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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1970

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Management and Program Trends in the Fifties and Sixties, The

Provides statistical information about Foundation management patterns and grant-making activities during the 1950's and 60's.

Dealing with Drug Abuse

A report prepared by the Drug Abuse Survey Project which was initiated by the Ford Foundation in 1970. It surveys the drug-abuse problem in the United States and efforts to control it, sets forth a new approach to the problem of drug abuse and recommends a variety of measures, including the establishment of the Drug Abuse Council. Also includes staff papers on drugs and their effects, drug education, treatment and rehabilitation, the economics of heroin, federal expenditures on drug-abuse control, altered states of consciousness, and narcotics addiction and control in Great Britain.

Foundation Goes to School, A

A report on the Ford Foundation's Comprehensive School Improvement Program of the 1960's.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1972

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Institutional Investor

Surveys the history and practice of shareholder responsibility, including the use of proxy voting, social accounting and other means to focus the attention of business enterprises on their social performance, and reports on thinking among institutional investors and others on the social aspects of investment policy.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1973

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1974

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Program-Related Investments

A report dealing with the Foundation's experiences in its first five years of work with program-related investments, in which capital funds are loaned or invested in enterprises that serve philanthropic goals, such as minority business development and low-income housing.

Rehabilitation Potential of Western Coal Lands

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation by a study committee of the National Academy of Sciences. This report explores environmental issues related to the surface mining of coal in the arid and semi-arid Western United States, and investigates the potential for rehabilitating lands that have been mined.

Oil Spills and the Marine Environment

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation which contains papers on the short- and long-term ecological effects of oil pollution and cleanup in marine environments, and on technical aspects of the prevention, control and cleanup of oil spills.

Finances of the Performing Arts, The

Reports on a market research study conducted in 1970-71 by Eric Marder Associates, Inc. of performing arts audiences and potential audiences in 12 cities.

Energy Prices 1960-73: A Report to the Energy Policy Project of the FF

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that provides historical data on price changes for energy from 1960 to 1973. Part one contains retail and wholesale price information for the year 1973, when energy prices rose dramatically. Part two covers 1960 to 1972, years of only moderate increase.

Perspective on Power

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the economic, legal and political dimensions of the electric power industry and offers a series of intermediate and long-term policy recommendations. Attempts to clear up misunderstandings between industry, economists, environmentalists and utility commissioners.

Energy Taxes and Subsidies

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of energy subsidies and taxes as instruments of government policy. Seeks to explore how subsidies and taxation affected the “energy crisis” of the early 70's and how they could be utilized to generate positive responses and outcomes to the crisis.

Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that surveys the technical facts and policy issues concerning the production of nuclear materials and their protection from theft with recommendations for substantial changes in safeguard procedures.

Potential Fuel Effectiveness in Industry

A technical report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, evaluating the potential for greater fuel conservation in U.S. industry. The report concludes that significant savings could be realized in many industries with technology existing at the time.

Financing the Energy Industry

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation which estimates the capital investment outlays of the petroleum and electric utility industries and determines how these outlays are to be financed. Seeks to ascertain the extent to which financing problems might threaten the ability of the energy industry to meet demands placed upon it.

Energy and U.S. Foreign Policy

A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the international problems, specifically related to the Persian Gulf, arising from the production and trade in energy. Focuses on what the U.S. can do about the problems and analyzes and proposes a range of policy alternatives.

Time to Choose, A

The final report of the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, which was established to study energy policy issues shortly before the 1970's oil crisis. The report is a summary by the project's staff with interpretations of the commissioned studies and recommendations on energy policy issues. Its principal conclusion is that the United States can balance its energy budget, control pollution and avoid reliance on insecure oil sources abroad by slowing its growth rate of energy consumption.

Energy Policy: Industry Perspectives

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the issues facing the oil, electric utilities, gas and coal industries separately, and provides conclusions and recommendations for each.

Feminism in the Mid-1970s

A detailed analysis of American feminism by the author of The New Feminist Movement (Russel Sage, 1974).

Measuring Investment Results by the Unit Method

Supplement to Managing Educational Endowments. A technical discussion of how to measure endowment performance.

Competition in the U.S. Energy Industry

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of the competition in the production of coal, oil, natural gas and uranium in the United States. The study examines both interfuel and intrafuel competition. The volume also includes supplementary studies by other authors on specific industries and markets, as well as on the political influence of the energy industries.

Energy Research and Development

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation consisting of two papers. In the first, international energy consultant Michael Grenon surveys energy research in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden and the U.K. In the second, J. Herbert Hollomon and colleagues examine energy research and development policy issues in the U.S. within the framework of the energy marketplace.

Energy Conservation Papers, The

Contains the following studies: Energy thrift in urban transportation: options for the future; energy, employment, and dollar impacts of alternative transportation options; energy, employment, and dollar impacts of certain consumer options; potential energy conservation from recycling metals in urban solid wastes; The potential for energy recovery from organic wastes; and energy needs for pollution control.

American Energy Consumer, The

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation in which the authors offer a broad view of energy lifestyles in America and show the correlations that exist between levels of energy usage and the socioeconomic characteristics of individual households.

Energy and Agriculture in the Third World

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that seeks to explore how energy, in forms including wood, animal dung and crop residues as well as commercial fuels, may best help to transform agriculture, raise enough food and provide other necessities for people of the third world.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1975

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1976

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Activities in Noncommercial Broadcasting 1951-1976.

A brief comprehensive history of Foundation support of noncommercial broadcasting from 1951 through 1976, with particular attention to educational and instructional broadcasting and the building of the contemporary public television system.

Nuclear Power Issues and Choices

A 1977 report of the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group that seeks to develop a framework for assessing issues relating to nuclear power, an issue of considerable political and social concern in the late 70's. Reviews and evaluates the debate between advocates for and against nuclear energy from economic, social, environmental and other perspectives.

Debate on a Time to Choose, A

Critique by William P. Tavoulareas, president, Mobil Corporation, and member of the advisory committee of the Energy Policy Project, of A Time to Choose, the final report of the project. With a reply by Carl Kaysen, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1977

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1978

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.

Balance the Basics

One in a series of papers presented at an internal Foundation seminar on research on learning in the mid-1970's. This paper argues for the importance of writing along with reading and mathematics in the basic educational curriculum, examines reasons why writing is neglected and sets forth approaches for improving the teaching of writing, particularly the process-conference method. The author won the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in English and Teaching of English for this publication.

New Approaches to Conflict Resolution

A discussion of efforts to strengthen the capacity of existing institutions in the field of conflict resolution, of new ways, such as mediation, of handling disputes outside formal legal systems, and of proposed systematic reforms that tend to avert or simplify conflicts. This report is based on a paper presented by program officer Sanford Jaffe to the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Ford Foundation at Work

A review of the decision-making process in the Ford Foundation since its expansion to a national institution in 1950. Includes 16 case studies of key programs.

Ford Foundation International Programs

A general review of the international programs that the Ford Foundation supported from 1950 to 1979. Describes programs pertaining to agriculture and population control as well as training, research, education, environmental and other programs in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and Africa.

Financial Support of Women's Programs in the 1970's

A survey of the work of foundations, the federal government and international organizations on behalf of women.

Energy: The Next Twenty Years

An analysis of the world's energy options, conducted by 19 scientists and scholars led by Hans Landsberg of Resources for the Future; sponsored by the Ford Foundation. This report gives particular emphasis to the role of market forces in energy policy.

Ford Foundation Annual Report 1979

Contains president's review, program reports, listing of grants, financial statements and lists of staff and trustees.