ABSTRACT
The Ford Foundation has tried to resolve this dilemma by an emphasis on education, in the broadest sense—demonstrating possibilities, evaluating achievements, but never asserting or institutionalizing purposes of its own. Like the Ford Foundation, the legitimacy of its intervention as a reformer was vulnerable, its funds and power inadequate. The Public Affairs negotiators resolved the dilemma by leaving the initiative in drafting proposals to local leadership, while guarding their intentions in the revisions they imposed as a condition of support. The dilemma of philanthropy arises from its lack of a base within the political structure, from which to organize reform. The dilemma of Federal Government arises from the multiplicity of overlapping agencies, each with its own political constituency, through which its policies must be implemented. The Foundation was also worried by the professional or academic bias of the initial planners, who tended to be recruited from the staff of redevelopment authorities, voluntary agencies and their councils, or from universities.
