Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Siobhan Nicolau papers
- Dates:
- 1968-1981
- Extent:
- 5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Siobhan Nicolau Papers, M748, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains papers amassed by Siobhan Oppenheimer-Nicolau during her tenure as Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. It includes important documentation chronicling the development of the Southwest Council of La Raza, the controversies surrounding the Mexican American Youth Organization and the Nixon administration crisis concerning bribery and influence brokering between federal employees and grant applicants from Hispanic community organizations. While the collection is primarily concerned with the formation of specifically Hispanic grant programs, other minority groups and public policy objectives are also represented within the Nicolau Papers. As a whole, these documents provide insight on the changing philanthropic goals of the Ford Foundation from the late 1960's through early 1980's, as well as the diversity of the applicants themselves.
Internal Ford Foundation Documents--including inter-office correspondence, memos, and discussion papers on policy issues targeted by the Foundation--comprise the first series in the collection. The second series, Nicolau Documents and Speeches, contains draft copies of informal addresses, as well as several drafts of a paper on the challenges facing Hispanic-Americans in the 1980s, through which the development of her own opinions on the appropriate role of philanthropy within the Hispanic community can be traced. The last series, Foundation Grants, makes up the bulk of the collection. It is loosely subdivided by subject, following the Ford Foundation's own identifications (as Delegated Authority Programs) where possible. Some series--particularly the Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Hispanics--overlap somewhat, either because of an applicant's more generalized outlook toward policy, or a change in the Ford Foundation's internal funding designations or record keeping. The folder titles within the series usually identify the target population: The Puerto Rican Defense Fund, for example, is clearly directed toward Puerto Ricans, although it is part of the Ford Foundation's Hispanics Delegated Authority Program.
- Custodial history:
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Gift of Siobhan Nicolau, 1995.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-05-12 15:59:38 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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None.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Siobhan Nicolau Papers, M748, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022