Series 2: Administrative files, 1945-1957, bulk

The administrative files are comprised of a range of materials, including files on BCSP activities, Board of Director's correspondence, committee information, certificates of appreciation, finances and fund raising, founding, legal history, legislative policy, membership, personnel, and public relations.

The Board of Directors files include general correspondence on issues relating to the administration of BCSP, and nominating committee correspondence regarding the appointment of Board members. There are significant letters to and from Brooklyn borough President John Cashmore, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and an interesting chronicle of BCSP's involvement with Planned Parenthood Association.

Committee files provide an understanding of the range of small committees essential to BCSP's overall mission. Finance files chronicle the budgetary history of the organization, and reveal the financial struggle BCSP underwent, eventually leading to its demise. The fund raising and finance committee files disclose important information on the fragile state of BCSP's finances during the "crisis campaign" of 1956-57, when BCSP sought alternative funding after learning that the Community Council of Greater New York, its major funder, would no longer provide financial support. History files describe BCSP's founding and mission, and include preliminary and revised bylaws. The diversity of activities and programs organized by BCSP are well documented in the press release files.