Lyndhurst Foundation Records, 1970-2013

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Summary

Creator:
Lyndhurst Foundation.
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.

Extent:
65000 items (159.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

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.

Scope and content:

The 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.

Acquisition information:

Received from the Lyndhurst Foundation, Inc., in October 1994 (Acc. 94142), May 1996 (Acc. 96038), March 1997 (Acc. 97041), March 1998 (Acc. 98037, 98049, 98053), February 1999 (Acc. 98311), February 2000 (Acc. 98571), March 2001 (Acc. 98905), March 2002 (Acc. 99187), May 2002 (Acc. 99247), March 2003 (Acc. 99443), March 2004 (Acc. 99731), March 2005 (Acc. 100018), April 2005 (Acc.10059), February 2008 (Acc. 100855), circa January 2010 (Acc. 103435), May 2012 (Acc. 101598), February 2013 (Acc. 103346), July 2014 (Acc. 102064, 102068), April 2015 (Acc. 102209), March 2016 (Acc. 102543), June 2017 (103077), and July 2018 (Acc. 103382); and from Julia Scatliff O'Grady of Chapel Hill, N.C., in May and July 1999 (Acc. 98374 and 98412); website harvested using Archive-It, beginning in March 2013 (Acc. 101772).

Processing information:

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.

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Lyndhurst Foundation Records #4723, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu