Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center

Summary Information

Title: Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center records
Dates: 1974-1985
Creator: Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center
Extent: 9 linear feet Extent: (18 manuscript boxes, 2 legal-length manuscript boxes, 1 record carton of tapes and artifacts, 3 oversize boxes of banners)
Language: English
Collection Number: SW105
Abstract:

The records include board and committee minutes, financial records, correspondence with other individuals and organizations in the welfare advocacy field, media relations files, "actions" files pertaining to protests, demonstrations and confrontations, files related to provision of advocacy services for welfare recipients, newsletters, and posters. Redistribute America Movement materials are records of demonstrations and protests.

Repository: University of Minnesota Libraries. Social Welfare History Archives

Access and Use

Acquisition Information:

The Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center records were received as a gift from the Verne Weed Living Archive Board at Hunter College School of Social Work, as represented by Mimi Abramovitz, in 1988. They are the initial component of the Verne Weed Collection for Progressive Social Work.

Access Restrictions:

Open for use in Social Welfare History Archives reading room.

Copyright:

Please contact the Archivist for copyright information.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in seven series:

• Series 1. Administrative
• Series 2. Financial
• Series 3. Actions
• Series 4. Individuals and Organizations
• Series 5. Media Relations
• Series 6. Advocacy
• Series 7. Special-format Materials

History of the Organization

The Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center (DWAC) was formed in New York City in 1974, mainly by a group of single mothers dependent on public entitlements. Often frustrated and confused, and occasionally victimized by the Human Services bureaucracy, these women initially began meeting as an informal support group, combating the social and emotional isolation of single parenthood coupled with poverty. As these early meetings turned toward consciousness-raising—as common experiences of life on welfare were shared and analyzed—the participants quickly became politicized and turned their attention to planning and organizing. Highly influential in this transformation was the presence and leadership of Anita Hoffman, wife of then-fugitive Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, who found herself a welfare mother in New York after her husband went underground.

The political and organizational roots of the Center are in two movements of the 1960s. Emerging from the civil rights struggle, the poor people's (or welfare rights) movement flourished and rapidly declined in the latter years of the decade. Composed of numerous independent regional recipient groups, loosely affiliated under the umbrella of George Wiley's National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), the movement sought a guaranteed adequate income through demonstrations, lobbying for incremental reform of welfare laws, and attempts to destigmatize the acceptance—and accepters—of public assistance. Although the movement was represented nationwide, it was concentrated in northern urban centers, especially New York. There were more WRO and NWRO members in the state of New York than any other, and Brooklyn alone had more members than any other United States city. DWAC reprised this organizing success when forming its own guaranteed-income membership arm, the Redistribute America Movement (RAM), in 1979. One resource behind RAM's growth to five thousand members—again, with New York and Brooklyn leading the nation in recipient activism—was the recruitment and training manuals created by welfare rights advocates ten years earlier. As had been true ten years earlier, membership was overwhelmingly black.

The second primary influence on DWAC's organizational strategies and goals was the resurgence of women's involvement in political struggles through the women's movement. A main focus of DWAC's presentation of the economic and public assistance problems of New York and the United States was the increasing "feminization of poverty," the disproportionate representation of single women and their dependents on welfare rolls. Nearly 90% of recipients are such single parent, female-headed households; almost 95% of DWAC's leaders, staff, and RAM members were women. DWAC inherited concepts from the women's movement and transformed them to reflect the perspective and needs of poor women; the maxim "Every mother is a working mother" became "Every welfare mother is a poor working mother."

Initially, DWAC volunteers conducted a limited telephone and walk-in advocacy operation, while visiting welfare centers to offer advice and recruit volunteers. At the same time, Anita Hoffman sought and acquired seed money. By 1976, they had merged with the People's Information Center (PIC), a community switchboard with which they shared offices. Theresa Funiciello, an employee of the PIC, replaced Hoffman as director. Funiciello's grant-writing ability allowed DWAC to expand and improve its advocacy work while her charismatic leadership drew more volunteers and supporters. (In general, DWAC's record of intervention in welfare cut-offs, hearings, and foul-ups was successful at a rate of approximately 90%.) The organization began combining its advocacy operations with an explicitly activist role; the two roles were never totally separate, welfare center take-overs being a weapon in DWAC's advocacy arsenal.

Although DWAC had previously participated in activist coalitions and in a limited number of its own demonstrations, it was with the founding of Redistribute America Movement in 1979 that the group's career as a protest organization really began. Formed after an extensive training and planning period, and assisted by representatives of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Center for Third World Organizing, RAM devoted itself to providing opportunities and leadership experience to its low-income members at the same time as it worked both to change the public representation of welfare issues and to increase and expand welfare grants themselves. The purpose in forming RAM is evident in its career and in the writings of a member of DWAC's board of directors, Richard Cloward, writing with Frances Fox Piven. Cloward and Piven argued that economically disadvantaged peoples are also politically weak, not having the resources to influence political events. In such circumstances, the politics of disruption are a more appropriate tactic than lobbying and conventional activism, which are of limited effectiveness and beyond the resources of an organization of poor people. RAM pursued this goal by creative, almost relentless demonstrations that juxtaposed the survival problems of their constituency with the lifestyles and political fortunes of the affluent. The point was to mobilize public opinion away from welfare bashing and toward compassion for the poor and distrust of the enormous sums of government money corporations, developers, and individuals receive in the forms of tax abatements and exclusionary deductions. At the same time, RAM borrowed a tactic of the NWRO and attempted to create a crisis within the state and city welfare bureaucracy by curtailing routine welfare-roll cutbacks—arguing, correctly, that the process was based on budgetary needs and not on sufficient case-by-case reasoning. RAM also tried to exploit special entitlements, flooding welfare centers with emergency and clothing grant requests that cited inflation as the catastrophe justifying the claims.

Resource constraints limited the organizational and operational success of RAM—beyond expenses, foundations were wary, and corporations antagonistic, towards the funding of uppity welfare mothers—as did the greater power of their opposition. Yet while overall goals, especially the attainment of a guaranteed adequate income, were unreached, specific struggles leading to these goals were. Tax abatements and rollbacks for corporations and the wealthy were not reversed, but the major Commodore Hotel abatement was defeated. Welfare grants were not raised to the poverty line, but were kept intact in the Two-Party Rent Check campaign, and were impressively raised 15% in 1981, the year of President Reagan's social spending cuts.

