Center for an Urban Future
Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the launch of the Center’s report on New York City’s public libraries, Branches of Opportunity. xxx
Grants
Year 2012
Urban Affairs $495,940
Citizens Housing and Planning Council
Amount
$60,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the Making Room project, an advocacy campaign for New York City housing regulatory reform, and the development of a pilot to create single-occupancy mini-studios.
Citizens Housing and Planning Council
Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support CHPC’s efforts to help city government marshal the resources of New York’s housing and community development organizations in its emergency relief actions following Hurricane Sandy.
City Limits
Amount
$12,940
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the re-launch of the Bronx News Network .
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $125,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support the “Revson Foundation Ethnic and Community Media Training and Development Project,” a program aimed at strengthening the finances and professional standards of New York’s community and ethnic media.
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Amount
$1,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support two events designed to connect nonprofit organizations with New York City’s community and ethnic media.
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
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support a feasibility study to assess opportunities for digitally transmitting Lincoln Center HD recorded content to public libraries in all five boroughs of New York City.
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.
New York Cares
Amount
$35,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the Love a Library event at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries.
New York Cares
Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the Love a Library event at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Libraries.
New York Press Association Foundation
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $192,907
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support best-practices training for New York’s ethnic and community newspapers to generate increased ad revenues and strengthen financial and organizational stability.
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund
Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
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 – Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support research for a proposal to ease restrictions on transferring development rights held by nonprofit owners of landmarked buildings, if the result is for public benefit.
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 .
Planned Parenthood of New York City
Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the launch of the
Queens Borough Public Library
Amount
$152,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
Queens, NY
To support the creation, piloting, and evaluation of “QuikTrak,” a new online assessment of job seekers’ readiness and skill base.
Queens Borough Public Library
Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
Queens, NY
To support the Queens Library’s relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Research Foundation of CUNY
Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support “Toward a 21st Century City for All,” which aims to generate policy recommendations for the future of New York City.
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.
Urban Librarians Unite
Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the expansion of ULU’s services and programs in New York City.
Jewish Life $163,450
ACRI [New Israel Fund]
Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the Coalition for Affordable Housing’s efforts in the improvement, passage, and implementation of affordable housing policy.
Clinical Legal Education Program at Tel Aviv University
Amount
$7,450
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
To support research toward a multi-sector task force that will work to bring Israeli affordable housing initiatives to the construction stage.
Clinical Legal Education Program at Tel Aviv University
Amount
$16,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
To support a feasibility analysis and business plan to develop, with community involvement, adjacent residential complexes in Jaffa’s Jabaliya-Kedem neighborhood, generating 200 market, submarket, and long-term rental housing units.
Congregation Beth Elohim
Amount
$30,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
Brooklyn, NY
To support the position of Revson Fellow for Community Organizing at Congregation Beth Elohim .
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.
Israel Democracy Institute
Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
Jerusaelm, Israel
To support the creation of the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel for the years 2012
Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress [American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $300,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2012-2015
Location
New York, NY
To support the global dissemination—through museum exhibitions, educational programs, digital and print publications, and a website—of the artwork created for Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress .
Jerusalem Culture Unlimited [America-Israel Cultural Foundation]
Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
To support professional training for emerging Jerusalem arts organizations in order to help build their capacity and financial sustainability.
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 .
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.
Natan Fund [FJC]
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the Natan Book Award.
Piyut North America [Congregation B’nai Jeshurun]
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $230,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2012-2014
Location
New York, NY
To support Phase II of Piyut North America , bringing the global Jewish music of Piyut to young Jews in the US through pilot programs centered on yoga, meditation, culture, and music in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
Shalom Hartman Institute [Shalom Hartman Institute of North America]
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support research associated with Like Dreamers, a work on modern Israel.
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the implementation of a communications and marketing plan.
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 $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.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $181,955
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
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
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $183,952
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
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.
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
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $179,726
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
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 $192,458
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $340,434
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2012-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support two Charles H. Revson Senior Fellows in Biomedical Science.
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.
Education $155,000
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the development of El Museo del Barrio’s community-based and educational programs.
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.
City College of New York
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the planning of a career-skills program for Macaulay Honors students at City College.
Harvard Law School
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2012
Location
Cambridge, MA
To help the Public Service Venture Fund expand opportunities for public service careers for lawyers, in honor of Martha Minow’s service as chair of the Charles H. Revson Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
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.
New York Public Library
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $310,422
Category
Education
Years
2012-2014
Location
New York, NY
To support the NYPL’s leadership in expanding e-content for libraries.
New York Public Library
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the position of collection development coordinator for the Tri-Library School Library Catalog project.
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
2012
Location
Savannah, GA
To support the expansion of SCAD’s Graduate Mentor Program.
The Academy for Teachers [Point Community Development Corporation]
Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2012
Location
New York, NY
To support honoraria for seminar leaders at colloquia for New York City public school teachers.
Memberships $30,800
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2012
For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2013.
Foundation Center
Amount
$8,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2012
For membership in 2013.
Jewish Funders Network
Amount
$2,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2012
For membership in 2013.
Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Amount
$3,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2012
For membership in 2013.
Philanthropy New York
Amount
$11,800
Category
Memberships
Year
2012
For membership in 2013.
Total: $845,190