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...organize a handbook on the problems of divorce, another helping the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
...experience of this student and others reflect two of the greatest obstacles which E4A must continually overcome: the small number of people it can serve in the University and off-campus, and the constraints which short-term project work inevitably makes necessary. The third chief obstacle is also a continual preoccupation-finding the money necessary to fund E4A and to serve more students by expanding the group's activities...
During its first three years, E4A operated primarily on two successive Ford Foundation grants totalling $50,000. After E4A's first year of operation, Radcliffe assumed the group's administrative costs...
Since the Ford grants ran out, E4A has received a number of smaller foundation grants, the largest coming from the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation-three successive grants of $10,000 each. These grants have been devoted entirely to funding student projects, but the Student Board next year will face funding difficulties again...
...Noyes Foundation has told E4A that this coming year's grant will be its final donation, according to Arthur Dudley '73, a student board member involved in fund-raising. E4A's recent appeal to smaller foundations in the Massachusetts area has so far yielded little response...