Grants

Year 2010

Urban Affairs $217,500

Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support cultural and arts programming for children.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

For the “Support our Shelves” campaign in five branch libraries.

Center for an Urban Future

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

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, .

Food Bank for New York City

Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support 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.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Amount
$125,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

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.

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

Amount
$2,500
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the education and advocacy work of NMASS on behalf of working people in Manhattan and Brooklyn, in memory of Virginia Yu.

New York Public Interest Research Group Fund

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

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.

New York Public Radio/WNYC

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $1,000,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2010-2012
Location
New York, NY

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.

New York University School of Law

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $1,296,600
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2010-2012
Location
New York, NY

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 .

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.

ReServe Elder Service

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $495,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2010-2012
Location
New York, NY

To support the Queens Library Project , which utilizes retired professionals to preserve and expand the Library’s community service programs.

Jewish Life $169,860

American Library Association

Amount
$40,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
Chicago, IL

To support the construction and touring of three exhibits to 75 libraries throughout the country, focusing on the cultural impact of prominent Jewish Americans—poet Emma Lazarus, children’s writer Maurice Sendak, and Jewish composers and lyricists who contributed to the great American songbook.

Congregation Beth Elohim

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2010-2011
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support two Revson Neighborhood Fellows and a Revson Rabbinic Intern to work with Rabbi Andy Bachman in creating model programs with previously unconnected young Jews in Brooklyn.

Congregation Beth Elohim

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support an upgrade of CBE’s IT systems to facilitate community building.

Congregation Kehillath Israel

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
Brookline, MA

To support an expanded rabbinic capacity to strengthen community outreach and learning.

IKAR

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2010-2011
Location
Losa Angeles, CA

To support a Revson Rabbinic Fellow to work with Rabbi Sharon Brous in creating model programs with previously unconnected young Jews in Los Angeles.

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.

Jewish Federations of North America

Amount
$50,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society , which uses the collective resources of contributors, each donating $50,000, to help promote a positive shared future in Israel of social and political equality, equal opportunity, and fair access to resources for all its citizens.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $500,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2009-2012
Location
New York, NY

To support the creation of the Center for Pastoral Education .

Ma’ase [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $180,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2010-2011
Location
Karmiel, Israel

To support the establishment of a Civic Service Forum of Israeli NGOs working to improve the quantity and quality of volunteer year-of-service opportunities for disadvantaged Israeli youth.

Ma’ase [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $260,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2010-2011
Location
Karmiel, Israel

To support the NGOs of the Civic Service Forum in their enrichment programming for 70 newly created civic service slots designated for disadvantaged Israeli youth—Arab Israelis, at-risk youth, and the physically and mentally disabled.

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the production of the Among the Righteous website.

Tevel b’Tzedek

Amount
$4,860
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
Jerusalem, Israel

To support the development of a strategic plan for the development and growth of Tevel b’Tzedek’s long-term alumni program.

Toldot Yisrael

Amount
$30,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2010
Location
Jerusalem, Israel

To support the cost of recording the video testimonies of 50 men and women of Israel’s founding generation.

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 $15,000

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $177,629
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2010-2011
Location
New York, NY

To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.

Brain Trauma Foundation

Amount
$15,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines project, educating healthcare professionals worldwide on immediate care for coma patients.

Columbia University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $176,727
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2010-2011
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 $170,752
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2010
Location
New York, NY

To support a fellow 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 $298,844
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2010-2011
Location
New York, NY

To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.

Rockefeller University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $350,083
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2010
Location
New York, NY

To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.

Rockefeller University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $367,218
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2010-2011
Location
New York, NY

To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.

Weizmann Institute of Science

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $252,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2011
Location
Rehovot, Israel

To contribute six awards to the Weizmann Institute of Science’s National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science.

Education $842,500

American Democracy Institute

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
Washington, DC

To support the launch of a national ‘Pathways to Power’ leadership program for first-generation Americans.

Center for Independent Documentary

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
Sharon, MA

To support the production of the feature-length documentary

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $590,000
Category
Education
Years
2010-2012
Location
New York, NY

To support the Center’s research, analysis, and public education activities related to the federal budget as it affects the states, and to support a Revson State Policy Fellow.

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.

Fiscal Policy Institute

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Education
Years
2009-2010
Location
Albany, NY

For support of research, public education, and advocacy work on budget, economic, and related policy issues that affect low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the Meet the Artist Library Series, an educational outreach initiative between Lincoln Center and the branch libraries to bring performing arts programs to the outer boroughs of New York City.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$97,500
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support fellowship stipends for 13 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars, selected for their interest in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the strategic planning process at Macaulay Honors College.

National Coalition Against Censorship

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the Kids’ Right to Read Project , which provides support, education, and advocacy to parents and teachers facing book challenges in libraries and schools.

News Literacy Project

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $600,000
Category
Education
Years
2010-2012
Location
Bethesda, MD

To support educational programs in New York City schools that teach students the critical thinking skills they need to be smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of credible information across all media platforms, and to build the capacity of programs nationwide.

Opportunity Network

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support the participation of high-achieving, low-income New York City high school students in a leadership development program focusing on networking, career development, and college access and success.

PBS Foundation

Amount
$600,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
Alexandria, VA

To support the Makers project, a documentary and digital platform showcasing the stories of hundreds of trailblazing women.

Smith College

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
Northampton, MA

To support the development of BioWeb Conferences , online dialogues between Smith students and prominent scientists.

State of the USA

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $250,000
Category
Education
Years
2009-2010
Location
Washington, DC

To support the development and launch of the website. xxx

The After-School Corporation (TASC)

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2010
Location
New York, NY

To support a study assessing the feasibility of establishing working partnerships between New York City public schools and local public library branches.

Memberships $51,580

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2011.

Council on Foundations

Amount
$18,230
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in 2011.

Foundation Center

Amount
$7,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in 2011.

Jewish Funders Network

Amount
$8,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in 2011.

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

Amount
$3,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in 2011.

Philanthropy New York

Amount
$9,850
Category
Memberships
Year
2010

For membership in 2011.

Total: $1,296,440