Brooklyn Public Library
To support BKLYN Incubator.
The Education program supports institutions and projects that seek to provide broad access to knowledge, information, and resources that sustain an informed and engaged citizenry.
Areas of focus include supporting innovation in access to digital and online materials in public libraries, bolstering the financial and editorial capacities of ethnic and community news publications, encouraging the education and participation of students as discerning readers of news media, and strengthening college and postgraduate fellows who are pursuing careers in the public interest.
To support BKLYN Incubator.
To support Revson Data Journalism Fellowships and a Local Journalism Data Hub.
To support the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support Groundswell in documenting and sharing the Rikers Island Murals.
To support the Youth Civic Hub.
To support the New York City Leaders Fellowship program at City College.
To support election reform efforts in New York.
To support BKLYN Incubator and its new focus on community-generated programs.
To support Culture Pass and the increased access to New York City’s cultural institutions it provides to all New Yorkers.
To support City Limits’ local reporting on housing and homelessness.
To support Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support Revson Data Journalism Fellowships and a Local Journalism Data Hub.
To support the NYC Youth Journalism Coalition.
To support Do Something and YVote in building a civic participation ecosystem for young New Yorkers.
To support the New York City Youth Journalism Coalition.
To support the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Swim Safety Corps Pilot at Jamaica Bay-Rockaway.
To support NYPL’s planning for more diverse representation in young adult literature.
To provide general operating support to The Academy for Teachers.
To support the YMCA of Greater New York in addressing New York City’s lifeguard shortage.
To support Baruch College’s High School Journalism Program and its work to start newspapers in NYC high schools and recognize student journalism.
To support election reform efforts in New York.
To support Collections Connections, which will bring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum collection to Brooklyn Public Library branches across the borough.
To support the expansion of the Making Space project.
To support BKLYN Incubator and its new focus on community-generated programs.
To support Culture Pass and the increased access to New York City’s cultural institutions it provides to all New Yorkers.
To support the Branches in Bloom program at the Brooklyn Public Library, made in honor of Cheryl Cohen Effron’s tenure as Board Chair.
To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.
To establish the New York City Leaders Fellows program at the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership.
To support City Limits’ local reporting on housing and homelessness.
To support Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support Do Something and YVote in building a civic participation ecosystem for young New Yorkers.
To establish and support New York City’s first Youth Journalism Coalition, housed at The Bell.
To support to the Harvard Scholars at Risk program, made in honor of Dr. Steven Hyman’s tenure on the Board of Trustees.
To support Queens Connected, providing expanded Wi-Fi internet access and outdoor gardens at Queens Public Library branches.
To update the Frederick Douglass Traveling Exhibition and donate exhibits to New York City’s library systems.
To support the Rebuild Local News Coalition and its advocacy to revitalize local journalism.
To support research and planning related to the role that the Community Reinvestment Act can play in strengthening local news.
To create a citywide task force to address the NYC lifeguard shortage and to expand lifeguard certifications for 2023.
To support its election reform efforts in New York.
To support Collections Connections, which will bring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum collection to Brooklyn Public Library branches across the borough.
To support BPL Outdoors and the creation of outdoor libraries at 10 branches.
To support BKLYN Incubator and its new focus on community-generated programs.
To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.
To provide general operating support.
To support Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support NYPL Outdoors Pilot and the creation of outdoor libraries at seven branches.
To support Robot in a Box and increased access to robotics.
To support QPL W.O.W. (With Out Walls) and the creation of outdoor libraries at five branches.
To support the Academy for Teachers’ Early Career Fellowship.
To support the Rebuild Local News Coalition and its advocacy to revitalize local journalism.
To support its election reform efforts in New York.
To support their development of a roadmap to reform the NYS Board of Elections (BOE).
To support the BKLYN Incubator.
To support Bklyn Reach, an initiative to address Brooklyn’s digital divide by extending BPL’s wireless internet signal into communities surrounding library branches.
To support a public symposium, policy brief, and campaign to improve New York City’s capital construction process for public libraries, parks, and cultural institutions.
To support the Greenstein Fund for a Just Future.
To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.
