Preliminary Inventory of the North Carolina Poverty Project Records, 1983-2004 and undated (bulk 1986-1997)
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleNorth Carolina Poverty
Project Records,
1983-2004 and undated (bulk 1986-1997)
Creator
North Carolina Poverty Project
Extent
30.1 Linear
Feet
19,182 Items
Repository
19,182 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research.
However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
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Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have
not been transferred to Duke University. For more
information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], North Carolina Poverty
Project Records, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The North Carolina Poverty Project Records were
received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library as a gift in 2002.
Processing Information
Processed by Ann Green Langford; John Mayrose
Encoded by Ann Green Langford; Joshua A. Kaiser; John Mayrose
Completed November 8, 2002
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Non-profit organization incorporated January 7, 1987, to study, provide education about, and stimulate action on the causes of poverty in North Carolina. In 2000, merged with other organizations to form the Poverty Coalition.
[top]Collection Overview
Primarily consists of Executive Board and Sector
and Advisory Groups correspondence, memoranda, and meeting
records; financial and planning documents, including grant
applications; and workshop, seminar, and presentation
materials that document the organization's activities to
raise awareness of and promote action on the causes of
poverty in N.C. Also includes correspondence, memoranda,
reports, and other writings by the executive director, J.
Gordon Chamberlin; telephone logs and appointment books;
various printed material concerning poverty in NC; 11 audio
and 15 videocassettes; 134 black-and-white and 10 color
prints; 10 color negatives; and 8 data cartridge tapes.
(02-234)
The 2006 addition (2006-0055)(600 items, 1.3 lin. ft.; dated 1986-2004) contains correspondence, meeting records, publications, and other documents generated by the North Carolina Poverty Project and the Poverty Coalition. Also included is an oversize 7 panel Poverty Display.
The 2007 addition (2007-0023)(3300 items, 4.4 lin. ft.; dated 1982-2003) contains documents related to the executive board including correspondence, financial documents, and planning documents; tax information; documents related to conferences and business trips; photocopies and clippings of articles related to poverty from the New York Times and other newspapers (1986-2001); and lists of library holdings of poverty books at Southeastern universities.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Chamberlin, J. Gordon.
- North Carolina Poverty Project.
- Nonprofit organizations--North Carolina.
- Public welfare--North Carolina.
- Poverty--North Carolina.
- Poverty--Research--North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Economic conditions.
- Memoranda.
- Black-and-white photographs.
- Color photographs.
- Color negatives.
- Machine-readable records.
- Audio cassettes.
- Videocassettes.
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession 2002-0234
Subheadings in boxes 1-20 were
created/determined by an archivist.
Some of the materials in this accession are
not immediately accessible because they require further
processing before use. Please contact Research Services
staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Box 1
Contents of Box 1:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
NCPP Board correspondence,
1994
Board members correspondence,
1990-1991
NCPP Board of Directors
correspondence,
1987-1989
Board lists for Robert W. Scott,
1986
Board--Legal
NCPP By-Laws, revised,
1990
NCPP Incorporation papers,
1987-1990
Board--Meetings,
1986-1992
Foundations [appeals and
responses],
1995-1997
Box 2
Contents of Box 2:
Foundations [appeals and
responses] continued,
1987-1994
Includes folders for individual
foundations, B-K.
Box 3
Contents of Box 3:
Foundations [appeals and
responses] continued,
1987-1994
Includes folders for individual
foundations, K-W.
Box 4
Contents of Box 4:
Fundraising Activity Files,
1988-1994
Includes correspondence, planning records,
and records of contributors.
Box 5
Contents of Box 5:
Accounts,
1988-1992
Includes accounting, general ledger, and
operations reports; budgets and budget preparation; and
sales.
Expenses,
1987-1994
Includes expense reports, lease
agreements, payroll, and tax forms and reports.
Box 6
Contents of Box 6:
[Technical services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Personnel Policies,
[ca. 1991]
Includes information compiled by J. Gordon
Chamberlin and presentations made by Nelson Stover.
