,
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE), Mobility,
Manpower Development Corporation (MDC), Foundation for Community
Development (FCD), and the Low-Income Housing Development
Corporation (LIHDC).  

   The collection is organized into series that were established
by the North Carolina Fund staff.  Each series contains the
records of a department or function of the North Carolina Fund. 
Subseries were established during processing.  Many of the
original file folder titles were retained, but some files were
combined, divided, or renamed for clarification purposes during
processing.  The order of the series and of the files within the
series has been changed somewhat in order to put the most general
files first and move from the general to the specific.  Thus, the
first series, Administration, contains the records likely to give
the broadest overview of the organization's operation.  Most
series are organized so that policies, reports, and other
documents that show the purpose and scope of the program are
placed first, followed by files on specific programs or
participants.  For Series 4, Community Action Programs, the
original order was retained--programs are arranged by geographic
location across North Carolina from west to east.

   The collection is arranged as follows:

Series 1.  Administration
   Subseries 1.1.  Governance
       Subseries 1.1.1.  Policies and Official Documents
       Subseries 1.1.2.  Board of Directors 
   Subseries 1.2.  Executive Director
       Subseries 1.2.1.  Correspondence
       Subseries 1.2.2.  Gardner File
       Subseries 1.2.3.  Planning and Start-up
       Subseries 1.2.4.  Quayle Poll
       Subseries 1.2.5.  Speeches
       Subseries 1.2.6.  Other Materials
   Subseries 1.3.  Staff 
       Subseries 1.3.1.  Correspondence
       Subseries 1.3.2.  Reports
       Subseries 1.3.3.  Meetings and Conferences
   Subseries 1.4.  Personnel
   Subseries 1.5.  Grants and Proposals
   Subseries 1.6.  Ford Foundation
   Subseries 1.7.  Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
   Subseries 1.8.  Foundation for Community Development (FCD)
   Subseries 1.9.  Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
                   (LIHDC)
   Subseries 1.10. Other Organizations
   Subseries 1.11. Subject Files
   Subseries 1.12. Clippings

Series 2.  Volunteer Programs    
   Subseries 2.1.   North Carolina Volunteers  
       Subseries 2.1.1.  Correspondence
       Subseries 2.1.2.  Summer 1964
       Subseries 2.1.3.  Summer 1965
       Subseries 2.1.4.  Winter Programs
   Subseries 2.2.  Volunteer Study
   Subseries 2.3.  Youth Educational Services (YES)
   Subseries 2.4.  Dept. of Special Projects

Series 3.  Training Programs       
   Subseries 3.1.  Training Dept.          
   Subseries 3.2.  Community Services Consultants (CSC)
   Subseries 3.3.  Multi-Purpose Training Center
   Subseries 3.4.  Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
   Subseries 3.5.  Community Action Technician (CAT) Training
   Subseries 3.6.  Summer Intern and Curriculum Development    

Series 4.  Community Action Programs
   Subseries 4.1.  Community Affairs Dept.
   Subseries 4.2.  WAMY Community Action, Inc.
   Subseries 4.3.  Macon Program for Progress (MPP)
   Subseries 4.4.  The Opportunity Corp. (TOC)
   Subseries 4.5.  Charlotte Area Fund, Inc.  (CAF)
   Subseries 4.6.  Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council 
                   (SRCSC)
   Subseries 4.7.  Experiment in Self-Reliance (ESR) 
   Subseries 4.8.  Operation Breakthrough (OBT) 
   Subseries 4.9.  Tri-County Community Action, Inc. (TCCA) 
   Subseries 4.10. Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development, Inc. 
                   (NEED)
   Subseries 4.11. Choanoke Area Development Association, Inc.
                   (CADA)
   Subseries 4.12. Coastal Progress, Inc./Craven Operation
                   Progress (COP) 

Series 5.  Manpower Programs
   Subseries 5.1.  Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort
                   (MITCE)
   Subseries 5.2.  Mobility
   Subseries 5.3.  Manpower Development Corporation (MDC)

Series 6.  Research, Planning and Program Development Department
   Subseries 6.1.  Correspondence 
   Subseries 6.2.  Operations
   Subseries 6.3.  "The Dimensions of Poverty in North Carolina"
   Subseries 6.4.  Study of Record-Keeping Systems
   Subseries 6.5.  Profiles of Community Problems 
   Subseries 6.6.  Survey of Low-Income Families
   Subseries 6.7.  "An Analysis of the Community Action Process"
   Subseries 6.8.  Hunger Study Project
   Subseries 6.9.  N.C. Fund Library
   Subseries 6.10. Histories and Archives Project 

Series 7.  Study Committees
   Subseries 7.1.  Leadership Training Committee
   Subseries 7.2.  North Carolina Voter Education Project
   Subseries 7.3.  Education Study Committee
   Subseries 7.4.  Legal Services and Consumer Education
                   Committee
   Subseries 7.5.  Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
   Subseries 7.6.  Housing Study Committee
   Subseries 7.7.  Committee on Manpower and Economic Development
                   (COMED)
   Subseries 7.8.  Health and Welfare Study Committee

Series 8.  Division of Public Information
   Subseries 8.1.  Correspondence
   Subseries 8.2.  Programs
   Subseries 8.3.  Audiovisual Material

Series 9.  Financial Records
   Subseries 9.1.  Audit Reports
   Subseries 9.2.  Correspondence and Other Material

                       SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Series 1.  Administration
   1963-1968.  About 22,000 items.

   Records of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee,
Executive Director, and staff members concerning policies and
programs; meetings; personnel administration; grant
administration; interactions with the Ford Foundation, the Office
of Economic Opportunity, and other organizations; and other
matters.

   Note that original file folder titles and original folder
order have, for the most part, been retained.

Subseries 1.1.  Governance
   1963-1968.  About 400 items.
   Arrangement:  by type of document.

Subseries 1.1.1.  Policies and Official Documents
   1963-1968.  About 20 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Major policy statements and governing documents of the North
Carolina Fund.

Folder 1       History of the North Carolina Fund  
       2       Proposal to Ford Foundation, 12 August 1963
       3       Articles of Incorporation
       4       By-laws
       5       Functions, Objectives, Priorities
       6       Organization
       7       Administrative Manual
       8       Programs and Policies
       9       Community Action Agencies
       10      Guidelines for Proposals to North Carolina Fund
       11      Selected Facts on North Carolina Relating to the
               Mission of the North Carolina Fund, 30 September
               1963
       12      Members of Board of Directors, Executive
               Committee, Staff
               
Subseries 1.1.2.  Board of Directors and Executive Committee
   1963-1968.  About 400 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Minutes and supporting materials for meetings of the Board of
Directors and the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Fund.

Supporting materials include correspondence, policy statements,
budgets, plans, grant requests and staff recommendations,
departmental reports, project progress reports, reports from
community action programs, and clippings.

   A sound recording of a North Carolina Fund Board Meeting is
located in Subseries 8.3:  T-4710/1-2.  North Carolina Fund Board
Meeting, 7-8 May 1967. 

