This subseries contains records of William L. Honnold’s civic and philanthropic activities for the period 1919 to 1930. These activities can be broadly grouped into: (1) Belgian post-World War I development, and (2) support for educational institutions. The former include a small number of documents relating to the Commission for Relief in Belgium, of which Honnold served as London and later New York director, and to the C. R. B. Educational Foundation, which was incorporated in 1920, and endowed with residual funds from the liquidation of the assets of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Its operations included the sponsoring of Belgian-American exchange fellowships, the fostering of Belgian-American cultural relations, and aid to child health and nutrition programs in Belgium. The bulk of these records consists of telegrams relating to the mission Honnold undertook in 1918-1919, on behalf of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York and other United States financial institutions, to facilitate the rehabilitation of Belgian finances. The remaining records relate largely to Honnold’s support for educational institutions. Once Honnold secured the assets he deemed sufficient to meet the present and future needs of himself and his wife, he determined to devote the bulk of his remaining assets to the support of academic institutions, in particular his alma maters Knox College and the Michigan College of Mining and Technology; California Institute of Technology, where he served on the finance committee of the Board of Trustees; and the Claremont Colleges, where he was an original member, and second president, of the Board of Fellows of Claremont College, and an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College . Honnold’s interest in supporting academic institutions led to the establishment n 1926 of the Honnold Foundation (see Series 6), whose records the documents in this subseries antedate and supplement. The records for the individual institutions consist of correspondence, committee minutes, and receipts for donations. The subseries also contains records of subscriptions and donations to other institutions and organizations; these also antedate and supplement similar records of the Honnold Foundation in Series 6, and the “Donations” and "Eleemosynary matters / requests for donations" files in Series 4: Chronological files.