Pew Charitable Trusts digital archive
1995-2020Abstract
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
- Pew Charitable Trusts (Organization)
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.
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.
Subjects
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