               1963 
Folder 13          July-September Board of Directors Meeting
       14          July-September Executive Committee
                   Correspondence
       15          August Executive Committee Meeting
       16          October Board of Directors Meeting
       17          October Executive Committee Correspondence
       18          November Board of Directors Meeting
       19          November Executive Committee Correspondence
       20          December Board of Directors Meeting
       21          December Executive Committee Meeting
       22          December Executive Committee Correspondence
       23          Miscellaneous
               1964
       24          January Executive Committee Meeting
       25          February Executive Committee Correspondence
       26          February Board of Directors Meeting
       27          March Executive Committee Correspondence
       28          April Executive Committee Correspondence
       29          April Board of Directors Meeting
       30          May Executive Committee Correspondence
       31          June Executive Committee Correspondence
       32          July Executive Committee Meeting
       33          July Executive Committee Correspondence
       34          August Board of Directors Meeting
       35          August Executive Committee Correspondence
       36          September Board of Directors Meeting
       37          September Executive Committee Correspondence
       38          October Executive Committee Meeting
       39          November-December Miscellaneous, November-
                   December 
       40          Miscellaneous
               1965
       41          January Miscellaneous
       42-43       February Board of Directors Meeting
       44          February Executive Committee Correspondence
       45          February Executive Committee Meeting
       46          March Senior Staff Meeting
       47-48       8 April Executive Committee Meeting
       49          30 April Executive Committee Meeting
       50          30 April Executive Committee Correspondence
       51-52       May Board of Directors Meeting
       53          May Executive Committee Correspondence
       54          June Miscellaneous
       55-56       July Executive Committee Meeting
       57          August Board of Directors Meeting
       58          August Executive Committee Meeting
       59-60       September Executive Committee Meeting
       61          September Board of Directors Meeting
       62          September Executive Committee Correspondence
       63          October Executive Committee Correspondence
       64          November Board of Directors Meeting
       65-66       November Executive Committee Meeting
       67          November Executive Committee Correspondence
       68-71       December Board of Directors Meeting
       72          Miscellaneous
               1966
       73          January Miscellaneous
       74          February Executive Committee Meeting
       75-77       February Board of Directors Meeting
       78          March Executive Committee Meeting
       79          April Executive Committee Meeting
       80          April Board of Directors Meeting
       81          May Miscellaneous
       82          June Miscellaneous
       83          July Executive Committee Meeting
       84-85       July Miscellaneous
       86-87       August Board of Directors Meeting
       88          September Board of Directors Meeting
       89-90       September Miscellaneous
       91          October Miscellaneous
       92          November Miscellaneous
       93          Meeting of North Carolina Fund Staff and Ford
                   Foundation Review Team
               1967
       94          January Executive Committee Meeting
       95          January Correspondence:  Miscellaneous
       96          February Miscellaneous
       97          March Board of Directors Meeting
       98          April Executive Committee Meeting
       99          May Board of Directors Meeting
       100         May Board of Directors Correspondence
       101         May Miscellaneous
       102         June Board of Directors Meeting
       103-104     July Executive Committee Meeting
       105-106     August Board of Directors Meeting
       107         September Board of Directors Meeting
       108         October Board of Directors Meeting
       109         November Board of Directors Meeting
       110         December Miscellaneous
       111         Miscellaneous
               1968
       112         January Executive Committee Meeting
       113         February Executive Committee Meeting
       114         March Executive Committee Meeting
       115         April Miscellaneous
       116         May Board of Directors Meeting
       117-118     May Executive Committee Meeting
       119-120     June Correspondence and Grant Requests
       121         July Executive Committee Meeting
       122         July Board of Directors and Executive
                   Committee Correspondence
       123         July Miscellaneous
       124         August Board of Directors Correspondence
       125         October Executive Committee Correspondence
       126         November Memos, Grant Requests, and Budget
               Undated
       127         Reports to Board of Directors
       128         Resolutions
       129         Financial Information
       130         Requests for Grants

Subseries 1.2.  Executive Director
   1963-1971.  About 7,200 items. 
   
Subseries 1.2.1.  Correspondence
   1963-1971.  About 6,400 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Letters and memoranda to and from George Hyndman Esser (1921-
), Executive Director of the North Carolina Fund.  Beginning in
October 1963, in-state correspondence is filed separately from
out-of-state correspondence.  For 1963 and 1964, there is a
separate category of Governor's Office correspondence.  The
subjects and correspondents in Esser's letters and memos
encompass the whole range of the Fund's programs and activities
and are closely related to materials found in other series. 
Although many duplicates have been removed during processing,
some duplicates may remain within this series and some items, no
doubt, may be found in other series as well.  This is
particularly true of correspondence about community action
agencies, manpower programs, and study committees.    

   In-state correspondence consists of internal memos to and from
North Carolina Fund staff members as well as correspondence with
members of the Fund's Board of Directors, state agency heads and
staff members, and staff and board members of the eleven
community action agencies supported by the Fund.  

   In addition to correspondence with Governor Terry Sanford,
Governor's Office correspondence includes correspondence with his
Special Assistants John Ehle, Joel Fleishman, and George
Stephens.  The 1963 correspondence is primarily concerned with
start-up of the North Carolina Fund, publicity for the start-up,
relations with the Ford Foundation, and the interest of local
people in North Carolina Fund plans.  The 1964 correspondence is
mostly letters passed on from the Governor's office to the North
Carolina Fund concerning people looking for jobs or communities
looking for funding.

   Out-of-state correspondence is comprised primarily of
correspondence with federal and Ford Foundation officials.  Among
these were Sidney Woolner and Harold Bailin of the Office of
Economic Opportunity; Richard Groner of the Office of Manpower
Policy, Evaluation and Research; and Paul Ylsivaker of the Ford
Foundation.  Out-of-state correspondence also includes
correspondence with researchers interested in poverty and
community action, staff of community action programs in other
states, and organizations in which Esser participated, such as
the Council of the Southern Mountains, National Association for
Community Development, and the Southern Regional Council.  

   Correspondence, 1969-1971, concerns the dissolution of the
North Carolina Fund and reports on its projects and spin-offs. 
Esser's correspondence, 1969-1971, as Ford Foundation's Program
Adviser for the South, is filed in Subseries 1.6.
 
Folder 131     July 1963
       132     August 1963
       133     September 1963
               1963 In-State 
       134-136     October
       137-138     November
       139-142     December
               1963 Governor's Office
       143         July-September
       144         October-November
       145         December
               1963 Out-Of-State
       146         July-September 
       147         October-November
       148         December 
               1964 In-State
       149-151     January
       152-154     February
       155-156     March
       157-158     April
       159-160     May
       161-162     June 
       163-164     July
       165-166     August
       167-168     September
       169-170     October
       171-172     November
       173-174     December
               1964 Governor's Office
       175         January-February 
       176         March-April 
       177         May-June
       178         July-August
       179         September-October
       180         November-December
               1964 Out-Of-State
       181         January 
       182         February 
       183         March 
       184         April 
       185         May 
       186         June
       187         July
       188         August
       189         September
       190         October 
       191         November 
       192         December 
               1965 In-State
       193-194     January
       195-196     February
       197-198     March
       199-200     April
       201-202     May 
       203-204     June
       205-206     July
       207-208     August
       209-210     September
       211-212     October 
       213-214     November 
       215-216     December 
               1965 Out-Of-State
       217         January 
       218         February 
       219         March
       220         April
       221         May 
       222         June 
       223         July 
       224         August 
       225         September
       226         October 
       227         November 
       228         December 
               1966 In-State
       229-230     January
       231         February
       232-233     March
       234         April
       235-237     May 
       238         June 
       239         July 
       240         August 
       241-242     September
       243-244     October
       245         November
       246         December
               1966 Out-Of-State
       247         January
       248         February
       249         March
       250         April
       251         May 
       252         June
       253         July
       254         August
       255         September
       256         October 
       257         November 
       258         December 
               1967 In-State
       259-260     January 
       261-262     February
       263-264     March
       265-266     April
       267-268     May 
       269-270     June
       271-272     July
       273-274     August
       275-276     September
       277         October 
       278-279     November 
       280-281     December 
               1967 Out-Of-State
       282         January 
       283         February 
       284         March
       285         April
       286         May 
       287         June
       288         July
       289         August
       290         September
       291         October 
       292         November 
       293         December 
               1968 In-State
       294         January
       295         February
       296         March
       297         April
       298         May 
       299         June
       300         July
       301         August
       302         September
       303         October 
       304         November 
       305         December 
       306     1968 Out-Of-State
       307     1969 
       308     1970-1971 
       309-312 Undated

Subseries 1.2.2.  Gardner File
   1965-1969.  About 500 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Correspondence and other material kept by George Esser in a
confidential file separate from his other correspondence.  The
name "Gardner file" apparently stems from the fact that much of
the material relates to attacks on the North Carolina Fund by
Congressman Jim Gardner in the summer 1967 and the North Carolina
Fund's response to those attacks.  Not all of the material in
these files has to do with Gardner, but most relates to charges
of inappropriate political activity by Fund staff.

