Citizens Housing and Planning Council
To support strategies that clarify and elevate the role of property management in the affordable housing policy sector.
The Urban Affairs program is focused on projects that enhance New York City’s vitality as a leading and livable urban capital.
We partner with civic and cultural institutions, local government, and independent nonprofits that design innovative, feasible initiatives to address the common needs of diverse New Yorkers.
The Foundation continually seeks opportunities to strengthen the city’s pluralistic communities and civic spaces, re-envisioning public libraries, affordable housing, and local public affairs journalism to cultivate engaged, creative urban citizens.
To support strategies that clarify and elevate the role of property management in the affordable housing policy sector.
To support the Open Hearts Initiative and their work to build community support for housing and services for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
To support the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (I-ARC).
To support an interfaith coalition welcoming asylum seekers to New York.
To support NASH’s efforts to support asylum seekers in partnership with the State University of New York.
To support the research and development of advocacy campaigns for the next phase of the Five Point Plan for Park Equity.
To support the creation of The Local Center and the launch of eight community-led public space projects.
To provide general operating support to Vital City for their efforts to advance new thinking and strategies that build thriving cities.
To support the Open Hearts Initiative and their work to build community support for housing and services for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
To provide general operating support for Hell Gate and its local journalism.
To support the GoVoteNYC fund and its grantmaking to increase voter participation.
To support Art on the Ave NYC and their exhibitions in vacant storefronts and small businesses.
To support Art on the Ave NYC.
To support the research and development of advocacy campaigns for the next phase of the Five Point Plan for Park Equity.
To provide general operating support to the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
To support THE CITY and its local public affairs journalism.
To support UNHP’s Distressed Multifamily Portfolio Intervention Initiative.
To support the creation of The Local Center and the launch of eight community-led public space projects.
To expand the NYC Green Fund and strengthen the Parks and Open Space Partners Coalition.
To support the expansion of Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic to the New York metropolitan area.
To support an expansion of the Center for Community Media’s Advertising Boost Initiative.
To support Documented’s reporting on New York City’s immigrant communities and the policies that affect them.
To support Fort Greene Park Conservancy’s Social Well-Being Pilot.
To support the PSLF.nyc Campaign in helping 250,000 public service workers in New York access billions in debt relief.
To support the preservation of NYC’s nonprofit owned affordable housing.
To provide general operating support to New Immigrant Community Empowerment.
To provide general operating support to New York Common Pantry, made in honor of Reynold Levy’s tenure as Board Chair.
To support the GoVoteNYC fund and its grantmaking to increase civic and voter participation in New York City.
To support New York Focus and their journalism on state and local politics in the Empire State.
To support the research and development of advocacy campaigns for the next phase of the Five Point Plan for Park Equity.
To support the founding and operations of the Open Hearts Initiative as a citywide effort.
To support ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network partnership with THE CITY.
To support the general operations of the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
To support THE CITY and its local public affairs journalism.
To support Community Votes’ voter mobilization initiative led in partnership with the Literacy Assistance Center.
To support Documented NY, a non-profit news site devoted to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives.
To support the evaluation of New York City’s East New York Basement Conversion Pilot.
To support the NYC Green Relief and Recovery Fund.
To support the expansion of Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic to the New York metropolitan area.
To support the Center for Community Media’s City Elections Project.
To support an expansion of the Center for Community Media’s Advertising Boost Initiative.
To support New York Focus, an independent newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State.
To support the preservation of NYC’s nonprofit owned affordable housing.
To support a new donor collaborative aimed at increasing civic and voter participation in NYC.
To support the New York State Census Equity Fund and its grantmaking to ensure a fair, equitable, and transparent redistricting process.
To support the GoVoteNYC fund and its grantmaking to increase civic and voter participation in New York City.
To support Project NYC 2025.
To support the founding and operations of the Open Hearts Initiative as a citywide effort.
To support Philanthropy New York’s public policy campaign.
To support independent, investigative reporting on the management, budget, policy, and practices of the New York Police Department, produced in partnership with THE CITY.
To support the general operations of the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
To plan and launch the Homeowner Landlord Services Pilot.
To support THE CITY and its local public affairs journalism.
To support a screening and panel discussion on the future of local news.
To support Los Deliveristas Unidos at the Workers Justice Project.
To support UNH’s evaluation of the Settlement House Voter Initiative.
To establish the New City Critics Fellowship.
To support Documented NY, a non-profit news site devoted to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives.
To provide COVID-19 emergency relief efforts.
