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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration records, 1943-1949
103 ReelsThe reports and correspondence relating to UNRRA were arranged according to the nine administrative divisions of that organization that generated the documents: Bureau of Administration (26 reels); Office of the Diplomatic Adviser (4 reels); Office of the Director General (20 reels); Office of the Economic Adviser (4 reels); Office of Far Eastern Affairs (9 reels); Office of the General Counsel (19 reels); Office of the Historian (16 reels); Office of Public Information (1 reel); and Secretariat Executive Office (3 reels). Within each division, subsidiary bodies are typically separated into subject and country files.
Industrial Areas Foundation records, 1977-2011
25.5 linear feetThe Industrial Areas Foundation has been working in the northeast and New York metropolitan area for 35 years. The collection documents the organization's relationship with four mayors, five governors, environmental commissioners and several governors in New Jersey, numerous public and private sector leaders. Included in the collection are correspondence, op-eds, editorials, articles, and other press items, strategy documents and internal reports describing the workings of our citizens organizations in four boroughs, northern New Jersey, Long Island, and beyond. The organization has been deeply involved in many of the central issues and initiatives of the region over those years including, the rebuilding of East Brooklyn and the South Bronx, the start of the new small schools movement, the start of the living wage movement, the charter revisions that ended the old Board of Estimates and expanded the City Council, the fight to establish and preserve mayoral control of the schools, the ongoing struggles to preserve public housing, and many other matters.
Phoenix House Foundation oral history collection, 2014-2015
183 GigabytesJean Scott, 2014 November 3 Box 3
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Scott details her pathway to Phoenix House as an addict, and how she quickly rose within the ranks to become assistant clinical director. She gives particular attention to the opening of prison programs in California, New York and Texas. She describes her professional partnership with Kevin McEneaney, especially with respect to prison programs and the development of the occupational training curriculum. She discusses in great detail the evolution and subsequent breakdown of the therapeutic community model during her long career at Phoenix House.