Box 3, Folder 12, Document 71

Box 3, Folder 12, Document 71

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT SOUTHEAST REGIONAL OFFICE

@OEFICE. OF ECONOMIC ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308

OPPORTUNITY que 26 1968

Mr. Thomas M. Parham, Executive Director
Economic OPPORTUNITY Atlanta, Incorporated
101 Marietta Street Building, N. W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Dear Mr. Parham:

We have received the letter from Mr. Dan Sweat, Director of
Governmental Liaison in Mayor Ivan Allen, JEote office, to
“which he appended the news article on the proposed Washington,
D. C. Police Community Relations program.

I have discussed the status of the grant with the Research and
Demonstration Division at Office of Economic OPPORTUNITY Head-
quarters, We are sorry to inform you that the grant has already
been made and the monies which he was interested in obtaining
for a comparable program in Atlanta have been committeed. You
might inform Mr. Sweat that the Headquarters’ funding office
expressed the possibility of funding other experimental Police
Relations programs showing imaginative approaches to this urban
community communication problem. Mr. Bill Kopit of the Research
and Demonstration Division will forward to us a copy of the
Washington, D. C. Community Action Agency's proposal for your,
and Mr. Sweat's examination. It is an example of a proposal which
merited that office's attention. :

Please express to Mayor Allen's office our appreciation for his
support to Economic OPPORTUNITY Atlanta, Incorporated and his
leadership in promoting sensitivity to and understanding of the
problems of Atlanta's poor.

Sincerely,

SO gp

Thomas V. ‘Raft erty 7
Georgia District. Supervisor

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