{"value"=>"<p>Administrative / Financial records consist of correspondence, bills, invoices documenting the journal's selling and exchanging ads; paying and contracting writers and artists; registering each issue under copyright; distributing issues through book clubs, book stores, distributors, and subscriptions; granting permission to reprint articles in other publications; marketing through mailings; coordinating and paying for the production and design of each issue; tracking its inventory of back issues; managing office space; hiring and paying staff; and addressing legal issues.</p> <p>The Financial subseries includes the journal's tax returns, annual reports, bank statements, and spreadsheets recording cash disbursements and receipts. The Funding files include plans and invitations for fundraising events, background material on potential individual and institutional sources of money, proposals for future initiatives to keep the journal afloat, and the journals applications for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Research Foundation (three bodies from which the journal received funding regularly) along with attendant correspondence. The Literary Organizations, Prizes and Programs subseries document Parnassus's role in cooperative efforts attempting to support literary journals and programs.</p>"}