   Earlier files contain material about controversies that arose
in two community action agencies in eastern North Carolina--Nash-
Edgecombe Economic Development (NEED) and Craven Operation
Progress (COP).  Esser's responses to charges against Fund staff
were sent to Congressman David Henderson, OEO Director Sargent
Shriver, and Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, as well as to
state and local leaders.  Also included are a memo, 2 August
1966, from staff member Bill Flowers to Durham attorney Moses
Burt of McKissick & Burt, asking for a legal opinion on the
political activity of employees of programs funded by loans or
grants from the federal government, and Burt's response, 4 August
1966.

   Clippings, statements, memos, letters, press releases, and
other materials document the charges of Congressman Gardner that
members of the staffs of the North Carolina Fund and Operation
Breakthrough (OBT), Durham's community action agency, had incited
people to violence in July 1967.  Gardner's charges followed an
incident in which Fund and OBT staff were present at a Durham
City Council meeting where poor blacks spoke against the city's
housing policies.  Rallies and a march on city hall followed the
Council's inaction.  Controversy centered around Howard Fuller, a
community organizer on the OBT staff.  Letters of support for
Fuller, 25 July 1967, came from union leaders, businessmen,
attorneys, ministers, and others, among them Asa Spaulding, Watts
Hill, Jr., City Councilmen John S. Stewart and C. E. Boulware, A.
J. H. Clement III, and H. M. Michaux.  A letter, with supporting
documents, from North Carolina Attorney General Thomas Wade
Bruton, 1 August 1967, informed Esser that the attorney general
was investigating charges that the North Carolina Fund had
exceeded the authority of its charter.  Esser's response and
exhibits in support are dated 15 August 1967.  

   Also included in the Gardner file is correspondence and
supporting documentation relating to a U.S. Labor Department
review of Manpower Improvement through Community Effort (MITCE)
in the fall of 1966.     

Folder 313     1965
               1966
       314         February-June
       315         July-August 
       316         September-December
               1967
       317         January-June
       318-321     July
       322-330     August 
       331         September 
       332         October-December
       333     1968
       334     1969
       335     Undated
       336     Summer 1967 Chronology
       337-338 Notebook

Subseries 1.2.3.  Planning and Start-Up
   1963-1964.  About 50 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Correspondence, draft proposals, diagrams, and other items
relating to the planning and start-up of the North Carolina Fund.

The planning file includes several memos from George Esser to
John Ehle concerning organization, staffing, office space, goals,
and schedules for starting the planned foundation.  Bulletins,
September 1963-February 1964, are memos from Esser to Board of
Directors members transmitting minutes, rosters, financial
statements, copies of speeches, and other items of interest to
Board members in the start-up period.  

Folder 339     Planning
       340     Bulletin #1.  September 1963
       341     Bulletins #2-4.  October-November 1963
       342     Bulletins #5-6.  January-February 1964

Subseries 1.2.4.  Quayle Poll
   1968.  About 50 items
   Arrangement:  by type of material.  

   Reports, press releases, correspondence, and notes from How
North Carolina Whites and Blacks View:  Each Other, Government
and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment, an
opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company for the North
Carolina Fund in 1968.

Folder 343     1968 Opinion Poll Summary
       344     1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. I
       345     1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. II-Vol. VI
       346     1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. VII-Vol. IX
       347     1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. X-Vol. XIII
       348     Press Releases
       349     Correspondence
       350     Questionnaire
       351     "Notes and Questionnaires on Attitudes Toward
               Negro-White Relations"

Subseries 1.2.5.  Speeches
   1962-1968.  About 150 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Typescripts of speeches and statements given by George Esser
before various organizations, including testimony before
Congressional committees and governmental advisory commissions,
as well as presentations at conferences and talks to local civic
clubs.  Most of the speeches are about poverty, methods for the
fight against poverty, and the role of foundations, local and
state government, and citizens in fighting poverty.  Most of the
speeches in the compilation, "When the Heart Is Afire, Some
Sparks Will Fly Out of the Mouth," were given in 1966 and 1967. 

Folder 352-355     "When the Heart Is Afire, Some Sparks Will Fly
                   Out of the Mouth."  Speeches of George Esser,
                   Jr., 1962-1968.
       356         1963
       357         1964
       358-359     1965
       360         1966
       361-362     1967
       363-365     1968
       366         Miscellaneous and undated
       367         Speech material

Subseries 1.2.6.  Other Materials
   1964-1970.  About 50 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Miscellaneous materials kept in George Esser's files include
speeches by others, writings by Esser, materials relating to the
phaseout and dissolution of the North Carolina Fund, and other
items.

Folder 368     Houston, Larry. Speech on Manpower, 1965
       369     Johnson, Lyndon Baines. Visit to Rocky Mount,
               N.C., May 1964
       370     Moore, Dan K., Governor
       371     Moore, Dan K., Mrs.
       372     Sanford, Terry. Articles and Speeches
       373     Wheeler, J. H. Speeches
       374     Wheeler, Raymond, "The Problem of Hunger and
               Poverty in North Carolina"
       375     Profile of the South
       376     Community Action File
       377     Objectives
       378     Objectives Committees
       379     Program Development Notebook
       380     Summaries of Small Grants Notebook
       381     Travel Schedules
       382     New Orleans Trip, 23-27 April 1968
       383-385 Perspectives:  Drafts
       386     Perspectives
       387     Esser, George. "Involving the Citizen in Decision
               Making"
       388     Esser, George. "The Role of a State-Wide
               Foundation in the War on Poverty"
       389     Esser, George. Notes.
       390     Corporation X
       391     Phaseout
       392     Dissolution of the North Carolina Fund, 1970
       393     Transcript of Esser Interview, 2 January 1970
       

Subseries 1.3.  Staff
   1963-1968.  About 2,500 items.

Subseries 1.3.1.  Correspondence
   1963-1968.  About 1,500 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Correspondence, primarily routine letters and memoranda, of
senior staff, including deputy directors Tom Hartmann and Nathan
Garrett, administrative assistants Mary Hatley and Lucy Watkins,
and director of administration James Lee Burney.
           
Folder 394     1963 September-December
               1964
       395         January-February 
       396         March-May 
       397         June-September
       398         October-December 
               1965
       399         January-October 
       400         November-December 
               1966
       401         January 
       402         February 
       403-404     March 
       405         April 
       406-407     May 
       408-410     June 
       411         July 
       412         August 
       413         September 
       414         October 
       415         November 
       416         December
               1967
       417         January 
       418         February
       419         April 
       420         March 
       421         May 
       422         June
       423         July
       424         August
       425         September
       426         October 
       427         November
       428-429     December
               1968
       430         January-February
       431         March-April
       432         May-December 
       433     1969 and undated

Subseries 1.3.2.  Reports
   1964-1968.  About 30 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Reports, 1965-1966, on visits to community action programs
outside North Carolina by North Carolina Fund staff and project
directors; departmental progress reports; North Carolina Fund
progress reports; speeches; and other reports by North Carolina
Fund staff.

