STUDY PROJECT ON FOREIGN FOUNDATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: November 15, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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15 November 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Richard Lehman
Associate Director of the National Foreign
Assessment Center for Substantive Support
FROM : Cord Meyer, Jr., SA/DDCI
SUBJECT : Study Project on Foreign Foundations
1. As a result of an introduction by a mutual friend, I had
lunch today with Mr. Richard Eells, Director for the Program for
Studies of the Modern Corporation, at the Graduate School of Business
of Columbia University. He left with me the attached memorandum
describing the purpose of his proposed study. Mr. Fells explained
that he expects to obtain support funds to carry out this project
from private American foundations and business corporations, and
I assured him that he was correct in his supposition that the Agency
was not likely to be able to fund a study of this kind.
2. Mr. Bells, however, was anxious to know whether political and
economic analysts in our Agency might be interested in the results of
such a study project and whether we might be willing to consult with
him and whether we might be willing to give him ideas as to the direction
the project might take and the identities of individuals and foundations
abroad who might be contacted. I said I would look into this and let
him know the degree of interest here in the Agency. I gathered from
Mr. Bells that at the conclusion of the study he would propose a meeting
of the principal private European foundations to discuss how they might
better coordinate their programs. I also suggested to him that he should
include among the foundations to be studied the Fredierich Ebert Foundation
and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in West Germany.
3. I would appreciate having from you at your early convenience
an expression of interest, if any, from OER and ORPA.
Attachment: As stated
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PROGRAM FOR STUDIES
OF THE MODERN CORPORATION
ARTHUR G. ANDERSON
ROBERT H. BROME
PHILLIP C. BROUGHTON
COURTNEY C. BROWN
NEIL N. JACOBY
ARTHUR B. TOURTELLOT
RICHARD W. WEATHERHEAD
November 14, 1977
Memorandum to: Mr. Cord Meyer
please reply to:
251 East 51st Street
New York, N.Y. 10022
I am attaching the statement of a proposal that has been
developed by the Program for Studies of the Modern Corporation
at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University.
Sincerely yours,
Richard Eells
Director
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Program for Studies of the Modern Corporation
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Study Project on Foreign Foundations: Rationale for Su port
The Program for Studies of the Modern Corporation at
the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University was
founded in 1965 to encourage and publish important research
on major issues affecting the corporation, public and private,
profit-making and non-profit. A list of the publications of
the Program is attached.
Over the years one of the particular interests of the
Program has been the general area of philanthropy, with a
special interest in the philanthropy of foundations and of
corporate business. Thus the Program has published The
Corporation and the Arts by Richard Eells, the Director of
the Program, and Education and the Business Dollar by Eells
and Patrick.. Some years earlier, Harper & Brothers published
Corporation Giving in a Free Society by Eells. The Program
has also published books on corporate social responsibility
in which the subject of business philanthropy figures.
As one investigates the field of philanthropy, the role
of foundations stands out as one of major significance.
Indeed, in this country, foundation philanthropy is a subject
of some considerable attention and investigation. But the
same is not true abroad. While there are a number of rather
large foundations abroad, the scope and nature of their ac-
tivities is not under sustained study in this country. Those
who run these foundations are major figures in their own
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countries and, indeed, on the world scene. What they sup-
port, and why, and to what extent they support what they
do, is a not inconsiderable subject of interest.
Because of the Program Director's background both as
a student of philanthropy and as a writer on the subject
over the last twenty years, as well as his experience as a
trustee of several grant-making foundations in this country,
the Program has pursued an interest in the attitudes and
approaches to problems, as well as the activities, of these
foundations abroad. It is the Program's position that a
better understanding of foreign foundations would be of
considerable use to the policy-making segments of both the
public and private sectors of American society.
In general, much of the thinking and work of these
foundations abroad goes on, in comparison with similar ac-
tivity in the United States, in a less conscious and cer-
tainly less reported manner, and so the proposed investiga-
tion would be useful to identify the goals and attitudes of
these important institutions, individually and collectively.