To support the evaluation of New York City’s East New York Basement Conversion Pilot.
To provide general operating support.
To support the use of the News Revenue Hub’s technology package in 2020.
To support public education on ranked choice voting in advance of New York City’s local 2021 elections.
To support the expansion of Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic to the New York metropolitan area.
To support the New York Community & Immigrant Media Sustainability Project.
To support RTCNYC’s Strategic Convening in 2020.
To provide support to the Brooklyn Movement Center’s Power Line platform.
To support Power Line, a civic journalism platform designed to provide Central Brooklynites with the information necessary to make informed decisions during the 2021 local elections.
To support the NYC Coronavirus Impact Fund’s response efforts helping to bridge the gap for nonprofits that have lost crucial revenue.
To support independent, investigative reporting on the management, budget, policy, and practices of the New York Police Department, produced in partnership with THE CITY.
To support the New York Civic Engagement Table’s 2021 NYC elections initiative.
To support the Getting to 35K and Preservation Projects.
To support the establishment of THE CITY, a nonprofit news organization focused on public affairs journalism in New York City.
To support a voter initiative aimed at educating and engaging communities with historical low turnout in the local 2021 elections.
To support UNHP’s research on housing distress and the policy solutions needed to mitigate it in the Bronx and New York City-wide.
To support the planning to establish Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative as an organization capable of supporting communities citywide.
To provide COVID-19 emergency relief efforts.
To support the culmination of YMCA’s Census outreach and services to immigrant communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID pandemic.
To support the development of a census public awareness campaign and messaging playbook.
To support cultural and arts programming for children.
To support the contributors’ fees for a special edition of The Atlantic’s print magazine for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To support the NY LEAD campaign.
To support the redesign of the Bronx News Network’s website to expand advertising and enhance the collection of revenue.
To support Documented NY, a non-profit news site devoted to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives.
For the “Support our Shelves” campaign in five branch libraries.
For the “Support our Shelves” campaign in five branch libraries.
To support the creation of BPL’s Department of Outreach Services, which will build partnerships with local service providers and city agencies to make the library more accessible to a greater number of Brooklyn residents.
For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to three Brooklyn branch libraries: $10,000 to Macon Library; $10,000 to Sheepshead Bay Library; and $5,000 to Kings Bay Library.
To support Brooklyn Public Library’s 17th annual gala in 2014.
For the 2014-2015 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to three branch libraries as follows: $20,000 to New Lots Library; $10,000 to Clinton Hill Library; and $10,000 to Windsor Terrace Library.
For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following three branch libraries: $20,000 to Sunset Park Library; $10,000 to Dyker Library; and $10,000 to Kings Bay Library.
To support the hiring of four census navigators to provide census assistance in branches located in hard-to-count areas.
To support development of a policy on the economic impact and growth potential of New York City’s design sector, outlined in the Center’s research report, .
To support the publication of a research report on New York City’s public libraries, Branches of Opportunity , and the conference “Leveraging Libraries for the Future of New York.”
To support the launch of the Center’s report on New York City’s public libraries, Branches of Opportunity. xxx
To support the creation of the first comprehensive visioning blueprint for New York City’s public libraries in the 21st century, and a related showcasing event.
To support an outreach and education campaign about the findings and recommendations of CUF’s Branches of Opportunity report.
To support a project examining the challenges that New York City nonprofits face in undertaking construction projects financed with city capital dollars and managed by the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC).
To the Center for Social Inclusion, in honor of Maya Wiley’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards initiative.
To provide COVID-19 emergency relief efforts.
To support Phase III of “One Size Fits Some: A Fresh Look at Housing and Space Standards in New York City,” a project to expand housing choices, enhance access to housing, and improve safety in shared accommodations.
To support the Making Room project, an advocacy campaign for housing regulatory reform in New York City.
To support the Making Room project, an advocacy campaign for New York City housing regulatory reform, and the development of a pilot to create single-occupancy mini-studios.
To support CHPC’s efforts to help city government marshal the resources of New York’s housing and community development organizations in its emergency relief actions following Hurricane Sandy.
To support a global competition seeking design proposals for affordable, state-of-the-art fire-protection systems, which will remove a crucial barrier currently preventing basements across the city from being inhabited safely and legally.
To support the next phase of the Making Room project: to promulgate the adoption of new housing models, and to continue building awareness and support for the Making Room vision, in part through a national exhibition in Washington, D.C. in 2015.
To support a study evaluating the impact of the transfer of six buildings in NYCHA’s Section 8 to a new public/private partnership.
