NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS—September 14, 2023—The City College of New York celebrated its inaugural classes of the Moynihan Public Scholars and Moynihan Undergraduate Fellows programs last week, created to honor the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a City College…
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NIEMAN LAB—August 16, 2023—A foundation that has invested millions in local journalism in New York starts a new report with a warning. More than half of American daily news outlets are controlled by hedge funds and private equity firms, which…
How to Make Early Voting More Accessible in New York
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE—August 10, 2023—On November 5, 2022, when Blaise Bryant and his fiancée, Erin, passed by an early voting poll site near their home in Rensselaer County, New York, they decided to take advantage of the opportunity and…
Newmark J-School Launches Data Journalism ‘Equity’ Campaign
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Opinion: Trusted Relationships are the Secret Ingredient to Increased Voter Turnout
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Water, Water Everywhere
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Lab/Revson Foundation award $160,000 to innovative projects in Jewish chaplaincy
CHAPLAINCY INNOVATION LAB—May 31, 2023—Through a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University has funded four projects to advance innovative approaches to Jewish spiritual care. Recent research from the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab found that Jewish chaplains are…
Three Ideas About Fixing Our Freedom of Information Laws
SECOND ROUGH DRAFT—April 27, 2023—Our freedom of information (FOI) laws are among the best tools for enterprise journalism in this country; they have fueled a broad range of excellent stories. But much of the time, the laws don’t work—they may…
Greenpoint Library Wins Top Prize in Culture Pass’ Citywide Library Book Display Contest
BKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY—April 3, 2023—Culture Pass, the library program created in 2018 to provide cardholders free access to cultural institutions, announced the winner today of a book display contest. Nearly 100 libraries—representing every borough—participated in the competition, designing displays for…
Eleven NYC Public High Schools Win Top Prizes at The Newsies
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NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund Grants $510,000 to 10 Organizations Promoting Equity and Innovation in NYC’s Parks and Open Spaces
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City Locks in Lifeguard Pay Bump and Bonuses as Swim Task Force Explores Solutions
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Local newspapers are on life support; banks could provide the cure they need
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One Percent of the Budget for Parks? A Bargain, Says a Nonprofit
NEW YORK TIMES—March 13, 2023—How much for parks? That was the subtext of a conversation with Adam Ganser, whose answer puts him at odds with Mayor Eric Adams, and it was hardly surprising. Ganser is the executive director of New Yorkers…
Identity/Crisis Podcast
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE—In a frenzied media cycle, Identity/Crisis delves into the big ideas behind the news from a uniquely Jewish perspective. Host Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, talks with leading thinkers to unpack current events effecting…
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Want Your Giving to Make the Most Impact? Donate to Local Media
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Protect Our Democracy. Support Local News.
NEW YORK TIMES—November 29, 2022—Take Greg Smith, a reporter for a local nonprofit news organization in New York called The City, which I have donated to. At 5 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day, he got a text from a source at New York’s public housing authority. The drinking water in a large public housing complex in Manhattan had tested positive for arsenic, and city officials had known about it for two weeks. It was only after Smith asked the housing authority and City Hall for comment on his scoop that the city hustled to provide bottled water to the thousands of tenants living in the complex...
73% of NYC high schools don’t have a newspaper. Efforts are growing to fill in the gaps.
