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{"value"=>"MssCol 23100", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1974-2016", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/2016"}
{"value"=>"1997-2009", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1997/2009"}
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{"value"=>"Robert Bowne Foundation records"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"62.79 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"147 boxes, 5 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"63.82 mb (626 computer files)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Robert Bowne Foundation was a New York City-based grant-giving institution that primarily funded youth organizations, with a focus on after-school and out-of-school programs and research. The collection dates from 1974 to 2016, and contains the foundation's operational and financial records, chronicling the development of the institutions they funded, programs they hosted, and publications they produced."}
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{"value"=>"Robert Bowne Foundation", "type"=>"corpname", "role"=>"creator"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Robert Bowne Foundation was founded in New York City in 1968 by Edmund A. (\"Ted\") Stanley, Jr., the chief executive officer of Bowne & Company, a financial printing business. The foundation, named for Bowne & Company's founder, Robert Bowne (1744-1818), was created with the mission of funding organizations that provide services for New York City youth, particularly those residing in lower income neighborhoods.</p> <p>During its first fifteen years, the Robert Bowne Foundation funded such national organizations as, the Boy Scouts, Boys & Girls Clubs, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and YMCAs; local facilities including food banks, homeless services centers, Planned Parenthood of New York, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, St. Matthew's and St. Timothy's Neighborhood Center, Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; and large cultural institutions such as the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, South Street Seaport Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the New York Zoological Society.</p> <p>In 1983, Stanley hired Dianne Kangisser as the Bowne Foundation's first executive director. Previously employed at Literacy Volunteers, a non-profit organization that provided free literacy services to adults, Kangisser steered the foundation towards an emphasis on out-of-school and after-school youth literacy programs. The foundation defined this as \"engagement in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in order to better understand oneself, others, and the world.\" While the foundation funded over two hundred New York City-based organizations, they also provided grants to programs in other cities whose work was within the foundation's youth education mission.</p> <p>In addition to funding youth programs and organizations, the Robert Bowne Foundation also provided research grants and fellowships to educators and scholars. Beginning in 2000, the foundation launched their own journal, <span class=\"title\">Afterschool Matters</span>, in order to publish ongoing research and contribute to the field of youth out-of-school programming studies. In 2007, the foundation released the book, <span class=\"title\">Afterschool Matters: Creative Programs That Connect Youth Development and Student Achievement</span>, which profiled various out-of-school programs, and discussed ways to work with youth who were struggling academically. The foundation also published a peer-reviewed biannual series entitled <span class=\"title\">Afterschool Matters Occasional Papers Series</span>, which contained more in-depth studies than their other publications; <span class=\"title\">The Third Arena: Afterschool Youth Literacy Programs</span>, published in 1999; and a variety of professional development guides.</p> <p>Dianne Kangisser retired as executive director of the Robert Bowne Foundation in 1999, and was succeeded by Lena Townsend. In 2002, Anne Lawrence was hired as the foundation's first full-time program officer. R.R. Donnelley acquired Bowne & Company in 2010, and it was determined that the Robert Bowne Foundation would close. Both Townsend and Lawrence remained with the foundation until its dissolution in 2016.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Robert Bowne Foundation records date from 1974 to 2016 (bulk dates 1997-2009) and contain files of grants awarded, staff and board of trustee operations, the foundation's finances, and publications produced by the foundation. The collection comprises files that reveal the organizations and programs that the foundation funded, the manner in which funds were allocated, and the impact the foundation's grants had on the institutions they supported. The majority of the collection consists of grant files, providing evidence of the efforts and collaboration between grant applicants and the grant-giving foundation to efficiently utilize and budget funds, and the methods in which those activities were documented and implemented.</p> <p>The additions are board of trustees minutes dated from 1969 to 2015.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert Bowne Foundation records are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1383409'>Series I: Grant Records</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1981-2016</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>44.6 linear feet; 833 kilobytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series I contains files for over three hundred projects, programs, and organizations awarded grants by the Robert Bowne Foundation. The files are arranged alphabetically by program name, and hold proposals, award letters, correspondence, financial records, contracts, site visit reports, and questionnaires completed by the grant recipients. Some programs received funding over a number of years, so the materials included chronicle their progress over time, and may also hold final reports, brochures, promotional materials, photographs, lesson plans, and publications. Files from the 1990s and 2000s tend to contain a greater level of detail, while many files from the 1980s only hold a single award letter or proposal.</p> <p>In addition to the grant recipient files, Series I also contains files for the Edmund A. Stanley Jr. Research Grants, Julia Palmer Library Grants, and fellowships that the Robert Bowne Foundation funded. Additionally, there is a small selection of potential grantee files, which contains proposals, correspondence, and general information for organizations that did not receive funding.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1383923'>Series II: Administrative Staff</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>2001-2015</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>11 linear feet; 7.5 megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series II comprises the administrative files of Robert Bowne Foundation Executive Director Lena Townsend and Program Officer Anne Lawrence, documenting their work from 2001 to 2015. These files contain items related to the day-to-day operations of the foundation and include conference materials, correspondence, evaluations, meeting minutes, program files, project plans, reports, research materials, and strategic planning documentation.</p> <p>The Administrative Staff files provide information on the programs organized by the foundation's staff, including the Afterschool Matters Initiative, Capacity Building Project, the Julia Palmer Library Development Project, and the Networking Meeting Series. These files hold agendas, applications, notes, participant evaluations, and surveys, which address the programs' content, participants, and outcomes.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1383991'>Series III: Board of Trustees</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1981-2009</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.5 linear feet; 11.7 megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Records of the Robert Bowne Foundation's Board of Trustees are held in Series III. These files contain the foundation's by-laws; information on the Board's committees and its members; correspondence and memoranda; meeting agendas, minutes, and notes; presentations by and to the board; and summary reports addressing the foundation's operations and finances.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1384015'>Series IV: Financial Records</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-2013</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3.1 linear feet; 44.2 megabytes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series IV consists of files related to the Robert Bowne Foundation's funding and financial management. These records reveal the sources of the foundation's finances, the day-to-day operating expenses, and the manner in which funds were allocated to grant recipients. The files contain accountants' reports, audits, budgets, financial statements, grant award files, and investment activity. The financial statements provide a summary and overview of grants that were awarded annually, and how much funding organizations received each year.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1384043'>Series V: Publications</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1995-2014</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 linear foot</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series V includes publications authored, published, and distributed by the Robert Bowne Foundation. These publications include <span class=\"title\">Afterschool Matters</span>, <span class=\"title\">Supporting Community Learning: A Staff Development and Resource Guide for After-School Youth-Education Programs</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Third Arena: Afterschool Youth Literacy Programs</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/23100#c1384051'>Series VI: Audio and Video Recordings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1993-2000</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series VI consists of audio and video recorded by the Robert Bowne Foundation. The audio recordings are of meetings and events, while the video recordings contain footage of programs filmed by the foundation.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by the Robert Bowne Foundation, 2016.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Heather Lember</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>The additions were processed by <span class=\"name\">Valerie Wingfield</span>, <span class=\"date\">2017</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Sound and video recordings are unavailable pending digitization.</p>"}
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combined
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1974
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1974
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2016
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1974
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2016
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1997
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2009
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62.79 linear feet (147 boxes, 5 volumes); 63.82 mb (626 computer files)
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{"value"=>"Robert Bowne Foundation records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}