Mobilization for Youth records, 1958-1970

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Herman Badillo


Box 1 Helen Hall


Box 1 John V. Lindsay


Box 1 Newbold Morris


Box 1 General Correspondence, 1963 -1970, 1963

Series II: Office Files



Box 2 Administrative Committee of the Board of Directors -9/65 -5/66


Box 2 Adult Employment and Small Business Demonstrations


Box 2 Adventure Corps


Box 2 The Annotated Bibliography, February 1964


Box 2 Arts Center Committee of Henry Street Settlement House


Box 2 Association of Community Service Centers


Box 2 Beck, Bertram M. -Biographical Information


Box 2 Beck, Bertram M. -Correspondence (Congratulatory letters on MFY appointment)


Box 2 Beck, Bertram M. -Ego Support: MFY appointment (four Folders)


Box 2 Applications for Demonstration or Training Grants



Box 3 Board of Directors -12, June 1962


Box 3 Board of Directors -10, April 1963


Box 3 Board of Directors -23 February -April, 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -4, May 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -11, June 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -1, July 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -22, July 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -13, October 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -10, November 1965


Box 3 Board of Directors -12, January 1966


Box 3 Board of Directors -9, February 1966


Box 3 Board of Directors -9, March 1966



Box 4 Board of Directors -4, May 1966


Box 4 Board of Directors -6, October 1966


Box 4 Board of Directors -3, November 1966


Box 4 Board of Directors -1, December 1966


Box 4 Board of Directors -21, December 1966


Box 4 Board of Directors -2, February 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -9, March 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -6, April 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -17, May 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -29, June 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -1, November 1967


Box 4 Board of Directors -1969 -1970



Box 5 Board of Directors -Board Committees


Box 5 Board of Directors -By-laws


Box 5 Board of Directors –Correspondence, 1965 -1966, 1965


Box 5 Board of Directors. –Correspondence, 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 5 Board of Directors –Correspondence, 1967 -1968, 1967


Box 5 Board of' Directors -Correspondence with Chairmen, 1965 -1966, 1965


Box 5 Board of Directors -Correspondence with Chairmen, 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 5 Board of' Directors -Correspondence: Meeting Schedule, 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 5 Board of Directors -t1ailing List


Box 5 Board of Directors -Membership List


Box 5 Board of Directors Membership List (Potential)


Box 5 Board of Directors -Membership with MFY and other affiliations


Box 5 Board of Directors -Nominating Committee


Box 5 Board of Directors Nominating Committee: Correspondence


Box 5 Board of Directors -Pending



Box 6 Board of Directors Reorganization of Membership


Box 6 Board of Directors -Residences of Membership


Box 6 Board of Directors -Resignations I Board of Directors -Resolution


Box 6 Board of Trustees -First Meeting, 24, October 1958


Box 6 Board of Trustees -Membership List


Box 6 Board of Trustees -Memoranda


Box 6 Brager, George re: Resignation


Box 6 Budget -Program and Staff Development Administration I Budget -Miscellaneous


Box 6 Budget -Proposals: 1964 -1966, 1964


Box 6 Budget -Proposals: 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 6 Budgeting


Box 6 By-laws


Box 6 Certificate of Incorporation -MFY


Box 6 Chart -Fund Requested, 1967


Box 6 Chart -Sviridoff Proposal


Box 6 Children's' Bureau


Box 6 Citizens' Committee for Children


Box 6 Clippings and Editorials Favorable to :.IFY, 11/64


Box 6 Cognitive Dysfunction


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Correspondence


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Minutes 1965 -1966, 1965


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Hnu Committeetes 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Orientation Materials


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Subcommittee on Internal Audit


Box 6 Committee on Administration: Subcommittee on Personnel Practices



Box 7 Committee on Community Development: General


Box 7 Committee on Community Development: Correspondence


Box 7 Committee on Community Development: Meetings


Box 7 Committee on Community Development: Orientation Materials


Box 7 Committee on Community Development: Special Committee on Housing


Box 7 Committee on Educational Opportunities: Correspondence


Box 7 Committee on Educational Opportunities: Meetings 1965 -1966, 1965


Box 7 Committee on Educational Opportunities: Meetings 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 7 Committee on Educational Opportunities: Minutes