CHALKBEAT NEW YORK—November 23, 2022—Emely Ou Feng dreams of being an investigative journalist one day. But the 16-year-old hasn’t had many opportunities to pursue that goal at school for a simple reason: Her Brooklyn campus doesn’t have a student newspaper.…
Jewish chaplains: Leading where life happens
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The Three Vs for Voter Engagement: Validators, Volunteers and Visibility
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Settlement Houses GET OUT THE VOTE! 2021 Report
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES—August 17, 2022—United Neighborhood Houses of New York (UNH) is a policy and social change organization with a mission to promote and strengthen the settlement house movement’s neighborhood-based, multi-service approach to improving the lives of low- and moderate-income…
Eli Evans, ‘poet laureate of Southern Jews’ and influential grant-maker, dies at 85
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Eli N. Evans, z’l
The Trustees and staff of the Charles H. Revson Foundation mourn the passing of Eli N. Evans, its founding President. Through his great generosity of spirit, love of Israel and the Jewish People, profound belief in the promise of American…
Press Release: GoVoteNYC Funder Collaborative Announces $1.05 Million in Grants to Get Out the Vote
THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST— April 26, 2022 — The GoVoteNYC Fund in The New York Community Trust has announced $1.05 million in grants to 11 nonprofits for nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities. Targeting more than 2 million new and infrequent voters,…
Shaun Donovan Interview
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Risking life and limb, Hesed network continues caring for Ukraine’s neediest Jews
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL— March 2, 2022 —With roads blocked and public transportation either shut down or commandeered for military needs, providing care to needy members of Ukraine’s Jewish community has never been more fraught. But social workers in Ukraine…
Richard Kim talks about the Importance of Nonprofit Newsrooms
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Let’s strengthen local reporting by 50,000 new journalists.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — February 28, 2022 — In 2004, the number of newspaper newsroom staff topped 71,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since then, it has declined by more than half. If we want to make up that…
Combating Hate in Our Midst
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — January 19, 2022 — When the Sabbath ended this week, I turned on my phone after a 25 hour pause in notifications and news updates. The first message that appeared was from Imam Abdullah Antepli…
Building the Open Newsroom: A Q&A with The City’s Nic Dawes
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW— December 22, 2021 — In 2019, New York City saw the launch of THE CITY, a local nonprofit news platform built with considerable foundation and donor funding; one of the publication’s goals has been to engage with New York communities…
Center for an Urban Future Report and Forum Call for NYC Libraries to Help City Recover
LIBRARY JOURNAL — December 06, 2021 — Center for an Urban Future (CUF) released its most recent report, “Branches to Recovery: Tapping the Power of NYC’s Public Libraries to Rebuild a More Equitable City,” on November 30. The report, funded…
Harness NYC’s libraries to spread equity
DAILY NEWS — December 01, 2021 — Although many other entities will be pivotal to creating a more equitable city — including schools and hundreds of community-based nonprofits — libraries are uniquely equipped to help in so many critical areas, from expanding access to early education and closing the digital divide to strengthening minority-owned businesses and bolstering the language, literacy and technology skills needed to access the good jobs of tomorrow.
Local Foundations Need Solid Local Journalism if They Hope to Advance Their Missions
THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY — November 16, 2021 — In New York City, the Charles H. Revson Foundation supported an effort that resulted in the city delivering $9.9 million — more than 80 percent of the city’s ad budget — to community news organizations. This helped ensure that publications such as the Haitian Times and the South Asian Times, which were struggling with ad-revenue losses, could continue to deliver critical Covid-19 safety information to readers.
Reform New York City’s Board of Elections Now
THE NEW YORK TIMES — October 30, 2021 — If you built a laboratory solely to concoct the most inept, opaque and self-dealing election board imaginable, you would have a hard time outdoing the real-life specimen currently functioning — or…
New York’s Next Mayor and a Failure of Local Reporting
SECOND ROUGH DRAFT — October 7, 2021 — Two weeks before the June 22 Democratic primary that everyone knew would be tantamount to the election of the next mayor of New York City, Politico New York published a story raising doubts about…
How to Fix the New York City Board of Elections
THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE — September 9, 2021 —“A national embarrassment.” “A disaster.” “Wins at screwing up.” These were just a few assessments of the New York City Board of Elections (NYC BOE) after its most recent in a long…
How New York City Is Saving Its Local News Outlets
Revson President, Julie Sandorf's and Dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Sarah Bartlett's piece "How New York City Is Saving Its Local News Outlets" was published in The New York Times on May 20, 2021.
GoVoteNYC Fund Announces $1 Million in Grants for Voter Engagement
THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — April 26, 2021 — Decades of low voter turnout and an historic election cycle drive a new philanthropic effort housed in The New York Community Trust to increase voter participation in NYC. The GoVoteNYC…
A Diverse Sisterhood of Strangers Showed Me How Pluralism Works
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If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let’s Start in Our Back Yard
Revson Senior Program Officer, Martha King piece "If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let's Start in Our Back Yard" was published in Philanthropy New York on April 14, 2021.
