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Series I contains records related to management, human resources, training, and operations at United Bronx Parents (UBP). These administrative files document activities from the United Bronx Parents central office under the organization's second executive director, Lorraine Montenegro, as well as La Casita and other major projects. There are groups of Board of Trustees meeting minutes and internal and external memos, but neither is a comprehensive set of records. The human resources files provide insight into employee policies and practices at UBP, where many employees were family and friends. A small number of records from 2007-2009 document a major funder's investigation into complaints about Lorraine Montenegro's management of the organization and her reaction to the process. Series I also contains official UBP publications with histories and descriptions of each program area.

The monthly bulletins of the Chamber of Commerce, which make up the third series of the collection, capture a distinctive picture of the Chamber's purpose and actions. This series contains a comprehensive set of bulletins from 1909 to 1963, as well as a few supplemental materials from the 1950s to 1970s. Each bulletin contains information on news and activities of the Chamber, meeting minutes, reports, and library additions. Their initial audience was the organization's members, though they were later printed by the thousands and distributed monthly to libraries, business organizations, public officials and students of economics both domestically and abroad. Eventually, the Chamber began binding bulletins in yearly editions, and members received a personalized copy. While each individual monthly bulletin contains a table of contents, the bound volumes are also indexed for ease of use.

Flyers, meeting minutes, news releases, newsletters and reports comprise this series of materials produced by students from Columbia's constituent schools and departments. The strike activities of committees and assemblies of students within the various units of the university are revealed in numerous publications and public statements. Beyond demanding changes in the structure of the university as a whole, these student bodies called for changes within their own schools and departments. Demands and efforts made to enlarge the role of students in the governance and curricular development of these units are prominent in these materials. Opposition to the war in Vietnam represents another topic of activism present in this series; students in the School of Library Service, for example, issued a series of research reports on the war in Southeast Asia.