Funding prevention of nuclear war
By: interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris ; introduction by William Matson Roth ; Regional Oral History Office,
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; Roth, William M. 1916-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Ploughshares Fund.; San Francisco Art Institute.; Amnesty International.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.; San Francisco Council on Civic Unity.; Endowments -- United States.; Nuclear disarmament.; Philanthropists -- California -- San Francisco.; Endowments -- California.; Sculptors -- California -- Biography.
Other titles: History of Bay Area philanthropy series.
Description: Creator of the Ploughshares Fund discusses origins and evolution of grantmaking with relation to the Fund's program for arms limitation and prevention of war. She also speaks extensively of her previous careers as sculptor, founder of the Museum of Modern Art rental gallery, as a board member of the Council for Civic Unity, Amnesty International, and other San Francisco nonprofit organizations. In addition, she recalls many of the personalities involved in her various acitvities.