Staff Meetings and Activities,
1986-1991
NCPP Beginnings
Education coordinators,
1986 October-1990 November
Human Services Institute,
1986 March- 1987 August
Poverty Project Committee,
1986 November-1987 April
J. Gordon Chamberlin Articles,
Correspondence, Papers, and Presentations,
1987-1992
Box 7
Contents of Box 7:
J. Gordon Chamberlin,
continued
Includes material relating to the NCPP
"crisis,"
1992; NCPP
description, aims, and handouts; and records from the NCPP
Information Center.
Box 8
Contents of Box 8:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Professional Advisory Group
memoranda and correspondence,
1986-1992
Publicity, reviews, and news
releases,
1986-1992
Sector and Advisory
Groups
General
Ralph Ketner correspondence,
1986 May- 1990 October
Business Sector,
1993
Charlotte,
1991 September 3-1992 April 23
Charlotte Business,
1990 December -1991 March
County Commissioners,
1986-1988
Editors Sector,
1986-1988
Human Services Sector,
1986
Lawyers Sector,
1986-1988
Lawyers and Poverty,
1988-1991
Box 9
Contents of Box 9:
Sector and Advisory Groups,
continued
Legislators
Librarians Sector
Medical/dental Sector,
1987 May 4
Poverty and health,
1988 December-1990 February
Poverty programs
Representatives
meeting
Public school superintendents,
1986-1989
Religious Sector
Rural Sector,
1986 July - 1987 January
Thrift Organizations
Sector
Structure of the
NCPP
Television Sector
NCPP Toner Scam
Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials, A-Ch,
1984-1994
Box 10
Contents of Box 10:
Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials, Co-E,
1984-1994
Box 11
Contents of Box 11
[Technical Services staff may need to
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Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials, F-I,
1984-1994
Contains section of folders on Individual
Donors, approximately fifty names.
Box 12
Contents of Box 12:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials,
Individuals, continued,
1984-1994
Box 13
Contents of Box 13:
Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials,
Individuals, continued, and then J-Sm,
1984-1994
Box 14
Contents of Box 14:
Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials, So-We,
1984-1994
Box 15
Contents of Box 15:
[Technical Services staff may need to
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Subject files, including
memoranda, correspondence, and other materials, Wi-Wr,
1984-1994
Board Correspondence [relating to
NCPP publications],
1987-1990
Box 16
Contents of Box 16:
Board Correspondence
continued
NCPP Publications
"Causes of
Poverty"
"25 Years of
Community Action in North Carolina"
"Examining
Poverty"
"Finding Out about
The Other North Carolina"
"Underlying Issues
for the Rural Summit"
"Finding Out About
Poverty in North Carolina"
Influential Sectors Program--
"The General
Plan"
"Helping Students
Study Poverty: Suggestions to teachers"
"How We Feed the
Poor"
"I Have Walked:
Stories and Poems about Poverty"
"North Carolinians
Write about Poverty"
"The Poor Among Us:
A View of Poverty in North Carolina"
"Poverty and Civic
Responsibility: A Statement to all North
Carolinians"
"Poverty in the
East: Shared Ownership in the Problems and
Solutions"
"Poverty Project
Exploration: State Advisory Groups"
"Poverty Project
Exploration: Report"
"Exploration and
Replication: A Report"
"North Carolina
Poverty Project: Replication Handbook,"
1993
"Causes of
Poverty"
"19 Reasons for
being in Poverty"
"Poverty Study
Packet: Resource Material for Various Ways to Study
Poverty"
"Superintendents
Discuss Impacts of Poverty on Public Schools,"
1987
"Thinking About
Poverty"
Influential Sectors Program,
1991-1993
Includes minutes of meetings.
Box 17
Contents of Box 17:
Influential Sectors Program
continued,
1991-1993
General information including minutes of
meetings, correspondence, information on and for
participants.