DWAC/RAM began to weaken as an organization in late 1982 and 1983. Although advocacy operations were anemically maintained through 1984, and storefront operations perhaps as late as early 1985, the operation had basically run its course. Various factors led to this decline: the straining of philanthropic purses in a recession presided over by a conservative government; exhaustion of staff, most of whom had stopped being welfare mothers themselves as the organization flourished in the face of running DWAC by day and RAM in the evenings; and the difficulty of maintaining membership and volunteer involvement of an economically and politically marginalized constituency. Before the final break-up, many of DWAC/RAM's leaders had gone on to other advocacy and organizing work.

Collection Scope and Content Note

The Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center (DWAC)/Redistribute America Movement (RAM) records document the activities of the welfare rights organization, from its support-group origins to becoming the United States' largest poor-people's advocacy and activist group. Included in the collection are board and committee minutes; chapter and organizing information; financial records and proposals; protests, campaigns and litigation; subject files containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, advocacy material and newsletter planning. Many advocacy case records and tapes were stolen from the organization around 1978-79; few such records were kept afterwards.

The records have been arranged in six series: 1) Administrative; 2) Financial; 3) Actions; 4) Individuals and Organizations; 5) Media Relations; and 6) Advocacy. Also, there are a number of tape recordings, banners, and posters. Because the activities, personnel, and files of DWAC and RAM were often largely interchangeable, no effort has been made to distinguish between the records of the two.

Related Material

Unpublished inventory available. Please contact Archives for more information.

Subject Terms

Index Terms

• This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
• Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center.
• Redistribute America Movement
• Welfare rights movement--New York (State)--New York.

