On February 7th, 2017, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show hosted Revson President Julie Sandorf and Sarah Needham, program officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, to announce the fourth annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards! The show featured an interview with Roxana Benavides, branch manager…
November 2016 — The Muslim Leadership Initiative was featured in several articles outlining how alliances between Jews and Muslims are more important now than ever before. Click the following links to read the articles: Jewish Telegraphic Agency — November 14, 2016 — Jews and Muslims…
COOPER HEWITT DESIGN JOURNAL — Fall 2016 — written by Julie Sandorf — “Whatever agencies for good may rise or fall in the future, it seems certain that the free library is destined to stand and become a never-ceasing foundation of good to all…
INSIDE CITY HALL — October 17, 2016 —Days after her sudden death, Neil Barsky of The Marshall Project joined Errol Louis to remember Venida Browder, the Bronx mother who had vowed to carry on the memory of her son, Kalief Browder. Click…
PROPUBLICA — September 8, 2016 — Today we’re announcing a new project, aimed at monitoring the vote in real-time, nationwide. And you’re invited to join. There is no more essential act in a democracy than voting. But making sure that the balloting is…
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY— September 9, 2016 — Jewish nonprofit workers are inspired, respected and challenged. They’re also stretched thin, lack regular feedback from their bosses and are itching to switch agencies. Those are some lessons from “Are Jewish Organizations Great Places…
THE JEWISH WEEK — September 21, 2016 — Jerusalem — Leen Jaber is in high demand in the hematological oncological day ward at Hadassah-Ein Kerem. “Leen, can you translate?” a Hebrew-speaking nurse asks before treating an Arabic-speaking patient. “Leen, can you catch…
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — August 15, 2016 — They sound like your average religious Zionist couple in Israel: she serves in the Jewish state’s national service and he is an army combat veteran. Except they are both Muslim Arabs, and she,…
At the meeting on June 22nd, 2016, the Trustees of the Charles H. Revson Foundation elected Dr. Robert Kingston and Errol Louis to the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Starting in the Fall of 2016, Dr. Kingston and Mr. Louis will…
THE NEW YORK TIMES— July 4, 2016 — New York City’s 217 public libraries have rebounded in the past two years amid an infusion of city dollars, after years of budget and service cuts. An outpouring of support from library lovers has…