ISP Individual Sectors
Academia Council,
1986-1993
Business and Advisory Council,
1992
Business and Poverty Council,
1991
Box 18
Contents of Box 18:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
ISP Individual Sectors,
continued
Business Rotary Club Responses
Report,
1987 October 13
Foundations Council,
1990-1993
Foundations and Poverty Council,
1992
Government Council,
1992 June- 1993 January
Government and Poverty Council,
1986-1992 May
The Poor and Poverty Council,
1990-1992
Poverty Programs and Council,
1990-1992
Religion and Poverty Council
Committee on Principles
Religion and Poverty Council
Committee on Theology and Ethics,
1992-1993
Religion and Poverty Council,
1991-1992
Box 19
Contents of Box 19:
ISP Individual Sectors,
continued
Religion and Poverty Council
continued,
1987-1992
Includes general information including
minutes of meetings, study groups, council nominees,
questionnaires, correspondence, and task forces.
Coalition Addressing Systemic
Poverty
General Information including
articles, papers, and correspondence,
1992-1994
Box 20
Contents of Box 20:
[Attention: Contains pictorial
materials.]
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Coalition Addressing Systemic
Poverty, continued
Workshops,
1992-1994
Member States
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Box 21
Contents of Box 21:
Coalition Addressing Systemic
Poverty, continued
Member States,
continued
[Member states also continue in box
31.]
Mississippi resource
file
Correspondence Seminar on
Understanding Poverty,
1997-1998
NCPP Income,
2001
State Tax records,
2001
Box 22
Contents of Box 22:
NCPP--IRS,
1987-1999
"Causes of
Poverty"
Material for
repository
Anti-slavery
Professional advisory group,
1987-1996
Originals of working papers,
1990
NCPP Beginnings,
1986 March- 1987 January 5
Expenses,
1998
Fundraising,
1994-1997
Smith Richardson
NCPP folder
Expenditures,
2000
Box 23
Contents of Box 23:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Workshop 3,
1993 March 4-7
NC maps
Social Work Forum,
1983 April 12
Publications
Miscellaneous
NCPP beginnings
Advisory council,
1984-1985
Issues advisory group,
1986
The Human Services
Institute
Board of Trustees,
1984 May- 1985 May
Consultations
Dinner,
1985 December 10
Subgroup on Community Social
Policy
Staff Training and Leadership
Development
Program on Poverty
Statement of
Principles
Executive seminar,
1983-1986
Box 24
Contents of Box 24:
[Attention: Contains rusty fasteners.]
Forsyth County
Chamberlin--Seminar
The Human Services
Institute
Trustees education
program
Research committee
Board,
1984
Advisory council
Board accounts
Peacemaker
Rick Gentry
Executives seminar,
1983-1984
Philosophy subgroup
NCPP beginnings--Sector strategy
group,
1986
HSI
HSI--Education project
follow-up
Box 24A
Contents of Box 24A:
Chamberlin--minutes of board
meetings,
1985-1986
Box 25
Contents of Box 25:
[Technical Services staff need to format
for use copies of videocassette tapes and data cartridge
tapes.]
Miscellaneous digital and
audiovisual material including videocassettes of panels,
evaluations, and presentations.
Box 26
Contents of Box 27:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat for use copies of audio cassette tapes,
videocassette tapes, and data cartridge tapes.]
Miscellaneous digital and
audiovisual material, continued
Box 27
Contents of Box 27:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat for use copies of audio cassette tapes,
videocassette tapes, and data cartridge tapes.]
Miscellaneous audiovisual
material, continued
Rolodex contents
Box 28
Contents of Box 28:
[Attention: Contains pictorial
material.]
[The numbers on each folder indicate the
number of photographs inside.]
Board Member Photos
Anniversary Brochure
Photo of Senator Terry
Sanford
Poverty photos by Eric
Green
North Carolina
Insight--Profiles in Poverty: State Policy and Poor in
North Carolina,
1989 April
Box 29
Contents of Box 29:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Leadership Development in the
South,
1992
Academia response
cards
[Loose material: Influential
Sectors Program]
Box 30
Contents of Box 30:
[Loose material: Influential
Sectors Program]
Complete mailing list
Leaders correspondence,
1992
NC Low Income Housing
Coalition--Planning retreat,
1991 October 3-4
Mailing lists sorted by zip
code
CrossRoads of Wilmington
Incorporated
Williams Report
C/F Study--Access to Prenatal and
Maternity Care by County,
1985-1989
Box 31
Contents of Box 31:
Human Services Project--Lists of
names
Mailing list--current
Mailing list names
Coalition on Addressing Systemic
Poverty, member states
[Continued from box 21.]