Folder 434     Community Action Programs outside North Carolina,
               Reports on Staff Visits
       435     Community Development in Puerto Rico, [1965?]
       436     Family Planning and Rural Poverty by Frederick S.
               Jaffe
       437     Rural Family Planning Programs, edited by
               Frederick S. Jaffe
       438     Missouri Association Migrant Opportunity Services
               (MAMOS) Consultant Report by W. L. Flowers, 24-29
               September 1967
       439     Departmental Progress Reports
       440     North Carolina Fund, Mid-Year Review,. 3-4 March
               1964
               North Carolina Fund, Progress Report
       441         June 1964
       442         26 July 1966
       443         22-23 March 1967
       444         30 September 1968
       445     Oakland, Ca., Visit, 3-4 January 1966
       446     Task Forces, October 1965
       447     UOCI Grievance Report, February 1968
       448     What Have We Learned from Community Action?
               Brookings Institution, 16 October 1968
       449     Staff Speeches
       
Subseries 1.3.3.  Meetings and Conferences
   1963-1968.  About 1,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by meeting.

   Records of North Carolina Fund staff meetings, conferences
attended by North Carolina Fund staff, and a brainstorming
project conducted in the summer of 1965 to generate program
ideas.  Included are minutes, agendas, notes, correspondence, and
other items relating to regular staff meetings, senior staff
meetings, staff retreats, staff orientations, meetings of
department heads and administrative staff, staff committee
meetings, and project directors' meetings.  Of particular note
are reports and papers from a meeting of project directors and
North Carolina Fund staff at Blair House, 10-11 August 1965.  

   In the records of conferences attended are programs and papers
from meetings conducted by the Ford Foundation; a conference of
state and federal officials with Fund staff in January 1964;
regional conferences on the Economic Opportunity Act; meetings of
other organizations, such as the National Association of
Community Development and the National Association of Social
Work; and meetings on topics of interest to Fund staff, such as
rural poverty and low-income housing.  

   Records of the brainstorming project include material
collected and written to prepare for seminars on scholarships,
public information, and urban and rural housing.  There are also
a list of participants, correspondence, reports, background
papers, and papers presented at seminars on involvement of the
poor, urban housing, rural housing, and public information.

               Staff meetings 
Folder 450         1964
                   1965
       451             January-July 
       452-454         August 
       455             September-October
       456             November 
       457             December
                   1966
       458             January 
       459-460         February 
       461             March-May
       462             June-October
       463             November-December
                   1967
       464             January-18 February
       465-466         28 February-2 March (Southern Pines
                       Retreat)
       467             20-31 March 
       468             April-May
       469             June
       470             July-December
       471         1968
       472         Undated
               Policy Planning Committee Meetings
       473         January-April 1966
       474         May-June 1966
       475         July 1966-January 1967
               Conferences
       476         1963
                   1964
       477             Ford Foundation's Great Cities Community
                       Development Projects; Project
                       Directors'Conferences, 6-7 January
       478             Conference of State and Federal Officials
                       with North Carolina Fund, 14-15 January 
       479             Conference of State and Federal Officials
                       with North Carolina Fund, 14-15 January 
       480             Ford Foundation Project Directors'
                       Meeting, 27 March
       481             Regional Conferences, September-October
       482             Chapel Hill Conference, 22 October
       483             North Carolina Adult Education
                       Association, Raleigh, 18 November
       484         1965
                   1966
       485             February-July
       486             NACD. Conference on Rural Poverty, 9-11
                       October
       487             November-December
                   1967
       488             January-March 
       489             April-July 
       490             August-September
       491             October-December 1967
                   1968    
       492-493         Cooperation for Action Rural Region
                       Seminar, Burr Oak Lodge, 1-3 February
       494             February-March 
       495             NCSW Division Committee National Urban
                       League, New York, 22-23 March 
       496             April-May 
       497             Police-Community Relations Seminar, May 
       498             Conference on Rural Development, 23-24
                       September
       499             National Association for Community
                       Development, Washington, D.C., 18-19
                       October
       500             North Carolina Agricultural Extension
                       Service Annual Meeting, 31 March-2 April
       501             Rural Regional Conference, undated      
                   Brainstorming Project
       502-503         Papers and Reports
       504             Blanchard Report
       505             Budget and Planning
       506             Memos
       507             1964
       508             Letters, January-June 1965
       509             Letters, July-October 1965
       510             1966-1968 and undated
       511-512         Scholarship Seminar Project
       513             Public Information Seminar Project
       514             Urban and Rural Housing Seminar
                       Preparations
       515             Preparations for the Seminars
       516-518         Scholarship Seminar
       519             Rural Housing Seminar
       520-521         Involvement of the Poor Seminar
       522-523         Urban Housing Seminar
       524-525         Legal Services Seminar
       526             Blair House Fund Retreat
       
Subseries 1.4.  Personnel
   1963-1968.  About 2,400 items.
   Arrangement:  by type of document.

   Personnel policies and procedures, job descriptions, forms,
staff directories, organizational charts, correspondence, and
other records of the personnel department of the North Carolina
Fund.  Included are data collected for a position classification
survey, information about salaries and fringe benefits,
correspondence with job applicants and others, and correspondence
of William Koch about recruiting staff for community action
agencies, as well as routine personnel department correspondence.

Additional correspondence of Koch about staff for community
action agencies may be found in Subseries 4.1. 
   
Folder 527         Personnel Policy, 3 January 1964
       528         Personnel Policy, Working Paper I, 7 April
                   1965
       529         Personnel Policies
       530         Administrative Manual (First Edition)
       531         Administrative Manual (Second Edition)
       532         Administrative Manual Drafts
       533         Mobility Administrative Manual
       534         OEO. Community Action Memo No. 23-A. Personnel
                   Policies and Procedures.
       535         North Carolina Fund Staff Orientation and New
                   Employee        
                   Information
       536         Staff Directories
       537         Biographical Information on Staff
       538         Office Plans
       539-540     Organization
       541         Procedures and Operation
       542         Position Classificaiton
       543         Lists of Job Descriptions
       544         Position Descriptions, 31 August 1965
       545         Job Descriptions
       546-549     Job Descriptions by Department
       550         Interviews from Which Draft Specs Prepared
       551         Job Descriptions from City of Detroit
       552         Job Descriptions in Community Development
       553-557     Comparative Data:  Salaries and Titles
       558         Secretarial Survey
       559         Comparative Classification Data from Projects
       560         Comparative Data Received
       561-562     Salaries
       563         Benefits Packet
       564         Fringe Benefits
       565         Associated Insurers, Inc.
       566         Home Security Life Insurance Co.
       567         Pilot Life Insurance Co.
       568         Security Life and Trust Co.
       569         TIAA-CREF
       570         Tax-Sheltered Annuities
       571         Health Insurance
       572         Workmen's Compensation and Other Insurance
       573         Ferriz, Helen
       574         Certified Professional Secretary
       575         IOG, Suggested Personnel Resolution for
                   Mecklenburg County, October 1964
       576         Miscellaneous Personnel Information
       577         Work Samples
       578         Forms
       579-580     Consultants
       581         Potential Employees
       582         Applicant Information Cards
       583         Job Opportunities
       584         Directors of Placement Services
       585         Contact Persons in North Carolina Fund 
                   Related Projects
               Selective Service
       586         Total Living Registrants By Year of Birth As
                   of 31 January 1965 for North Carolina Counties
       587         Consolidated Reports
       588         Correspondence
       589         North Carolina Fund Policy on Staff
                   Deferments      
               Salter
       590         March-August 1966
       591         September 1966
       592         October-November 1966
       593         January 1967
       594     Recruitment for CAPS
               Koch, William H., Correspondence
       595         A-B
       596         C-E
       597         F-L
       598         M-N
       599         O-S
       600         T-Z
               Correspondence
       601         1964
                   1965
       602             January-July
       603             August-October
       604             November 
       605             December
                   1966
       606             January 
       607             February 
       608             March-April 
       609             May 
       610             June 
       611             July-December 
       612         1967-1968 and undated   

Subseries 1.5.  Grants and Proposals
   1964-1969.  About 2,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by grant recipient.

