5. Grants and Contracts, 1970-1999

This series documents the government and private sources from which RMSC sought funding for its programs and operations. Funders include ABCD; the City of Boston, including the Public Facilities Department; The Boston Foundation; United Way; the Hyams Foundation; Boston Private Industry Council; and the State of Massachusetts, including the departments of Education, Youth and Social Services, and the departments of Mental Health and Public Welfare. Records included in this series are audits, budgets, correspondence, program descriptions, reports, statistics, contracts, and grant proposals. The proposals also include supporting material, such as newsletters, progress reports, and program activities. There are grant proposals scattered throughout Series 2 Board of Directors, Series 3 Executive Directors, and Series 4 Programs that do not appear in Series 5. Series 5 contains both funded and non-funded grant proposals.

Also included in this series are the monthly reports to the Massachusetts Department of Pubic Welfare from the Family House Shelter program. These reports include the number of families served, head of household, shelter logs, and meal and placement statistics. Monthly reports to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services and the Department of Social Services contain gender, age, race, and assessment reports.

Of special interest are the La Alianza Hispana Proposal and the documentation required by ABCD for funding compliance. These records include corrective action plans, compliance reports, diversity data, work plans, progress reports, and client characteristics reports. United Way Allocation Packets generally include information not found in any other grant proposals, such as lists of collaborating agencies; amount of funding from other sources; clients' gender, age, race/ethnicity, demographic and geographic areas; individual program problem response forms; and program description forms including target populations and program methodology.