Tennessee
West Virginia
West Virginia resource
file
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Carolina resource
file
Category
lists--computer
Correspondence to college
professors for
1987
publication support,
1987
Mailing list add-ons and returned
envelopes
Lists
CAA anniversary
booklet
[Unlabeled folder: mailing
list]
Box 32
Contents of Box 32:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Newsletter mailing
list
Poverty and health
[Miscellaneous loose and unlabeled
material]
CAA [Community Action Agencies]
Anniversary Booklet invoices
CAA 25th Anniversary
CAA Anniversary Booklet--Specific
grant
Singular statements re
poverty
CPS #1953
[Unlabeled folders]
[Miscellaneous loose
material]
Box 33
Contents of Box 33:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
[Miscellaneous loose
material]
Smith Richardson
application
Niblock/Ramey
Legislators Education
Program
Children/Families
Consultations I and
II
Report on Consultation
I
Working groups final
lists
Legislators Education
Program
Television
Documentary
Working group
Case studies
Detrimental
legislation
In poverty
Box 34
Contents of Box 34:
[Attention: Contains rusty fasteners.]
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Community Action Agencies
Program
Community Action
groups
Legal Services Booklet
Poverty Materials
Center
REDC
Poverty task force
Strategic Planning conference,
1990
Source book
Box 35
Contents of Box 35:
[Attention: Contains rusty fasteners.]
REDC, continued
Source book
Source book
corrections
Inventory of data/information
about poverty--expenses
Advisory committee--Inventory of
poverty data/information
CAP reports
DSS reports
United Way reports
Bill
Finger--Governmental
David Lee Stegall--Academia and
private organization
Sandra
Hopkins--Bibliographical
Done
To be called
To call back
Inventory report
forms
"Finding Out About
the Other North Carolina"
Box 36
Contents of Box 36:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
Logs
1989-1990
1989-1994
1988
1987
Box 37
Contents of Box 37:
[Attention: Contains pictorial
material.]
Log,
1986
Appointments,
1988-1991
ISP Council Notes,
1992
Notes on Replication
Handbook
Poverty Project Workshop II,
1992
[Poverty Project] Workshops,
1993
Human Services Institute (HSI),
[ca. 1984]
Box 38
Contents of Box 38:
Coalition Workshop IV,
1993-1994
Coalition Workshop VII,
1993-1994
Board,
1995-1999
The Role of Religious Communities
and Poverty--Responses 1-75
The Role of Religious Communities
and Poverty--Responses 76-108
Box 39
Contents of Box 39:
Foundation Grants to Affect
Poverty,
1992
[Miscellaneous unlabeled
material]
Influential Sectors Program,
1990
ACED
BUS
Poor
FND
[Miscellaneous unlabeled
material]
Box 40
Contents of Box 40:
PPRO
REL,
1991-1992
NCPP Theology and Ethics Committee
of the ISP Religion and Poverty Council
NCPP Board
1987-1990
1991-1994
NCPP study packet
Box 41
Contents of Box 41:
[Technical Services staff may need to
reformat newsprint before use.]
NCPP
"The Poor Among
Us"
"The Poor Among
Us"
--Clippings
"The Poor Among
Us"
--Clippings List
[Miscellaneous loose
material]
"The
Pilot"
Accession, 2006 (2006-0055)
3 boxes
The 2006 addition (600 items, 1.3 lin. ft.; dated 1986-2004) contains correspondence, meeting records, publications, and other documents generated by the North Carolina Poverty Project and the Poverty Coalition. Also included is an oversize 7 panel Poverty Display.