   Files on programs funded by the North Carolina Fund and a few
proposals for programs that were not funded.  Most files contain
the project proposal and a report on the staff's review of the
proposal.  Considerably more information is included for some
projects, including the Comprehensive School Improvement Project,
the North Carolina Voter Education Project, and the Low-Income
Housing Development Corporation.  There is additional information
about some of these programs in other series.  For example, see
Subseries 7.3 for more information about the Comprehensive School
Improvement Project (CSIP) and the Learning Institute of North
Carolina (LINC); Subseries 1.9 and Subseries 7.6 for more
information about the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC); and  Subseries 1.8 and Subseries 4.8 on the United
Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham.

Folder  613        Carolina's Council of Housing and
                   Redevelopment
        614        Chapel Hill Housing Authority Proposal
        615        Charlotte-Mecklenburg Seminar on Local
                   Government
        616        Durham City Schools
        617        Durham Homes, Inc.            
                   Foundation for Community Development, Inc.
        618            Community Development Program
        619            Community Development Program #2
        620            Community Development Program #3
        621        Household Assistance Inc.Job Training Course
        622        Johnson C. Smith University
                   Law School Programs
        623            North Carolina College Course on Legal
                       Problems of the Poor
        624-627        University of North Carolina:  Cases and
                       Materials for Course on Legal Problems of
                       the Poor
        628        Leadership Training Center
                   Learning Institute of North Carolina 
        629            Administrative
        630            Learning Institute of North Carolina
        631            Technical Assistance Program
        632        Legal Aid Society of Forsyth County:  Interns
        633        Livingstone College and Catawba College: 
                   Summer Training
                   Low Income Housing Development Corporation
        634-635        Low Income Housing Corporation
        636            OEO and Administrative Support
        637            Low Cost Housing Design Development
        638        Memorial Recreation Forest Inc., Warren
                   County, N.C.
        639        National Training Laboratories:  Julian Griggs
        640-646    North Carolina Board of Education: 
                   Comprehensive School Improvement Project
        647-648    North Carolina Board of Public Health Sub-
                   Professional Training
                   North Carolina Board of Public Welfare 
        649            Community Services Consultants
        650            Community Services Consultants Evaluation
        651-652        Day Care Consultant
        653-655        Gerio-Psychiatric Consultive Services
        656-657        Consumer Education and Administration
        658-660    North Carolina Council of Women's
                   Organizations
        661        North Carolina Department of Community
                   Colleges
        662        North Carolina Department of Mental Health: 
                   Anti-Poverty Programs
                   North Carolina Good Neighbors Council
        663            Brochure Grant
        664            Public Service Employment Training Project
        665        North Carolina Joint Council on Health and
                   Citizenship Proposal
        666        North Carolina Laboratory on Community
                   Leadership Training 
                   North Carolina Manpower Development
                   Corporation
        667            North Carolina Manpower Development
                       Corporation
        668            Continued Support
        669            Greensboro Chamber of Commerce 
        670        North Carolina Rural Fund for Development: 
                   Co-op Assistance Grant
                   State Planning Task Force
        671            Grants (North Carolina Department of
                       Administration)
        672            Community Services Aid Proposal
        673            Manpower Proposal
        674            Subprofessional Careers
        675            Technical Assistance
        676            ESEA
        677            Organization
        678            History
        679            State Social Planning
        680-681        North Carolina State Planning
        682            Correspondence, 1965
        683            Correspondence, 1966-1967
        684            Directories
        685            Approved Programs
        686            Community Action
        687            Technical Assistance Program
        688            Miscellaneous Statistics
        689            Committees
        690            Publications
        691        North Carolina State University Rural Action
                   Research Program
                   North Carolina Voter Education Project 
        692            Proposals
        693            Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
        694            Correspondence
        695-696        Annual Report, 15 May 1967-31 December
                       1967
        697-698        Annual Report, 1968
        699            Progress Report, January-June 1968
        700            Progress Report, June-December 1968
        701            Progress Report, January-June 1969
        702            Delegates Attending NCVEP Leadership
                       Training Conference
        703            First Congressional District Voter's
                       Handbook
        704            Fourth Congressional District Voter's
                       Handbook
        705            1969 Municipal Election Time Table and
                       Voter Registration Statistics
        706            Municipal Election Laws, Procedure, and
                       Forms of Government
        707            VEP News
        708            Booklets
        709            Drafts of NCVEP Booklets
        710            "New Forces of Urban Political Power"
        711            Leadership Training Project
        712            Research Guide for Organizers       
        713            Tax Exemption Application
        714            Financial Records, 1967
        715            Financial Records, 1968
        716            Financial Records, 1969 and undated
        717        Piedmont University Center of North Carolina
        718        Project Outreach
        719-21     Shaw University Curriculum Development
        722        Shaw University, St. Augustine College, and
                   North Carolina College Summer Training
        723-725    Southern Appalachian Studies
        726-727    State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.
        728            Grant
        729            Proposals
        730-731        Proposals for Discussion Only
        732            Health Services Proposal by Macon Program
                       or Progress
        733            Application for Health Planning or Health
                       Services Grant, 1968
        734            History
        735            Articles of Incorporation
        736            Minutes of Committee Meetings
        737            Report, 1966
        738            Seminar, July 1967
        739-740        Data, Drafts and Notes
        741            Information on Legislation and Programs
        742            Correspondence
        743        United Organizations for Community Improvement
        744        UNC Center for Community Research and Services
        745-746    UNC Institute of Government Masters of Public
                   Administration Stipend      
        747-750    UNC Institute of Government, et. al. Institute
                   on Police and Community Relations
        751-752    UNC School of Social Work
        753-754    Miscellaneous Proposals
                 
Subseries 1.6.  Ford Foundation
   1963-1977.  About 500 items.
   Arrangement:  by type of material.

   Records documenting the relationship of the North Carolina
Fund to the Ford Foundation.  North Carolina's original proposal
to the Ford Foundation, 12 August 1963, is found here.  There is
also correspondence between North Carolina Fund and Ford
Foundation staffs about meetings, information, issues of
interest, finances, reviews of the North Carolina Fund by the
Ford Foundation, and a letter from the Fund's Executive Director,
George Hyndman Esser (1921- ), to Mitchell Sviridoff,  24
February 1968, summing up the experience of the North Carolina
Fund.  Correspondence of George Esser as the Ford Foundation's
Program Adviser for the South after the end of the North Carolina
Fund is also filed in this subseries.

