Series 1 Administration 1943-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
"50 Years of a United Protestant Ministry, 1913-1963", Northern California - Nevada Council of Churches undated
Administrative Services Director job description 1988-1990
Affiliates: Chart, Survey, Questionnaire, information 1987, 1992
Annual Meeting and Dinner 1986-1989, 1991-1992, 1995
Annual Reports 1943-1949, 1949-1951, 1953-1961, 1963-1966, 1968, 1974, 1977-1978, 1989-1994
Application form: Organizations requesting NCEC as fiscal agent 1989
Articles of Incorporation, Northern California-Western Nevada Council of Churches 1946, 1955, 1969, 1972
Board meeting Minutes: variously Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Council Table undated
Board meeting Minutes 1985-1994, 1996-1997
Book-keeping procedures 1988
Brochures ca. 1943-1989
Bulk Mailing, permit dispute with Post Office 1984-1986
By-Laws 1972, 1981, ca. 1992-1993
California Church Council/California Council of Churches 1970, 1974-1980, 1982-1995
California Legislative Directory, NCEC produced 1983
CETA Title 6 Project Proposal: Services to families of prisoners on death row 1980
"A Chronology of Protestant Beginnings in California" by Clifford M. Drury 1947
"The Church at Work", NCEC newsletter publication. Production procedures; 1 issue 1977 1989
Scope and Content Note
NCEC Committees and Commissions list 1992
NCEC Congregation Leadership report forms 1985-1987
Corporation papers, various 1977 1979
Correspondence 1977-1993
Correspondence, open letters, press releases, informational letters on various issues and concerns 1992
Council of Judicatory Executives/Agency Executives - Includes formation of NCEC from the Northern California Council of Churches 1972-1993
1983 Covenant Assembly: Implementing the Priorities 1984
Crocker Bank - NCEC campaign to get them to stop investing in South Africa, "Stop Banking on Apartheid" 1978-1979
Development Committee 1984-1994
Directors' Reports 1973-1974, 1977
NCEC Directory 1988
Ecumenical Executive Committee 1988, 1993
Ecumenical Ministries in Northern California (EMINC), draft constitution and By-laws, Steering Committee discussion material 1992-1994
Ecumenical Times newsletter, v.1:1 Spring 1989
Equipment and furniture inventories 1977-1978
Executive Director job description ca. 1983
Exhibit on NCEC - photographs and explanations of work and services 1983
"Face Off: The Rift at NCEC" 1991
First Three Years of the Northern California Ecumenical Council - Study Paper ca. 1975
Food, Machinery, and Chemical Corporation(FMC): Stock gift and sales - Includes arms manufacture, and shareholder resolutions for greater corporate responsibility 1959-1985
Forms, taxes, government forms, various 1979-1983
Ben Fraticelli, Director - CV and bio information ca. 1992
Finance Committee 1984-1985, 1988-1990
Finance/fund-raising ideas 1977-1985
Financial report forms ca. 1986-1987
Fund-raising. Includes some appeal letters, gifts received, proposals, foundations, pledges, donor lists 1975-1996
Future of Ecumenism Meeting 6/7/1990
Bishop Metardo Gomez, El Salvador, supporting his work and issues 1988-1989
Guidelines for Ecumenical Leadership, Commission on Regional and Local Ecumenism, National Council of Churches 1989
A History of Ecumenism in Northern California by Lloyd R. Hanson - Includes bibliography 1994
Insurance 1977, 1981, 1991-1994
Local Interfaith Councils, San Francisco Bay Area 1993
Lease Agreements 1975-1990
944 Market, San Francisco 1975-1983
942 Market, San Francisco, William Meyer & Co. 1990
Legal Counsel on various matters - Includes name change from Northern California Council of Churches to Northern California Ecumenical Council and articles of incorporation 1967-1980
Letterhead ca. 1990 1995
Letters to President Bush, Senators Wilson and Cranston re: the Persian Gulf crisis 11/30/1990
Mailing Lists ca. 1992
