Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of a major grant, an institution submits to the Foundation a detailed proposal on the scope, general purposes, and intended uses of a project. The Foundation then sends copies of the proposal to outside experts for appraisal, the budget for the program is examined, and, if recommended, the proposal is either passed or rejected by the Trustees...
With few exceptions the Foundation does not administer its own funds, but gives money to established institutions. To obtain a grant, an institution or an individual must plan a definite project...
Through direct grants to universities for specific research projects and through two subsidiary funds set up expressly for the support of education, the Ford Foundation has fulfilled the dictum expressed by the trustees in 1953: "Education in its broadest sense is perhaps the single most promising means for improving human welfare and has been supported in various ways by almost every grant we have made...
Seeking to strengthen free institutions in addition to promoting peace, the Foundation in 1952 set up the Fund for the Republic, with an initial grant of $1,000,000. Under Paul Hoffman, the Fund's first president, later under Clifford P. Case, and now Robert M. Mutchins, the Fund for the Republic has undertaken research into the "extent and nature of the internal Communist menace and its effect on our community and institutions." Last year, the Fund sponsored a survey by Samuel P. Stouffer, professor of Sociology here, on the attitudes of the American people toward political and religious...
...conference, financially sustained by a Rockefeller grant, has attracted the current Chief Justices of three Western countries whose judicial ideals are similar to those of Marshall. The United States' Earl Warren, Patrick Kerwin of Canada, and Australia's Sir Owen Dixon have all agreed to give the major addresses...