Folder 760     Proposal to Ford Foundation
               Ford Foundation Correspondence
       761         August 1963-April 1964
       762         May 1964-November 1965
       763         December 1965-October 1966
       764         November 1966-May 1968
       765         June 1968-1969 and undated
       766     Ford Foundation Reviews
       767     Ford Foundation Visit, 21-23 September 1964
       768     Ford Foundation Review Team, 4 November 1966
       769     Ford Foundation Review Report, 1966
       770     Ford Visit, 2 February 1968
       771     Sviridoff, Mitchell
       772     Letter to Mitchell Sviridoff. Drafts, 22 February
               1968
       773     Esser to Sviridoff. Drafts, 24 February 1968
       774     Publication of Memo to Sviridoff
       775     Puerto Rico Conference, 13-16 December 1964
       776     Overseas Reports, May 1966
       777     Overseas Reports, June 1966-July 1966
       778     Ford Foundation Meetings
       779     Ylsivaker, Paul
       780-784 Cunningham, James V. "Resident Participation,"
               1967, pp. 1-245
       785     Foundation Investment In Solving The Problems Of
               North Carolina And The South
       786     Ford Foundation Grant Request, 1963
       787-791 Ford Foundation. Program Adviser. Correspondence,
               February 1969-September 1971
       792     Ford Foundation Program Adviser Activities
       793     Ford Foundation Grants, 1976
       794     Ford Foundation Pamphlets and Publicity

Subseries 1.7.  Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
   1964-1967.  About 100 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Copies of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; summaries and
analyses of the legislation; amendments, 1965-1967; regulations;
Community Action Program guidelines; and information about Head
Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps.  

Folder 795-796 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) of 1964
       797     Legal Services and Community Action Programs, EOA
               1964 (Title II-A)
       798     Small Business Development Centers, EOA 1964
               (Title IV)
       799     EOA, 1964, Planning
       800     Economic Opportunity Act Regulations, 1964
       801     EOA, 1964 Reports, Bills, and Acts
       802     James L. White, Coordinator, EOA, 1964
       803     Education under EOA in North Carolina (1964)
       804     Letters on Economic Opportunities (Anti-Poverty)
               Bill
       805     EOA, 1965
       806     OEO Amendments, 1966
       807     1966 OEO Bill
       808     EOA, 1967
       809     Economic Opportunity Amendments, 1967
       810     OEO Amendments (S. 2388), 1967
       811     OEO Green Amendment, 1967
       812     Amendments to EOA, 1967
       813     OEO Research and Demonstration
       814     New Jersey EOA
       815     OEO Special Impact
       816     Matching Fund Regulations, OEO
       817     North Carolina Fund Role in EO Program
       818     Guidelines for Reviewing Consumer Programs (OEO)
       819     OEO.  The First Step...On a Long Journey. 
               Congressional Presentation. April 1965
       820     Communities in Action
       821-823 OEO. Community Action Programs:  A Workbook for
               Planners
       824     OEO. Community Action Program Guide
       825     Job Corps
       826     Project Head Start
       827     Neighborhood Youth Corps (Title I-B, E.O.A.)
       828     Neighborhood Youth Corps. Dare County Application
       829     Woodard Home-Grown Food Project Proposal to OEO

Subseries 1.8.  Foundation for Community Development (FCD)
   1967-1972.  About 2,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Records relating to the Foundation for Community Development
(FCD), which was chartered on 10 October 1967 to support economic
development and community organization in North Carolina,
received an initial grant of $263,838 from the North Carolina
Fund, and began operation on 1 December 1967 with a staff of
thirteen, all from the North Carolina Fund.  Included are minutes
of the Board of Directors; proposals to the North Carolina Fund,
the Ford Foundation, and the Office of Economic Opportunity;
reports; correspondence; materials created by the Foundation;
clippings; and materials related to investigations of the
Foundation for Community Development in 1969.  

   Reports include monitoring reports, 1970-1971, sent by the
North Carolina Fund's Executive Director, George Esser, and his
assistant, Lucy Watkins, to the Ford Foundation; FCD's monthly
reports, 1970-1971, to the Ford Foundation; audit reports, 1968-
1970; an evaluation report, October 1969, compiled by a team of
five outsiders at the request of the North Carolina Fund; and
other reports.  Correspondence, 1967-1972, is chiefly letters of
Nathan Garrett, executive director, and includes reports to the
North Carolina Fund in letter form.  Other subjects of
correspondence are the United Organizations for Community
Improvement (UOCI), the People's Program on Poverty (PPOP),
funding, audits, monitoring, and controversies involving FCD
staff members.  

   Files on organizations funded by FCD, such as the Greensboro
Association of Poor People (GAPP), United Durham, Inc. (UDI), and
Malcolm X Liberation University contain lists of board members
and other information.  Notebooks created by FCD for community
organizers include one on community organization, one on
publicity, and one on neighborhood councils.  There are also
files on community development training and a leadership
development program.  

   Clippings, largely 1969-1970, are mostly from Raleigh and
Durham newspapers.  Many relate to controversies in 1969
involving FCD staff members Howard Fuller and James S. Lee.  A
clipping in 1970 reported that the Ford Foundation had awarded a
grant of $540,000 to FCD for economic development, leadership
training, legal and social research, and not for community
organization.

   Records relating to investigations of FCD in 1969 contain a
transcript of hearings, 10 July 1969, before the U.S. Senate's
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, as well as material
about the Ford Foundation's investigations of allegations of
involvement of FCD staff in incidents of student unrest at North
Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro.

Folder 830     Charter and By-Laws
       831     Corporate Data and Early History
       832     Board of Directors
               Minutes, Board of Directors Meetings
       833         20 October 1967
       834         7 December 1967
       835         15 March 1968
       836         24 May 1968
       837         26 July 1968
       838         4 October 1968
       839         13 December 1968
       840         21 March 1969
       841         9 May 1969
       842         20 June 1969
       843         19 September 1969
       844         6 February 1970
       845     Fact Sheets on FCD and North Carolina Fund
       846     Organization Chart
       847     Administrative Manual
       848     Resumes
       849     Grants from the North Carolina Fund
       850     Proposal to North Carolina Fund, October 1967
       851     Proposal to North Carolina Fund, October 1967
               (Drafts)
       852     Proposal to the Ford Foundation, February 1968
       853     Grant from Ford Foundation, 23 December 1969
               Proposals to the Ford Foundation
       854         6 January 1970
       855         11 February 1970
       856     Grant from Ford Foundation, 17 March 1970
               Proposal to the Ford Foundation
       857         February 1971
       858         26 March 1971
       859     Grant from the Ford Foundation, 8 June 1971
       860     Proposal to OEO (Section I)
       861     Proposal to OEO (Sections II-VI)
       862     Proposal to Economic Development Administration,
               Technical Assistance Grant (1968)
       863     Proposal to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
       864     Cummins Engine Foundation Grant to FCD, 16 April
               1970
       865     Chronology of Monitoring Relationships by the
               North Carolina Fund with FCD
       866     Monitoring Report #1:  21 January 1970
       867     Monitoring Report #2:  1 January 1970-10 February
               1970
       868     Monitoring Report #4:  1 April 1970-5 March 1971
       869     Monitoring Report #4:  1 April 1970-5 March 1971
               (Rough Draft and Notes)
       870     Monitoring Report #5:  5 March-5 October 1971
               Monthly Reports to the Ford Foundation
       871         February, March, and April 1970
       872         May-August 1970
       873         September-December 1970
       874         January-May 1977
       875         June-October 1971
       876     Audit Report, Year Ended 31 October 1968
       877     Audit Report, Year Ended 31 October 1969
       878     Audit Report, 1 November 1969-31 December 1969
       879     Report on Examination, Year Ended 31 October 1970
       880     Report to the North Carolina Fund Board of
               Directors
       881     North Carolina Fund Review, 8-11 September 1969
       882     Report to the North Carolina Fund, 9 October 1968-
               1 August 1969
       883     Evaluation Report of FCD
       884     Ford Foundation "Development Team" Visit:  27-28
               March 1972
       885     Partial Report of the Legal and Social Research
               Department
       886     "The Foundation for Community Development" by
               Steve Redburn and Bertie Howard, 24 July 1968
       887     "FCD:  A Unique Experiment in Community
               Development," March 1972
               Correspondence
       888         February-September 1967
       889         October-December 1967
       890         February-May 1968
       891         June-December 1968
       892         January-May 1969
       893         June-July 1969
       894         August-September 1969
       895         October-December 1969
       896         1970
       897         1971-1972 and undated
       898     Financial Material
       899     Grant Requests to FCD
       900     Reports on Funded Organizations
       901     Greensboro Association of Poor People
       902     Agreement between FCD and IFCO
       903     Malcolm X Liberation University
       904     United Durham, Inc.
       905     An Analysis of Community Development in Some
               Selected Communities in North Carolina
       906     "Evaluation of Maximum Feasible Participation of
               the Poor" by Nathan Garrett
       907     A Beginning Notebook on Community Organization
       908     Notebook on Publicity and How to Use It
       909     A Notebook on Neighborhood Councils
       910     Community Development Training
       911-913 Leadership Development Program
       914     Miscellaneous Material
       915-918 Clippings
               Investigations
       919         Transcript of Hearings of U.S. Senate
                   Subcommittee on Investigations, 10 July 1969
       920         Report of Incidents of Student Unrest, N.C. A
                   & T State University, 10 July 1969
       921         Material Sent to Ford Foundation, 23 July 1969
       922         Material Compiled by Ford Foundation, August
                   1969
       923         Greensboro
       924         North Carolina Fund
       925         Ford Foundation
       926         Statements, Clippings, Letters
       927         Notes and Other Material
       928     North Carolina Fund Executive Committee Notes, 11
               September 1969

