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Interviewee
Chance, Ruth June 26, 1991 

Call Number
91-057

Physical Description

32 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 91 minutes; index; additional interview of Chance

Interviewer
Lichtenberg, Naomi

Access Status

Restricted (interviewee must be quoted anonymously)

Scope and Content Note

Ruth Chance, involved with and employed by such foundations sa the Rosenberg Foundation and the Ford Foundation at different times in her career, discusses the mission, purpose, and goals of the Council on Foundations. Most important is the Council's position of leadership for its members. Chance discusses the Council's move from New York City to Washington, D.C., the importance of foundation staff, the impact on foundations of the nineteen sixties, the 1969 Tax Reform Act, and the government's role in philanthropy.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • Cox Committee
  • Filer Commission
  • Rosenberg Foundation
• • Personal Names
  • Andrews, F. Emerson
  • Curti, Merle
  • Freeman, David
  • Norton, Dolf
  • Rich, Wilmer Shields
• • Subjects
  • 1969 Tax Reform Act
  • community foundations
  • foundation staff
  • government philanthropic role
  • nineteen sixties
  • private foundations