Box 7 Committee on Educational Opportunities: Orientation Materials


Box 7 Committee on Employment Opportunities: General


Box 7 Committee on Employment Opportunities: Correspondence


Box 7 Committee on Employment Opportunities: Meetings 1965 -1966, 1965


Box 7 Committee on Employment Opportunities: Meetings 1966 -1967, 1966


Box 7 Committee on Employment Opportunities: Membership


Box 7 Committee on Employment; Opportunities: Orientation Materials



Box 8 Committee on Individual, Group and Family Services: General Materials


Box 8 Committee on Individual, Group and Family Services: Correspondence


Box 8 Committee on Individual, Group and Family Services: Meetings, 1966


Box 8 Committee on Individual, Group and Family Services: Orientation Materials


Box 8 Committee on Legal Services: Correspondence


Box 8 Committee on Legal Services: Meetings


Box 8 Committee on Legal Services: Memoranda


Box 8 Committee on Legal Services: Orientation Materials


Box 8 Committee on Neighborhood Service Centers, Lower East Side


Box 8 Committee on Study and Evaluation: Correspondence


Box 8 Committee on Study and Evaluation: Meetings


Box 8 Committee on Study and Evaluation: Report and evaluation


Box 8 Community Action Program (three Folders)



Box 9 Community Education Project


Box 9 Community Mental Health Center


Box 9 Community Service Center


Box 9 Computer Training


Box 9 Consumer Education and Action Program


Box 9 Contract between Human Resources Administration and Mobilization for Youth:


Box 9 Community Employment Technician Proposal


Box 9 Contract between Human Resources Administration and Mobilization for Youth:


Box 9 Developing New York City Manpower Services


Box 9 Contract between New York City Economic Opportunity Committee and Mobilization for Youth


Box 9 Crêche Nursery (Early Childhood Center)


Box 9 Cultural Arts Center


Box 9 Cultural Arts Program


Box 9 Cultural Arts and Education


Box 9 Cultural Education Project


Box 9 Curriculum Center -Proposal and Progress Report


Box 9 Demonstration for Upgrading Vocational Skills


Box 9 Demonstration Leading to a Lower East Side Economic Development Project


Box 9 Demonstration Project -Post-secondary Educational Opportunities


Box 9 Department of Health, Education and Welfare -General



Box 9A Department of Health, Education and Welfare -Grants


Box 9A Department of Labor -Consumer Prices


Box 9A Division of Educational Opportunities -General


Box 9A Division of Educational Opportunities -CUNY Proposal


Box 9A Division of Employment Opportunities -Martine Training Placing Situation


Box 9A Dolci, Danilo -Correspondence with Bertram Beck, 1965


Box 9A Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Educational Materials (two Folders)



Box 10 Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Fund Raising


Box 10 Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Minutes of r-1eetings


Box 10 Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Pending


Box 10 Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Recruitment of Personnel


Box 10 Dolci, Danilo -Committee: Tax Exemption


Box 10 "Down East" Records


Box 10 Economic Development (two Folders)


Box 10 Economic Development Administration


Box 10 Economic Development Program


Box 10 Economy -Lower East Side


Box 10 Educational -Vocational Resource Center


Box 10 Elementary Reading Clinic -Experimental Reading Program


Box 10 Emergency Family Loan Programs



Box 11 Executive Committee: Correspondence


Box 11 Executive Committee: Meeting 13, March 1963


Box 11 Executive Committee: Meetings 9/65 -5/67, 9/65


Box 11 Executive Committee: Memoranda 9/65 -3/66, 9/65


Box 11 Executive Staff Report 8/62 _ 6/65, 8/62, 6/65


Box 11 Executive Structure Resolution 14, September 1964


Box 11 Expenditures


Box 11 Experimental Reading Program


Box 11 Experimental Theatre Arts


Box 11 Family Day Care


Box 11 Ferris State College


Box 11 Financial Reports 1 July 1963 -30 June "1964, July 1963


Box 11 Financial Statements 30, June 1965


Box 11 Financing Program: Fiscal Year, 1968


Box 11 Funding: General (two Folders)


Box 11 Funding: Board of Education


Box 11 Funding: Community Development Agency


Box 11 Funding: Community Development Agency -Cultural Arts


Box 11 Funding: Department of Health, Education and Welfare


Box 11 Funding: Department of Labor



Box 12 Funding: Economic Opportunity Committee


Box 12 Funding: Ford Foundation


Box 12 Funding: Human Resources Administration -General (four Folders)


Box 12 Funding: HRA -Amelioration of Social Problems


Box 12 Funding: HRA -Budget


Box 12 Funding: Community Corporations


Box 12 Funding: Community Development Agency (four Folders)


Box 12 Funding: HRA - CDA Budget Questionnaires



Box 13 Funding: HRA – CDA Medical


Box 13 Funding: HRA – CDA New York Training Institute


Box 13 Funding: HRA – CDA Vouchers


Box 13 Funding: HRA Neighborhood Manpower Service Center


Box 13 Funding: HRA Technical Assistants and Personnel


Box 13 Funding: HRA MFY Contract


Box 13 Funding: National Institute of Mental Health


Box 13 Funding: Neighborhood Youth Corps.