Subseries 1.9.  Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC)
   1966-1972.  About 2,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by type of document.

   Records of the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC), which began operation in January 1967 as a delegate
agency of the North Carolina Fund, with the purpose of developing
better housing for less money.  Included are the corporation's
articles of incorporation and by-laws; Board of Directors'
minutes; proposals to the North Carolina Fund, the U.S.Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the North Carolina Board
of Science and Technology, the Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEO), and the Ford Foundation; documents relating to
consolidation of LIHDC with the Rural Housing Development
Corporation (RHDC); evaluation, progress, and other reports;
correspondence of Bob Smith and other staff members, chiefly
1968-1971; and financial records.  Correspondence documents the
organization of the LIHDC, the beginnings of a housing study by
Arthur Cogswell, the organization's funding, tax status, and
relationships with the National Housing Development Center and
other housing research organizations.

Folder 929     Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
       930     Administrative Manual
       931-932 Housing Study Committee History of LIHDC
       933     Executive Committee Meeting of Board of Directors,
               17 April 1967
       934     Board of Directors Meeting, 8 May 1971
       935     Grant from HUD, 15 June 1966
       936     Grant from OEO, 13 July 1966
       937     Proposal to North Carolina Fund
       938     Demonstration Project Proposal
       939     Proposal
       940     Proposal to HUD, 14 March 1968
       941     Proposal to North Carolina Board of Science and
               Technology
       942     Proposal to Office of Economic Opportunity
       943     Proposal to Ford Foundation, 11 November 1968
       944     Proposal to Ford Foundation, 14 February 1970
       945     Grant from OEO, 30 June 1971
       946     Proposal to HOME
       947     Contracts
       948     Coordinated Housing Program
       949     Consolidation of LIHDC and RHDC
       950-952 RHDC Proposal
       953     National Housing Fund
       954     National Housing Development Corporation
       955     Evaluation Report, July 1967
       956     Examination Reports, 31 Aug 1969
       957     National Urban Coalition. Final Report
       958     Final Report
               Progress Reports
       959         1 September 1967-1 January 1968
       960         January-March 1968
       961         1 May 1968
               Quarterly Reports
       962         1 April-30 June 1968
       963-964     1 July-30 September 1968
       965     Report to Board of Directors, 7 December 1968
               Quarterly Reports
       966         1 October-31 December 1968
       967         31 December 1968-31 March 1969
       968         1 April-30 June 1969
       969     Project Status Report, July 1969
       970     Quarterly Report, 30 September 1969
       971     Project Status Report, September 1969
       972     Project Status Report, May 1970
       973     Project Status Report, June 1970
       974     Planning Session
       975     Rural Program Target Area Selection
       976     Training Programs
       977     CAP Training Program Progress Reports, October
               1969-June 1970
       978-981 Land Bank Project
       982     Recommendations for Independent Housing Program,
               Section I
       983     Recommendations for Independent Housing Program,
               Section II
       984-986 Morton Hoffman Report on Durham
       987     "Home Ownership for the Poor"
       988     Cogswell Study
       989-991 Appendices to Cogswell Study
       992     Project Data for Low-Cost Housing Study
       993     IBIS
       994     Study of Market for Low-Cost Housing
       995     Miscellaneous
               Correspondence
       996         March 1966-February 1968
       997         March-June 1968
       998         July 1968-January 1969
       999         February 1969-June 1970
      1000         July 1970-February 1971
      1001         April 1971-1972
      1002         Undated
               Financial Records
      1003         July 1965-September 1966
      1004         October 1966-March 1967
      1005         April 1967-September 1967
      1006         October 1967-June 1968
      1007         July 1968-December 1968
      1008         1969
      1009-1010    Undated

Subseries 1.10.  Other Organizations
   1963-1971.  About 1,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by organization.

   Correspondence, proposals, reports, newsletters, and other
materials from organizations other than those funding the North
Carolina Fund or funded by the North Carolina Fund.  Included is
substantial material from the Council of the Southern Mountains,
the Mississippi Research and Development Center, the National
Association for Community Development, the North Carolina State
Board of Public Welfare, the North Carolina State Board of Higher
Education, the Regional Education Laboratory for the Carolinas
and Virginia, the Southern Regional Council, the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, and various urban action agencies, as well
as small amounts of material from other organizations such as the
Foundations Group, the International City Managers Association,
the Model Cities program, the North Carolina State Technical
Action Panel of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, the Southern
Education Reporting Service, and others.  

   The nature of the material for each organization varies with
the relationship of the Fund or Fund staff to the organization. 
The organizations for which there is the most material are those
in which Fund director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) played an
active role.  As a member of the Board of Directors of the
Council of the Southern Mountains, for example, Esser
corresponded with Executive Director (later General Chairman)
Perley F. Ayer and Associate Director (later Executive Director)
Loyal Jones and others and received minutes of board of directors
meetings, memoranda to the Board, and proposals and reports about
projects, especially the Council's Talent Recruitment, Technical
Assistance, and Training grant.  Newsletters, reports, and
correspondence with Executive Directors Wallace Edgerton and D.
Richard Wenner document Esser's tenure as a Board member of the
National Association for Community Development (NACD).  The
Southern Regional Council (SRC) material here seems to have come
primarily from Esser's participation in a Ford Foundation Review
of the Council in January 1968.  Included here are reports from
the Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, and Houston Councils on Human Relations;
annual reports of the Southern Regional Council for 1965, 1966,
and 1967; audit reports, budgets; other reports; and publications
of the SRC's Voter Education Project. 

   It is often not possible to determine exactly what the
relationship was between the Fund and the other organization.  In
the case of the Mississippi Research and Development Center, the
presence of a proposal to the Ford Foundation indicates that the
connection was through the Foundation.  Proposals, reports, and
newsletters from the Mississippi Research and Development Center
describe its program of human and economic resource development
for the Mississippi Delta.  

   Newsletters, reports and memos from the North Carolina State
Board of Higher Education include a study of university status
for East Carolina College and a report on desegregation of North
Carolina colleges and universities and the appropriate role for
traditionally black institutions.  Supporting material for its 25
September 1968 meeting, including discussion of medical
assistance payments to mental hospitals, public assistance
policies, and its legislative program for the 1969 General
Assembly, comprise the bulk of the North Carolina State Board of
Public Welfare material.
   