Media contacts ca. 1985-1987
Meeting to identify future directions of the NCEC 12/6/1982
Middle East Affairs Committee 9/9/19974
John C. Moyer, installation as Director; Trial - (blocking entrance to the SF Federal Building during a demonstration); "Some Thoughts on Process and Substance in Response to the Calls for a More Inclusive Ecumenical Council and Movement" 1984 10/1985 1/1989
"NCEC in the 1990's", by Michael L. Cooper-White ca. 1990
NCEC Membership lists: Judicatory, Commissions, Staff ca. 1988
The NCEC as a Multiple Management Company discussion paper 1993, 1995
"Northern California Ecumenical Council Organizational Study", Katharine C. Whiteley 6/1992
Newsletters, "The Church at Work" 1972-1976
NCEC Office Procedures ca. 1990
Finding Office space 1981
Office space rent schedule, 942 Market St., San Francisco, 7th Floor 1987-1988
Please note: There is no File Folder 8
NCEC Organization 1988
Organizational Chart ca. 1991
NCEC Organizational Study, Board Survey and Summary, Katharine C. Whiteley 6/1992
Pax World Management Corporation Fund 1979
Personnel and Staffing 1977-1980
NCEC Personnel Policy 1984
Personnel Salaries 1989-1990
Personnel Committee and policies 1989
Planning 1992
NCEC List of Presidents 1942-1986
Press Conference Procedures ca. 1985
Copyright application for "Protestant Cooperation in Northern California", by Paul K. Shelford 1962
Scope and Content Note
Church World Service - Immigration Resettlement Program reports on NCEC Refugee Resettlement Project (ERRSS) 1993-1994
NCEC Report to the California-Nevada Conference, United Methodist Church 1982
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Celebration
Advisory Committee 1987
Dinner 1988
Speech about the NCEC by Jody ? ca. 1983
Staff Procedures Manual 1977
Staff salaries 1987-1989
State Advisory Committee on Institutional Religion (Chaplaincy) 1977 1984-1985
Structures and Relationships Task Force 1992-1993
Study Paper - First Three Years of the Northern California Ecumenical Council ca. 1975
Tax exemption, IRS 1964-83
Visits and reports to Affiliated Organizations ca. 1989
Visits to Denominations' and Judicatories' Social Concerns Committees 1989
"Work for Peace with Justice in Northern California", Address to National Council of Churches, by John Pairman Brown 5/13/1983
Xerox machine 1979-1981
Series 2 Financial Reports 1979-1996
Series Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
Includes Charles M. Goethe Trust 1969-1978
1979-1990
1990-1996
Financial records for the Refugee Community Programs (RCG): Ecumenical Refugee Resettlement and Sponsorship Service (ERRSS) 1987-1995
Scope and Content Note
Series 3 Programs, Projects, Conferences, and Events 1944-1996
A Call to People of Faith to Uphold Affirmative Action ca. 1995
Adult Faith Resources, Mapping Adult Faith Journeys 1992-1993
NCEC Affiliates 1990-1991
"Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry" document for the World Council of Churches, Events and meetings in response 1982-1985
Beyond the Cold War Conference: A Dialogue to Explore Alternatives to Modern Warfare. Planning 1993
Bishops (Roman Catholic) Pastoral Letter on the U.S. Economy - Response and Discussion Luncheon with Elmer Johnson, GM Corporation 12/1985
Miguez Binino lecture: "Doing Theology in a National Security State" 6/1989
Brazil Project (Debt crisis on foreign loans) 1984-1985
California Council for the Humanities and Center for Ethics and Social Policy (Graduate Theological Union), "Equal Worth and the Forms of Justice: Social Implications of Religious Concepts of Justice" Project 1979-1985
"A Call to Conscience: The Church, the Vulnerable, and Economic Policy", A Biblical Ethical Study packet, California Council of Churches 1992
Campaign to Abolish Poverty 1992-1993
Celebrating the Spirit: Towards a Global Ethic - A United Nations 50 Years anniversary event 1995
