A survey of the role of company-sponsored foundations and the philanthropic contributions of American corporations. History and growth, financial operations, goals and objectives, and the causes company foundations support are discussed.

Report of a conference sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation at the Sterling Forest Conference Center, Tuxedo, New York, June 12–14, 1972. Topics include the collection and use of student records and the classification, maintenance, and retention of such records.

Participants: Robert L. Arnstein, Paul H. Black, Edward J. Bloustein, K. Patricia Cross, Paul Doty, Robert M. Fano, David A. Goslin, George T. Gregory, Samuel Hendel, Michael A. Liethen, Walter P. Metzger, Jane D. Moorman, Drew Olim, Margaret E. Perry, Peter B. Reads, Vivien Stewart, Dyckman W. Vermilye, Alan F. Westin

David A. Goslin, Conference Chairman

An analysis of the practice, scope, and methods of recording facts in the daily work of public employment in various countries and a plan for standard procedure in the United States made for the Committee on Governmental Labor Statistics of the American Statistical Association.

Anabel M. Stewart and Bryce M. Stewart, Committee on Governmental Labor Statistics

Part of a series documenting annual research and activity in the field of social work. It is a record of organized efforts in the United States to deal with social problems and social conditions. Topics include adult education, health, mental hygiene, crime and penal conditions, children, community organization, the disabled, and religious social work.

Fred S. Hall was joint author of American Marriage Laws.

Social Science and Psychotherapy for Children was a study undertaken jointly by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Jewish Board of Guardians under direction of Dr. Otto Pollak, a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania, who was made available by the foundation as social science consultant to the Board’s Child Guidance Institute. With many specific cases as illustrations, Dr. Pollak and his collaborators show ways in which the social sciences may enrich child therapy. They examine the implications of family structure, social interaction, anxiety, extra-familial influences, culture conflicts, and age-sex factors. They also consider the effective use of volunteers in treatment and the occasional necessity for setting limited treatment goals.

Collaborators: Bertram J. Black, Dorothy Dunaeff, Yonata Feldman, Bernice Wolf Frechtman, Maurice R. Friend, Lia Knoepfmacher, Bettina Lehnert, Frederika Neumann, S. R. Slavson

This survey of small loan legislation is part of a general survey of small loans prepared for the Russell Sage Foundation under the direction of Dr. Louis N. Robinson. It is issued as one of the Small Loan Series of the Department of Remedial Loans. Chapter VIII of this volume on the Constitutionality of Small Loan Legislation, by Frank R. Hubachek, was printed in 1931 as a pamphlet under the same title.

David J. Gallert, New York Bar; Walter S. Hilborn, New York Bar, Geoffrey may, Inner Temple, London

Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. It examines the plan for employee representation of a mill in Wappingers Falls, New York, and the relationship between workers and management.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Written for the 1910 meeting of the International Prison Commission, this report details, from a penological point of view, certain distinctive and characteristic phases of the criminal law in the United States and especially those that arise from the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government.

Eugene Smith was president of the Prison Association of New York.

This 1951 monograph presents the results of study and experiment of Illinois corrections, designed to bring about the best results in the selection of candidates for parole. It aimed to improve the conditions of parole selection and develop a parole system as a release procedure.

Lloyd E. Ohlin was research sociologist, Illinois Division of Correction.

The final volume of the Small Loan Series of the Russell Sage Foundation, this 1935 book is a summary of previous publications of the series and the foundation of an independent study related to regulation of small loans. The historical background of lending, the beginning of the small loan business, character and technique of unregulated lending, small loan legislation, characteristics of borrows, and the question of the maximum rate of charge are discussed.

Louis N. Robinson was professor of economics at Swarthmore College. Rolf Nugent was director of the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.