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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ford Foundation"”.
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The Ford Foundation and the Reinvention of American Liberalism, 1968-2000
This dissertation examines how the Ford Foundation reinvented American liberalism after 1968. As the largest philanthropic organization in the United States, Ford played a hitherto under-appreciated role in reshaping liberal policy toward poverty, crime, and racial inequality. This dissertation …
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The Henry Ford : sustaining Henry Ford's philanthropic legacy
… Edison Institute (presently known as The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan) survived internal and external challenges through the evolution of the Ford family’s leadership and the organization’s funding strategy. Following Henry Ford’s death, the museum complex relied upon the Ford Foundation and …
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Southwest Texas Junior College: Organizational transformation along the border.
… as one of nine pilot college participants in the Ford Foundation project. Documentation of the college's characteristics were conducted during the 1994 and 1995 preliminary visits by Stephen G. Katsinas at the request of the Ford Foundation to find suitable rural community colleges in historically …
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The engineers and the urban system, 1968-1974/
… of Technology (MIT) with funding from the Ford Foundation. Using computationally intensive methods, behavioral models and the latest techniques of the information sciences, research at the USL emphasized the role of rational, analytical, social scientific expertise in managing social …
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Ethnic Inclusion Strategies for the World Affairs Council: A Case Study
… Involvement in Foreign Policy," funded by the Ford Foundation, to increase the participation of ethnic groups, women, and youth in the Council. In this research study, the ethnic inclusion strategies used by the Council are presented and an ethnic inclusion model is developed. The model is …
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FROM SLAVE TO FREE LABOR IN THE BRAZILIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY: THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIME IN PERNAMBUCO, 1850-1922
… Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and by the Ford Foundation. The data were collected and translated during the two-year period the author was a Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal De Pernambuco (Departments of Economics and Sociology), Pernambuco, Brazil.</p>
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Emma Lou Diemer : solo and chamber works for piano through 1986
… the first group of young composers to be awarded Ford Foundation Grants, for which she was assigned to the secondary schools of Arlington, Virginia. During this time, the simpler works for the bands and choirs resulted in requests from publishers and commissions from many sources, for choral works …
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The Night Watchman: Hans Speier and the Making of the American National Security State
… and helped found the RAND Corporation, Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the program in international communication at MIT's Center for International Studies. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, witnessing ordinary Germans vote enthusiastically …
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The Politics of Community Development: A History of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
… explores the nearly fifty-year history of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), the nation's first federally funded community development corporation (CDC). The BSRC's creation stemmed from the bottom-up initiatives of African American women in the Central Brooklyn Coordinating …