Revson Grantee, THE CITY receives Punch Sulzberger Innovator of the Year Award
The Revson Foundation is proud to support THE CITY, a new nonprofit news organization, who received the Punch Sulzberger Innovator of the Year Award.
Rethinking local news in New York City by collaborating with residents and libraries
MEDIUM — March 30, 2021 — How THE CITY’s Open Newsroom initiative is creating a “two-way street” of information sharing on issues like food insecurity, tenants rights and unemployment. Audience engagement in journalism can refer to everything from social media…
Pooled Journalism Funds Could Help Save Local Newspapers
Revson President, Julie Sandorf's piece "Pooled Journalism Funds Could Help Save Local Newspapers" was published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on March 3, 2021.
Vanishing in the Desert, Traditional Bedouin Culture Lives Online
THE NEW YORK TIMES — March 2, 2021 — After 50 years of fieldwork in the Negev and Sinai deserts, an Israeli researcher donated his rare archive to the National Library of Israel. JERUSALEM — When Clinton Bailey first began…
American Jewish Historical Society Emma Lazarus Poetry Contest – 2020 Winners
The American Jewish Historical Society announces winners of its “New Colossus” national poetry contest, part of the Emma Lazarus Project. Hear the middle school, high school, and college winners read and speak about their winning poems here.
The Gate of Healing
Revson Program Officer, Elizabeth Leiman Kraiem piece "The Gate of Healing" was published in eJewish Philanthropy on September 22, 2020.
6 Ways Local News Makes a Crucial Impact Covering COVID-19
MEDIUM — April 20, 2020 — During the pandemic, local news publishers and journalists have become essential sources of trusted information The horrific spread of the novel coronavirus across America has prompted an outpouring of questions from confused citizens in…
NYC Weighs Mentoring Amid Hate Crime Rise
Reuven Blau, a reporter from THE CITY, a Revson grantee, was interviewed on CBS News about the city's proposal on the anti-semitic attacks in NYC.
13 Local News Stories and Series That Made a Difference in 2019
MEDIUM — December 16, 2019 — These pieces highlight the best of collaborative journalism, community engagement and national-local partnerships This selection of 13 local stories that made a difference in 2019 highlight the strategies that can help local journalism both…
President Julie Sandorf’s article “Eyes Upon the Street” is published in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Revson President, Julie Sandorf's piece "Eyes Upon the Street" was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review's Winter 2020 Issue.
Revson grantee, The City, wins multiple awards
The Revson Foundation is proud to support THE CITY, a new nonprofit news organization, who won three EPPY awards and whose reporter Christine Chung won Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award.
5 Ways Place-Based Foundations Can Support Local News
MEDIUM — November 5, 2019 — Local foundations are known for directing grants to nonprofits in their towns, but not as much for supporting local news. That equation is changing, as more place-based foundations see watchdog journalism faltering. Many times…
Stemming the Loss of Local Journalism
Revson president, Julie Sandorf, writes in the New York Times, on the important role philanthropy should play on helping to finance the reinvention of local news as a public service.
Libraries’ Culture Pass Signs Up 70,000 in First Year
THE NEW YORK TIMES — August 13, 2019 — It’s been one year since public library cardholders in New York’s five boroughs were given expanded — and free — access to the arts through the citywide Culture Pass initiative. Since the…
Culture Pass program gave out more than 70,000 museum, theater tickets in its first year
AM NEW YORK — August 12, 2019 — The Culture Pass program offering free admission to New York City library cardholders is an “enormous success,” according to city and library officials. Since it launched in July 2018, the program has given out more than…
A terrible time for de Blasio to cut library funding
Julie Sandorf, President of the Revson Foundation, writes in Crain's New York on the critical need to protect NYC public libraries' funding, and the important role our libraries will play in helping all New Yorkers participate in the 2020 Census.
‘There is nobody who will cover this’
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — April 29, 2019 — Last September, during a heavy downpour in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, Luis Sánchez Almonte was buried alive. An immigrant from the Dominican Republic, Sánchez Almonte, who was 47, had been living in northern…
Making Space Launches at the Flashbush Branch Library
Commissioned by the BPL, SITU created a kit-of-parts that realigns century-old library spaces with 21st-century programming. Made up of adjustable infrastructure and furniture systems, the system creates flexible spaces to support the huge range of programs hosted by each branch. Across BPL’s 59 libraries, these spaces host close to 70,000 programs annually. Modular and scalable by design, the system is a pathway to revitalize community spaces in neighborhoods across Brooklyn.