To support the design and implementation of a second phase of study that is evaluating the impact of the transfer of six buildings in NYCHA’s Section 8 portfolio to a new public/private partnership.
To support a series of four civic conversations: Beds, Books, and Basements.
To support the “Making Shared Housing Work in NYC” project.
To support the evaluation of New York City’s East New York Basement Conversion Pilot.
To support strategies that clarify and elevate the role of property management in the affordable housing policy sector.
To support Gotham Gazette’s in-depth reporting and accountability coverage.
To support the Healthy Neighborhoods initiative to address hunger and diet-related disease in low-income communities throughout New York City.
To support the re-launch of the Bronx News Network .
To support a project to investigate the challenges and opportunities facing New York City’s branch libraries, and the expansion of the Bronx Bureau.
To support public affairs journalism focused on four Brooklyn neighborhoods: Sunset Park, Bushwick, East New York, and Brownsville.
To support City Limits’ public affairs journalism covering all five boroughs of New York City.
To support public affairs journalism focused on coverage of New York City Housing Authority and the housing crisis in the city.
To strengthen organizational capacity.
To support the expansion of reporting on housing and development in New York City.
To support New Revenue Hub services in 2019.
To provide general operating support.
To support the use of the News Revenue Hub’s technology package in 2020.
To support the NYC Green Relief and Recovery Fund.
To expand the NYC Green Fund and strengthen the Parks and Open Space Partners Coalition.
To support the Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of New York City.
To support public education on ranked choice voting in advance of New York City’s local 2021 elections.
To support the development of a strategic business plan for New York Media Alliance’s advertisement-selling business.
To support the expansion of Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic to the New York metropolitan area.
To support the New York Community & Immigrant Media Sustainability Project.
To support the Center for Community Media’s City Elections Project.
To support an expansion of the Center for Community Media’s Advertising Boost Initiative.
To support the “Revson Foundation Ethnic and Community Media Training and Development Project,” a program aimed at strengthening the finances and professional standards of New York’s community and ethnic media.
To support two events designed to connect nonprofit organizations with New York City’s community and ethnic media.
To support Documented’s reporting on New York City’s immigrant communities and the policies that affect them.
To support efforts to further develop the Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas community radio station, RadioCATA.
To support census training efforts in libraries across New York State.
To support FAC in facilitating a community planning process and assessing the potential of New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) in order to build and finance an expanded Sunset Park Library with affordable housing above.
To support the Sunset Park Library and Affordable Housing Development Project.
To provide funds for the purchase of critically needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
To support the purchase of critically-needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
To support the purchase of critically needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
To support the purchase of critically needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
To support the Tiered Engagement Network in 2014.
To support Fort Greene Park Conservancy’s Social Well-Being Pilot.
To provide general operating support to the Immigrant Defense Project.
To support RTCNYC’s Strategic Convening in 2020.
To provide support to the Brooklyn Movement Center’s Power Line platform.
To support Power Line, a civic journalism platform designed to provide Central Brooklynites with the information necessary to make informed decisions during the 2021 local elections.
To support the PSLF.nyc Campaign in helping 250,000 public service workers in New York access billions in debt relief.
To provide general operating support to Vital City for their efforts to advance new thinking and strategies that build thriving cities.
To support the Open Hearts Initiative and their work to build community support for housing and services for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
To support the redevelopment of five to ten New York City shelter sites into larger buildings containing both transitional and permanent housing units, with on-site space for healthcare, childcare and cultural amenities.
To support the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership in bringing “pop-up” reading rooms to up to nine public plazas in underserved communities in Queens and Brooklyn, in collaboration with The Uni Project.
To support the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (I-ARC).
To support Documented’s Wage Theft investigative project.
To support an interfaith coalition welcoming asylum seekers to New York.
To provide general operating support for Hell Gate and its local journalism.
To support New York Focus, an independent newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State.
To support JCRC-NY’s Get Out the Count efforts among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in NYC.
To support the preservation of NYC’s nonprofit owned affordable housing.
To support the “Economic Security Initiative,” which provides crucial legal assistance to meet economic challenges.
To support the rebuilding and renaming of the Charles H. Revson Fountain.
To support the Lincoln Center Local project, bringing performing arts programs to branch libraries in Queens.
To support a feasibility study to assess opportunities for digitally transmitting Lincoln Center HD recorded content to public libraries in all five boroughs of New York City.
To support the Lincoln Center HD in Libraries pilot, in which Lincoln Center will digitally stream performances at branch libraries in Brooklyn and Queens.
