{"value"=>"<p>Series II contains the records of the board of trustees, standing committees, and ad hoc committees. Included are meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, and reports issued to and by the board on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Standing committees represented in this series include the Projects Committee, also referred to as the Research Committee, which oversees projects during the proposal and research phases; the Dissemination Committee, guiding the promotion of completed research projects and publications; the Finance Committee, which monitors the expenditure of the fund's endowment and capital growth; and the Executive Committee, handling administrative matters of the board.</p> <p>Meeting minutes are arranged under committee name, and also appear in a set of minute books created by fund staff. The minute books interfile by date all minutes from individual committee and full board meetings from 1927 to 1938 and 1971 to 2000, providing a chronological overview of the work of the board as a whole during two periods of major growth for the fund. The agenda and material distributed for review prior to each committee and full board meeting are housed in documentation files separate from minutes. Meetings of the Projects and Dissemination Committees were frequently held jointly in the 1950s and 1960s, therefore this meeting documentation is bound together, and also bound along with the full board and Executive Committee materials during the same time period.</p> <p>Along with the standing committees, trustees also regularly convened ad hoc committees to address short-term needs, such as the purchase of the fund's long-time headquarters in 1957, and provide periodic examination of the research program itself. The special projects files include the work of these committees to assess the direction of the fund's research, as well as its history.</p> <p>Correspondence with individual trustees in this series is split between a general correspondence file, with incomplete chronological runs of incoming and outgoing letters between staff and trustees regarding general meeting matters, and the trustee files, arranged alphabetically by surname. Trustees who joined the board between 1919 and 1991 are all represented in the trustee files, which include incoming and outgoing correspondence that discusses the work of board committees, task forces, and individual projects in greater detail. These files also discuss sporadic projects directed by trustees, as well as commemorative publications about former board members. Additional correspondence between director Richard Leone and a select group of trustees who were active following his appointment are found in Leone's personal files in Series III: General Administrative Files.</p> <p>Reports in this series include annual reports, audits, and reports submitted to the board by the director and fund staff. The director and staff reports both detail the status of ongoing projects, publishing and dissemination activities, and new proposals before the board for review, while the annual reports of the fund briefly introduce new publications and highlight ongoing research projects within the context of the fund's areas of study. Staff reports contain the most comprehensive chronological overview of the fund's research projects within the collection. The reports replaced the monthly and yearly reports of the director and were issued annually beginning in the 1940s, increasing to triannually by the 1970s.</p> <p>Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.</p>"}