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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
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Collection ID:: 90-029
Date:: April 30, 1991
Scope Content:: In this interview, Landrum Bolling discusses his past, including his childhood, his religious and moral upbringing with Quaker and Baptist influences, his education and career, and his eventual work in philanthropy. He speaks of his intimate association with the Lilly Endowment, and its focus on the importance of education in the state of Indiana and throughout the world. Bolling also comments on his personal philosophy on philanthropy, and describes some of the places and events which influenced this philosophy.
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Collection ID:: 90-006
Date:: March 14, 1990
Scope Content:: Charles A. Johnson, a foundation officer of the Lilly Endowment and former fundraiser, discusses the influences of his background, religion, and education on his values and philosophy of philanthropy. He speaks of the Lilly family, their commitment to philanthropy, and the three main areas of emphasis in the Lilly Endowment: religion, education, and community development. Johnson discusses the Endowment's grant making process in these areas, in addition to commenting on philanthropic ethics, the causes and effects of the 1969 Tax Reform Act, and the Endowment's traditional emphasis on making grants in Indianapolis.
Place:: Indiana and Indianapolis, Indiana
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