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American Foundations Oral History Project, 1989-1993

Collection ID: ohrc001
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American Foundations Oral History Project, 1989-1993

Campus:
Indiana University Bloomington
Repository:
Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Collection ID:
ohrc001
Date:
1989-1993
Creator:
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Scope Content:
This collection consists of forty-two interviews collected over the course of two years. Interviews range from fifty to one hundred-fity minutes. All interviews consist of audiotapes and typed transcripts.
Physical Description:
42 Interviews

Scallon, Al, April 19, 1990

Collection ID:
90-010
Date:
April 19, 1990
Scope Content:
Al Scallon, the director of the Corporate Support Programs (or corporate philanthropy) of IBM, speaks of IBM's reasons for giving, as well as his own ideas regarding the purpose and orientation of philanthropy. He emphasizes the international character of IBM's philanthropic activities and discusses the increased stress on programs aimed at minority development. In addition, Scallon discusses the issue of philanthropic ethics.