To build the capacity of one umbrella organization to support ten of their members’ 2021 voter mobilization efforts and to update the NY Nonprofit Voter Engagement Toolkit for broad distribution among the nonprofit community.
To support 6-10 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
To support the J-School’s Resilience Fund.
To support the development and pilot of Robot in a Box and the increased access to robotics in New York City that it will provide.
To support the general operations of the Academy for Teachers.
To support the Children’s Aid Society’s initiative to educate and engage young people and their communities in the South Bronx in the 2021 elections.
To support THE CITY’s coverage of NYC’s 2021 local elections.
To support three extended “Master Classes” for educators in 2014.
To support the cost of honorariums for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City school teachers in 2014.
To support a conference on improving financial literacy education in the United States.
To design and launch ADI’s Mentoring Program for 2009.
To support the launch of a national ‘Pathways to Power’ leadership program for first-generation Americans.
To support the development of El Museo del Barrio’s community-based and educational programs.
To aid in the recruitment of the first cohort of Bard Prison Initiative’s Brooklyn Microcollege, and to expand the network of partner institutions.
To support the implementation of an integrated, inquiry-based Biology Department curriculum, ‘The Functional Genomics of Manduca Sexta.’
To support a program in the Department of Biological Sciences that offers undergraduates an opportunity to engage in genetic research.
To support Baruch College’s High School Journalism Program and its work to start newspapers in NYC high schools and recognize student journalism.
To inaugurate the Open Communities Fund.
To support the creation of a multi-disciplinary working group to explore feasible business models for the sale, leasing, and distribution of e-books to public libraries.
To support educational and research efforts in critical thinking about diagnosis and treatment.
To support the educational and research efforts of Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband with respect to improving medical diagnoses and individualizing treatment
To support the expansion of the educational and research efforts of Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartsband with respect to improving medical diagnoses and individualizing treatment.
Tto support the expansion of the educational and research efforts of Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband with respect to improving medical diagnoses and individualizing treatment.
To support efforts to increase traffic to the website and build revenue.
To support the creation of the Perlmutter Institute Leadership Forum, a luncheon series at the Brandeis University International Business School.
For general support, with a focus on voting and government systems.
To support its election reform efforts in New York.
To support their development of a roadmap to reform the NYS Board of Elections (BOE).
To support election reform efforts in New York.
To support Collections Connections, which will bring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum collection to Brooklyn Public Library branches across the borough.
To support the creation of multifaceted community engagement programs that will develop confident, proactive staff and an active grassroots base of support for New York City’s libraries.
To support the expansion of multifaceted community engagement programs to establish a permanent and active.
To support the expansion of the BKLYN Incubator, a project to generate, test, and share program ideas across the Library’s branches.
To support the Making Space project.
To support the NYC Culture Pass program.
For the 2017 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community to be allocated directly to the following branch libraries: $20,000 to New Utrecht Library and $10,000 to Crown Heights Library. An additional $10,000 is to be allocated directly to Sheepshead Bay Library, a winner of the Perennial Excellence Award.
To support the Macon Library in honor and memory of Taneya Gethers.
To support the BKLYN Incubator.
To support the expansion of the Making Space project.
To support Bklyn Reach, an initiative to address Brooklyn’s digital divide by extending BPL’s wireless internet signal into communities surrounding library branches.
To support BPL Outdoors and the creation of outdoor libraries at 10 branches.
To support BKLYN Incubator and its new focus on community-generated programs.
To support Culture Pass and the increased access to New York City’s cultural institutions it provides to all New Yorkers.
To support the Branches in Bloom program at the Brooklyn Public Library, made in honor of Cheryl Cohen Effron’s tenure as Board Chair.
To support BKLYN Incubator.
To provide core operating support to enable CUF to undertake a sustained period of research, outreach, and advocacy about public libraries in New York City.
To support a policy report and conference examining how best to leverage branch libraries to address key challenges facing New York City.
To support a public symposium, policy brief, and campaign to improve New York City’s capital construction process for public libraries, parks, and cultural institutions.
To support the production of the feature-length documentary
To support the production of two short films about the essential role that New York City’s public libraries play in people’s lives.
To support the production of two short films about the essential role that New York City’s public libraries play in people’s lives.