On the other hand, some of the work of these foundations
(which include the Volkswagenwerk Foundation, the Robert
Bosch Foundation, and the Krupp Foundation in West Germany,
the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, the Juan
March Foundation in Spain, the Wellcome Trust in the United
Kingdom, the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Italy, the
Pahlavi Foundation in Iran, and the recently established
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Alexander Onassis Foundation in Liechtenstein) is quite
imaginative, and collectively they preside over reserves
and assets of several billions of dollars.
The long-term goals and strategies of these foundations
should be of considerable interest at various policy levels
in this country. The long-term goals and plans and the
results of their contributions in the areas of social policy
development, science, medicine, art, and others, could be
important to many branches of government in this country,
as well as to private and corporate foundations within the
United States.
It should be pointed out that there has been some small
amount of contribution by foreign foundations to projects
.in the United States. It is possible that with greater
knowledge in this country of the work and the strategies of
foreign foundations, various forms of cooperation on projects
with American foundations and other American-sponsored
organizations micht occur.
Certainly greater knowledge in this area could allow
U.S. chartered foundations and the American business com-
munity to proceed with greater perception and effectiveness
in dealing with a variety of global problems.
The Project Proposed
The project proposed here would involve review of the
available literature on international philanthropic activi-
ties, consultations with knowledgeable persons in this country
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who are concerned with these activities, and correspondence
and consultation with the trustees and/or executives of a
number of major foreign foundations. The goal of both the
literature review and the consultations would be to develop
an adequate description and a careful analysis of these ac-
tivities as well as the attitudes of foreign foundation
officials toward their work, their views about the future
organization of society, and their views about the possibil-
ity of collaborating with the work of American private and
business foundations.
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Richard Eells
Director
November 4, 1977
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Program for Studies of the Modern Corporation
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Publications
Aguilar, Francis Joseph. Scanning the Business Environment.
New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Anshen, Melvin, ed. Managing the Socially Responsible
Corporation. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Bevis, Herman W. Corporate Financial Reporting in a
Competitive Economy. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Brown, Courtney C. Putting the Corporate Board to Work.
New York: Macmillan, 1976.
Brown, Courtney C., ed. World Business: Promise and Problems.
New York: Macmillan, 1970.
De Hoghton, Charles, ed. The Company: Law, Structure, and
Reform in Eleven Countries. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Eells, Richard. The Corporation and the Arts. New York:
Macmillan, 1967.
Eells, Richard, and Walton, Clarence, eds. Man in the City
of the Future. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Emery, James C. Organizational Planning and Control Systems:
Theory and Technology. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Glickman, Albert S.; Hahn, Clifford P.; Fleishman, Edwin A.;
and Baxter, Brent. Top Management Development and Suc-
cession: An Exploratory Study. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Jacoby, Neil H. Corporate Power and Social Responsibility:
A Blueprint for the Future. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
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Jacoby, Neil H. Multinational Oil: A Study in Industrial
Dynamics. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Jacoby, Neil H.; Nehemkis, Peter; and Eells, Richard. Bribery
and Extortion in World Business: A Study of Corporate
Political Payments Abroad. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
Lorsch, Jay W. Product Innovation and Organization.
New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Patrick, Kenneth G. Perpetual Jeopardy - The Texas Gulf
Sulphur Affair: A Chronicle of Achievement and Misadventure.
New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Patrick, Kenneth G., and Eells, Richard. Education and the
Business Dollar. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Pfeffer, Irving, ed. The Financing of Small Business: A
Current Assessment. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Salmen, Stanley. Duties of Administrators in Higher
Education. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Steiner, George A. Top Management Planning. New York:
Macmillan, 1969.
Steiner, George A., and Cannon, Warren M., eds. Multinational
Corporate Planning. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
Steiner, George A., and Ryan, William G. Industrial Project
Management. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Tyler, Gus. The Political Imperative: The Corporate Character
of Unions. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Walton, Clarence, and Eells, Richard, eds. The Business
System: Readings in Ideas and Concepts, 3 vols. New York:
Macmillan, 1967.