Grants

Year 2011

Urban Affairs $718,963

Bronx News Network

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
Bronx, NY

To support the redesign of the Bronx News Network’s website to expand advertising and enhance the collection of revenue.

Center for an Urban Future

Amount
$60,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the publication of a research report on New York City’s public libraries, Branches of Opportunity , and the conference “Leveraging Libraries for the Future of New York.”

Citizens Housing and Planning Council

Amount
$100,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the Making Room project, an advocacy campaign for housing regulatory reform in New York City.

Community Reporting Alliance

Amount
$5,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
Chester, NY

To support the development of a strategic business plan for New York Media Alliance’s advertisement-selling business.

Food Bank for New York City

Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
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.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Amount
$80,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the Lincoln Center Local project, bringing performing arts programs to branch libraries in Queens.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Amount
$160,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the “Drowning in Debt” initiative, whose goal is to preserve thousands of units of New York City multi-family, affordable rental housing endangered by overleveraging.

Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $350,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2011-2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the establishment of Spaceworks, an organization that aims to identify and convert underutilized public and private property into affordable work space for New York City artists.

Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support a feasibility analysis and business plan for the development of Spaceworks, a project to convert underutilized public and private property into affordable work space for New York City artists.

Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City

Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support a retreat to help identify the common challenges shared by New York’s three library systems as well as collaborative opportunities to enhance city-wide efficiencies of service.

Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the Tri-Library Technical Services Initiative.

Municipal Art Society

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support Transforming Libraries, Strengthening Communities, a program at the 2011 Municipal Art Society Summit for New York.

New York Community Trust

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support One NYC, One Nation , a new funders’ collaborative to strengthen immigrant communities and integrate them into New York City’s civic, economic, and political fabric.

New York Press Association Foundation

Amount
$61,323
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the launch of an ad sales service that will strengthen the financial and organizational stability of New York City’s ethnic and community newspapers.

New York Public Interest Research Group Fund

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
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 Women’s Foundation

Amount
$2,640
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support RISE-NYC! , a project that provides funding to organizations serving the women and families most affected by the economic recession.

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.

University Neighborhood Housing Program

Amount
$30,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the improvement and expanded use of the Building Indicator Project (BIP) and the Homeowner Outreach Database (HOOD) to help identify distressed multifamily and homeowner occupied properties.

Jewish Life $650,400

ACRI [New Israel Fund]

Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the hiring of a coordinator to administer the Coalition for Affordable Housing.

ACRI [New Israel Fund]

Amount
$10,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support and provide public relations material for a grassroots logistics coordinator for the Coalition for Affordable Housing in Israel.

Clinical Legal Education Program at Tel Aviv University

Amount
$10,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support a two-month mapping survey designed to identify technical, financial, and organizational challenges facing affordable housing initiatives.

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 Kehillath Israel

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Brookline, MA

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

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Amount
$75,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
New Haven, CT

To support the digitization of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies to preserve and provide appropriate access to 4,439 video testimonies of survivors, rescuers, liberators, and witnesses of the Holocaust.

Gesher Foundation

Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the production of a third season of the critically acclaimed Israeli television series Arab Labor.

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
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society , which uses the collective resources of contributors to help promote a positive shared future in Israel of social and political equality.

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.

Ma’ase [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$225,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Karmiel, Israel

To support the NGOs of the Civic Service Forum in their enrichment programming for 75 civic service slots designated for Israeli youth unable to serve in the military—Arab, at risk, physically and emotionally disabled, and immigrant.

Ma’ase [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$80,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Karmiel, Israel

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

Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger

Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Boston, MA

To support the hunger relief network in the Boston metro area, in honor of Dr. Jerome Groopman’s service to the Charles H. Revson Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $525,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2011-2013
Location
New York, NY

To support To support MEET’s expansion to a second hub in Northern Israel and the establishment of an alumni network MEET’s expansion to a second hub in Northern Israel and the establishment of an alumni network.

Opportunity Fund [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support in partnership with the Gandyr Foundation the part-time position of manager of the Opportunity Fund for Civic Service through March 2012.

Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support a communications specialist to coordinate the synagogue’s overall communications strategy.

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 $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.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $179,272
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
Location
New York, NY

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

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

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $182,538
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
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 $182,538
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
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.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $176,444
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
Location
New York, NY

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

New York University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $173,747
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
Location
New York, NY

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

New York University School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $176,444
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2012
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 $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 $395,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2011-2013
Location
Rehovot, Israel

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

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 $340,000

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
Cambridge, MA

To support a conference on improving financial literacy education in the United States.

Barnard College

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support a program in the Department of Biological Sciences that offers undergraduates an opportunity to engage in genetic research.

Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
Cambridge, MA

To support the creation of a multi-disciplinary working group to explore feasible business models for the sale, leasing, and distribution of e-books to public libraries.

Brandeis University

Amount
$20,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
Waltham, MA

To support the creation of the Perlmutter Institute Leadership Forum, a luncheon series at the Brandeis University International Business School.

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.

Georgetown Day School

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
Washington, DC

To support the creation of a strategic plan for operating as a “private school in the public service.”

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support intensive college guidance services for four LEDA scholars.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $400,000
Category
Education
Years
2011-2012
Location
New York, NY

To support fellowship stipends for 26 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at Macaulay Honors College, selected for their interest in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York.

National Coalition Against Censorship

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

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

New York Public Library

Amount
$40,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the New Chapter program, a partnership among New York City’s three library systems that temporarily waives outstanding fines for all patrons under the age of 18.

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.

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
Savannah, GA

To support the expansion of SCAD’s Graduate Mentor Program.

The After-School Corporation (TASC)

Amount
$120,000
Category
Education
Year
2011
Location
New York, NY

To support the ‘Reading Partnerships’ project, an initiative to provide New York City public school students and families with increased public library access and greater exposure to engaging literature and literacy-rich activities.

Memberships $36,300

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2011

For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2012.

Foundation Center

Amount
$8,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2011

For membership in 2012.

Jewish Funders Network

Amount
$8,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2011

For membership in 2012.

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

Amount
$3,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2011

For membership in 2012.

Philanthropy New York

Amount
$11,800
Category
Memberships
Year
2011

For membership in 2012.

Total: $1,745,663