To support Lincoln Center’s 2013 Spring Gala honoring Reynold Levy.
To support the “Drowning in Debt” initiative, whose goal is to preserve thousands of units of New York City multifamily, affordable rental housing endangered by over-leveraging.
To support the “Drowning in Debt” initiative, whose goal is to preserve thousands of units of New York City multi-family, affordable rental housing endangered by overleveraging.
To support the Convening about Neighborhood Change, Displacement & Equitable Development conference.
To create the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars Program, providing fellowship stipends to 10 Macaulay students interested in civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to New York City.
To support its communication efforts on behalf of immigrant communities.
To support its communication efforts on behalf of immigrant communities.
To support the establishment of Spaceworks, an organization that aims to identify and convert underutilized public and private property into affordable work space for New York City artists.
To support a feasibility analysis and business plan for the development of Spaceworks, a project to convert underutilized public and private property into affordable work space for New York City artists.
To support a retreat to help identify the common challenges shared by New York’s three library systems as well as collaborative opportunities to enhance city-wide efficiencies of service.
To support the Tri-Library Technical Services Initiative.
To support a feasibility analysis and planning initiative to create a new fellowship program for library staff at New York City’s three public library systems.
To support Transforming Libraries, Strengthening Communities, a program at the 2011 Municipal Art Society Summit for New York.
To support the Museum of the City of New York’s Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers exhibition.
To support NASH’s efforts to support asylum seekers in partnership with the State University of New York.
To support the education and advocacy work of NMASS on behalf of working people in Manhattan and Brooklyn, in memory of Virginia Yu.
To support the development of a four-year financial plan that addresses the long-term structural problems associated with maintaining sound fiscal and budgetary policy in New York State.
To provide general operating support to New Immigrant Community Empowerment.
To support the Love a Library event at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries.
To support the Love a Library event at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries.
To support the Love A Library event at New York City’s public branch libraries in 2013 and 2014.
To provide general operating support to New York Common Pantry, made in honor of Reynold Levy’s tenure as Board Chair.
On behalf of “Living Libraries,” an initiative to redevelop New York City branch library sites to create new affordable housing and new or fully renovated branch libraries.
To support One NYC, One Nation , a new funders’ collaborative to strengthen immigrant communities and integrate them into New York City’s civic, economic, and political fabric.
To support the design and start-up phase of a NYC Workforce Funders Immigrant Workforce Initiative involving the NYC branch library systems.
To support the Fund for New Citizens.
To support the New York State Census Equity Fund.
To support the Fund for New Citizens.
To support census outreach and education initiatives in the highest-need areas of New York State.
To support the NYC Coronavirus Impact Fund’s response efforts helping to bridge the gap for nonprofits that have lost crucial revenue.
To support a new donor collaborative aimed at increasing civic and voter participation in NYC.
To support the New York State Census Equity Fund and its grantmaking to ensure a fair, equitable, and transparent redistricting process.
To support the GoVoteNYC fund and its grantmaking to increase civic and voter participation in New York City.
To support the GoVoteNYC fund and its grantmaking to increase voter participation.
To support New York Focus and their journalism on state and local politics in the Empire State.
To support Art on the Ave NYC and their exhibitions in vacant storefronts and small businesses.
To support Art on the Ave NYC.
To support its DACA Rapid Response Initiative.
To support the expansion of the NYCitizenship program.
To support the NYCitizenship program.
To support the launch of an ad sales service that will strengthen the financial and organizational stability of New York City’s ethnic and community newspapers.
To support best-practices training for New York’s ethnic and community newspapers to generate increased ad revenues and strengthen financial and organizational stability.
To support the efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to provide the public and policy makers with information about New York City’s metropolitan transit system and traffic issues.
To support the efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of New York City’s metropolitan transit system.
To support the 2010 efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of the New York City metropolitan transit system.
To support the efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of the New York City metropolitan transit system.
To support the efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of the New York City metropolitan transit system.
To support the efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of the New York City metropolitan transit system.
To support the 2014 efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of NYC’s metropolitan transit system, and to support the non-partisan 2013 Election Day Voter Assistance Project.
To provide general operating support to the Straphangers Campaign as per the proposal and budget submitted to the Foundation.
To provide general operating support to the Straphangers Campaign.
To provide general operating support to the Straphangers Campaign.
To support NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign in 2019.
To support the purchase of more than 600 new e-books and e-audiobooks for young readers.