Box 42
Upon Whom We Depend
Pamphlets and booklets published by North Carolina Poverty Project Publications
North Carolina Poverty Project, 1990
Rumors and Facts About Poverty, 1990
19 Reasons for Being in Poverty, April 1986
Poverty and Civic Responsibility, December 1987
North Carolinians Write About Poverty, March 1988
Thinking About Poverty, by professors of economics, education, ethics, public health, history, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and a lawyer, May 1988I Have Walked, March 1989
How We Feed the Poor in North Carolina, August 1989
Finding Out About the Other North Carolina, September 1989
Poverty in the East, March 1990
Causes of Poverty, 1994
Community Action in North Carolina, 1994
Program on Understanding Poverty, Academic Year 1999
First Report - Program on Understanding Poverty, 2000
Second Report - Program on Understanding Poverty, 2000
Display Folders
On Understanding Poverty
Why Don't United Methodists Address What Causes the Social Injustice of Employee Poverty
Poverty Coalition Conference, 2003
Box 43
Materials for Understanding Poverty Basic Course
Materials for Correspondence Course
Documentation of the Poverty Coalition, 1994-1998
Includes correspondence, board minutes, budget reports, and progress reports.
Documentation of the Poverty Coalition, 1998-2000
Includes correspondence, board minutes, budget reports, and progress reports.
Documentation of the Poverty Coalition, 2001-2004
Includes correspondence, board minutes, budget reports, and progress reports.
Poverty Coalition Updates
Box 44
The Poverty Display
Seven foam board panels.
Accession, 2007 (2007-0023)
3 boxes
The 2007 addition (2007-0023)(3300 items, 4.4 lin. ft.; dated 1982-2003) contains documents related to the executive board including correspondence, financial documents, and planning documents; tax information; documents related to conferences and business trips; photocopies and clippings of articles related to poverty from the New York Times and other newspapers (1986-2001); and lists of library holdings of poverty books at Southeastern universities.
Box 45
Documents from board meetings
Including minutes, reports, and correspondence (2000-2001)
Photocopies of articles
Poverty Coalition incorporation documents
Documentation from the Mott Foundation
Pamphlets and booklets by related organizations
Other documents related to the Poverty Coalition
Box 46
Documents about related organizations
Documents related to conferences and trips
Correspondence, 2000
Poverty Coalition Board documents, 2000-2007
Poverty Coalition tax information and forms
501 C-3 documentation
Box 47
Correspondence
3 and 5 year plans
Documents of recent publications
Statistics reports
Box 48
Newspaper clippings
Documents about related organizations
Publications by related organizations
Information on Universities in the Southeast
Box 49
Statistics reports
Files related to conferences and trips
Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles
Documents about related organizations
Box 50
Correspondence with related organizations and professors
Box 50
Correspondence with related organizations and professors
Box 51
Correspondence, 2001-2003, numbered 1-579 by the donor
The following items include invoices and final transactions and have been removed from the collection and shredded: 82, 156, 179, 185, 186, 196, 197, 263, 273, 274, 275, 277, 283, 285-293, 241, 295-289, 299, 300, 303, 306, 308, 312, 316, 314, 317, 318, 319, 321, 323, 338, 339, 340, 344, 349-355, 357-362, 366, 374, 378, 381, 383, 393, 400, 404, 409-411, 416, 487, 490, 491, 498.
42 3.5" Diskettes
Diskettes have been removed from this box and their contents have been migrated to the server.
Original digital media in this series requires further processing before use. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use these materials.
Box 52
Poverty Coalition Executive Committee Workbook, 2000
List of poverty books from Barnes and Noble
University library holdings for books related to poverty from:
Auburn University
University of South Carolina
Clemson University
College of Charleston
Samford
UNC Charlotte
USC Spartanburg
Duke University
East Carolina University
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University
University of Alabama Birmingham
University of Alabama
Box 53
Professional Curriculum Vitaes
Collected information on Universities in South Carolina
Collected information on Universities in North Carolina
Collected information on Universities in Alabama
2003 Poverty Conference
Documentation of the Poverty Coalition, 1997-2001
One 3.5" diskette
Diskette has been removed from this box and its contents have been migrated to the server.
Original digital media in this series requires further processing before use. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use these materials.
Box 54
Instruction materials for Understanding Poverty Basic Course
Poverty Introduction
Collection of documents titled Seminaries and Ethics
Newspaper Clippings, 1986-1999
Newspaper Clippings, 1982-1991
Box 55
Clippings and photocopies of articles about poverty, and clippings of articles on poverty from the New York Times, 1997-2001
