Carnegie Corporation of New York, Series III: Grant Records, 1911-1994
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Bib ID:
- 16647888 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 1500 linear feet (3007 boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Other Finding Aids
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For the overall description of the Carnegie Corporation records, please see the parent finding aid at https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079753/
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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Please be advised that parts of the collection are housed offsite and we request five (5) days advance notice. For Series III.A. Grants, boxes 1701-2085.
The series is open for research with the following standard embargoes: Series III.A Grants, Series III.B. Reports on Grants are embargoed twenty-five (25) years from the date the grant closed.
Description
Scope and Contents
The Corporation awards grants to nonprofit organizations and institutions for projects that are broadly educational in nature and that show promise of having national or international impact. Certain appropriations are made for activities, such as Corporation-led initiatives that are administered by the foundation's officers. The trustees set the overall policies of the foundation and have final authority to approve all grants above $50,000 recommended by the program staff. Grants of $25,000 or less, called discretionary grants, are made upon the approval of the president and are reported to the board; larger discretionary grants, those between $25,000 and $50,000, are also reviewed by a Corporation-wide group, which makes recommendations to the president. (from Program Guidelines 2003-2004 (http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/areas.html))
The Grants series contains correspondence, records of phone and in-person meetings, memoranda, and reports that document CCNY's grant-making and grant-monitoring activities, as well as the work carried out by grantees. While most of the subseries reflect CCNY's dealings with external institutions and individuals that received or applied for funding, this series (especially subseries A and C) also includes files for: organizations with which CCNY collaborated rather than supported (e.g. Ford Foundation), individuals and staff who worked with or for CCNY on several projects, and subject or geographic areas that reflect ongoing programmatic focus by the Corporation. Subseries A and C also contain files for the Corporation's grants for its own Program Development and Evaluation. Grant numbers are prefaced with a B (for board appropriation) or a D (for discretionary grant).
This finding aid describes Series III: Grant Files of the Carnegie Corporation records. Please see the parent finding aid at https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079753/ for other Carnegie Corporation records.
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Subseries III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983
Most reports on grants are contained within the appropriate folders in the Grant files subseries (III.A). The reports which are listed below are those which Carnegie Corporation staff stored separately because they were too bulky to be included in the folders.
This series contains the reports on grants which were separated from the grant file in Series III.A because the report was deemed large enough to warrant its own separate folder. This separation is not typically done now. When searching the grant files please always search the reports on grants as well.
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Subseries III.C Institutions, Individuals, Subjects, 1934-1997
This subseries consists mostly of files for institutions and individuals relating to grant applications that were turned-down (stamped TDA) or to non-grant related business. This subseries also includes files for subject or geographic areas and program development and evaluation.
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Subseries III.D Travel Grants, 1929-1965
This subseries includes files on individuals, usually from a British Commonwealth country, who received grants from CCNY to study or travel in the United States, and Americans who received money to travel elsewhere. Boxes 4 and 5 contain the travel grant files. These comprise small binders that contain a short summary of each grant recipient's background and notes on the grant or grants that he or she received.
Arrangement
Grant files and reports arranged alphabetically by grant recipient.
- Subseries III.A. Grant files, 1911-1994
- Subseries III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983
- Subseries III.C Institutions, Individuals, Subjects, 1934-1997
- Subseries III.D Travel Grants, 1929-1965
- Subseries III.E: Indices
- Subseries III.F: Rejected Grants
Using the Collection
Other Finding Aids
For the overall description of the Carnegie Corporation records, please see the parent finding aid at https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079753/
Conditions Governing Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
Please be advised that parts of the collection are housed offsite and we request five (5) days advance notice. For Series III.A. Grants, boxes 1701-2085.
The series is open for research with the following standard embargoes: Series III.A Grants, Series III.B. Reports on Grants are embargoed twenty-five (25) years from the date the grant closed.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Revision Description
2022-07-12 Created to temporarily reduce the size of the main Carnegie Corporation finding aid. kws