For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to five branch libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx: $10,000 to New Dorp Library; $10,000 to Seward Park Library; $5,000 to Tremont Library; $5,000 to Parkchester Library; and $5,000 to Aguilar Library. xxx
For the 2014-2015 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to four branch libraries as follows: $20,000 to Mott Haven Library; $20,000 to Parkchester Library; $20,000 to Stapleton Library; and $10,000 to Jefferson Market Library.
To support the Ideas Fund initiative.
For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following four branch libraries: $20,000 to Inwood Library; $20,000 to Morrisania Library; $10,000 to Aguilar Library; and $10,000 to Fort Washington Library. An additional $20,000 is to be allocated directly to the winner of the Heckscher Prize for Outstanding Service to Children and Youth, Jerome Park Library.
To support community engagement and outreach efforts for NYPL’s Inwood project.
To support NYPR’s development of a new model for building and sustaining high-quality local public affairs journalism—by expanding the depth and breadth of news content across online, audio, and video technologies; forging new community partnerships with local content providers; and establishing new models of community engagement.
To support an evaluation of WNYC’s local digital news project.
To commemorate Brian Lehrer’s quarter-century of service at WNYC’s first annual spring event, Radio Revelry.
To support “The Affordability Project.”
To support New York Public Radio’s annual gala.
To support research for a proposal to ease restrictions on transferring development rights held by nonprofit owners of landmarked buildings, if the result is for public benefit.
To conduct legal and empirical research on community preference policy in the allocation of affordable housing in New York City.
To support Project NYC 2025.
For continued support of the Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN) , enabling at least 100 New York-area law students to work with public interest law organizations during the summer.
To continue support of the Charles H. Revson Law Student Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN) , enabling 75 New York-area law students to work with public interest law organizations during the summer; and to support NYU’s Public Interest Legal Career Fair .
To support RISE-NYC! , a project that provides funding to organizations serving the women and families most affected by the economic recession.
To support a field study to identify the open-space assets and challenges of the Bronx’s Mott Haven neighborhood.
To support the research and development of advocacy campaigns for the next phase of the Five Point Plan for Park Equity.
To examine the feasibility of a technical assistance program for local news operations in NYC.
To support the founding and operations of the Open Hearts Initiative as a citywide effort.
To support a new work for the Drill Hall that sets pianist Igor Levit’s performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an environment conceived by performance artist Marina Abramovic.
To support the Fund for 2025, which will help Philanthropy New York strengthen its activities and support for NYC’s Foundation sector.
To support Philanthropy New York’s public policy campaign.
To support the launch of the
To support a feasibility study and preliminary plan for the mixed-use redevelopment of public library sites in New York City as improved branch libraries and affordable housing.
To retain a law firm to perform the preliminary legal work necessary to establish the “Living Libraries” initiative.
To continue a feasibility study assessing the viability of redeveloping New York City branch library sites to create affordable housing and new or renovated branch libraries.
To support the creation of an investigative reporting beat focused on New York’s public institutions, including accountability reporting on policies, practices, and program implementation
To support an investigative reporting beat focused on New York’s public institutions, including accountability reporting on policies, practices, and program implementation.
To support an investigative reporting beat focused on New York’s public institutions, including accountability reporting on policies, practices, and program implementation.
To support independent, investigative reporting on the management, budget, policy, and practices of the New York Police Department, produced in partnership with THE CITY.
To support ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network partnership with THE CITY.
To provide funding for the preservation of Prospect Park in support of two main objectives, the restoration of a number of storm-damaged trees and the development of an infrastructure to prevent natural erosion
To provide funding for the preservation of Prospect Park in support of two main objectives, the restoration of a number of storm-damaged trees and the development of an infrastructure to prevent natural erosion.
To provide funding for the preservation of Prospect Park in support of two main objectives, the restoration of a number of storm-damaged trees and the development of an infrastructure to prevent natural erosion.
To support the New York Civic Engagement Table’s 2021 NYC elections initiative.
To support the creation, piloting, and evaluation of “QuikTrak,” a new online assessment of job seekers’ readiness and skill base.
To support the Queens Library’s relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to two Queens branch libraries: $10,000 to Corona Library; and $5,000 to Queens Village Library. xxx
For the 2014-2015 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to three branch libraries as follows: $20,000 to Langston Hughes Library; $10,000 to Cambria Heights Library; and $10,000 to Sunnyside Library.
For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following three branch libraries: $20,000 to Arverne Library; $20,000 to Glen Oaks Library; and $10,000 to Far Rockaway Library.
