RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

234 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Spelman Fund of New York
Public Administration
The Rockefeller Foundation appropriated to
the Spelman Fund of New York the sum of
31,000,000 toward the general support of its
work in public administration over the five-year
period from 1936 through 1940, payments in
any year of the grant not to exceed 2300,000.
For a number of years the Spelman' Fund has
directed its efforts toward the improvement of
public administration through direct cooperation
with public officials and governmental units.
In words borrowed from one of its annual reports,
it has sought "to forward this purpose
through the strengthening of facilities for selecting
and giving spread to useful results of experience
and research in public administration;
through the encouragement of cooperative undertakings
by
officials and governmental units;
through the demonstration of administrative
innovations; and through the development, testing,
and installation of improved administrative
methods and devices. The Fund has no political
aims and confines its interest to administrative
as distinguished from policy-forming activities."
The Spelman Fund has played a major part in
the organization and maintenance of the Public
Administration Clearing House in Chicago and
of the fourteen organizations of governmental
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