Grants

Year 2013

Urban Affairs $563,100

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $277,640
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support the creation of BPL’s Department of Outreach Services, which will build partnerships with local service providers and city agencies to make the library more accessible to a greater number of Brooklyn residents.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to three Brooklyn branch libraries: $10,000 to Macon Library; $10,000 to Sheepshead Bay Library; and $5,000 to Kings Bay Library.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support Brooklyn Public Library’s 17th annual gala in 2014.

Center for an Urban Future

Amount
$203,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the creation of the first comprehensive visioning blueprint for New York City’s public libraries in the 21st century, and a related showcasing event.

Center for an Urban Future

Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support an outreach and education campaign about the findings and recommendations of CUF’s Branches of Opportunity report.

Citizens Housing and Planning Council

Amount
$43,100
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support a global competition seeking design proposals for affordable, state-of-the-art fire-protection systems, which will remove a crucial barrier currently preventing basements across the city from being inhabited safely and legally.

City Harvest

Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the Healthy Neighborhoods initiative to address hunger and diet-related disease in low-income communities throughout New York City.

City Limits

Amount
$35,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support a project to investigate the challenges and opportunities facing New York City’s branch libraries, and the expansion of the Bronx Bureau.

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.

Food Bank for New York City

Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the Tiered Engagement Network in 2014.

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
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the Lincoln Center HD in Libraries pilot, in which Lincoln Center will digitally stream performances at branch libraries in Brooklyn and Queens.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support Lincoln Center’s 2013 Spring Gala honoring Reynold Levy.

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
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $100,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support the Love A Library event at New York City’s public branch libraries in 2013 and 2014.

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
$32,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the 2014 efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of NYC’s metropolitan transit system, and to support the non-partisan 2013 Election Day Voter Assistance Project.

New York Public Library

Amount
$35,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to five branch libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx: $10,000 to New Dorp Library; $10,000 to Seward Park Library; $5,000 to Tremont Library; $5,000 to Parkchester Library; and $5,000 to Aguilar Library. xxx

New York Public Radio/WNYC

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $750,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2013-2015
Location
New York, NY

To support the continued development of WNYC’s data and digital news platforms as part of its model for building and sustaining high-quality local public affairs journalism.

New York Public Radio/WNYC

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support an evaluation of WNYC’s local digital news project.

New York University School of Law

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $475,900
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2013-2015
Location
New York, NY

To support for a final year 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 for each of the next three years.

New Yorkers for Parks

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support a field study to identify the open-space assets and challenges of the Bronx’s Mott Haven neighborhood.

Queens Borough Public Library

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

For the 2013 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, awarded to two Queens branch libraries: $10,000 to Corona Library; and $5,000 to Queens Village Library. xxx

University Neighborhood Housing Program

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $60,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support the Building Indicator Project and the work of the Multifamily Assistance Center to improve physically and financially distressed multifamily homes throughout New York City.

Urban Librarians Unite

Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2013
Location
Queens, NY

To support ULU’s expansion of services and programs in New York City in 2014.

Jewish Life $485,775

ACRI [New Israel Fund]

Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support the Right to Housing Program, aimed at advancing affordable housing in Israel.

Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation

Amount
$5,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Washington, DC

to support the “Return to Shabbat” program in 2014.

Citizens Housing and Planning Council

Amount
$40,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support research leading to recommendations on how to structure, administer, and evaluate a fellowship program that would bring Israeli professionals to the United States for an immersive education in affordable housing.

Clinical Legal Education Program at Tel Aviv University

Amount
$231,275
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support the establishment and operation of the Israel Affordable Housing Center (AHC) at the Public Interest Law Center of Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law.

Clinical Legal Education Program at Tel Aviv University

Amount
$28,500
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support a feasibility analysis and business plan for a project to redevelop a residential complex in Jaffa to create additional units of affordable housing.

Congregation Beth Elohim

Amount
$30,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support the Revson Fellow for Community Organizing.

David and Inez Myers Foundation

Amount
$60,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Cleveland, OH

To identify viable affordable housing projects underway in Israel and articulate the common financial and regulatory changes needed for their successful completion.

Israel Democracy Institute

Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Jerusalem, Israel

To support the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel for years 2012-2015; and a special report on civic service.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Amount
$0
Year 1 of five-year grant totaling $1,000,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2013-2017
Location
New York, NY

To support the operation and expansion of the Center for Pastoral Education as it adds capacity to its current programs and launches strategic new pilots.

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.

New Jerusalem Orchestra [America-Israel Cultural Foundation]

Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Jerusalem, Israel

To support the planning phase of an effort to bring the New Jerusalem Orchestra to New York City in 2014 for a month-long residency of performances and educational programming.

Opportunity Fund [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $1,600,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2012-2015
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To establish the Opportunity Fund for Civic Service, an independent consortium of Israeli and North American philanthropies whose goal is to increase the quantity and quality of government-funded civic service opportunities in Israel.

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
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $205,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2013-2014
Location
Jerusalem, Israel

To support the Muslim Leadership Initiative, for emerging North American Muslim leaders to deepen their understanding of Jews and Judaism through participation in a year-long immersive educational program.

Tapuah [PEF Israel Endowments]

Amount
$31,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2013
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel

To support the advancement of the Civic Service Forum’s agenda through 2013; and the creation of a report on common standards and customized practices for civic service enrichment.

Biomedical Research $15,000

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.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $187,796
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
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 $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

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $186,840
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $161,376
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $181,220
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

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

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $180,826
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

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.

Seeding Labs

Amount
$15,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Year
2013
Location
Boston, MA

To support the Equipment Transfer Program aimed at improving scientific education and research in Benin.

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.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $172,254
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2013-2014
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow 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 $210,000

Academy for Teachers

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support three extended “Master Classes” for educators in 2014.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support educational and research efforts in critical thinking about diagnosis and treatment.

Center for Social Inclusion

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the production of two short films about the essential role that New York City’s public libraries play in people’s lives.

Center for Social Inclusion

Amount
$20,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the production of two short films about the essential role that New York City’s public libraries play in people’s lives.

Georgetown Day School

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
Washington, DC

To support a conference on girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education with both public and private schools in the Washington, DC area.

Harvard College

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
Cambridge, MA

To support the Harvard Scholars at Risk program, which provides sanctuary to international academics, artists, and intellectuals who face persecution because of their beliefs, work, or identities.

Independent Sector

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
Washington, DC

To support LeadOn, Independent Sector’s 2013 national conference.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Education
Years
2013-2014
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.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$5,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support a planning study to develop an internship program and fair that creates meaningful internship opportunities for Macaulay students and enhances the college’s existing career services offerings.

Macaulay Honors College

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support the career development program.

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 University

Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2013
Location
New York, NY

To support NYU Distinguished Scholar in Residence Jennifer Homan’s work on her forthcoming biography of ballet choreographer George Balanchine.

News Literacy Project

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $600,000
Category
Education
Years
2013-2015
Location
Bethesda, MD

To support the expansion of NLP’s programs in New York City and nationwide.

WETA

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $250,000
Category
Education
Years
2013-2014
Location
Arlington, VA

To support the production of the MAKERS television series.

Memberships $31,300

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2013

For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2014.

Foundation Center

Amount
$9,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2013

For membership in 2014.

Jewish Funders Network

Amount
$2,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2013

For membership in 2014.

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

Amount
$3,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2013

For membership in 2014.

Philanthropy New York

Amount
$11,800
Category
Memberships
Year
2013

For membership in 2014.

Total: $1,305,175