RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
units and
public officials clustered about it.
These organizations and their affiliates are maintaining
contact with administrative officials and
legislators in the several states, and with perhaps
70,000 municipal officials in 5,000 cities
and towns having a combined population of
approximately 50,000,000. Useful cooperative
relationships have been established at the state
and municipal levels and with many agencies of
the Federal Government. Working relationships
are also being formed with national and municipal
clearing agencies in the international field.
The Chicago agencies serve to promote the
general acceptance of new devices or techniques
of government, many of which have beensupported
by the Spelman Fund upon a demonstration
basis. One
of these agencies, the Public
Administration Service, is equipped to furnish
upon request of governmental bodies an expert
consulting service through which the best administrative
practice, as demonstrated by experience
and research, may be determined and
installed under competent supervision.
Recognizing the importance of the Spelman
Fund's work, the Foundation, rather than itself
entering into a parallel and possibly overlapping
program of work with governmental agencies or
public officials, has elected to make a direct grant
to be expended at the Fund's discretion. The
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