Upstate Community Resource Institute, Inc. (UCRI), 1976-1977

Formed in January, 1976, in response to Cornell's termination of the HAP program as of June, 1976. The UCRI was intended to continue the support work for the Peoples Power Coalition, the Labor Action Coalition and the various municipal power campaigns stimulated by the April, 1976, “Municipal Power for New York State” conference organized by UCRI's Jim Schmidt, Jinx Dowd and Dan Leahy. |Contains all the organizational development documents through February, 1977, and extensive research on public power in New York State, speeches at that conference, proposal for a statewide public power project in New York State, Report on the Institute's organization and activity from January to October 1976. Press compilations, funding proposals, internal debates, conference registration lists and its unsuccessful efforts to secure funding for its projects and staff by 1977.