United Neighborhood Houses
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Better Times, 1919, 1920-1924
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924079372466], Folder: 17
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
Correspondence, news clippings, and articles relating to George J. Hecht (Cornell University Class of 1917). Correspondents of note include John Lovejoy Elliot of the Ethical Culture Society and the Hudson Guild, William DeForest, James G. Blain, and Senators Hubert Humphrey, Lister Hill, Cleveland Bailey, and Robert Kennedy. Also included are three taped interviews and transcripts, 1974.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919, 1920-1924
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, 1997 - 2003
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Files for grants made by the Atlantic Philanthropies in the United States between 1982 and 2013. Since 1982, $3.1b in grants were made in the United States-- the first of which was an anonymous gift of $7 million to found the Cornell Tradition. Cornell would remain Atlantic's main grantee. In addition to education, Atlantic's primary areas of giving in the US have included medical research, expanded health care, supporting children and older adults, and championing societal and racial...
Dates:
1997 - 2003