To the Center for Social Inclusion, in honor of Maya Wiley’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards initiative.
To support the Center’s analytic, communications, and capacity-building activities related to important debates around federal budget priorities.
To support the Center’s research, analysis, and public education activities related to the federal budget as it affects the states, and to support a Revson State Policy Fellow.
To support the Greenstein Fund for a Just Future.
To provide general operating support to Chalkbeat’s New York news desk.
To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.
To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.
To support the Chicago Public Library Foundation, in honor of Brian Bannon’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the planning of a career-skills program for Macaulay Honors students at City College.
To establish the New York City Leaders Fellows program at the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership.
To provide general operating support.
To support City Limits’ local reporting on housing and homelessness.
To support a 2008 Campaign Desk fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review .
To support a major study whose goal is to find broadly applicable ways of strengthening local coverage of public affairs.
To support the launch of The Reconstruction of American Journalism, a report by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Michael Schudson with policy recommendations on the future of accountability reporting.
To build the capacity of one umbrella organization to support ten of their members’ 2021 voter mobilization efforts and to update the NY Nonprofit Voter Engagement Toolkit for broad distribution among the nonprofit community.
To support the Libraries as a Civic Institution program.
To support 6-10 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
To support the J-School’s Resilience Fund.
To support Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support Revson Data Journalism Fellowships and a Local Journalism Data Hub.
To support the NYC Youth Journalism Coalition.
To support the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Foundation Scholars.
To support the DC Public Library, in honor of Richard Reyes-Gavilan’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support Do Something and YVote in building a civic participation ecosystem for young New Yorkers.
To conduct a study on how best to teach first-year students the essential writing, technology, and research skills required for success in higher education and the workplace.
To support a DVD companion to a study guide for classroom use.
To support research, public education, and advocacy work on budget- and economic-related policy issues that affect low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
To revise external communications through web-based and other technology tools.
For support of research, public education, and advocacy work on budget, economic, and related policy issues that affect low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
To establish and support New York City’s first Youth Journalism Coalition, housed at The Bell.
To support the New York City Youth Journalism Coalition.
To support efforts to preserve open access to the Internet.
To promote a national broadband policy that ensures affordable and accessible high-speed Internet for all Americans.
To support the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Swim Safety Corps Pilot at Jamaica Bay-Rockaway.
To support the creation of a strategic plan for operating as a “private school in the public service.”
To support a conference on girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education with both public and private schools in the Washington, DC area.
To support Groundswell in documenting and sharing the Rikers Island Murals.
To support the Harvard Scholars at Risk program, which provides sanctuary to international academics, artists, and intellectuals who face persecution because of their beliefs, work, or identities.
To help the Public Service Venture Fund expand opportunities for public service careers for lawyers, in honor of Martha Minow’s service as chair of the Charles H. Revson Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
To support year-long fellowships and related expenses for three to four Harvard Scholars at Risk fellows.
To support year-long fellowships and related expenses for three to four Harvard Scholars at Risk fellows.
to support year-long fellowships and related expenses for three to four Harvard Scholars at Risk fellows
To support LeadOn, Independent Sector’s 2013 national conference.
To develop a new tool that will enhance educational use of the website .
To support the funding of the Read for the Record campaign and generate public support for high-quality early learning and highlight the importance of building children’s vocabulary and love for reading.
To support the funding of the Read for the Record campaign.
To support intensive college guidance services for four LEDA scholars.
To support the Meet the Artist Library Series, an educational outreach initiative between Lincoln Center and branch libraries to bring performing arts programs to the outer boroughs of New York City.
To support the Meet the Artist Library Series, an educational outreach initiative between Lincoln Center and the branch libraries to bring performing arts programs to the outer boroughs of New York City.
To support the expansion of Lincoln Center Local.
To create the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars Program, providing fellowship stipends to 10 Macaulay students interested in public and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to New York City.
To support fellowship stipends for 13 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars, selected for their interest in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York.
To support the strategic planning process at Macaulay Honors College.
To support fellowship stipends for 26 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at Macaulay Honors College, selected for their interest in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York.