Detailed Contents of Collection

Location		Title
		Series 1. Administrative ((Boxes 1-2))   Note This series contains annual reports and Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement staff, board, and general meeting minutes from 1974 to 1984. It also includes membership and organizing records of RAM in New York City and New York State. There is also information on personnel, board members, volunteers, interns and elections.
		Reports/Meetings
Box 1		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Constitution and Bylaws  Box 1, Folder 1
		Draft of Constitution  Box 24, Folder 1 Note Separated from Folder 1:1
Box 1		History of Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center and Staff,  Box 1, Folder 1
		Public Information Center and Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center, 1972-1976 Box 1, Folder 1
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Annual Reports, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983 Box 1, Folder 2
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Meetings, 1978 Box 1, Folder 3
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Leadership Meeting, 1980 Box 1, Folder 4
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Staff Meetings 1980-1984
Box 1		1980 Box 1, Folder 5
		1981 Box 1, Folder 6
		1982 Box 1, Folder 6
		1983-1984 Box 1, Folder 7
		Redistribute America Movement Meetings, 1979, 1980 Box 1, Folder 8
Box 24		Minutes, 1975-1983 Box 24, Folder 2 Note Separated from Folders 1:4-8
Box 1		Redistribute America Movement Non-Conference Meetings, 1981 Box 1, Folder 9
		Redistribute America Movement Statewide Planning Materials and Member Response, 1981 Box 1, Folder 10
		Redistribute America Movement Statewide Participation Materials, 1981 Box 1, Folder 11
Box 24		Redistribute America Movement Statewide Conference Material, 1981 Box 24, Folder 3 Note Separated from Folder 1:11
		Membership/Organizing
Box 1		Redistribute America Movement Network General  Box 1, Folder 12
		Redistribute America Movement Chapter Organizing  Box 1, Folder 13
		Redistribute America Movement New York City Chapters
Box 2		Brooklyn  Box 2, Folder 1
		Manhattan  Box 2, Folder 1
		Queens  Box 2, Folder 1
		Latin [Spanish-speaking]  Box 2, Folder 1
Box 24		Queens Redistribute America Movement court documents  Box 24, Folder 4 Note Separated from Folder 2:1
Box 2		Redistribute America Movement Upstate New York Chapters/Organizing  Box 2, Folder 2
Box 24		Syracuse Redistribute America Movement Raffle, 1982 Box 24, Folder 5 Note Separated from Folder 2:2
		Staff Retreat  Box 24, Folder 6
Box 2		Redistribute America Movement Membership Records, 1980 Box 2, Folder 3
		Redistribute America Movement Membership/Sponsorship Records 1980 Box 2, Folder 4
		Personnel
Box 2		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Personnel Policies and Lists  Box 2, Folder 5
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Board of Directors  Box 2, Folder 6
		Redistribute America Movement Volunteers, 1981 Box 2, Folder 7
Box 24		Redistribute America Movement Volunteers  Box 24, Folder 7 Note Separated from Folder 2:7
Box 2		Redistribute America Movement Elections, 1981 Box 2, Folder 7
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/National Council of Neighborhood Women
Box 2		CETA [Comprehensive Employment and Training Act] Contract, 1978 Box 2, Folder 8
		CETA [Comprehensive Employment and Training Act] Contract, 1979 Box 2, Folder 9
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Student Internships, 1980-1982 Box 2, Folder 10
Box 24		Barnard College Internship  Box 24, Folder 8 Note Separated from Folder 2:10
Box 2		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/College of Human Servces Contract, 1980 Box 2, Folder 11
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Job Advertisements, 1980-1981 Box 2, Folder 12
Box 24		Job Applications  Box 24, Folder 9 Note Separated from Folder 2:12
		Series 2. Financial ((Boxes 3-9))   Note This series contains sketchy tax records, information on fund-raiser events held between 1979 and 1983, and records pertaining to efforts at institutional fund-raising. Included in the latter are Anita Hoffman's early outreach, solicitation research, and training and actual proposals. Of particular interest in the institutional fund-raising correspondence is the Campaign for Human Development (CHD) material. As a condition of funding Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center for several years, CHD required extensive documentation of grantee activity, which is evidenced in the quarterly reports.
		Records
Box 3		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Tax Status Information, 1978-1980 Box 3, Folder 1
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Income Pro-Ration, 1978-1980 Box 3, Folder 2
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Contracts, 1979 Box 3, Folder 3
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Budgets, Records, Planning, 1979-1984 Box 3, Folder 4
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Funding History, 1979-1983 Box 3, Folder 5
Box 24		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Tax Records, 1983 Box 24, Folder 10 Note Separated from Folder 3:5
Box 3		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Daily Log, 1982 Box 3, Folder 6 Note Fund-raising Log, July 7, 1982
		Fund-raisers
Box 3		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Misc. Fund-raising, 1979-1980 Box 3, Folder 7
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Cocktail Fund-raiser, 1981
Box 3		1981 Box 3, Folder 8
		1981 Box 3, Folder 9
		Redistribute America Movement Brooklyn Fund-raiser, 1980-1983 Box 3, Folder 10
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Misc. Fund-raising, 1982-1983 Box 3, Folder 11
		Institutional Fund-raising
		Early Outreach
Box 4		Initial Correspondence, 1974-1976 Box 4, Folder 1
		People's Information Center/Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Merger, 1976-1977 Box 4, Folder 1
		Community Actiion for Legal Services/Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center, 1977-1978 Box 4, Folder 2
Box 24		Banking Agreement 1975 Box 24, Folder 11 Note Separated from Folder 4:1
		Community Action for Legal Services, "Carter Welfare Reform" Proposal, 1977 Box 24, Folder 12 Note Separated from Folder 4:2
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/National Council of Neighborhood Women "Self-Help Project," 1980 Box 24, Folder 13 Note Separated from Folder 4:3
Box 4		Research/Training  Box 4, Folder 3
		Research and Planning, 1977-1981 Box 4, Folder 3
		Grantsmanship Center Training, 1979-1981 Box 4, Folder 3
		Research and Planning, 1985 Box 4, Folder 3
		Letters of Support  Box 4, Folder 4
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center Proposals, 1976-1977 Box 4, Folder 5
		1978 Box 4, Folder 6
		1979 Box 4, Folder 7
		1980 Box 4, Folder 8
Box 5		1981 Box 5, Folder 1
		1982 Box 5, Folder 2
		Leadership Development Project, 1982-1983 Box 5, Folder 3
		1984 Box 5, Folder 4
		Fund-raising Correspondence
		Campaign for Human Development [Catholic Bishops of America]
		Campaign for Human Development, 1979-1980
Box 5		Responsive Welfare Project  Box 5, Folder 5
		Profile, Budget and Proposal  Box 5, Folder 5
		Finances, Quarterly Reports  Box 5, Folder 6
		Campaign for Human Development, 1980-1981 Box 5, Folder 6
		Leadership Development Project  Box 5, Folder 6
		Profile, Budget, Proposal and Finances  Box 5, Folder 7
		1st, 2nd Quarterly Reports  Box 5, Folder 8
		3rd, 4th Quarterly Reports  Box 5, Folder 9
		Campaign for Human Development, 1981-1982 Box 5, Folder 9
		Redistribute America Movement Project  Box 5, Folder 9
Box 6		Application, Profile, Budget, Proposal, Finances  Box 6, Folder 1
		Campaign for Human Development, 1981-1982
Box 24		Project Draft  Box 24, Folder 14 Note Separated from Folder 6:1
		Grant Agreement  Box 24, Folder 15 Note Separated from Folder 6:2
Box 6		1st, 2nd Quarterly Reports  Box 6, Folder 2
		3rd, 4th Quarterly Reports  Box 6, Folder 3
		Campaign for Human Development, 1981-1982 Box 6, Folder 3
		Brooklyn Borowide Project  Box 6, Folder 3
		Budget, Proposal, Finances  Box 6, Folder 4
		Quarterly Reports  Box 6, Folder 5
		Campaign for Human Development, 1982-1983 Box 6, Folder 5
		Brooklyn Project  Box 6, Folder 5
		Drafts  Box 6, Folder 6
		Proposal  Box 6, Folder 7
		Campaign for Human Development General Information and Correspondence  Box 6, Folder 8
		Campaign for Human Development General Information and Correspondence  Box 6, Folder 9
Box 7		Adco Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Allied Bank International  Box 7, Folder 1
		American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York  Box 7, Folder 1
		American Express Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Arca Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Association for Mission Participation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Atlantic Bank of New York  Box 7, Folder 1
		Vincent AStor Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Astraea Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Avon Products Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Bank America Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Bank of New York  Box 7, Folder 1
		Bankers Trust Co.  Box 7, Folder 1
Box 24		Brooklyn Area Policy Board  Box 24, Folder 16 Note Separated from Folder 7:1
Box 7		Bydale Foundation  Box 7, Folder 1
		Capp Street Foundation  Box 7, Folder 2
		Carnegie Corporation of New York  Box 7, Folder 2
		Center for Community College  Box 7, Folder 2
		Chase Manhattan Bank  Box 7, Folder 2
		Chemical Bank  Box 7, Folder 2
		Children's Foundation  Box 7, Folder 2
		Citibank  Box 7, Folder 2
		Edna McConnell Clark Foundation  Box 7, Folder 2
		Robert Sterling Clark Foundation  Box 7, Folder 3
		Cummins Engine Foundation  Box 7, Folder 3
		Discount Foundation  Box 7, Folder 3
		Disney Foundation  Box 7, Folder 3
		Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, Inc.  Box 7, Folder 3
		Ecumenical Funding Table  Box 7, Folder 3
		United Presbyterian Church U.S.A.  Box 7, Folder 3
		Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization  Box 7, Folder 3
		Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod  Box 7, Folder 3
		Lutheran Church in America  Box 7, Folder 3
		Riverside Church  Box 7, Folder 3
		Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church  Box 7, Folder 3
		Ecumenical Review Board  Box 7, Folder 3
		Episcopal Church Center  Box 7, Folder 4
		Exxon Education Foundation  Box 7, Folder 4
		Maurice Falk Medical Fund  Box 7, Folder 4
		Field Foundation  Box 7, Folder 4
		Ford Foundation  Box 7, Folder 4
		Foundatin for Child Development  Box 7, Folder 4
		Franciscan Friars, Province of Santa Barbara  Box 7, Folder 5
		Fund for the City of New York  Box 7, Folder 5
		The Glenmede Trust Co.  Box 7, Folder 5
		Herman Goldman Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Greater New York Fund  Box 7, Folder 5
		George Gund Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Gutfreund Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Health Systems Agency of New York City  Box 7, Folder 5
		Hugh M. Hefner Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Hess Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization  Box 7, Folder 5
Box 24		Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization  Box 24, Folder 17 Note Separated from Folder 7:5
Box 7		Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Ittleson Foundation  Box 7, Folder 5
		Jewish Fund for Justice  Box 7, Folder 5
		Joint Foundation for Support  Box 7, Folder 6
		Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation  Box 7, Folder 6
		J. M. Kaplan Fund  Box 7, Folder 6
		W. K. Kellogg Foundation  Box 7, Folder 6
		Legal Services Corp.  Box 7, Folder 6
		Harry Levine Memorial Fund  Box 7, Folder 6
Box 8		Max and Anna Levinson Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		Lilly Endowment  Box 8, Folder 1
		Limantour Fund  Box 8, Folder 1
		Local Initiative Support Corp. (LISC)  Box 8, Folder 1
		Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		Lutheran Church in America  Box 8, Folder 1
		Marianist Sharing Fund  Box 8, Folder 1
		Charles McCullough Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		McDonald's Corporation  Box 8, Folder 1
		J. M. McDonald Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		Mobil Foundation, Inc.  Box 8, Folder 1
		William Morris Agency  Box 8, Folder 1
		Stewart R. Mott Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		Movement for Economic Justice  Box 8, Folder 1
		MS Foundation  Box 8, Folder 1
		National Clients Council  Box 8, Folder 2
		National Community Funds  Box 8, Folder 2
		National Committee on the Self-Development of People  Box 8, Folder 2
		National Ministries  Box 8, Folder 2
		Needmor Fund  Box 8, Folder 2
		New World Foundation  Box 8, Folder 3
		New York City Mission Society  Box 8, Folder 3
		New York Community Trust  Box 8, Folder 3
		New York Foundation  Box 8, Folder 3
		New York Theological Seminary  Box 8, Folder 4
		Norman Foundation  Box 8, Folder 4
Box 24		North Shore Unitarian Veatch Program 1982 Box 24, Folder 18 Note Upstate Coordinator Record, Separated from Folder 8:4
		North Star Fund  Box 24, Folder 19 Note Separated from Folder 8:5
Box 8		Oaklawn Foundation  Box 8, Folder 5
		Ottinger Foundation  Box 8, Folder 5
		Park Avenue Trust Fund  Box 8, Folder 6
		Parker Dodd & Associates  Box 8, Folder 6
		William Penn Foundation  Box 8, Folder 6
		J. C. Penney Foundation  Box 8, Folder 6
		Piton Foundation  Box 8, Folder 6
		Polaroid Foundation  Box 8, Folder 6
Box 9		Public Welfare Foundation  Box 9, Folder 1
		Rheedlen Foundation  Box 9, Folder 1
		RESIST  Box 9, Folder 1
		Frederick W. Richmond Foundation  Box 9, Folder 1
		Riverside Church of New York  Box 9, Folder 1
		Edward and Ellen Roach Relief Fund  Box 9, Folder 1
		Rockefeller Foundation/Family Fund  Box 9, Folder 1
		Samuel Rubin Foundation  Box 9, Folder 1
		Helena Rubinstein Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Sachen Fund  Box 9, Folder 2
		Scherman Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Shalan Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Sherwood Forest Fund  Box 9, Folder 2
		Spirit Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Stern Fund  Box 9, Folder 2
		Sunflower Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Surdna Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Taconic Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		Third World Fund  Box 9, Folder 2
		Thorn Fund  Box 9, Folder 2
		Time, Inc.  Box 9, Folder 2
		Trinity Church  Box 9, Folder 2
		Twenty-First Century Foundation  Box 9, Folder 2
		United Church of Christ  Box 9, Folder 2
		Board for Homeland Ministries  Box 9, Folder 2
		Women Who are Poor Project  Box 9, Folder 2
		World Hunger Working Group  Box 9, Folder 2
		United Methodist Church  Box 9, Folder 2
		United Presbyterian Church  Box 9, Folder 3
		U.S. Government Programs  Box 9, Folder 4
		U.S. Governement Programs  Box 9, Folder 5
		Van Amerigen Foundation  Box 9, Folder 6
		Vanguard Foundation  Box 9, Folder 6
		Ann Weinberg Memorial Fund  Box 9, Folder 6
		John Hay Whitney Foundation  Box 9, Folder 6
		Whirlpool Foundation  Box 9, Folder 6
		Windemere Fund  Box 9, Folder 7
		Youth Project of Movement for Economic Justice  Box 9, Folder 7
		Series 3. Actions ((Boxes 10-15))   Note This series contains research and planning records of most of the major demonstrations, confrontations, and campaigns organized by Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement: the Mobil/April Fools Day auction; the Clothe Our Children Campaign; two Saratoga Horse Auction protests; the Donald Trump/Hyatt Hotel Action; three Welfare Grant Increase demonstrations. Also included are a number of smaller actions, coalition campaigns, and writings by DWAC leaders. Welfare procedure campaigns, not necessarily including a focal demonstration day, are recorded here. These food stamp, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) application, two-party rent check, "churning," and brutality campaigns give rich evidence to the specifics of the issues involved in welfare disputes. Records of RAM litigation, especially the extensive coverage of RAM v. Blum, also give specific evidence of the legal issues pertaining to RAM's critique of the welfare system.
		Mobil/April Fools' Action
Box 24		Allies  Box 24, Folder 20 Note Separated from Folders 10:1-2
Box 10		Five-Month Plan and Notes  Box 10, Folder 1-2
		Press: Correspondence, planning  Box 10, Folder 3
		General Correspondence  Box 10, Folder 4
		Meeting Minutes and Correspondence  Box 10, Folder 5
		Academic Organizing  Box 10, Folder 6
		Union Organizing  Box 10, Folder 7
		Logistics  Box 10, Folder 8
		Notes March 24, 1982 Box 10, Folder 9
		Proposal and Support Material  Box 10, Folder 10
		Follow-Up  Box 10, Folder 11
Box 24		Redistribute America Movement Memo, "Corporate Demands"  Box 24, Folder 21 Note Separated from Folder 10:5
Box 10		Pictures  Box 10, Folder 12
		Clothe Our Children Campaign (COCC)
Box 10		Planning/Organizing  Box 10, Folder 13 and 14
Box 11		Upstate New York Planning/Organizing  Box 11, Folder 1
		Printed Materials  Box 11, Folder 2
		Press: Releases, Conferences, Planning  Box 11, Folder 3
		Participants  Box 11, Folder 4
		Clothe Our Children Campaign Day September 15, 1980
Box 24		Planning/Organizing  Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Upstate Planning/Organizing  Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Printed Materials  Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Press  Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Participants  Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Clothe Our Children Campaign Day, Sept. 15, 1980 Box 24, Folder 22 Note Separated from Folders 10:13-11:5
		Saratoga Protests
Box 11		Meetings and Notes, 1981 Box 11, Folder 6
		Research, Printed Materials, Press, 1981 Box 11, Folder 7
		Planning Notes and Materials, 1982 Box 11, Folder 8
		Research, 1982 Box 11, Folder 9
		Press Materials, 1982 Box 11, Folder 10
Box 24		Horse Auction Material  Box 24, Folder 23 Note Separated from Folders 11:6-10
		Donald Trump/Hyatt Hotel Hearing
Box 11		New York State Urban Development Corporation (NYSUDC) Commodore Hotel Hearing  Box 11, Folder 11
		Public Employee Press Tax Abatement Articles  Box 11, Folder 12
		Commodore Hotel Purchase Research  Box 11, Folder 13
		Research on Trump, Commodore Deal  Box 11, Folder 14
Box 12		Background Articles on Trump, etc.  Box 12, Folder 1
Box 24		New York State Urban Development Corporation (NYSUDC) Commodore Hotel Hearing  Box 24, Folder 25 Note Separated from Folders 11:11-12:2
		"Public Employee Press" Tax Abatement Articles  Box 24, Folder 25 Note Separated from Folders 11:11-12:2
		Research on Commodore Hotel Purchase  Box 24, Folder 25 Note Separated from Folders 11:11-12:2
		Research on Commodore Hotel Purchase (cont.); Trump  Box 24, Folder 25 Note Separated from Folders 11:11-12:2
		Hyatt Action, March 10, 1981 Box 24, Folder 25 Note Separated from Folders 11:11-12:2
Box 12		Albany Demonstrations  Box 12, Folder 2
		Material from First Action, March 14, 1979 Box 12, Folder 3
		Material from Second Action, March 27, 1980 Box 12, Folder 4
		Demonstration Logistics/Planning
		Endorsers: Requests and Correspondenc
		Press/Printed Material
Box 12		Endorsers: Requests and Correspondence 1980 Box 12, Folder 5
		Press and Printed Materal March 27, 1980 Box 12, Folder 6
		Material from Third Action, 1981 Box 12, Folder 7
Box 24		Christmas Tour Material, 1981 Box 24, Folder 24 Note Separated from 12:8
Box 12		Christmas Tour 1981 Box 12, Folder 8
		Speeches/Testimony by Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement Members  Box 12, Folder 9
		Misc. Actions, 1978-1982 Box 12, Folder 10
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Coalition for a People's Budget Action, March 4, 1978 Box 12, Folder 10
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/WAGE [Women Are Getting Even] Eastern Airlines Action, 1978 Box 12, Folder 10
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center "Robin Hood was Right" Action, May 11, 1978 Box 12, Folder 10
		Misc. Meetings, Plans for Actions  Box 12, Folder 10
		Planned Parenthood Action  Box 12, Folder 10
		Emergency Campaign to Save Human Services  Box 12, Folder 10
		Jobs with Peace Campaign  Box 12, Folder 10
		Fate of the Earth Conference  Box 12, Folder 10
		Two-Party Rent Checks
Box 13		Correspondence, June 15-Aug. 21, 1978 Box 13, Folder 1
		Correspondence, Aug. 22-Dec. 27, 1978 Box 13, Folder 2
		Correspondence, Jan. 3-July 10, 1979 Box 13, Folder 3
		Press Kit, Notes and Responses  Box 13, Folder 4
		Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Application Petition
Box 13		Correspondence/Printed Material, 1978 Box 13, Folder 5
		Correspondence/Printed Material, 1979, 1980 Box 13, Folder 6
		AFDC Application Petition 1979-1980 Box 13, Folder 7
		Food Stamp Advocacy
Box 14		1977-1979 Box 14, Folder 1
		1980-1983 Box 14, Folder 2
		Welfare Guard Brutality, 1978-1979
Box 14		Press, Flyers, Forms, and Notes  Box 14, Folder 3
		Correspondence/Statements  Box 14, Folder 4
		Human Resource Administration Procedures  Box 14, Folder 5
		"Churning" Campaign, 1978-1979, 1983-1984 Box 14, Folder 6
		Welfare and Shelter, 1982-1983 Box 14, Folder 7
		Redistribute America Movement Litigation
Box 25		Litigation  Box 25, Folder 1 Note American Public Welfare Association v. James Califano; separated from Folder 14:8
Box 14		General Notes, Correspondence  Box 14, Folder 8
		NGP [ New York Post ] v. Blum, 1979 Box 14, Folder 9
		Redistribute America Movement Legal Aid Society Action, 1983 Box 14, Folder 10
		Redistribute America Movement v. Blum, 1979-1983 Box 14, Folder 11
		Summons  Box 14, Folder 11
		Dismissal Affadavits  Box 14, Folder 12
		Gordon Affadavits  Box 14, Folder 13
		Krauskopf Action, Nov. 17, 1982 Box 14, Folder 14
Box 15		Decision, May, 1983 Box 15, Folder 1
Box 25		Assorted Correspondence  Box 25, Folder 2 Note Separated from Folders 15:3-16:4
Box 15		Press Material  Box 15, Folder 2
		Series 4. Individuals and Organizations ((Boxes 15-16))   Note Contained here are materials, arranged alphabetically by name, ranging from generalized mailings of national organizations to letters from individuals thanking staff members for intervention in their welfare case. In nearly every case, there is very limited coverage of any particular individual or organization.
Box 25		Assorted Correspondence  Box 25, Folder 2 Note Separated from Folders 15:3-16:4
Box 15		ACORN  Box 15, Folder 3
		Albany, New York based groups  Box 15, Folder 4
		Abraham and Straus  Box 15, Folder 5
		Advocates for Children  Box 15, Folder 5
		Alexander, Becky  Box 15, Folder 5
		ACLU - Southern Women's Rights Project  Box 15, Folder 5
		American Federation of State, City and Municipal Employees District Council 37  Box 15, Folder 5
		Amsterdam News  Box 15, Folder 5
		Archdiocese of New York  Box 15, Folder 5
		Association Nationale des Assistants de Service Social  Box 15, Folder 5
		Bard College  Box 15, Folder 5
		Beth Israel Medical Center  Box 15, Folder 5
		Black Agency Executives  Box 15, Folder 5
		Black Minister's Conference  Box 15, Folder 5
		Board of Global Ministries, the United Methodist Church  Box 15, Folder 5
		Boricua College  Box 15, Folder 5
		Bread for the World  Box 15, Folder 5
		Broadcast Recording Service  Box 15, Folder 5
		Brooklyn Energy Cooperative  Box 15, Folder 5
		Brooklyn Legal Services Corp. "A"  Box 15, Folder 5
		Brownstein, Irwin  Box 15, Folder 5
		Burrelle's Media Directory  Box 15, Folder 5
		Campi, D.  Box 15, Folder 5
		C.A.M.P.S. [Coalition Against Milatarism in our Public Schools]  Box 15, Folder 5
		Can Do Mother  Box 15, Folder 5
		Catholic Charities  Box 15, Folder 5
		Catholic Interracial Council of New York, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 5
		Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family  Box 15, Folder 5
		Center for Popular Economics  Box 15, Folder 5
		Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law  Box 15, Folder 5
		CTWO [Center for Third World Organizing]  Box 15, Folder 6
		Century Operating Corp.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Challenge Unlimited Corp.  Box 15, Folder 6
		The Children's Foundation  Box 15, Folder 6
		Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Citizens' Policy Center  Box 15, Folder 6
		CUNY  Box 15, Folder 6
		City-Wide Nutrition Advocacy Corp.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Cloward, Richard  Box 15, Folder 6
		College for Human Services  Box 15, Folder 6
		Colon, Alexander  Box 15, Folder 6
		Columbia University  Box 15, Folder 6
		Commisstion on Racial Justice  Box 15, Folder 6
		Committee of Interns and Residents  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Action for Legal Services, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Conferences  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Council of Greater New York  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Media Project  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Resource Exchange  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Services Administration  Box 15, Folder 6
		Community Service Society of New York  Box 15, Folder 6
		Corporate Campaign, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 6
		Crown Heights Service Center  Box 15, Folder 6
		New York Daily News  Box 15, Folder 7
		Democratic Agenda  Box 15, Folder 7
		Diocese of New York City of the Protestant Episcopal Church  Box 15, Folder 7
		"Donahue Show"  Box 15, Folder 7
		Downtown Community Television Center  Box 15, Folder 7
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement  Box 15, Folder 7
		East Brooklyn Legal Services  Box 15, Folder 7
		East Harlem Interfaith  Box 15, Folder 7
		Edelman, Diana  Box 15, Folder 7
		Eithr, Suzette  Box 15, Folder 7
		El Diario  Box 15, Folder 7
		Environmental Action Foundation  Box 15, Folder 7
		Facts on File  Box 15, Folder 8
		Farren, Pat  Box 15, Folder 8
		Feminist Health Works  Box 15, Folder 8
		Field Foundation  Box 15, Folder 8
		Flatbush Development Corp.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Food Action and Community Education  Box 15, Folder 8
		Food Law Project  Box 15, Folder 8
		Foundation for Accounting Education  Box 15, Folder 8
		FOIA [Fund for Open Information and Accountability, Inc.]  Box 15, Folder 8
		Funding Exchange  Box 15, Folder 8
		Gagne, Bob  Box 15, Folder 8
		Germfain, Rose Marie  Box 15, Folder 8
		Goldner, Carole  Box 15, Folder 8
		Goodman, Emily Jane  Box 15, Folder 8
		Gorelick, Sol  Box 15, Folder 8
		Gross, Barabara  Box 15, Folder 8
		Hall, Maresa  Box 15, Folder 8
		Harvard Law School  Box 15, Folder 8
		Head Start  Box 15, Folder 8
		Health Systems Agency of New York City  Box 15, Folder 8
		Heatwatch Handbook  Box 15, Folder 8
		Hobo Medium Cafe  Box 15, Folder 8
		Holy Spirit House of Prayer, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Housing Conservation Coordinators  Box 15, Folder 8
		Human Rights Internet  Box 15, Folder 8
		Hunter College  Box 15, Folder 8
		Interfaith Medical Center  Box 15, Folder 8
		International Community Leadership Conference  Box 15, Folder 8
		International Hunger Network  Box 15, Folder 8
		International Ladies Garment Workers' Union  Box 15, Folder 8
		Iona College  Box 15, Folder 8
		Institute for Research on Poverty  Box 15, Folder 8
		Johnson, Linda  Box 15, Folder 8
		June 5th Coalition  Box 15, Folder 8
		Kaufman, Philip  Box 15, Folder 8
		Keane, Christine  Box 15, Folder 8
		Kirkpatrick, Rev.F.D.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Kline, Jerome  Box 15, Folder 8
		Kusnet, David  Box 15, Folder 8
		Law, Sylvia  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Aid Society [New York]  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Aid Society of Oneida County, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Services Corp.  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Services Corp. of Iowa  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Services Corp. of Kentucky  Box 15, Folder 8
		Legal Services Staff Association  Box 15, Folder 8