Central American Solidarity Alliance 1990
Central California Refugee Ministries, By-Laws 1992
CANICCOR, An Interfaith Council on Corporate Responsibility, San Francisco 1990-1994
CAUSE - Philippines 1989
Chevron Divestment from South Africa Campaign 1985-87
Chico, CA, Area Council of Churches 1982, 1987-1989, 1992
Christian-Marxist Dialogue 1989
Christian Peace Conference, Northern California. Includes CAREE 1988-1989
"A Chronology of Protestant Beginnings in California" by Clifford M. Drury. Centennial Committee, Northern California-Western Nevada Council of Churches 1947
Church World Service, ERRSS (Refugee Community Projects) 1980-1982, 1989-1992
Commission on Communications 1985-1989
COCU, Consultation on Church Union 1990-1993
Consultation on the Small Congregation 1/1977
Co-op Conference (National Cooperatives Conference), Oakland, CA 3/1986
Criminal Justice Sunday 1993
Dedication of the Ecumenical Chapel, 944 Market St., San Francisco 11/16/1975
National Council of Churches - Church World Service Disaster Response Conference/Workshop 3/1991
Earthquake Relief, Loma Prieta 1989
Ecumenical Conference - The Future of Ecumenical Structures and Relations in California. Includes booklet with history timeline 3/1993
Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society (EDCS), Public Relations Plan 1990
ERRSS, Ecumenical Refugee Resettlement and Sponsorship Services: Church World Service agreement with NCEC 1992
Delegation to El Salvador, Nidia Diaz 4-5/1983
El Salvador Going Home Campaign 1987-89
El Salvador Children's Relief Fund 1992
Equal Worth and Forms of Justice Project (or the Justice and Equality Project): 3 workshops - 1st, Scholar's Colloquium; 2nd, Equal Worth: the Fight for Justice; 3rd, Economic Dislocation: Rural/Urban Connection 1984-1985
Faith and Witness Commission (or Order) 1985-1987
FIRE, Firestorm Interfaith Recovery Effort (Oakland, CA, Hills urban fire 10/1991) 1991-1992
NCEC Food Network, later the California Food Network 1977-1979
Grandparents Re-Parenting 1992-1993
Grossner Mission, mission group in East Germany. Visits to San Francisco and reciprocal to Berlin. Also work with Nicaragua 1983-1989
Comprehensive Health Care Project, funded by the Irvine Foundation 1992-1994
Hunger Conference, Sacramento, CA 1986
A Call to People of Faith from the Human Rights Campaign to Heal the Racism in Our Midst ca. 1995
NCEC Department of Human Rights ca. 1977, 1984
The Impoverishment of Women: Strategies for Economic Justice, Oakland, CA 3/31/1984
Information and reports on various issues 1992-1993
Installation Service, Rev. Paul Shelford, Executive Director 1/16/1958
Interfaith Celebration of Human Rights, on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Charter of the United Nations 1995
United Nations 50th Anniversary Planning 1994-1995
Interfaith Dinner - Middle East Peace 10/5/1989
Interfaith Witness for Justice: Affirming the Dignity and Defending the Rights of Immigrants 2/23/1994
Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East, re: The Gulf War and other issues 1991
Japan - National Council of Churches East Asia/Pacific Office, Peace, Anti-Nuclear Delegation Presentation 9/1988
Korea Ad Campaign, (self-determination, re-unification) 1988
Korea Project, Intern, Chansoo Lee 1984-1987
Rev. Nai Wang Kwok, visit from Hong Kong 6/1989
Living Together: A Consultation on Roman Catholic Participation in State Ecumenical Agencies: proceedings of the consultation, Indianapolis, IN 1988
"Loma Prieta 1989: The Acts of the Churches in their Communities", Santa Clara, CA (earthquake), by Alice Elizabeth Thorn 1990
Commission on Ministry 1985-1989
MAA Council (Mutual Assistance Association), San Francisco, Services to Refugees and Immigrants 1991-1992, 1996
Lubomir Mirejovsky's visit, from Czechoslovakia 7/14/1987
Mobilization for Peace, Jobs, and Justice, march and rally, San Francisco 1987