To support fellowship stipends for 26 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at Macaulay Honors College , selected for their interest in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York.
To support a planning study to develop an internship program and fair that creates meaningful internship opportunities for Macaulay students and enhances the college’s existing career services offerings.
To support the career development program.
To support the pre-professional program in establishing foundational career services. to support the pre-professional program in establishing foundational career services.
To support Pre-Med and Life Sciences extra-curricular activities geared towards exposing students to a broad range of careers
To support thirteen Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars in each of the next two years at Macaulay Honors College interested in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York, and for an annual scholars welcome dinner in spring of 2016 and 2017.
To support the pre-professional program in establishing foundational career services.
To support the pre-professional program in establishing foundational career services.
To support the Community Leadership and Empowerment Project.
To support efforts to promote universal, inexpensive broadband access to the Internet and to ensure net neutrality.
To support efforts to preserve and promote an open and diverse media, particularly regarding net neutrality and Internet access.
To support national events featuring the National Book Award winners and finalists.
To support the Book Rich Environments program in New York City.
To support the ‘Kids’ Right to Read Project’ and ‘The Knowledge Project: Censorship and Science.’
To support the Kids’ Right to Read Project , which provides support, education, and advocacy to parents and teachers facing book challenges in libraries and schools.
To support the Kids’ Right to Read Project, which provides education and advocacy tools to parents and teachers facing book challenges in libraries and schools.
To support the New Chapter program, a partnership among New York City’s three library systems that temporarily waives outstanding fines for all patrons under the age of 18.
To support the NYPL’s leadership in expanding e-content for libraries.
To support the position of collection development coordinator for the Tri-Library School Library Catalog project.
To support the creation of multifaceted community engagement programs that will develop confident, proactive staff and an active grassroots base of support for New York City’s libraries.
To support the expansion of multifaceted community engagement programs to establish a permanent and active advocacy base for New York City’s libraries.
To support the Innovation Project.
For the 2017 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following branch libraries: $20,000 to Allerton Library; $20,000 to Chatham Square Library; $10,000 to Edenwald Library; $10,000 to George Bruce Library; and $10,000 to Hunts Point Library. In acknowledgement of the Perennial Excellence Award recipients, $10,000 will be allocated to the Aguilar Library and $10,000 to the Stapleton Library. An additional $20,000 is to be allocated directly to the winner of the Heckscher Prize for Outstanding Service to Children and Youth, Grand Concourse Library. Lastly, an additional $20,000 is to be allocated directly to the winner of the Award for Distinction in Service, Bronx Library Center.
To support New York Public Library’s annual Spring Dinner.
To support NYPL Outdoors Pilot and the creation of outdoor libraries at seven branches.
To support NYPL’s planning for more diverse representation in young adult literature.
To support the Lisa Goldberg Scholarship Fund at New York University, in memory of the Foundation’s president.
To support NYU Distinguished Scholar in Residence Jennifer Homan’s work on her forthcoming biography of ballet choreographer George Balanchine.
To support “The Social Life of Local Libraries” project.
To support a conference on “Libraries as Places” at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.
To support the Red Burns Scholarship Fund at the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
To support the Red Burns Scholarship Fund of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program .
To support the Business Law Transactions Clinic’s Fellows and Supervising Attorneys
To support a lecture and dinner event as part of NYU School of Law’s “Conversations on Leadership” series in early 2018 and to support the annual JD/MBA spring break student trip.
To support educational programs in New York City schools that teach students the critical thinking skills they need to be smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of credible information across all media platforms, and to build the capacity of programs nationwide.
To support the enhancement and expansion of NYC FIRST’s partnerships with NYC’s public library systems.
To support the development and pilot of Robot in a Box and the increased access to robotics in New York City that it will provide.
To support Robot in a Box and increased access to robotics.
To support a career development program for talented, underserved high school students.
To support the participation of high-achieving, low-income New York City high school students in a leadership development program focusing on networking, career development, and college access and success.
To support the Makers project, a documentary and digital platform showcasing the stories of hundreds of trailblazing women.
To support to the Harvard Scholars at Risk program, made in honor of Dr. Steven Hyman’s tenure on the Board of Trustees.