		Lewandoski, Heather  Box 15, Folder 8
		Lorenz, Marjorie  Box 15, Folder 8
		MacPherson, P.W.  Box 15, Folder 9
		McCaffy, John J.  Box 15, Folder 9
		McCewen, Regis  Box 15, Folder 9
		McNeal, Julia  Box 15, Folder 9
		Macy's  Box 15, Folder 9
		Maddox, Corral  Box 15, Folder 9
		Massachusetts, Commonwealth  Box 15, Folder 9
		Massamba, Betty  Box 15, Folder 9
		Media Consultations on Hunger  Box 15, Folder 9
		Media Network  Box 15, Folder 9
		Metropolitan Council East  Box 15, Folder 9
		MFY Legal Services, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 9
		Midwest Academy  Box 15, Folder 9
		Miller, Maya  Box 15, Folder 9
		Monk, Ruth  Box 15, Folder 9
		Monthly Review Press  Box 15, Folder 9
		Mutual Aid Project, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 9
		Muyskens, Joseph  Box 15, Folder 9
		NYCH [Parents' Rights Organization]  Box 15, Folder 9
		NAACP Special Contribution Fund  Box 15, Folder 9
		NASW - New York Chapter  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Center for Urban and Ethnic Affairs  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Coalition for Economic Justice  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Congress of Black Lawyers  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Congress of Neighborhood Women  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Council of the Churches of Christ  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Lawyers Guild  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Organization of Women  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Revue Corp.  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Trust for Historic Preservation  Box 15, Folder 9
		National Women's Committee to Support J.P. Stevens Workers  Box 15, Folder 9
		Nationwide Rent-A-Car  Box 15, Folder 9
		Neighborhood Action  Box 15, Folder 9
		New Hampshire College  Box 15, Folder 9
		Newman Center and Chapel [University of Minnesota]  Box 15, Folder 9
		Newsweek  Box 15, Folder 9
		The New World Foundation  Box 15, Folder 9
		New York City Government  Box 15, Folder 10
		Board of Education  Box 15, Folder 10
		Commission on Human Rights  Box 15, Folder 10
		Commission on the Status of Women  Box 15, Folder 10
		City Council  Box 15, Folder 10
		Legal Services Division  Box 15, Folder 10
		Bellamy, Carol  Box 15, Folder 10
		Friedlander, Miriam ["Feminization of Poverty"]  Box 15, Folder 10
		Katzman, Arthur  Box 15, Folder 10
		Messinger, Ruth  Box 15, Folder 10
		Schlein, Stanley Kalmen  Box 15, Folder 10
		Human Resources Administration, 1977-1984 Box 15, Folder 10
		Mayor - Ed Koch  Box 15, Folder 10
		Police Department  Box 15, Folder 10
		Transit Police Department  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York City Mission Society  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York Coalition to Fight Inflation and Unemployment  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York Community Advocacy Research and Development Corp.  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York Community Trust  Box 15, Folder 10
		NYPIRG [New York Public Interest Research Group]  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York Society for Ethical Culture  Box 15, Folder 10
		New York State Government  Box 15, Folder 11
		Department of Health  Box 15, Folder 11
		Department of Social Services, 1977-1983 Box 15, Folder 11
		Executive Chamber  Box 15, Folder 11
		Legislature, 1979-1981 Box 15, Folder 11
		Parks and Recreation  Box 15, Folder 11
		Public Service Commission  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York State Tenant and Neighborhood Coalition  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York Telephone  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York Times  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York University Law School  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York Women in Criminal Justice  Box 15, Folder 11
		New York Working Women  Box 15, Folder 11
		The North Star Fund  Box 15, Folder 11
		Opportunities for Broome  Box 15, Folder 11
		Orange County [NY] Community College  Box 15, Folder 11
		Orris, Gertrude  Box 15, Folder 11
		Oswego Women's Center  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pastrich, Bill  Box 15, Folder 11
		People's Housing Network, Inc.  Box 15, Folder 11
		People's Voice  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pine, Susan  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pittsburgh, Madi  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pragan, John  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pressaus [sic], ___ [person]  Box 15, Folder 11
		Project Concern's Option Agency  Box 15, Folder 11
		Project Cope  Box 15, Folder 11
		PULP [Public Utility Law Project]  Box 15, Folder 11
		Pueblo Nuebo  Box 15, Folder 11
		PRACA [Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs]  Box 15, Folder 11
Box 16		Queensborough Community College  Box 16, Folder 1
		Queens College  Box 16, Folder 1
		RASSW [Radical Association of Social Service Workers]  Box 16, Folder 1
		Rathke, Mary Ray  Box 16, Folder 1
		Riley, Negael  Box 16, Folder 1
		Riverside Church  Box 16, Folder 1
		Riverside-Edgecombe Neighborhood Association  Box 16, Folder 1
		Rockefeller Family Fund  Box 16, Folder 1
		Rock Against Racism  Box 16, Folder 1
		Sage Publications  Box 16, Folder 1
		Sampson, Tim  Box 16, Folder 1
		Saunders, Lilian  Box 16, Folder 1
		Savage, Franchetta  Box 16, Folder 1
		Schrader, Eleanor  Box 16, Folder 1
		Seventh Day Adventist Church  Box 16, Folder 1
		Sida, Frances  Box 16, Folder 1
		Sidel, Ruth  Box 16, Folder 1
		Skidmore News  Box 16, Folder 1
		Smith College  Box 16, Folder 1
		Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, Inc.  Box 16, Folder 1
		Solomon, Nancy [Peoria, IL welfare rights]  Box 16, Folder 1
		South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp.  Box 16, Folder 1
		South Forty Corp.  Box 16, Folder 1
		Southern Tier Legal Services  Box 16, Folder 1
		State Communities Aid Association  Box 16, Folder 1
		SUNY New Paltz  Box 16, Folder 1
		Staten Island Advance  Box 16, Folder 1
		Steinway Mental Health Commission  Box 16, Folder 1
		Steuben County Citizen's Awareness Program  Box 16, Folder 1
		Stevens, Tom  Box 16, Folder 1
		Storm, Linda  Box 16, Folder 1
		Suffolk Action Coalition  Box 16, Folder 1
		The David Suskind Show  Box 16, Folder 1
		Syracuse University  Box 16, Folder 1
		Task Force of the New York Crisis  Box 16, Folder 1
		Taylor, Chris  Box 16, Folder 1
		Thornberry, Michael  Box 16, Folder 1
		Todd, Nancy  Box 16, Folder 1
		Union College  Box 16, Folder 2
		United Church Board for Homeland Ministries  Box 16, Folder 2
		United Parents Concerned  Box 16, Folder 2
		United States Government  Box 16, Folder 2
		Department of Health, Education and Welfare  Box 16, Folder 2
		Department of Labor  Box 16, Folder 2
		Federal Communications Commission  Box 16, Folder 2
		House of Representatives  Box 16, Folder 2
		Senate  Box 16, Folder 2
		University of Minnesota  Box 16, Folder 2