Music Placement (placing musicians in churches) 1989-90
National Association of Ecumenical Staff Annual Conference, "Cross Currents of Culture, Religion, and Economics" 1994
Northern California Food Network, Miles for Meals 1977
Open Hands: Resources for Ministries Affirming the Diversity of Human Sexuality. Reconciling Congregation Program 1992-1993
Pacific Ecumenical Forum 1991
Pacific Southwest Conference on World Christian Mission, Asilomar Conference 1992
Peace With Justice Commission - Includes meeting minutes, information and materials on their work, projects, and events 1985-1992
Peace With Justice Commission 1993-1994
Peacemaking Project - "Beyond the Cold War" 1993
The Pentecost Event/The Pentecost 9 ca. 1992
Presidential Campaign - Jessie Jackson, Mike Dukakis 1988
Press Conference on Korea, and packet 1987
Priest's Training Day, Oakland Catholic Diocese: Racism 1994
Proposition W, San Francisco - (re: Israel and Palestinian statehood) 1988
Racism is a Violation of Human Rights: The Oakland Hearings. Coordinated by NCEC for the WCC/NCC campaign. Includes planning, fund-raising, background information, participant information, press packets, and "Summary Report of the Oakland Hearings on Racism as a Violation of Human Rights in the U.S." 1994
Refugee Community Programs (RCP) - The Modesto Project, and Cambodian Community Employment Project 1988-1989
RCP 1988-1990
Released Time Religious Education ca. 1944
Religious Witness with Homeless People 1994
Russian Easter Airlift 1992
San Francisco Council of Churches 1980-1982, 1987-1990
Photographs ca. 1955-1974
Santa Clara Council of Churches 1993-1995
"Sequoia", Inter-religious News Magazine 1985-1995
Includes transition to independence from NCEC 1989
NCEC Slideshow script (There are no slides.) 1977
Dorothee Solle Lecture, "The National Security State: Lessons for the American Church from the Third Reich and Central America" 1987
South Africa - issues and boycotts 1984, 1987-1989
Soviet Jews - Christian-Jewish Relations 1987
Ten Parish Project, SF Bay Area 1991-1992
A Vision of Wholeness: Responding to America's Healthcare Crisis ca. 1992
Urban Crisis Taskforce (homelessness, racism) 1992-1993
Visit of Vazken I, Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians, Banquet 11/12/1987
World Council of Churches visitation team to the U.S. - West Coast: To involve local and regional associations in the 6th Assembly 1/1983
Worship undated
Series 4 Resources 1947-1996
Series Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
Subseries A Groups 1976-1995
Scope and Content Note
AFL-CIO 1988-1989
American Friends Service Committee, Pacific Mountain Region 1988-1989 1994-1995
American Jewish Congress 1995
Americas Watch 1988-1989
Amnesty International 1982-1988
Anti-Defamation 1993-1994
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates 1995
Associated Chaplains in California State Service, ACCSS 1979-1982
Bay Area Ethics Consortium - Includes Graduate Theological Union Center for Ethics and Social Policy 1988
Bay Area Interfaith Center, or, Presidio Project, San Francisco 1993
Bread for the World 1989
Buddhist Peace Fellowship 1994
California Interfaith Coalition 1994
Californians for Justice 1995
Campaign to Abolish Poverty 1995
CANICCOR, Northern California/Nevada Interfaith Committee for Corporate Responsibility 1982-1989
CAREE, Christians Associated for Relations with Eastern Europe 1985-1988
CAST, Center for the Arts, Spirit, and Transformation 1994
CAUSA (and ties to the Unification Church) 1985
Center for Asian Women Workers Fellowship 1987
Center for the Common Good 1993
Center for Ethics and Economic Policy 1994
Center for Ethics and Social Policy, Graduate Theological Union 1979-1980, 1988-1989
Center for Third World Organizing 1987-1988
Central American Mission Partners, CAMP 1989
Children's Defense Fund, and California Children's Lobby 1987-1989