To support the hiring of four census navigators to address language gaps across Queens.
To support “Toward a 21st Century City for All,” which aims to generate policy recommendations for the future of New York City.
To be directed to CUNY Citizenship Now! to support its efforts to provide emergency renewal application assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
To conduct a feasibility study on the use of retired professionals to restore program services in the New York City Public Library systems, supporting branch libraries as community centers of learning and communication.
To support the Queens Library Project , which utilizes retired professionals to preserve and expand the Library’s community service programs.
To support Phase II of the CDC4G Initiative, which seeks to strengthen community-based housing in NYC by scaling up the industry, establishing best-practice standards, and attaining support from city housing agencies.
To support Phase III of the CDC 4G Initiative, which seeks to strengthen community-based housing in NYC by establishing a joint operating entity for the purpose of scaling up the industry, establishing best-practice standards, and improving collaboration.
To support the launch of ‘JOE NYC,’ a new entity to preserve and expand nonprofit-owned affordable housing in New York City.
To support public education and advocacy for expanding supportive housing and services serving homeless adults and families with mental illness and other chronic disabilities.
To provide general operating support.
To support the Getting to 35K and Preservation Projects.
To support the general operations of the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
To provide general operating support to the Supportive Housing Network of New York.
To support The Bronx Freedom Fund’s bail fund.
To plan and launch the Homeowner Landlord Services Pilot.
To support THE CITY and its local public affairs journalism.
To support a screening and panel discussion on the future of local news.
To support a series of monthly breakfast meetings between New York City reporters and knowledgeable community leaders.
To support its reporting on the implications of current and proposed federal policy changes on New York City.
To support the expansion of the Newsmakers Series reportorial program, which will shine a light on municipal newsmakers during the 2017 mayoral election year.
To support the research and production of an editorial vision and business plan for a new local journalism initiative.
To support the Newsmakers Series reportorial program.
To support Tom Robbins’s work as Investigative Journalism Coach and Teaching Partner.
To support the expansion of FMG’s public affairs and investigative journalism in New York.
To support the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, in honor of Peter Hatch’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the continued collaboration between Neighborhood Plaza Partnership and The Uni Project to bring “pop-up,” open-air reading rooms to 23 high-need plazas in 2016.
To support the planning and creation of the initial operating infrastructure for The City, a public affairs journalism effort covering NYC.
To support the establishment of THE CITY, a nonprofit news organization focused on public affairs journalism in New York City.
To support THE CITY to hire consulting support for applications for journalism awards (primary) and philanthropic and corporate funding (secondary).
To support the “We Are Witnesses” video series.
To support the “We Are Witnesses: Becoming an American” video series.
To support the “News Inside” project in New York.
To support The Station Alliance’s New York City Subway station demonstration project.
To support Los Deliveristas Unidos at the Workers Justice Project.
To support Community Votes’ voter mobilization initiative led in partnership with the Literacy Assistance Center.
To support a voter initiative aimed at educating and engaging communities with historical low turnout in the local 2021 elections.
To support UNH’s evaluation of the Settlement House Voter Initiative.
To support the improvement and expanded use of the Building Indicator Project (BIP) and the Homeowner Outreach Database (HOOD) to help identify distressed multifamily and homeowner occupied properties.
To support the Building Indicator Project and the work of the Multifamily Assistance Center to improve physically and financially distressed multifamily homes throughout New York City.
To support the University Neighborhood Housing Program’s work on the Building Indicator Project database.
To support UNHP’s research on housing distress and the policy solutions needed to mitigate it in the Bronx and New York City-wide.
To support UNHP’s Distressed Multifamily Portfolio Intervention Initiative.
To establish the New City Critics Fellowship.
To support the creation of The Local Center and the launch of eight community-led public space projects.
To support the planning to establish Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative as an organization capable of supporting communities citywide.
To support the expansion of ULU’s services and programs in New York City.
To support ULU’s expansion of services and programs in New York City in 2014.
To support ULU’s 24-Hour Read-In event and the hiring of a communications and outreach intern in 2014.
To support the “Justice in Transition” project, a series of four public briefings on the current state of the city’s justice system and visions for its future, in conjunction with WNYC.
To support efforts to expand the work of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), a first-in-the-nation approach to guaranteeing legal representation for indigent immigrants facing deportation while detained.
To provide COVID-19 emergency relief efforts.
To support 2020 Census efforts.
To support the culmination of YMCA’s Census outreach and services to immigrant communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID pandemic.