Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]

Sheffield, Frederick, 1902-1971

Name: Sheffield, Frederick, 1902-1971 (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1967
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Invited by Morris Hadley to chair committee regarding the Community Service Society’s School of Social Work, 1944; became Carnegie Corporation trustee, 1955; the transition between John W. Gardner’s and Alan J. Pifer’s Corporation presidencies, 1966-1 967. Discussions of the process of selecting Carnegie grantees; lack of diversity on the Carnegie Board of Trustees and the process of selecting board members; the possibility of increasing Carnegie support of social services; the issue of foundations providing financial support to politically controversial programs; providing honorariums to board members; the relationship between foundation presidents and trustees; reflections on his Carnegie chairmanship; future usage of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion at 2 East 91st Street. Impressions of John W. Gardner, Alan J. Pifer, Morris Hadley, Charles Merville Spofford.

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