Oral history interview with Geraldine Mannion, 1999
Oral history interview with Geraldine Mannion, 1999
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- Name
- Mannion, Geraldine, 1955- (Interviewee)
- Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Geraldine Mannion, 1999
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Geraldine Mannion : oral history, 1999
- Abstract
- Early life: born Ireland, childhood Bronx, New York; education: Catholic schools, undergraduate and graduate at Fordham University; employment as secretary at Rockefeller Foundation: lack of diversity in foundation leadership, description of duties; employment at Ford Foundation; move to Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie]; differences in management styles between foundations; incidence of grant failure at foundations; role of foundation president's personal interests in allocation of funding; importance of risk taking for Carnegie; foundations' reluctance to attract public attention; diversification of legal defense fund sources; development of Avoiding Nuclear War program; reluctance of other Carnegie officials to engage in discretionary grant-making; oversight of Carnegie democracy programs; importance of civic education
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- Women executives; Endowments--Management; Nuclear nonproliferation; Mannion, Geraldine, 1955-; Rockefeller Foundation; Ford Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1999
- Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 171 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Foundation executive
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by: Sharon Zane on Feb. 4, March 5 & April 1, 1999
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of Geraldine Mannion
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright held by The Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2005.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7585852
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-atrm-4x88
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.