Box 13 Funding: Office of Economic Opportunity (two Folders)


Box 13 Funding: OEO – Community Education Project


Box 13 Funding: Requests, 1966-1967


Box 13 Funding: OEO – Work Program



Box 14 Girls' Vocational Training Center


Box 14 Guaranteed Annual Income – Correspondence


Box 14 Guaranteed Annual Income – Drafts 1-4


Box 14 Haberman, Philip – Report re. MFY 25, November 1964


Box 14 Henry Street Settlement House – General


Box 14 Henry Street Settlement House and MFY: Possible coordination


Box 14 HEP News


Box 14 Higher Education of Socially and Educationally Restricted Youth


Box 14 Housing Reconditioning Project


Box 14 Housing Rehabilitation and Economic Enhancement of the Poor



Box 15 Individual, Family and Group Services


Box 15 Institute for research on Poverty – University of Wisconsin


Box 15 Legal Services Unit - &A Corporation


Box 15 Letter from Howard G. Janover to Board of Directors – 29, October 1964


Box 15 Letter from S.D. Leidesdorf and Company – Manual of Standard Procedures


Box 15 Letters from Anne M. Roberts, Anti-poverty Operations Board


Box 15 Lower East Side Employment Offices


Box 15 Lower Manhattan Community Mental Heath Center


Box 15 Manpower and Career Development Agency


Box 15 Karate School


Box 15 Meeting Notices


Box 15 Memoranda: n.d.; 1961 -1969 (four Folders'), 1961


Box 15 Memoranda to Staff


Box 15 Memoranda: Miscellaneous



Box 16 Minutes: 19 November 1958 -1 December 1958 -Board of Trustees, November 1958, December 1958


Box 16 Minutes! 7 May 1959 -Board of Trustees, May 1959


Box 16 Minutes: 28 July 1959 -Board of Trustees, July 1959


Box 16 Minutes: 29 January 1960 -Nominating Committee, January 1960


Box 16 Minutes: 6 August 1962 -Board of Directors, August 1962


Box 16 Minutes: 10 October 1962 -Board of Directors, October 1962


Box 16 Minutes: 5 November 1962 -Contract Review Committee, November 1962


Box 16 Minutes: 3 December 1962 -Contract Review Committee, December 1962


Box 16 Minutes: 14 November 1962 -Executive Committee, November 1962


Box 16 Minutes: 3 -4 January 1963 -Citizens' Advisory Council, January 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 6 May 1963 -Contract Review Committee, May 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 11 June 1963 -Contract Review Committee, June 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 13 March 1963 -Executive Committee, March 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 25 February 1963 -Public Advisory Committee, February 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 23 January 1963 -Public Information Committee, January 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 15 April 1963 -Washington, April 1963


Box 16 Minutes: 17,20,24, 25 August 1964 -Board of Directors, August 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 4 November 1964 Board of Directors, November 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 19 November 1964 -Board of Directors, November 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 2 December 1964 -Board of Directors, December 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 30 December 1964 -Board of Directors, December 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 14 September 1964 -Board of Directors Executive Session, September 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 15 October 1964 "Board of Directors Executive Session, October 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 15 October 1964 -Committee of Fifteen, October 1964


Box 16 Minutes: 16 November 1964 -Executive Committee, November 1964



Box 17 Minutes: 14 January 1965 - Board of Directors, January 1965


Box 17 Minutes: 21 January 1965 – Board of Directors, January 1965


Box 17 Minutes: 1 February 1965 -Board of Directors, February 1965


Box 17 Minutes: 31 March -11 May 1966 -Board of Directors, May 1966


Box 17 Minutes: October 1965 -Committee on Employment Opportunities, October 1965


Box 17 Minutes: October 1965 -Committee on Study and Evaluation, October 1965


Box 17 Minutes: 9 March 1966 -Board of Directors, March 1966


Box 17 Minutes: 8 June 1966 -Board of Directors, June 1966


Box 17 Minutes: 3 November 1966 -Board of Directors, November 1966


Box 17 Minutes: 13 June 1961 -Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Port of Entry Helping Stations, June 1961


