CURBED NEW YORK — April 10, 2017 — New York City’s process of managing capital construction projects for cultural institutions and libraries is marred by bureaucratic setbacks, a new report by the Center for an Urban Future finds. Under the leadership…
DNA INFO— April 13, 2017 — Councilman Andrew Cohen hopes a new bill of his will embarrass city agencies into finishing their capital projects on time and on budget. The recently proposed bill would require all city agencies to notify the…
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — April 12, 2017 — It’s not you. Your local library overhaul really is taking forever. A new report reveals exhausting and costly delays of new buildings and renovations overseen by the city’s Department of Design and…
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE — April 2017 — by Eli Dvorkin, Maria Doulis, and Jonathan Bowles — This report finds significant problems with NYC’s process for managing capital construction projects for libraries and cultural institutions, with the median capital project…
PROPUBLICA — April 10, 2017 — Propublica and the New York Daily News today won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, honoring their joint investigation on abuses in the New York City Police Department’s enforcement of the nuisance abatement law. The…
DUKE UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY & CIVIL SOCIETY— February 7, 2017 — written by Tony Proscio — With all the trendy talk in philanthropy focused on “innovation,” “disruption,” and “impact investing,” it’s helpful to pay attention, now and then, to…
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…