		Uri, Connie Red-Bird  Box 16, Folder 2
		Utica Community Action  Box 16, Folder 2
		Valeska, Lucia  Box 16, Folder 2
		Vance Bibliographies  Box 16, Folder 2
		WCBS/FM  Box 16, Folder 2
		West, Guida  Box 16, Folder 2
		Whitfield, Beverly  Box 16, Folder 2
		Williams, Marva  Box 16, Folder 2
		WNBC-TV  Box 16, Folder 2
		WRGB/WGY  Box 16, Folder 2
		Women's Pentagon Action  Box 16, Folder 2
		Yonkers Womens Center  Box 16, Folder 2
		YWCA of the City of New York  Box 16, Folder 2
		The Youth Project  Box 16, Folder 2
		Youth Training Service Center Mini-School  Box 16, Folder 2
		Welfare Rights Organizations  Box 16, Folder 3
		Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law  Box 16, Folder 3
		"Spring into Action"  Box 16, Folder 3
		Anchorage Welfare Rights Organization  Box 16, Folder 3
		Coalition for Basic Human Needs  Box 16, Folder 3
		Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations  Box 16, Folder 3
		Economic Rights Organization [Bridgeport East Stands Together]  Box 16, Folder 3
		Iowa Coalition of Community Organizations  Box 16, Folder 3
		Minnesota Recipients Alliance  Box 16, Folder 3
		Northeastern Regional Conference on Welfare Reform  Box 16, Folder 3
		North East Regional Regional Welfare Rights Groups  Box 16, Folder 3
		Norh Shore Welfare Rights  Box 16, Folder 3
		Ohio Campaign for Children  Box 16, Folder 4
		Operation People/Welfare Rights Organization, Colorado Springs, Colorado Council for Prison Reform  Box 16, Folder 4
		Poor People's Campaign  Box 16, Folder 4
		Poverty People's Alliance  Box 16, Folder 4
		South Side Welfare Rights Organization  Box 16, Folder 4
		Vermont Low Income Advocacy Council  Box 16, Folder 4
		Welfare Parents United  Box 16, Folder 4
		Welfare Recipients League  Box 16, Folder 4
		Welfare and Unemployment Self-Help Clinic  Box 16, Folder 4
		WAGE [Workers Association to Guarantee Employment]  Box 16, Folder 4
		Series 5. Media Relations ((Boxes 17-18))   Note The series contains newspaper clippings pertaining to events in which the Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement was involved or consulted and others that cover issues related to welfare, tax equity, and other political questions. These clippings provide a valuable outside record of DWAC/RAM-related actions and debates. There is also information on press planning, the ways in which the organization sought to maximize its public exposure.
Box 16		Guides, Resources, Contacts  Box 16, Folder 5
		Contact Lists  Box 16, Folder 6
		Jane Wholey—Long-Range Planning 1982 Box 16, Folder 7
		Research
Box 16		Philidelphia  Box 16, Folder 8
		Boston  Box 16, Folder 9
Box 25		Press Releases, Clippings  Box 25, Folder 4
Box 16		Releases/Advisories, 1978-1982 Box 16, Folder 10
Box 17		Television Material  Box 17, Folder 1
		Editorials, Press Kit, Bibliographies  Box 17, Folder 2
		Press Clippings n.d., 1977-1983
Box 17		n.d., 1977-1978 Box 17, Folder 3
		1979 Box 17, Folder 4
		1980 Box 17, Folder 5
		1981 Box 17, Folder 6
		1982 Box 17, Folder 7
		1983 Box 17, Folder 8
		Pictures Box 17, Folder 9
Box 25		Press Releases, Clippings  Box 25, Folder 4 Note Separated from Folders 16:10-17:8
		Series 6. Advocacy ((Box 18))   Note Contained here are forms, procedures, and regulations related to efforts in behalf of individual welfare recipients. Also present are four irregularly kept Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center activity logs that suggest what typical operations of the advocacy office were like and a complete participation packet for the Redistribute America Movement's RAM/CRAM, a training program which attempted to turn welfare recipients into their own and others' advocates. Articles and planning material for an earlier, unrealized newsletter and for RAM's Horn are here as well as an incomplete run of the newsletter.
Box 17		Regulations, Procedures  Box 17, Folder 10-11
		Schedules, Forms, Case Materials  Box 17, Folder 12
Box 25		Welfare Rights Questionnaire  Box 25, Folder 3 Note Separated from Folders 17:10-11
		Schedules, Forms, Case Materials  Box 25, Folder 5 Note Separated from Folder 17:12
Box 17		New York University Law Student Advocacy Records  Box 17, Folder 13
		Armed Forces Referral  Box 17, Folder 14
		Department of Social Services Common Work Exp. Program, 1982 Box 17, Folder 15
Box 18		Day Care, Face-to-Face Recertifications  Box 18, Folder 1
Box 25		Fair Hearing Records  Box 25, Folder 6 Note Separated from Folder 18:2
Box 18		Fair Hearings, Food Stamps  Box 18, Folder 2
		Redistribute America Movement Flyers, Handouts  Box 18, Folder 3
		Redistribute America Movement RAM/CRAM Training 1979-1982 Box 18, Folder 4
Box 25		Redistribute America Movement RAM/CRAM Training Session material  Box 25, Folder 7 Note Separated from Folder 18:4
Box 18		Office Log Books, 1975-1978 Box 18, Folder 5-8
		Newsletters
Box 18		Planning, Logistics  Box 18, Folder 9
		Submissions, Drafts  Box 18, Folder 10
		Submissions, Drafts, RAM's Horn  Box 18, Folder 11
		"Welfare Recipients Demand an Adequate Income: Facts and Figures in Support of an Increase in Welfare Grants" ca. 1979 Box 18, Folder 12
		Series 7. Special-Format Materials ((Boxes 19-23))
		Audio Recordings
Box 19		"Training Session", June 24-26, 1980 Box 19, Folder 1-8 Note 8 cassettes
		Gary Delgano/Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Nov. 6, 1979 Box 19, Folder 9-10 Note 2 cassettes
		"Plenary Session", Dec. 14, 19?? Box 19, Folder 11-12 Note 2 cassettes
		"MOBIL JERK OFF" (Redistribute America Movement-Mobil meeting), April 8, 1982 Box 19, Folder 13 Note 1 cassette
		"Board meeting" (discussion of Redistribute America Movement), May 6, 1979 Box 19, Folder 14 Note 1 cassette
		"Gary Delgano" tape, n.d. Box 19, Folder 16
		Demonstration Banners
Box 20		Redistribute America Movement  Box 20, Folder 1
		Ronald Reagan, We Have an Award for You  Box 20, Folder 2
Box 21		Organize, Don't Agonize  Box 21, Folder 1
		Every Mother is Working Mother  Box 21, Folder 2
		Money for People, Not for War  Box 21, Folder 3
Box 22		Stop Aid to Corporations with Dependent Millionaires  Box 22, Folder 1
		We Demand Our Fair Share  Box 22, Folder 2
		Robin Hood Was Right, July 17, 1982 Box 22, Folder 3
		Give it Up; It Shouldn't Hurt to be Born in America  Box 22, Folder 4
		We Demand Daycare  Box 22, Folder 5
		Posters
Box 23		"Build Communities Not Luxury Hotels" (side 1), "You Make RAM Happen" clipping collage (side 2),  Box 23, Folder 1
		Two protest oriented collages  Box 23, Folder 2
		Photo collages  Box 23, Folder 3
		Pictures of Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Mary Tyler Moore, Theresa Funiciello  Box 23, Folder 4
		Albany Action, 1979 Box 23, Folder 5
		General Redistribute America Movement collage  Box 23, Folder 6
		Our Children Campaign, Welfare Center Takeover, October 1981 Box 23, Folder 7
		Mobil/April Fool's Day Action  Box 23, Folder 8
		Trump/Hyatt Action  Box 23, Folder 9
		Saratoga Action, August 1981 Box 23, Folder 10
		Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center's 5th Anniversary Fund-raiser  Box 23, Folder 11