To support a program that provides volunteer mentors and tutors to children.
To support the creation of multifaceted community engagement programs that will develop confident, proactive staff and an active grassroots base of support for New York City’s libraries.
To support the expansion of multifaceted community engagement programs to establish a permanent and active.
To support the Far Rockaway Library, in honor of Stacy Schiff’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the Queens Library, in honor of Jelani Cobb’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
For the 2017 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community to be allocated directly to the following branch libraries: $20,000 to Queens Library at Lefferts, $20,000 to Queens Library at Woodside, and $10,000 to Queens Library at Bayside.
To support QPL W.O.W. (With Out Walls) and the creation of outdoor libraries at five branches.
To support Queens Connected, providing expanded Wi-Fi internet access and outdoor gardens at Queens Public Library branches.
To endow the Lisa Goldberg Fellowship Fund, which will support outstanding individuals whose ideas, research, and creative work reflect Lisa Goldberg’s enduring influence.
To support the Summer High School Science Outreach Program, which mentors K-12 teachers and high school students in laboratory research.
To support the development and launch of the Steinem Media Mentoring program in 2015, a component of the Gloria Steinem Initiative at Rutgers University
In honor of Jacqueline Woodson’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards initiative.
To support the expansion of SCAD’s Graduate Mentor Program.
To support the expansion of SCAD’s Graduate Mentor Program.
To support the development of BioWeb Conferences , online dialogues between Smith students and prominent scientists.
To support the Youth Civic Hub.
To support leadership and college access programming at the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.
To support Arizona Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks , providing special programs to children with cancer and their siblings.
To support Arizona Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks, providing special programs to children with cancer and their siblings.
To support the development and launch of the website. xxx
To support the Uni Project’s provision of as many as 160 pop-up reading rooms at plazas and street festivals across New York City in 2017, in partnership with NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT).
To support the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, in honor of Angela Flournoy’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the cost of honorariums for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2015.
To support the Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2016.
To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2017.
To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2018.
To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2019.
To support the general operations of the Academy for Teachers.
To support the Academy for Teachers’ Early Career Fellowship.
To provide general operating support to The Academy for Teachers.
To support honoraria for seminar leaders at colloquia for New York City public school teachers.
To support a study assessing the feasibility of establishing working partnerships between New York City public schools and local public library branches.
To support the ‘Reading Partnerships’ project, an initiative to provide New York City public school students and families with increased public library access and greater exposure to engaging literature and literacy-rich activities.
To support the Children’s Aid Society’s initiative to educate and engage young people and their communities in the South Bronx in the 2021 elections.
To support THE CITY’s coverage of NYC’s 2021 local elections.
To support two programs of reportorial and investigative journalism: the monthly Newsmaker Series for community and ethnic press reporters and Journalism School students; and the Urban Investigative Project for seasoned journalists to work with Urban Reporting students on 5-6 projects a year.
To support the CUNY Journalism School’s annual Awards for Excellence.
To support the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
To support the New York City Leaders Fellowship program at City College.
To update the Frederick Douglass Traveling Exhibition and donate exhibits to New York City’s library systems.
To support the Rebuild Local News Coalition and its advocacy to revitalize local journalism.
To support the Rebuild Local News Coalition and its advocacy to revitalize local journalism.
To support research and planning related to the role that the Community Reinvestment Act can play in strengthening local news.
To support The Lambda Literary Foundation Writer’s Retreat, in honor of Angela Flournoy’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support a partnership between The New School’s Journalism + Design (J+D) program and WNYC.
To support the expansion of the checkology™ virtual classroom in New York City and nationwide.
To support the Department of Information Studies at the University of Albany’s College of Computing and Information, in honor of Susan Hildreth’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards initiative.
To support the production of the MAKERS television series.
To support general operating costs of Women for Women International in order to further support ultra-poor, marginalized women in conflict-affected countries.
To support the Y’s educational initiatives to help close the academic achievement gap and make college a reality for thousands of New York City students
To create a citywide task force to address the NYC lifeguard shortage and to expand lifeguard certifications for 2023.
To support the YMCA of Greater New York in addressing New York City’s lifeguard shortage.