Queens Borough Public Library
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.
Brooklyn Public Library
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.
Bard College
To aid in the recruitment of the first cohort of Bard Prison Initiative’s Brooklyn Microcollege, and to expand the network of partner institutions.
New York University School of Law
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.
Brooklyn Public Library
To support the NYC Culture Pass program.
Chicago Public Library Foundation
To support the Chicago Public Library Foundation, in honor of Brian Bannon’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
The Academy for Teachers
To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2017.
Street Lab, Inc.
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).
South Asian Youth Action
To support leadership and college access programming at the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
To support the Libraries as a Civic Institution program.