Consumer Reports. Consumers Union Foundation records, 1938-1991

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Summary

Creator:
Consumer Reports (Firm)
Abstract:
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Consumers Union Foundation was established in 1971 as a nonprofit focused on fundraising and promotion of consumer-based research projects. The Consumers Union Foundation (CUF) records include correspondence, direct mail examples, financial statements and reports, grants and internships, meeting minutes, project notes and reports, research reports and other printed materials. The collection also includes materials relating to an oral history project on people active in the consumer movement, and notes and drafts for a history of the Consumers Union. Organizations represented include the Consumer Interests Foundation (precursor to the CUF), the Center for the Study of Consumer Movements research center, and the Consumer Policy Institute (and its predecessor the Institute for Consumer Policy Research), a subsidiary of Consumers Union. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
10.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11856

Background

Scope and content:

The Consumers Union Foundation (CUF) records include correspondence, direct mail examples, financial statements and reports, grants and internships, meeting minutes, project notes and reports, research reports and other printed materials. The collection also includes materials relating to an oral history project on people active in the consumer movement, and notes and drafts for a history of the Consumers Union. Organizations represented include the Consumer Interests Foundation (precursor to the CUF), the Center for the Study of Consumer Movements research center, and the Consumer Policy Institute (and its predecessor the Institute for Consumer Policy Research), a subsidiary of Consumers Union.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Consumers Union Foundation was established in 1971 as a nonprofit focused on fundraising and promotion of consumer-based research projects. The Consumer Interests Foundation was established in 1971 to promote research into consumer interests (such as consumer education, the environment, healthcare, housing, poverty) not related to product testing. It was renamed as Consumers Union Foundation in 1975. A research center, the Center for the Study of Consumer Movements was established in 1972 with a NEH grant and other funding. In 1979 Consumers Union created a subsidiary, the Institute for Consumer Policy Research, to promote research and advocacy on policy-based consumer interests. It was renamed the Consumer Policy Institute in 1990.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. Consumers Union Foundation records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Sept. 2020;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130.

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: General and Administrative Files; Consumer Interests Foundaton; Center for the Study of Consumer Movements; Consumer Policy Institute

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Consumer education
Consumer advocacy
consumer protection
Names:
Consumer Interests Foundation
Consumers Union Foundation
Consumers Union Foundation. Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement
Institute for Consumer Policy Research
Consumer Policy Institute

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