Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Herman Gallegos papers
- Dates:
- 1944-2013
- Creators:
- Gallegos, Herman E.
- Extent:
- 77 Linear Feet (179 boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Herman Gallegos papers (M20821). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains organizational files, grant proposals, meeting dockets, correspondence, reports, newsletters, research and subject files, and notes from Herman Gallegos's corporate, non-profit, philanthropic and advocacy work. He served on the boards for a number of corporate and nonprofit companies, and had a consulting role with many more. There are also some personal papers, including letters, memorabilia, and collected newsclippings that are not otherwise related to his work.
- Biographical / historical:
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Herman Gallegos has been an activist and community organizer with a focus on Latino rights and support, as well as a management consultant, director, and trustee on many corporate boards and nonprofits.
Born in Colorado, he was educated in California. There, Gallegos became the first president of Community Service Organization's (CSO) San Jose chapter, and then the national president in 1960.
After getting his MSW from the University of California, he began to shift his focus from organizing to other advocacy work. He was the district director with the San Bernardino County Council of Community Services, followed shortly after by a position on the board of the Rosenberg Foundation, the first of many of its kind for him.
Along with Ernesto Galarza and Julian Samora, Gallegos developed a recommendation to the Ford Foundation for addressing the needs of Hispanic communities, which resulted in the creation of the Southwest Council of La Raza (currently UnidosUS), a Latino nonprofit advocacy organization where Gallegos was the first Executive Director.
He has served on the boards of such corporate and philanthropic organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, Hallmark Cards, US Human Resources Corporation, Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis Group, Transmetrics, Inc., and numerous others. He also cofounded Hispanics in Philanthropy.
Herman Gallegos has received multiple Presidential appointments, and was a Delegate to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, and a US Deputy Representative to the 49th United Nations General Assembly.
His publications includeMexican American sin the Southwest, with Ernesto Galarza and Julian Samora, Hispanics and the Non Profit Sector with Michael O'Neill, and US Foundations and Minority Group Interests.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Herman Gallegos, 1995 and 2013. Accessions 1995-139, 1995-259, and 2013-164.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Mexican Americans
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-06 15:58:59 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged three business days in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: https://library.stanford.edu/libraries/special-collections.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Herman Gallegos papers (M20821). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022