Box 17 Minutes: 11 May 1961 -Board of Directors, May 1961


Box 17 Minutes: 11 Hay 1961 -Legal Services Unit, Board of Advisors, 1961


Box 17 Minutes: 17 June 1910 -Board of Directors, June 1910


Box 17 Miscellaneous


Box 17 Miscellaneous Finance


Box 17 Miscellaneous Minutes (unsorted)


Box 17 Mobilization for Urban Action


Box 17 Mobilization for Youth and Anti-poverty Program


Box 17 Mobilization for Youth, - Future


Box 17 Mobilization for Youth - Opportunities Development Program


Box 17 Mobilization for Youth - Presentation 15, December 1959



Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Program Units - Family Subsidy Plan


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Remedial Education Program


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Program Units – Lower East Side Narcotics Unit


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Programs, 1966-1967


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Programs, 1969


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Reading Program, 1965-1966


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Skills Training Center


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Staff Newsletter


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Synopsis: Full Description of Division of Educational Opportunities


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Synopsis: Full Description Housing Department Report


Box 18 Mobilization for Youth Synopsis: Full Description Neighborhood Service Centers – Services to Individuals and Families


Box 18 National Alliance of Businessmen – JOBS Training Program


Box 18 National Institute of Mental Health – Application for Public Health Service Grant or Award


Box 18 National Institute of Mental Health – Second Grade Program


Box 18 Neighborhood Education Center


Box 18 Neighborhood Manpower Centers


Box 18 Neighborhood Service center


Box 18 Neighborhood Youth Corps.



Box 19 New Careers Action Laboratory


Box 19 New Careers Action Laboratory


Box 19 New York City South Board


Box 19 New York Training Institute (two Folders plus one binder)


Box 19 New York Urban Coalition – General


Box 19 New York Urban Coalition – Employee Relations Assistant


Box 19 New York Urban Coalition Manpower Task Force


Box 19 Occupational Shortages and Surpluses –, October 1969


Box 19 Office of Economic Opportunity – Grants


Box 19 Office of Economic Opportunity – Economic Development


Box 19 Operational Studies


Box 19 Panel Discussion on Functional Systems


Box 19 Panel of Experts Report on MFY , 18, November 1964


Box 19 Personnel Practice Committee, 8, March 1963


Box 19 Personnel Practice Committee, 13, July 1963


Box 19 Planningh Conference for a National Council on New Careers, December 1967


Box 19 Plans for Educational Program, 1965-1966



Box 20 Police -Community Relations


Box 20 Policy Management Systems


Box 20 Postal Cards -Committee Meetings


Box 20 Presentation Meeting -2 Feb, 1959


Box 20 Professional Resumes


Box 20 Program of Individual Services


Box 20 Program of Services to Low-income Businessmen


Box 20 Program Reporting (Curriculum Center) -Draft and Final


Box 20 Project 914 -Brooks Foundation


Box 20 Proposals -Three unarranged Folders


Box 20 Proposal: Adult Employment Program



Box 20A Proposal: Block Associations


Box 20A Proposal: Block Organizing Unit


Box 20A Proposal: Child Care Center.


Box 20A Proposal: Community Organization Unit for Short-Term Social Action


Box 20A Proposal: Community Program in Consumer Affairs


Box 20A Proposal: Consumer Affairs Program


Box 20A Proposal: Data Processing Training


Box 20A Proposal: Demonstration of Economic Development Program for Harlem


Box 20A Proposal: Development of Program Planning Instrument at MFY


Box 20A Proposal: Educationally Supportive Group Services Program


Box 20A Proposal: Employee Relations Work in Personnel Departments for Adults


Box 20A Proposal: Enhancing Educational and Vocational Training of Youth in an Israeli Slum


Box 20A Proposal: Establish Field Placements for 100 Graduate Students from all New York


Box 20A Metropolitan Area Schools of Social Work


Box 20A Proposal: Experimental Laboratory Program


Box 20A Proposal: Experimental Non-graded Primary Program


Box 20A Proposal: Fifth Year Detached Worker Program


Box 20A Proposal: Laboratory Pre-School in Urban Depressed Area


Box 20A Proposal: Neighborhood Manpower Service Center for the Lower East Side


Box 20A Proposal: Police -Community Relations Improvement


Box 20A Proposal: Pre -Adolescent Program


Box 20A Proposal: Programming in Riis Amphitheater


Box 20A Proposal: School Program Redevelopment and Reorganization


Box 20A Proposal: Small Business Services


Box 20A Proposal: Small Group Program to Increase Learning Capacity and Classroom


