Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) (Roosevelt Institute), based in New York City, states its mission as informing "new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and Eleanor Roosevelt and to inspire the application of their spirit of optimism and innovation to the solution of current problems. We believe, as FDR did, that the Four Freedoms are essential to a flourishing democracy, and we create programs to encourage those freedoms at home and abroad. The Roosevelt Institute also serves as the non-profit funding arm of the nation's first presidential library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where our support helps sustain the many programs and resources that make the FDR Library the most important center for the study and teaching of the Roosevelt era in the world." Also see FERI's History.

Lecture series
"Inaugurated in 1992 with a lecture by Cokie Roberts on "Women in Politics," the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture Series is held each year at Roosevelt University in Chicago and co-sponsored by the University and the Roosevelt Institute." 

Past lectures: Source
 * 2006 What Makes a Good Neighbor?  - Luis Alberto Cordero
 * 2005 The FCC and the Media  - Panelists: Michael Copps, Carol Marin, Newton Minow, and John C. Roberts.
 * 2004 Working with Women and Children in Post-War Countries: The Liberian Situation  - Krubo Kollie
 * 2002 Corporate Accountability in an Age of Doubt  - Nell Minow, Editor, The Corporate Library
 * 2001 World Hunger: A Human Rights Issue  - Stephane Hessel, Ambassadeur de France
 * 2000 Remembering Eleanor Roosevelt Through Music and History  - Allida Black, ER Papers Project, and performance of cello concerto, “Eleanor’s Gift”
 * 1999 Celebrating the Legacy of New Deal Housing Policy  - Panelists Gail Radford, Julia Stasch (Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard Daley), Bettylu Saltzman, and James Lewis
 * 1998 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights  - Felice Gaer, Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
 * 1997 FDR & the Arts: The Federal Theater  - Studs Terkel, after a student performance of “The Cradle Will Rock”
 * 1996 FDR & the Holocaust  - Ambassador William vanden Heuvel
 * 1995 Refugees: The Dilemmas of Global Dislocation  - Ambassador Morton Abramowitz
 * 1994 Preventing Family Violence  - Esta Soler, Family Violence Prevention Fund
 * 1993 Public v. Private Responsibility: Families & Children in the 21st Century  Panelists including Cong. Richard Durbin, Mary Davidson, Thomas Roeser, Delores Holm, and Michael Warder. Moderated by John Callaway
 * 1992 Women in Politics  - Cokie Roberts

Major donors

 * Furth Family Foundation, The Furth Family Foundation, led by Frederick and Peggy Furth, has provided funding for the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Franklin D. Roosevelt International Disability Awards, making possible the monetary prize.


 * Henry A. Wallace, The family of Henry A. Wallace, through the Wallace Genetic Foundation and led by Jean Wallace Douglas, made a gift of $3 million to the Remembering Greatness Campaign for the new visitors center at Hyde Park. "We are most grateful to the Wallace family," said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, FERI Co-Chair, "and we are looking forward to the opening of the new Henry A. Wallace Center in the summer of 2003."

Board of Directors
Officers
 * Trude W. Lash, Chair Emeritus
 * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Chair Emeritus
 * William J. vanden Heuvel, Co-Chair
 * Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Co-Chair
 * Raymond A. Lamontagne, Vice Chair
 * Jack H. Watson, Jr., Vice Chair
 * Schuyler G. Chapin, Chair, Executive Committee
 * Robert L. Beir, Vice President
 * Fredrica S. Goodman, Vice President
 * Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Vice President
 * Nicholas L. Ludington, Secretary
 * Rivington R. Winant, Treasurer

Directors
 * Joe Louis Barrow, Jr.
 * Warren Beatty
 * June Bingham Birge
 * Allida M. Black
 * Dan S. Boyd
 * John Brademas
 * Daniel B. Brewster, Jr.
 * Douglas Brinkley
 * Charles F. Brower IV
 * Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.
 * Chao-Chi Chu
 * F. Forrester Church
 * John C. Culver
 * Sandra W. Cuneo
 * Margaret Truman Daniel
 * Evan A. Davis
 * William J. Dean
 * Noel deCordova, Jr.
 * Jean Wallace Douglas
 * Elinor Kenney Farquhar
 * Toni Fay
 * Justin N. Feldman
 * Eileen Finletter
 * Donald L. Fowler
 * Frederick P. Furth
 * Felice Gaer
 * John Kenneth Galbraith
 * John J. Gartland, Jr.
 * Robert F. Gatje
 * Doris Kearns Goodwin
 * George Morris Gurley
 * Dona Cooper Hamilton
 * Louis Harris
 * Kitty Carlisle Hart
 * Carla D. Hayden
 * Sylvia Ann Hewlett
 * Scott R. Hirsch
 * Janet Howard
 * Nancy Roosevelt Ireland
 * Barbara Loomis Jackson
 * Mary Draper Janney
 * Philip W. Johnston
 * Henry L. Kimelman
 * George L. Knox
 * Peter Kovler
 * Carol R. Lubin
 * Jay Mazur
 * Kathleen A. McCarragher
 * William J. McDonough
 * Donald F. McHenry
 * Cynthia Ann McKinney
 * Lorraine H. Monchak
 * Zachary P. Morfogen
 * H. Ben Morgenthau
 * Daniel Patrick Moynihan (deceased)
 * Dennis J. Murray
 * Richard Ravitch
 * Daniel H. Rivkin
 * David A. Roosevelt
 * James Roosevelt, Jr.
 * Laura D. Roosevelt
 * Michael A. Rothenberg
 * Paul S. Sarbanes
 * Stephen C. Schlesinger
 * Jerome J. Shestack
 * Florence P. Shientag
 * Robert M. Shrum
 * Kathleen M. Sloane
 * Stephen Stamas
 * Ted Van Dyk
 * Katrina vanden Heuvel
 * Geoffrey Ward
 * Susan Ware

Contact details
570 Lexington Avenue, 18th Floor New York, NY 10022 Phone: 212-444-9130 Web: http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org

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