Christian Ministry in the National Parks 1987-1989
Christian Peace Conference 1987-1989, 1992
Christic Institute, an Interfaith Center for Law and Public Policy - Contragate (Iran-Contra arms for hostages 1987-1988
Church Network on the Philippines 1989
Coalition for a Fair Minimum Wage 1987-1989
Coalition for Human Rights in northern California 1994
Coalition for Immigrant Refugee Rights Services, CIRRS 1988-1989
Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy 1982-1988
Committee Against More Prisons - Includes "The Wall Paper: County Jail Moratorium Newsletter", American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco 1980-1982, 1988
Communities United for Equality, contracted with the National Lawyers Guild Economic Rights Task Force 1995
Cooperative Ministries in Higher Education 1977 1985-1986
Council on Religion and the Homosexual, San Francisco 1981
Death Penalty Focus of California 1988-1989
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, CA 1989
Ecumenical Executive Committee, SF Bay Area 1988, 1994
Ecumenical Peace Institute: Nuclear Packet (Clergy and Laity Concerned) - University of California Regents - UC relationship with Livermore and Los Alamos Weapons Labs 1980-1982
Note
FAITHS, Foundation Alliance with Interfaith to Heal Society, San Francisco 1994-1995
Frontier Internship in Mission 1985
Guatemala News and Information Bureau, GNIB 1988-1989
Health Access - Coalition for Affordable Health care for Californians 1988-1989
In Fact - GE Boycott (Nuclear weapons business) 1987-1988
Indians, Promises, and US 1986
Interfaith Action for Economic Justice, IAEJ 1987-1989
Interfaith Coalition on Immigrant Rights, San Francisco, CA. Includes work on responding to California's Proposition 187 (illegal immigrants 1994-1995
Interfaith hunger Coalition, Northern California 1977, 1989
Interfaith Office on Accompaniment, IOA (Human Rights in El Salvador) 1988-1989
Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East 1991-1995
International Christian Youth Exchange 1984
La Raza Centro Legal 1988-1989
Lawyers Committee on Central America, San Francisco Bay Area 1988
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance Committee, San Francisco 1986
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute 1995
National Committee on Religion and Labor 1985-1989
Please note: There are no File folders 20-21
National Council of Churches - Resolutions 1987-89
National Farm Workers Ministry, Northern California Working Group 1980-1982, 1988
National Impact: Environmental Stewardship 1987-1989
NICA, Nicaragua Interfaith Committee for Action 1981-1989, 1993
Northern California Coalition Against the Death Penalty 1989
Northern California Interfaith Council on Economic Justice and Work 1981-1989
Northern California Support Association for Ecumenical Development Society, EDCS 1988-1989
Nuremberg Actions (protesting and blockading munitions shipments, CA 1988-1989
Oakland, CA Coalition of Congregations - Prayer vigils to stop violence and murder 1993
Organize Training Center, San Francisco 1984-1987
PACTS, Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies 1979, 1988, 1990, 1993
Pacific Crest, Christian Therapy Program 1987-1988
Pacific Forum 1988-1990
Pacific Southwest Conference on World Christian Mission 1976-1979, 1989-1991
Partners in Ecumenism 1989
Pax Christi 1994
Peacemaking Committee of the Church and Mission Commission, Northern California/Nevada Conference, United Church of Christ 1988-1989
Philippine Education Support Committee 1982-1984
Pledge of Resistance 1987
Presbyterian Refugee Resettlement Ministries, Sierra Mission Area, CA 1991
Project Equality 1980-1982, 1987-1989
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights of California 1979-1989
Religious Witness with Homeless People (San Francisco Matrix Program - city/legal actions against the homeless - protests) 1994-1995
