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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (Human SERVE) Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Summary Information
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| Bib ID: | 5018097 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (Human SERVE) |
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| Title: | Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (Human SERVE) Records,
1982-2000
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| Physical description: | 63 linear feet (70,500 items in 47 record storage boxes)
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| Language(s): | In English
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| Access: |
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 34 series:
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Description
Scope and Content
Series I: Human Serve Launching
Series II: Early Campaigns
Series III: Human Serve Publications
Series IV: Proposals
Series V: Foundations
Series VI: Fundraising
Series VII: Funders
Series VIII: Nonprofit Agencies: 1985-1988
Series IX: Nonprofit Agencies: 1995-1996
Series X: National Organizations
Series XI: Labor
Series XII: States
Series XIII: New York State Executive Orders
Series XIV: New York State Legislation
Series XV: New York State Implementation
Series XVI: New York State Subjects
Series XVII: New York City Early Years
Series XVIII: New York City Voter Assistance Ccommission
Series XIX: New York City NVRA Implementation
Series XX: New York City Nonprofits
Series XXI: New York City Subjects
Series XXII: New York Legal
Series XXIII: Pre-NVRA State by State
Series XXIV: D.C. Office
Series XXV: Federal Legislation
Series XXVI: Federal Agencies
Series XXVII: NVRA Implementation
Series XXVIII: Legal Restraints
Series XXIX: Press
Series XXX: Voter Registration and Turnout Data
Series XXXI: Subjects
Series XXXII: Chronologies (Staff Correspondence Files)
Series XXXIII: Board/Staff
Series XXXIV: Internal Administration/Operations
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Using the Collection
Offsite
Access Restrictions
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (Human SERVE) Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
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Subject Headings
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History / Biographical Note
History
The Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (Human SERVE) was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1983 by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. It played a catalytic role in the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Cloward and Piven stood behind President Clinton at the bill signing on May 20, 1993). The Act requires states to permit people to register to vote when they get or renew drivers licenses or when they apply for benefits in welfare (Food Stamps, Medicaid, Women Infants and Children offices, and disability agencies). The Act went into effect in January 1995 and Human SERVE played a leading role in the effort to improve implementation by state officials especially in social service agencies. Human SERVE closed its doors in June 2000 having reached its goal of changing the American voter registration system by opening up access to people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale.
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