Box 20A Adjustment of Elementary School Children



Box 21 Proposal: Teaching Assistance in Reading


Box 21 Proposal: Teacher Training Institute for Neighborhood Youth Corps


Box 21 Proposal: Training and Employing Community Heat Inspectors


Box 21 Proposal: Training and Placement of Community Employment Technicians


Box 21 Proposal: Training Non-professional Youth and Adults


Box 21 Proposal: Urban Cooperative Development on Lower East Side


Box 21 Public Service Careers Program


Box 21 Release no. 107 -8 Oct 1964 re Panel of Experts, 1964


Box 21 Remedial Education Program


Box 21 Repertory Theatre


Box 21 Report to Board of Directors(Board and Executive Structure} 1 Feb, 1965


Box 21 Resolution adopted by Board of Directors Ee Investigation of MFY


Box 21 Resolution Adopted by Board of Directors 15 Oct, 1965


Box 21 Resolution adopted by Board of Directors -Resignation of James McCarthy


Box 21 Schedule of Meetings


Box 21 Screvane Report -November, 1964


Box 21 Screvane Report -January, 1965


Box 21 Services to Individuals and Families


Box 21 Shriver~ R. Sargent -General


Box 21 Shriver, R. Sargent -Comments on "Consumer Credit Protection Act"



Box 22 Small Business Investment Corporation


Box 22 Social Work Education Center - Correspondence


Box 22 Social Work Education Center – Proposal and Budget


Box 22 Social Work Training Center - Correspondence


Box 22 Social Work Training Center - Proposal and Budget


Box 22 Social Worker – Job Specification


Box 22 Special Committee on Housing – Correspondence


Box 22 Speeches – Bertram M. Beck


Box 22 Staff Development – College


Box 22 Staff Development – Old Age


Box 22 Staff Development – Vista Associate Program


Box 22 Statement by Winslow Carlton – 3, December 1964


Box 22 Statement by Chairman of the Board and Officers of MFY – 16, August 1964


Box 22 Statement by Norman Dorsen


Box 22 Statement by Samuel Ganz



Box 23 Statement by Mitchell I. Ginsberg


Box 23 Statement of MFY Staff re Attack on MFY – 14, September 1964


Box 23 Statement by National Association of Social Workers – 15, November 1964


Box 23 Statement by Office of Economic Opportunity


Box 23 Summer 1965 – Work program, 1965


Box 23 Summer 1966 – Anti-poverty Program, 1966


Box 23 Summer 1967 – Subcontracts and Budget, 1967


Box 23 Teacher – Helper Newsletter


Box 23 Technical Housing Department


Box 23 Testimony by William F.X. Flynn


Box 23 Testimony by James J. McCarthy


Box 23 "They Want to Make Good" – Job Center of Division of Employment Opportunities


Box 23 Training and Placement of Community Employment Technicians


Box 23 Training Local Residents for Board Leadership Positions


Box 23 Training Personnel in Youth Employment Programs


Box 23 Training Program – Gouverneur Hospital


Box 23 Training Program – Major Appliance Repairmen


Box 23 Unemployment


Box 23 University Outpost Project


Box 23 Urban Institute


Box 23 Summer Programs


Box 23 Vocational and Driver Training


Box 23 Welfare Problems


Box 23 Which Flemming do You Read? -26, May 1959


Box 23 Workers Development Union



Box 24 Reports by Mobilization for Youth (authors):


Box 24 Barr -Brager


Box 24 Beck. Bertram M. (three Folders)


Box 24 Colangelo -Hodell


Box 24 Kressler -Ruchlis



Box 25 Reports by Mobilization for Youth (authors):


Box 25 Thabit -Weissman


Box 25 Reports by Mobilization for Youth (five unsorted Folders)



Box 26 Reports by Other Agencies (authors):


Box 26 Abt, C.


Box 26 Aronowitz, S.


Box 26 Auerswald, E. (two Folders)


Box 26 Blum


Box 26 Cloward


Box 26 Cohen -David


Box 26 Gartner -Hokenstad


Box 26 Kirschner -Moed


Box 26 Rein -Wilcox



Box 27 Witner -Yabroff


Box 27 Two unsorted Folders


Box 27 Reports of people presumably not affiliated with MFY


Box 27 Incomplete reports