Resource Center for Non-Violence, Santa Cruz, CA 1987
San Francisco Interfaith Council 1993-1994
San Francisco Sanctuary Covenant 1989
United Church of Christ, Northern California/Nevada Conference Peacemaking and Justice Committee 1994-1995
United in Spirit, San Francisco 1994
Vesper Society 1994
Witness for Peace 1988
World Affairs Council of Northern California 1977-1982, 1988-1989
World Conference on Religion and Peace 1979-1980, 1989
World Parliament of Religions: "The Declaration of a Global Ethic" 1993
World Student Christian Federation 1987-1988
Subseries B Issues 1980-1995
Scope and Content Note
Affirmative Action 1995
AIDS 1983-1990
Base Christian Community Formation Manual, by Lowell R. Greathouse, Catholic Social Services 1986
Children 1994-1995
Christianity in Eastern Europe: "Occasional papers on Religion in Eastern Europe" from Christians Associated for Relations with Eastern Europe 3/1992
Criminal Justice 1993-1995
Death Penalty 1984-1989
Debt Crisis Project (Latin America, Third World) 1980-1986
Disaster Recovery: "Faith Works . . . Here's How: The Greater Santa Cruz Interfaith Recovery Project's Response to the Loma Prieta Earthquake", Shirley Bohrer 1991
Ecumenism: "An Ecumenical Jubilee: What it might Mean for the Churches", Konrad Raiser, Address at U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches 5/11/1995
Gays and Lesbians 1993
Healthcare 1994
The Holocaust - Remembrance Services 1980-1982
Homelessness. Includes housing, protests against the San Francisco Matrix Program, and court cases 1989, 1993-1995
Human Rights 1994-1995
Immigrants Rights 1993-1994
Judaism: "Resource: A Guide to Jewish Life in Northern California" 1994
Kaiser Local Union 250, Strike, Oakland, CA 1986
Legislation Information 1987
Lexington, KY Control Unit - mistreatment in a women's prison 1988
Matrix Program, San Francisco - City actions against the homeless. Religious Witness with Homeless People 1994
Multicultural information, research 1992
Mumia Abu-Jamal, urgina a stay of execution 1995
Native Americans, in defense of sacred lands 1988-1989
Nestle Boycott 1989
Nuclear Weapons, Activities at Laurence Livermore Laboratory 1993-1994
Nurses and Hospital workers strike, San Francisco 1988
Plant Closures Project 1981-1989
Prisons - Pelican Bay, CA 1994
Racism - "Racism in Theology: Theology Against Racism", Report of a Consultation, WCC Faith and Order Commission 1975
Racism - "Responding Faithfully to the Quincentenary: A Study/Action Packet", NCC Racial Justice Working Group (500thAnniversary, Christopher Cojumbus) 1992
Racism - "One Race: An Education Programme by Churches Commission for Racial Justice" undated
Racism - "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" ca. 1992
Re-imaging Our Faith, and its fallout 1993-1994
Religious Right 1985, 1993-1995
"Living Together: A Consultation on Roman Catholic Participation in State Ecumenical Agencies" 1988
Sanctuary Churches 1988
Welfare Reform - Study Guide from California Council of Churches 1995
Women and Labor 1993
Subseries C Countries 1977-1996
Scope and Content Note
Armenia, Earthquake 1988
Bahrain 1988-1989
Bosnia 1994
Central America 1984-1985
Chile 1977-1989
China 1983-1985
Czechoslovak Church 1987
East Timor 1995-1996
El Salvador - Includes the Going Home/Mesa Grande Committee 1980-1989
Guatemala 1987-1989
Haiti 1994
Honduras 1989
Ireland 1979
Japan 1987-1988
Korea - Includes reunification issues 1980, 1985-1989
Mexico, Chiapas 1994-1995
Middle East, Peace issues 1984-1995
Nicaragua, Pastors for Peace 1987-1989
North Korea 1984-1986
Panama 1977
Peru, Eco-Andes 1989
Philippines 1978, 1986-1989
Singapore, Student Christian Movement 1987
Soviet Union, U.S.-USSR Bridges for Peace: A Citizens Project for American-Soviet Dialogue 1989
Newsletter: "The Church at Work" 11/1946 - 1/1968
Note