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Pew Charitable Trusts digital archive

1995-2020
 Collection
Accession: AVD.2020

Abstract

The Pew Charitable Trusts are a major philanthropic organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Part of the Pew Charitable Trusts records in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, the digital archive consists primarily of eGrant products and Pew publications.

Dates

  • 1995-2020

Creator

Extent

7032 digital_files

General Physical Description note

7032 digital files: 6748 PDF files; 69 MPEG3 files; 109 MPEG4 files; 1 MOV file; 21 JPEG files; 22 PPTX files; 1 PNG file; 1 XLSM file; 2 CSV files; 4 DOC files; 15 DOCX files; 39 XLSX files.

Historical Note

Pew Charitable Trusts is a major philanthropic organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Now America's second largest private foundation, Pew has traditionally concentrated their resources in the Philadelphia region, assisting secondary schools, libraries, seminaries and hospitals. In recent years, however, they have adopted a proactive approach to grantmaking. They now initiate programs and identify agencies capable of implementing them. In the 1980s, Pew launched two new programs, the Health Policy and the Biomedical Scholar Programs. These initiatives have funded important work in medical education, biochemistry, AIDS research, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

Scope and Content

Part of the Pew Charitable Trusts records in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, the digital archive consists primarily of eGrant products and Pew publications. Publications include Pew News employee newsletter, Trust magazine, and Pew Prospectus. Grant products focus on current issues affecting society, both in the United States and internationally, such as the economy, health care, technology, and the environment.

"After the Fact" is a podcast from The Pew Charitable Trusts, in which host Dan LeDuc discusses contemporary policy issues with guest experts and other contributors.

The series of board meeting agenda books includes agendas, annual workplans, briefing materials, cover memos, director's overviews, financials, idea agendas, introductions, introductory materials, lists, memos to the board, minutes, program overviews, policy overviews, reports to the board, strategy papers, summary lists, table of contents, typology charts, and program write ups.

Public Safety Performance Project state polling files series includes eighteen sets of polling data. Polls are at the state and national level, and cover public opinions on adult and juvenile criminal justice and on electronic monitoring. The files include survey toplines, memos, questionnaires, slide decks, reports, and crosstab analyses. Inclusive dates are: 2010; 2012-2018. States surveyed include: Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah,and West Virginia.

Photographs is a small series which includes four images from 2014 of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History "Star-Spangled Banner" exhibit, ten images of the 2015 Biomedical Meeting of the Pew Biomedical Scholars and Fellows Program, and one image of a 2017 R. Anderson Pew family visit to the Washington, D.C., Pew office.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research except for the series of board meeting agenda books and the series of Public Safety Performance Project state polling files. Please contact staff at askhagley@hagley.org for instructions on how to apply for access to material in those series. Photographs less than 25 years old are also closed to researchers.

Use Restrictions

To view the digital archive, contact the Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department at askhagley@hagley.org.

Related Material

Part of Pew Charitable Trusts records (Accession 2020), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Language of Materials

English


Additional Information

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

Detailed inventories exist for the files contained in the series of board meeting agenda books and Public Safety Performance Project state polling files.

Provenance

Deposits of Pew Charitable Trusts, 2013-ongoing.

Accruals

Accruals are expected.

Related Names

Creator

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title:
Pew Charitable Trusts digital archive
Status:
Author:
Abby Adams and Angela Schad. Revised periodically.
Date:
2014
Description rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description:
English
Script of description:
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository

Contact:
PO Box 3630
Wilmington Delaware 19807 USA
302-658-2400