Folder  1011       Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
        1012       Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental
                   Relations
        1013       American Society for Public Administration  
        1014       Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
        1015       Appalachian People's Congress
        1016       Appalachian Research Institute
        1017       Bureau of Employment Security
        1018       C. S. Mott Foundation
        1019       Church and Industry Institute
        1020-1021  Citizen's Committee for Children of New York
        1022-1024  Citizen's Crusade Against Poverty
        1025-1027  Committee on Population and the Family
        1028       Community Development Group. School of Design.
                   North Carolina State University
        1029       Community Progress, Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
        1030       Connecticut Department of Community Affairs
        1031       Connecticut Regional Medical Program
        1032       Council on Foundations
                   Council of the Southern Mountains 
        1033           Brochure and Membership Information
        1034           Overview
        1035           By-Laws and Revisions
        1036           Board of Directors' Meetings
        1037-1038      Board of Directors' Memos, 1966-1968
        1039-1041      Correspondence, 1963-1969 and undated
        1042           Conferences 
        1043           Education Committee
        1044           Summary of "Seed Grant" Pilot Projects
                       (Ford Foundation Grant)
        1045           Proposal to Economic Opportunity Office
                       for Talent Recruitment, Technical
                       Assistance and Training Grant
        1046           Evaluation of a Talent Recruitment and
                       Technical Assistance Grant Prepared for
                       the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
        1047           Review of Development Plan
        1048           Comments on 22 February 1968 Newspaper
                       Editorial in The Mountain Eagle
        1049           News
        1050           Census Information on Counties in
                       Appalachian South
        1051           Publications
        1052           Journal of the Committee of Southern
                       Churchmen, Summer 1966
        1053           "Education and the New South" by Solon
                       Kimball
        1054           President's Appalachian Regional
                       Commission:   Recommendations
        1055           Miscellaneous
        1056       Federation of Southern Corps    
        1057       Field Foundation
        1058       Foundation Group
        1059       International City Managers Association
        1060       Local Government Study Commission
        1061       Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
        1062       Mecklenburg College (Carver College) Property
        1063-1065  Mississippi Research and Development Center
        1066       Model Cities Program
        1067       National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
                   National Association for Community Development
        1068           Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws and
                       Objectives
        1069           Board of Directors
        1070           Memoranda from the Director:  November
                       1966-March 1968
        1071-1072      Correspondence, 1965-1968
        1073           Membership
        1074           Newsletter
        1075           "Community Development"
        1076           Press Releases and Clippings
        1077           Position Papers
        1078           Nation Action Programs
        1079           Proposal and Report to Ford Foundation
        1080           Congressional Testimony and Legislative
                       Analysis
        1081           Regional Conferences, Spring 1967
        1082           Conference, April 1967
        1083           Employment Seminar, Fall 1967
        1084           Annual Meeting, April 1968 (Atlanta)
        1085           Miscellaneous
        1086       National Association of Counties
        1087       National Committee on Employment of Youth
        1088       National Education Association
        1089       National League of Cities
        1090       North Carolina A & T State Univ. Institute for
                   Research in Human Resources
        1091       North Carolina Agriculture Extension Service
        1092       North Carolina Governor's Commission on Status
                   of Women
        1093       North Carolina Community Action Association
        1094       North Carolina Congress of Parents and
                   Teachers and North Carolina Congress of
                   Colored Parents and Teachers
        1095       North Carolina Department of Community Affairs
        1096       North Carolina Department of Public
                   Instruction:  North Carolina Study in
                   Vocational Rehabilitation:  Interagency 
                   Advisory Committee
        1097       North Carolina Employment Security Commission
        1098       North Carolina Mental Health Association
        1099       Public Instruction, Department of 
        1100       North Carolina State Board of Higher Education
        1101       North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare: 
                   Agendas
        1102       North Carolina State Technical Action Panel
        1103       North Carolina Voter Education Council
        1104       Penland School of Crafts
        1105       Penn Community Services, Inc.
        1106       President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency
        1107       Project Outreach:  Miscellaneous
        1108-1109  Regional Education Laboratory for the
                   Carolinas and Virginia
        1110       Richardson Foundation   
        1111       Rural Development Corporation   
        1112-1113  Rutgers' Urban Studies Center
        1114       SACS:  Education Improvement Project Report to
                   Coordinating Committee
        1115       Sharecropper's Fund
        1116       Southern Conference Educational Fund
        1117       Southern Education Reporting Service
                   Southern Regional Council
        1118-1119      Review:  January 1968
        1120           Review
        1121           SRC
        1122           Voter Education Project
        1123           "The Better War II:  A Long Journey"
        1124           Miscellaneous
        1125       Southern Regional Education Board
        1126       Southern School News
        1127       Stern Family Fund
        1128       United Neighborhood Improvement Team
        1129       UNC.  Institute of Government
        1130-1131  Urban America, Inc.
        1132       Urban Studies Center:  Rutgers
        1133-1134  Urban Training Center for Christian Mission
        1135-1137  Urban Training Center for Christian Mission:
                   Narrative Reports and Appendices
        1138-1139  Urban Coalition
        1140       U.S. Chamber of Commerce:  "Forward America"
        1141       U.S. Department of Agriculture
        1142       U.S. Department of Health, Education and
                   Welfare
        1143-1144  U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency
        1145       U.S. Senate:  Special Committee on Aging
        1146       Young Presidents' Organization Inc.
        1147-1149  Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
           
Subseries 1.11.  Subject Files
   1963-1969.  About 1,000 items.
   Arrangement:  by subject.

   Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and publications
apparently collected and kept by North Carolina Fund staff.
Subjects include civil rights, education, housing, health,
employment and economics, and youth programs, among others. 
There is a relatively small amount of information for each
subject.

Folder  1150       Adult Education
        1151       Aging Poor Program
        1152       Appalachian Institute Committee Report
        1153       Civil Rights Act
        1154       Community Action Programs
        1155       Community Colleges
        1156       Cooperative Action
        1157       Courts
        1158       Durham, N.C.
        1159       County and City Boards of Education:  Receipt
                   of Financial Aid
        1160       Drop-Outs
        1161       Economic Development
        1162       Education Clippings
        1163       Education Committee
        1164       Elementary Education
        1165       Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
        1166       Employment
        1167       Federal Legislation
        1168       Full Employment Act, 1967
        1169       Guaranteed Income
        1170       Health
        1171       Higher Education Act
        1172       Housing Program
        1173       Intergovernmental Relations
        1174       Jewish Education and Data
        1175       Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development
                   Reports to the President
        1176       Kansas City Special Scholarship Committee
        1177       Manpower:  Statewide Academic and Vocational
                   Training Proposal for North Carolina's Attack
                   on Poverty  
        1178       Mental Retardation
        1179       Metropolitan Toronto Council
        1180       Mid-South Regional Education Laboratory
        1181       Neighborhood Organization
        1182       North Carolina Area Development
        1183       North Carolina Economy
        1184       North Carolina Income, 1966 
        1185       North Carolina Membership
        1186       North Carolina State Multi-County Projects
        1187       North Carolina Public School Bulletin   
        1188       North Carolina State Government
        1189       Ombudsman       
        1190       Poverty
        1191       Professional Education
        1192       Public Health
        1193       Publications (Outside)
        1194       Regional Medical Programs
        1195       Scholarship Programs
        1196       Scholastic Magazine
        1197       School Desegregation
        1198       Southern Regional Conference on Education
        1199       State Legislation
        1200       Study of the Negro
        1201       20th Century Fund Report on North Carolina
                   Education
        1202       University Proposals
        1203-1204  Youth Programs

Subseries 1.12.  Clippings
   1967-1972.  About 1,000 items.
   Arrangement:  chronological.

   Clippings, chiefly 1