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  • “First of All You Need a Good Foundation:” The Ford Foundation’s Program for Symphony Orchestras
    2019
    Co-Authors: Benjamin Negley
    Abstract:

    Author(s): Negley, Benjamin | Advisor(s): Beal, Amy C | Abstract: In 1966, the Ford Foundation began an ambitious ten-year program to support North American symphony orchestras. Through a total investment of $80.2 million to sixty-one orchestras in the United States and Puerto Rico, the Ford Foundation sought to improve the economic conditions of orchestral musicians and assure the financial stability of individual orchestral institutions. Toward this goal, the Ford Foundation issued both expendable funds, distributed during the first five years of the program, and endowment funds, which were released at the end of the program and contingent on the orchestras matching the Foundation’s contributions. Building on heightened public interest in symphonic music, the Ford Foundation’s Program for Symphony Orchestras contributed to the growth and success of American orchestras in the 1960s and 1970s. In not only enhancing the level of standing associated with orchestral musicians and orchestral institutions, but also encouraging orchestras to develop and improve fundraising mechanisms, the Ford Foundation made an unprecedented bet on the success of orchestral music in North America. This dissertation investigates the Ford Foundation’s support of orchestras in the 1960s and 1970s within postwar American culture, and examines how the Ford Foundation’s Program for Symphony Orchestras intertwined with local factors to transform individual orchestras. I focus on two divergent grantees: the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, which eventually declared bankruptcy in the late 1980s, and the Minnesota Orchestra, which raised more endowment matching funds than any other grantee orchestra. Based on interviews and archival research, these case studies show how the efficacy of the Program for Symphony Orchestras depended greatly on local factors. Furthermore, I consider the longer-term effects of the program, and the prospects for a similar program today.

  • first of all you need a good Foundation the Ford Foundation s program for symphony orchestras
    2019
    Co-Authors: Benjamin Negley
    Abstract:

    Author(s): Negley, Benjamin | Advisor(s): Beal, Amy C | Abstract: In 1966, the Ford Foundation began an ambitious ten-year program to support North American symphony orchestras. Through a total investment of $80.2 million to sixty-one orchestras in the United States and Puerto Rico, the Ford Foundation sought to improve the economic conditions of orchestral musicians and assure the financial stability of individual orchestral institutions. Toward this goal, the Ford Foundation issued both expendable funds, distributed during the first five years of the program, and endowment funds, which were released at the end of the program and contingent on the orchestras matching the Foundation’s contributions. Building on heightened public interest in symphonic music, the Ford Foundation’s Program for Symphony Orchestras contributed to the growth and success of American orchestras in the 1960s and 1970s. In not only enhancing the level of standing associated with orchestral musicians and orchestral institutions, but also encouraging orchestras to develop and improve fundraising mechanisms, the Ford Foundation made an unprecedented bet on the success of orchestral music in North America. This dissertation investigates the Ford Foundation’s support of orchestras in the 1960s and 1970s within postwar American culture, and examines how the Ford Foundation’s Program for Symphony Orchestras intertwined with local factors to transform individual orchestras. I focus on two divergent grantees: the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, which eventually declared bankruptcy in the late 1980s, and the Minnesota Orchestra, which raised more endowment matching funds than any other grantee orchestra. Based on interviews and archival research, these case studies show how the efficacy of the Program for Symphony Orchestras depended greatly on local factors. Furthermore, I consider the longer-term effects of the program, and the prospects for a similar program today.

  • The Ford Foundation Symphony Orchestra Program
    Journal of Musicological Research, 2017
    Co-Authors: Benjamin Negley
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACTFrom 1966 to 1976, the Ford Foundation contributed $80 million to symphony orchestras in the United States and Puerto Rico, with dual missions of improving the financial conditions of North American orchestral musicians and strengthening perceptions of American culture in Europe and Asia. Based on combined contributions of both short- and long-term funds, the Ford Foundation’s program altered the trajectories of many U.S. orchestras by raising musicians’ salaries and helping orchestras develop new fundraising mechanisms. The extraordinary contributions made by the Ford Foundation’s Symphony Orchestra Program should be viewed as part the Foundation’s greater missions of promoting democracy and American exceptionalism.

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  • Humanizing Capitalism : The Educational Mission of the Ford Foundation in West Germany and the United States (1945–1960)
    Moralizing Capitalism, 2019
    Co-Authors: Wim De Jong
    Abstract:

    Corporate philanthropy operates within the tension of criticizing a capitalist system it simultaneously promulgates. The clash of moral values takes place within philanthropies and in response to their activities, which are key in the diffusion of moralities of capitalism. In the Cold War period, the Ford Foundation was a key player in globally spreading the idea of free enterprise as fundamental to democracy. In the Cold War, the Foundation criticized authoritarian versions of capitalism that exalted individual instead of collective responsibility. Three arenas of the Ford Foundation’s attempts at humanizing capitalism are examined: in post-war Germany, through the American strategy of emphasizing ‘modern’ industrial relations, subsequently domestically through its big idealistic liberal adult education project, which presumed free enterprise, while striving for transcendence of the shortcomings of consumerist society; finally, by reforming business and management education.

  • humanizing capitalism the educational mission of the Ford Foundation in west germany and the united states 1945 1960
    Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, 2019
    Co-Authors: Wim De Jong
    Abstract:

    Corporate philanthropy operates within the tension of criticizing a capitalist system it simultaneously promulgates. The clash of moral values takes place within philanthropies and in response to their activities, which are key in the diffusion of moralities of capitalism. In the Cold War period, the Ford Foundation was a key player in globally spreading the idea of free enterprise as fundamental to democracy. In the Cold War, the Foundation criticized authoritarian versions of capitalism that exalted individual instead of collective responsibility. Three arenas of the Ford Foundation’s attempts at humanizing capitalism are examined: in post-war Germany, through the American strategy of emphasizing ‘modern’ industrial relations, subsequently domestically through its big idealistic liberal adult education project, which presumed free enterprise, while striving for transcendence of the shortcomings of consumerist society; finally, by reforming business and management education.

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Sam Collings-wells - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • From Black Power to Broken Windows: Liberal Philanthropy and the Carceral State:
    Journal of Urban History, 2020
    Co-Authors: Sam Collings-wells
    Abstract:

    During the 1960s, the Ford Foundation was one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the United States. This article examines the shifting strategies which Ford deployed in an attempt to tac...

  • Developing communities: the Ford Foundation and the global urban crisis, 1958–66
    Journal of Global History, 2020
    Co-Authors: Sam Collings-wells
    Abstract:

    Abstract Between 1958 and 1966 the Ford Foundation embarked on a series of pilot projects of ‘urban community development’ in India and the United States. This article will highlight how both of these programmes emerged in response to what Ford officials understood to be a global urban crisis, caused by the migration of ‘backward’ rural populations into the cities. Rather than modernizing under the pressure of urban living, these newcomers appeared to be pooling into pockets of underdevelopment – ‘ghettos’ in the United States and ‘slums’ in India. Ford sought to tackle the problem by encouraging the participation of these marginalized communities in the process of urban renewal, a strategy intended to engineer the psychological modernization of their residents. In practice, however, Ford struggled to control the channels into which these mobilizations flowed, with poor urban residents utilizing the projects to push for radical changes concerning housing, policing, and tenant–landlord relations.