Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 22 Nov 2010
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| 16 Oct 2023 | collection processed (SAB) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Syracuse Community Development Association. |
| Title: | Syracuse Community Development Association Records |
| Dates: | 1964-1968 |
| Quantity: | 5.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, clippings, and administrative, financial, and legal documents related to the anti-poverty organization in Syracuse, New York. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The Syracuse Community Development Association (SCDA) was an anti-poverty group in Syracuse, NY that was active from 1965-1967. Its goal was to help people with lower incomes build their own organizations to support them in working their way out of poverty.
SCDA gained its initial funding as an offshoot of the Community Action Training Center (CATC). The CATC was founded by Syracuse University’s University College for the purpose of training community organizers and was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) as part of President Johnson Administration’s War on Poverty. SCDA would hire CATC graduates to work as organizers in developing neighborhood action groups. In the year following its founding, the SCDA created a total of nine organizations, which worked to register new voters, get children school clothes through the Welfare Department, and improve the quality of life in public housing through updating appliances and hiring security, among other accomplishments.
Due to tensions with the city government over power dynamics, the OEO and Syracuse University pulled funding from SCDA in late 1965 and encouraged them to apply for support from the Crusade for Opportunity (CFO), another Syracuse-based anti-poverty agency with more ties to the local government. Due to ideological disagreements with the CFO, SCDA elected to remain independently operational on a reduced budget while making other plans. During this time, they ran on funding from local Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches, the Field Foundation, and individual community contributions.
In order to keep their neighborhood organizations in the hands of the people, SCDA devoted its remaining time to the creation of the Organization of Organizations (O of O). The O of O was an association of 53 community organizations, including neighborhood groups, churches, youth groups, civic action groups, and businesses. The Organization’s goal was to confront injustice towards people experiencing poverty in Syracuse and Onondaga County, and work on community problems through its ten action committees on issues such as employment, private and public housing, and medical services. SCDA intended to dissolve once the Organization of Organizations was fully incorporated and able to support itself. Both organizations are no longer operational today.
The Syracuse Community Development Association Records includes administrative files, correspondence, financial material, legal material, printed material, and subject files.
Administrative files contains meeting minutes, equipment lists, memos, personnel records, proposals, and reports.
Correspondence contains communications among the members of SCDA’s Board of Directors, as well as general correspondence with politicians, church leaders, and community members.
Financial material contains account books, budget proposals, reports, funding requests and appeals, reimbursement records, pay requisitions, and receipts. It also includes bank statements and checks from the organization’s private and federal funds accounts.
Legal material consists of contracts, insurance policies, and SCDA’s constitution and incorporation certificate.
Printed material contains local newsletters and newspaper clippings relating to SCDA and other Syracuse anti-poverty organizations.
Subject files contains reports, agendas, and other documents about related anti-poverty groups including the Crusade for Opportunity, the Organization of Organizations, and the Community Action Training Center. It also includes drafts and essays by CATC founder Dr. Warren Haggstrom and SCDA employee Anna Mae Williams.
The collection is arranged alphabetically. Administrative files, financial material, legal material, and printed material series are arranged by type of material. Correspondence and subject files are arranged alphabetically by organization or person's last name.
Access Restrictions:
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
See also the Crusade for Opportunity Records.
Persons
Haggstrom, Warren C., 1925-1986.
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011.
Corporate Bodies
Crusade for Opportunity (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Field Foundation (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State). -- State Office of Economic Opportunity.
Organization of Organizations (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Syracuse Community Development Association (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Community organization -- United States.
Poverty -- New York (State)
Public housing -- United States.
Public welfare -- United States.
Places
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Genres and Forms
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Corporation records.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Insurance policies.
Legal documents.
Memorandums.
Newsletters.
Payrolls.
Personnel records.
Proposals.
Reports.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Syracuse Community Development Association Records,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Unspecified, 1968.
Administrative files
Correspondence
Financial material
Legal material
Printed material
Subject files
| Administrative files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Equipment inventory 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Event promotion 1965-1066 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Information sheets 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Meeting minutes 1968 (7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Membership 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Memos 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bookkeeper position 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Employee files 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Trainees 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Roster 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Policies and procedures 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Project plans undated | ||||||||||
| Proposals | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Founding 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Project continuation 1965 (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Reports | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Annual 1966-1967 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | General undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Nominations committee 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Platform and issues committee 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tenants' committee 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous 1965-1967 - handwritten notes and a photograph of an unidentified man and child | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Board of directors 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | A-G 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | H-M 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | N-Z 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Financial material | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Account books 1965-1966 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Accountant's report 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Budget proposals 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Expenditures 1965 | ||||||||||
| Federal funds account | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Cancelled checks 1965-1966 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Cancelled checks 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Pay and disbursements 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Statements 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Field Foundation funding request 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Field mileage reimbursement 1965-1966 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Funding, local 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Funding, miscellaneous undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Fundraising letters undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Grant conditions 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Ledger 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Legal expenses 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Money received 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Office of Economic Opportunity funding appeal 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Payment requisitions 1965-1966 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Payroll 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Private funds account | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Bank statements 1966-1968 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Cancelled checks 1966-1967 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Contributions 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Purchase orders 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Purchase warranties 1965 | ||||||||||
| Receipts | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Equipment 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Petty cash 1965-1966 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Office supplies 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Services 1965-1967 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Utilities 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Receipt book 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reports - general 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Terminal financial report 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Travel reimbursements 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Unpaid bills 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Miscellaneous undated | ||||||||||
| Legal material | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | By-laws 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Certificate of incorporation 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Contract, Syracuse University 1965 | ||||||||||
| Insurance | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Automobile 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Bruns Co. 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Disability benefits 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Multi-peril 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | State insurance fund 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | New York State Department of Labor 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Syracuse University plan 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Lease 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Tax exemption status 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Clippings | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Crusade for Opportunity 1965-1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Delano grape boycott 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Home town news 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Organization of Organizations and Community Action Training Center 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Syracuse Community Development Association 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Newsletters 1964-1967 | ||||||||||
| Subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty 1965-1966 - convention information and correspondence | ||||||||||
| Community Action Training Center | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Field operation report 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Grant reallocation 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Progress profile 1965 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Crusade for Opportunity 1966-1967 - proposals, meeting agendas, and fact sheets | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Episcopalian Diocese of Central New York 1966 - internal reports on community involvement and Syracuse Community Development Association funding | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Haggstrom, Warren 1966 - first draft of "Can the Poor Transform the World?" | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Office of Economic Opportunity funding loss 1965-1966 - correspondence, press releases, and newsletters | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Organization of Organizations 1966-1967 - meeting minutes, constitution, newsletters, event schedules, and information sheets (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | People's Organization to Win Equal Rights undated - constitution | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | People's War Council Against Poverty 1965 - press releases, telegrams, and resolutions | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Welfare 1965 - memorandums and welfare standards | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Williams, Anna Mae undated - essays on poverty and education | ||||||||||