Six Cities Trusteeship Project: Trustee Biographical Dataset, 1931, 1961, 1991 [Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Philadelphia] (ICPSR 35239)

1. The study was conducted by Program on Nonprofit Organizations at Yale University. The research involved in this data collection effort was organized by Rikki Abzug, then based at the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University. Memoranda were mailed to the local research teams for each city to ensure that collection methodologies were standardized. The local research teams included: Lisa Buxbaum, David Swartz, and Richard Roth in Boston; Diane Grabowski, David Hammack, Yuan Li, Todd Michney, and Nancy Erdy (of University Hospitals) in Cleveland; Joseph Galaskiewicz, Elizabeth Turner Sosin, and Ann Deetz in the Twin Cities; Judith Blau, Charles Heying, and Joe Feinberg covering Atlanta (though located at the University of North Carolina); John C. Lammers and Christy L. Beaudin in Los Angeles; and Michael Useem and Chul Hee Kang in Philadelphia.

2. This data collection was previously distributed by the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA). The CPANDA Identification Number (study number) is a00190. CPANDA conducted the following processing steps for release of this collection: produced a codebook, checked for undocumented codes, performed consistency checks, provided frequencies, performed recodes, and reformatted the data.

3. Research sites were established in or near each city of interest in order to elicit the aid of local scholars and archivists.

4. Organizations varied greatly in their internal archiving and in their cooperation with researchers. Some organizations did not retain their annual reports, while others had institutional libraries. Some organizations consented to interviews and provided trustee resumes and biographical sketches; others were unwilling to cooperate at all with researchers. The data collection challenges resulted in extensive missing data for some organizations and time periods.

5. Researchers are encouraged to collect data on trustees in other cities by using the survey format and questionnaire from this study.

6. Data from the board codesheets have been removed from the data set due to the authors' concerns about the data, particularly the large amount of missing financial data.

7. Information regarding data processing for this data collection is in the "Codebook Notes" page(s) in the ICPSR Codebook. Most notably:

   • For this data collection, no documentation was provided for the following variables: RESPOSH and ORGSIZE.
   • For this data collection, no documentation was provided to describe how data were coded for the following variables: BOARD1-BOARD4 and CORP1-CORP4.

• Who's Who in America
• Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives
• The Social Register
• regional and specialized Who's Whos, such as Who's Who Among Black Americans and Who's Who in American Jewry
• regional and local Blue Books (locally published lists of socially prominent people)
• community, business, and professional biographies and directories (such as the Directory of Directors and the American Medical Directory)
• newspaper articles and obituaries
• alumni directories of universities and preparatory schools
• local archivists
• personal interviews with board members and executive directors
• Who Rules America Now

• Abzug, Rikki, Paul DiMaggio, Bradford Gray, Peter Dobkin Hall, Michael Useem, Chul Hee Kang, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Elizabeth Turner Sosin, Ann Deetz, David Hammack, Diane Grabowski, Yuan Li, Todd Michney, David Swartz, Lisa Buxbaum, Richard Roth, Judith R. Blau, Charles Heying, Joe Feinberg, John C. Lammers, and Christy L. Beaudin. Six Cities Trusteeship Project: Trustee Biographical Dataset, 1931, 1961, 1991 [Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Philadelphia]. ICPSR35239-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-07-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35239.v2

2016-07-15 Data Lead-in documentation was added to highlight subjects and variables related to arts and culture.

2015-02-06 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created online analysis version with question text.