Columbia University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $2,355,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2006-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of New York City.
Grants
Year 2008
Urban Affairs $239,000
Food Bank for New York City
Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To provide funds for the purchase of critically needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Amount
$0
Year 1 of eight-year grant totaling $4,000,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2006-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support the rebuilding and renaming of the Charles H. Revson Fountain.
New York Community Trust
Amount
$75,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
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.
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund
Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
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.
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund
Amount
$24,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
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.
New York University School of Law
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $1,727,700
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2008-2010
Location
New York, NY
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.
Pratt Center for Community Development
Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To retain a law firm to perform the preliminary legal work necessary to establish the “Living Libraries” initiative.
Pratt Center for Community Development
Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
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.
Jewish Life $341,600
Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps
Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support the new program partnership for alumni of AVODAH and American Jewish World Service.
Brooklyn Jews/Congregation Beth Elohim
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2009
Location
Brooklyn, NY
To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project.
Brooklyn Jews/Congregation Beth Elohim
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
Brooklyn, NY
To support the Annual Temple Retreat.
Brotherhood Synagogue
Amount
$5,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
In honor of the memory of Judith Evans.
Columbia/Barnard Hillel
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support the expansion of the Jewish Life Orientation (JelLO).
Friends of the Library of the Supreme Court of Israel
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $90,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2012
Location
Hartford, CT
To support the English translation and online posting of significant opinions of the 2008, 2009, and 2010 terms of the Supreme Court of Israel.
IKAR
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2009
Location
Los Angeles, CA
To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project.
Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress [American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]
Amount
$83,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support the creation of a dissemination plan for Frederic Brenner’s Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress, to be exhibited in museums and other venues on American university campuses.
Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Amount
$0
Year 1 of five-year grant totaling $4,700,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2007-2011
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
For continued support of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and its Environmental Policy Center.
MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $412,154
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2006-2008
Location
New York, NY
For support of the Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET) program.
MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]
Amount
$18,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To bridge the difference in exchange between the shekel and the dollar and the subsequent loss in value of the 2006 grant.
MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]
Amount
$20,600
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To implement a remote audio-visual conferencing system that will allow real-time collaborations among professors, students, and business leaders at MIT, in Jerusalem, and on the West Bank.
MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support an effort to increase the recruitment of young women to MEET.
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Amount
$0
Year 1 of ten-year grant totaling $1,000,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
1999-2008
Location
New York, NY
For operating support for the Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking.
New York University – Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $325,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2011
Location
New York, NY
To support marketing and public education of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA) , online and through conferences and lectures.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Amount
$100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
San Francisco, CA
To support a partnership with the Jewish Heritage Video Collection to create a new website and portal about Jewish films.
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University
Amount
$5,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
Atlanta, GA
In honor of the memory of Judith Evans.
Tevel b’Tzedek
Amount
$40,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2008
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
To support the development of a follow-up component of the social justice program in Nepal, providing Israeli participants with opportunities to work with or start their own NGOs in Israel.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $450,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2011
Location
Washington, DC
To support the Charles H. Revson Fellowships for Archival Research at the US Holocaust Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies .
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount
$0
Year 1 of ten-year grant totaling $250,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2003-2012
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
To support a program at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies in honor of Eli N. Evans, President Emeritus of the Revson Foundation.
Biomedical Research $0
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $166,554
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2007-2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Columbia University Medical Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $166,554
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2007-2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Columbia University Medical Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $333,322
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $282,220
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2007-2008
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $141,514
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $162,825
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2007-2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Rockefeller University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $178,998
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2007-2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Rockefeller University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $346,966
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $155,901
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Education $1,268,000
Boston Review
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Somerville, MA
To support efforts to increase traffic to the website and build revenue.
Brennan Center for Justice
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
For general support, with a focus on voting and government systems.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $900,000
Category
Education
Years
2008-2010
Location
Washington, DC
To support the Center’s analytic, communications, and capacity-building activities related to important debates around federal budget priorities.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Amount
$38,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a 2008 Campaign Desk fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review .
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a major study whose goal is to find broadly applicable ways of strengthening local coverage of public affairs.
Facing History and Ourselves
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Brookline, MA
To support a DVD companion to a study guide for classroom use.
Fiscal Policy Institute
Amount
$40,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To revise external communications through web-based and other technology tools.
Free Press
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Education
Years
2007-2008
Location
Florence, MA
To support efforts to preserve open access to the Internet.
Free Press
Amount
$100,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Florence, MA
To promote a national broadband policy that ensures affordable and accessible high-speed Internet for all Americans.
Jewish Women’s Archive
Amount
$40,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Brookline, MA
To develop a new tool that will enhance educational use of the website .
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
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.
Media Access Project
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Education
Years
2007-2008
Location
Washington, DC
To support efforts to promote universal, inexpensive broadband access to the Internet and to ensure net neutrality.
Media Access Project
Amount
$75,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Washington, DC
To support efforts to preserve and promote an open and diverse media, particularly regarding net neutrality and Internet access.
Opportunity Network
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support a career development program for talented, underserved high school students.
Princeton Public Library
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Princeton, NJ
To support a program that provides volunteer mentors and tutors to children.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Amount
$750,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
Cambridge, MA
To endow the Lisa Goldberg Fellowship Fund, which will support outstanding individuals whose ideas, research, and creative work reflect Lisa Goldberg’s enduring influence.
Rockefeller University
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2008
Location
New York, NY
To support the Summer High School Science Outreach Program, which mentors K-12 teachers and high school students in laboratory research.
Memberships $12,500
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2008
For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2009.
Foundation Center
Amount
$7,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2008
For membership in 2009.
Total: $1,861,100