RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 251
formerly comprised in the area of activities defined
as community organization and planning.
Other activities in this general area will no longer
be eligible for Foundation support.
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING SUPPORT DURING
1935 UNDER PREVIOUS APPROPRIATIONS FOR
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING
Community Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Support
of the Department of Research §7,500*
New Hampshire Foundation, Concord. Research program.... 18,000*
Social Science Research Council, New York City. Federal program
for instruction in agricultural economics 5,000*
University of Chicago, Illinois. Local community research... 50,000f
Welfare Council of New York City. Research Bureau. Support
75,000
* Academic orfiscalyear 1934-35.
f Academic orfiscalyear 1935-36.
During 1935 three grants were made for the
continued work of organizations previously assisted.
The Foundation made a final grant of
215,000 to the Community Council of Philadelphia
for the use of the committee on research over
a three-year period beginning October 1, 1935.
The research program of the community council
has been most practical in nature and has
given substantial aid to the social agencies, of
Philadelphia and other cities of the United States
in interpreting the outstanding welfare problem
since the depression, unemployment. The council
has represented the majority of the Philadelphia
social agencies but in the past was exclu-
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