RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

252 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
sively a planning body. In 1935 a Community
Fund was organized with the idea of centering
all financing of private social work. The Foundation
grant to the research committee was designed
to provide assistance over three years
during the period when the Community Fund
was being established.
The Foundation appropriated $60,000 tothe
Welfare Council of New York City toward the
budget of the Research Bureau in 1936. The
former Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
and The Rockefeller Foundation have supported
the Research Bureau since its initiation in 1926,
and
a full description of its activities will be
found in the earlier annual reports. All studies
of the bureau are undertaken with the idea that
they will be of use in community planning and
in coordinating enterprises in the field of social
welfare. Many publications in mimeographed
form and a few volumes in printed form are
issued each year. The material produced by the
Research Bureau has been effectively used. An
important service has been given to public relief
administrators, to the council's membership, to
the press, and to the general public, in supplying
information and casting material into form for
use in the varied complex situations which have
faced public and private welfare organizations
in New York City during the past five years.
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