For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following three branch libraries: $20,000 to Sunset Park Library; $10,000 to Dyker Library; and $10,000 to Kings Bay Library.
To support the design and implementation of a second phase of study that is evaluating the impact of the transfer of six buildings in NYCHA’s Section 8 portfolio to a new public/private partnership.
To support a series of four civic conversations: Beds, Books, and Basements.
To support Gotham Gazette’s in-depth reporting and accountability coverage.
To strengthen organizational capacity.
To support the expansion of reporting on housing and development in New York City.
To support the Sunset Park Library and Affordable Housing Development Project.
To support the redevelopment of five to ten New York City shelter sites into larger buildings containing both transitional and permanent housing units, with on-site space for healthcare, childcare and cultural amenities.
To support the Convening about Neighborhood Change, Displacement & Equitable Development conference.
To support a feasibility analysis and planning initiative to create a new fellowship program for library staff at New York City’s three public library systems.
To support the design and start-up phase of a NYC Workforce Funders Immigrant Workforce Initiative involving the NYC branch library systems.
To provide general operating support to the Straphangers Campaign as per the proposal and budget submitted to the Foundation.
For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following four branch libraries: $20,000 to Inwood Library; $20,000 to Morrisania Library; $10,000 to Aguilar Library; and $10,000 to Fort Washington Library. An additional $20,000 is to be allocated directly to the winner of the Heckscher Prize for Outstanding Service to Children and Youth, Jerome Park Library.
To support community engagement and outreach efforts for NYPL’s Inwood project.
To support “The Affordability Project.”
To support New York Public Radio’s annual gala.
To support an investigative reporting beat focused on New York’s public institutions, including accountability reporting on policies, practices, and program implementation.
To provide funding for the preservation of Prospect Park in support of two main objectives, the restoration of a number of storm-damaged trees and the development of an infrastructure to prevent natural erosion.
For the 2015-2016 NYC Neighborhood Library Awards for outstanding service to the community, to be allocated directly to the following three branch libraries: $20,000 to Arverne Library; $20,000 to Glen Oaks Library; and $10,000 to Far Rockaway Library.
To support the launch of ‘JOE NYC,’ a new entity to preserve and expand nonprofit-owned affordable housing in New York City.
To support public education and advocacy for expanding supportive housing and services serving homeless adults and families with mental illness and other chronic disabilities.
To support The Bronx Freedom Fund’s bail fund.
To support the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, in honor of Peter Hatch’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the “We Are Witnesses” video series.
To support the development of age-appropriate Israel Studies curriculum, materials, and professional development for middle school students at dual-language Hebrew Public charter schools in 2016-17.
To support the inaugural cohort of the Jewish Emergent Network’s national fellowship, a two-year immersion program of leadership training and mentorship for seven early-career rabbis in seven path-breaking Jewish communities across the United States.
To support “Israeli Friday Night” (Shishi Israeli)—a NYC program of the Israeli-American Council that brings together Israeli and American-Jewish young families for a participatory evening of music, dance, and a communal dinner—to expand to two new sites and develop a strategy of local financial sustainability for the program’s national dissemination.
To support research by MAOZ into Israel’s leadership challenges in the field of affordable housing and urban renewal and to recommend methodologies of leadership training that could generate the necessary leadership pipeline and network of experts for the Israeli landscape.
To support the Opportunity Fund for Civic Service.
To support the Working Together Initiative.
To provide scholarships for participants in the Jewish Welcome Workshop’s annual trip to Israel.
To support Leading Edge in advancing its flagship programs and research.
To support the development and marketing of an Israel Film Center (IFC) app compatible with Apple TV for streaming IFC’s film and TV offerings.
To support an ethical wills component to What Matters: Caring Conversations About End of Life—an advance care planning initiative—that frames ethical wills as a Jewish practice and offers training and programs for participants to create their own Jewish ethical wills in a range of settings in New York City; through a select nationwide network of JCCs; and in ongoing collaboration with the Gundersen Health Network’s Respecting Choices program, as an example of faith-based advance care planning.
To support the Shalom Hartman Institute’s continuing work with the North American Jewish community to grapple with existential challenges, explore the relationship with Israel, and uncover new opportunities for growth.
To support the Muslim Leadership Initiative’s comprehensive alumni engagement program and the recruitment and implementation of MLI Cohorts 4 and 5.
To contribute six awards to the Weizmann Institute of Science’s National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science.
To support two-year awards for 9 Israeli women scientists with postdoctoral fellowships in the United States selected by the Weizmann Institute’s “Israel National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science”.
to support the Four Directions Summer Research Program, an effort to expose Native American students to research and educational opportunities as part of an overall mission to increase the representation of Native Americans among US health care professionals.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To develop policies to update the Pediatric Research Equity Act so that cancer drugs developed by molecular target will also be tested and developed in children’s cancers for which that molecular target is relevant.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.
Tto support the expansion of the educational and research efforts of Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband with respect to improving medical diagnoses and individualizing treatment.
To support the expansion of the BKLYN Incubator, a project to generate, test, and share program ideas across the Library’s branches.
To support the Making Space project.
To support the Libraries as a Civic Institution program.
To support the DC Public Library, in honor of Richard Reyes-Gavilan’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support year-long fellowships and related expenses for three to four Harvard Scholars at Risk fellows.
To support the funding of the Read for the Record campaign.
To support thirteen Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars in each of the next two years at Macaulay Honors College interested in public policy and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to the City of New York, and for an annual scholars welcome dinner in spring of 2016 and 2017.
To support the pre-professional program in establishing foundational career services.
To support national events featuring the National Book Award winners and finalists.
To support the Innovation Project.
To support “The Social Life of Local Libraries” project.
To support the Far Rockaway Library, in honor of Stacy Schiff’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the Queens Library, in honor of Jelani Cobb’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support leadership and college access programming at the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.
To support Arizona Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks, providing special programs to children with cancer and their siblings.
To support the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, in honor of Angela Flournoy’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2016.
To support two programs of reportorial and investigative journalism: the monthly Newsmaker Series for community and ethnic press reporters and Journalism School students; and the Urban Investigative Project for seasoned journalists to work with Urban Reporting students on 5-6 projects a year.
To support The Lambda Literary Foundation Writer’s Retreat, in honor of Angela Flournoy’s service to the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards.
To support the expansion of the checkology™ virtual classroom in New York City and nationwide.
For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2017.
For Revson Foundation membership in 2017.
To help support the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York’s services to nonprofits and for membership in 2017.
To help support Philanthropy New York’s services to grantmakers in the New York region and for the Foundation to receive membership services in 2017.
To support the work of the Foundation Center in 2017.