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Size | 159.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 65000 items) |
Abstract | Operating broadly in the areas of health, education, and the arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation has, beginning in the late 1970s, supported the work of institutions, local groups, and individuals in eastern Tennessee and throughout the South. The Foundation has encouraged education initiatives, centers, and leaders; environmental protection and improvement activities and organizations; community health, development, and minority improvement programs, centers, and leaders; and cultural events, centers, leaders, documentation, and interpretation. The collection consists of office files relating to programs, projects, grants, etc., in which the Lyndhurst Foundation has been involved. Included are grant proposals, correspondence, tax records, reports, pamphlets, brochures, seminar agendas, and other materials. There are also materials relating to Lyndhurst Foundation boards, 1978-1997, including minutes of board meetings, monthly budgets, and grant proposals and evaluations. Also included are records of Southern Community Partners, Inc., a program funded by the Lyndhurst Foundation to support young people trying to strengthen their communities through working with public schools, developing community service programs, or connecting the arts with community organizing. The Addition of April 2013 is the Lyndhurst Foundation website, which provides information about the Foundation, including its mission, history, grant program, and financial information. |
Creator | Lyndhurst Foundation. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff, June 2002
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, June 2002
Updated in March 2004 by Jaime L. Margalotti; in April 2005 by Emily O'Neill and Linda Sellars; in May 2005 by Linda Sellars; in March 2007 and February 2008 by Rachel Canada; in April 2013 by Sara Mannheimer; in June 2017 by Amy Morgan; in September 2018 by Nancy Kaiser.
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Operating broadly in the areas of health, education, and the arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation has, beginning in the late 1970s, supported the work of institutions, local groups, and individuals in eastern Tennessee and throughout the South. The Foundation has encouraged education initiatives, centers, and leaders; environmental protection and improvement activities and organizations; community health, development, and minority improvement programs, centers, and leaders; and cultural events, centers, leaders, documentation, and interpretation. Southern Community Partners, Inc., was a program funded by the Lyndhurst Foundation to support young people trying to strengthen their communities through working with public schools, developing community service programs, or connecting the arts with community organizing.
Back to TopThe collection includes files relating to programs, projects, grants, etc., in which the Lyndhurst Foundation has been involved in Tennessee and throughout the South. Included are grant proposals, correspondence, tax records, reports, pamphlets, brochures, seminar agendas, and other materials. There are also materials relating to Lyndhurst Foundation boards, 1978-1997, including minutes of board meetings, monthly budgets, and grant proposals and evaluations. The additions of May and June 1999 contain records of Southern Community Partners, Inc., a program funded by the Lyndhurst Foundation to support young people trying to strengthen their communities through working with public schools, developing community service programs, or connecting the arts with community organizing. The Addition of April 2013 is the Lyndhurst Foundation website, harvested using Archive-It starting in March 2013. The website provides information about the Foundation, including its mission, history, grant program, and financial information.
Back to TopFiles relating to programs, projects, grants, etc., in which the Lyndhurst Foundation has been involved. Included are grant proposals, correspondence, tax records, reports, pamphlets, brochures, seminar agendas, and other materials. box 31 contains materials relating to Lyndhurst Foundation boards of directors, 1978-1987, including minutes of board meetings, monthly budgets, and grant proposals and evaluations.
Files have been arranged alphabetically, chiefly by project. Major projects and rough dates per box are listed below. A detailed file list compiled by the Foundation is available from the collection control file.
Note that materials listed may not be all inclusive.
Materials dated 1986-1988.
Materials dated 1983-1989.
Materials dated 1970-1992.
Materials dated 1988-1991.
Records of Southern Community Partners, Inc., a project funded by the Lyndhurst Foundation for seven years to provide support to 34 young people who sought to strengthen their communities through their work. Projects ranged from building partnerships with public schools, to developing community service programs or connecting the arts with community organizing. Some projects focused on one or two communities, others on a state or a multi-state region within the South. Each year, 1992 through 1996, up to seven partners were selected from more than 100 applicants.
Records include correspondence, quarterly and other reports by the Partners, notes of the executive director's conversations with Partners, newspaper stories about Partners, a report by a journalist hired by the organization to follow Partners for three years and to share her observations, audio tapes from the Partners' closing gathering, and videotapes from Partner events. Also included are evaluation reports by MDC, Inc., on Southern Community Partners and other material.
Materials dated 1984-1992.
Materials dated 1985-1993.
Materials dated 1992-1994.
Materials dated 1992-1994.
Materials dated 1993-1999.
Materials dated 1993-1996.
Materials dated 1990-1997.
Materials dated 1991-1997.
Foundation for Global Sustainability, Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (1994-1997); Foundation for Global Sustainability (1993); WTCI-TV Channel 45 Membership Campaign (1991-1993) |
Organizational records, 2006-2008, including publications, emails, and board meeting minutes.
Administrative files on grantees and donors, including grant applications, progress reports, and correspondence.
The website provides information about the Lyndhurst Foundation, including its mission, history, grant program, and financial information.
Digital Item DI-4723/1 |
Website (www.lyndhurstfoundation.org)Harvested using Archive-It, beginning in March 2013. |