Local News in America is Dying. Charity Might Save It
BLOOMBERG — April 25, 2019 — The City, a website covering local news in America’s biggest metropolis, debuted this month with a bank account some of its nonprofit peers could only dream of. Backed by almost $10 million from philanthropies and individuals,…
Muslims must combat anti-Semitism in our midst
THE SEATTLE TIMES — November 19, 2018 — In a story most Muslims believe authentic, the Prophet Muhammad stands up as a Jewish funeral procession goes by. His companions wonder why he shows such respect. “It is only a Jew,” they…
Haroon Moghul’s Piece “Happy Birthday, Muhammad” featured in The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES — November 20, 2018 — Tuesday is the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. It’s the 12th of Rabi al-Awwal, the day most Muslims believe he came into the world some 1,400 years ago. I first met Muhammad in August…
Presenting THE CITY, A Revson-Conceived Nonprofit Digital News Startup
A major new nonprofit digital news organization focused on New York City, called THE CITY (@TheCityNY), is about to begin staffing up with top New York City journalists, and it will launch later this year with the mission of adding…
Revson-funded book, Palaces for the People, featured in The New York Times and WNYC
The Revson Foundation is proud to support the publication of Eric Klinenberg's new book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.
Reentry: Start Here – A Profile of Brooklyn Public Libary’s TeleStory Program
URBAN OMNIBUS — September 7, 2018 — Where do you go to get help? A branch library system is an ideal physical infrastructure of aid: in New York City, 209 branches are dispersed throughout the city, yet central to neighborhoods’ identities; they…
Key to the city: Kudos to the brains behind Culture Pass
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — July 22, 2018 — It’s hard to believe nobody thought of it sooner: A New York City library card can now get you into 33 museums free. The Brooklyn, New York and Queens libraries launched Culture Pass,…
The funding to save local journalism: Importing an idea from San Diego
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — August 20, 2018 — Mary Walter-Brown came to New York the other day on a mission to help save our local journalism. She may seem an unlikely savior to New Yorkers. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University,…
Culture Pass Featured on The Brian Lehrer Show & New York Times Editorial
THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW— July 20, 2018 — Linda Johnson, president and C.E.O. of the Brooklyn Public Library, talks about the new program that lets all three library system card-holders visit major NYC cultural institutions for free. Listen to the interview here.…
NYC’s Public Library Systems Launch Culture Pass
With support from the Revson Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York Community Trust, NYC’s three public library systems have joined together to launch Culture Pass, a city-wide initiative providing free access to 33 cultural institutions across the five boroughs to the millions of library card holders.
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Julie Sandorf Accept J-School Honors
On April 11, 2018, Julie Sandorf, President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, accepted the 2018 Distinguished Service to New York Award alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent for The Atlantic, who accepted the 2018 Journalistic Achievement Award. Click here to watch both…
THE ROLE OF PHILANTHROPY IN RESUSCITATING LOCAL JOURNALISM: FIRG SEMINAR WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE REVSON FOUNDATION
DUKE UNIVERSITY SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY — January 31, 2018 — Professor Joel Fleishman discusses the role of philanthropy in reviving local journalism initiatives with the President of the Revson Foundation, Julie Sandorf.
Out of Print – The Case for Philanthropic Support for Local Journalism in a Time of Market Upheaval
In a new report, Tony Proscio, of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, explores the current landscape of local journalism, with a particular focus on the role that philanthropy could play…
Literary Treasure
METROFOCUS — December 7, 2017 — Two New York organizations have teamed up to honor one of the Big Apple’s biggest treasures, our libraries. We’re joined by Julie Sandorf, president, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and Manuel Martinez, branch manager, Allerton Library,…
You don’t have to be a Muslim to be horrified by Trump’s anti-Muslim bigotry
THE WASHINGTON POST — November 29, 2017 — Early Wednesday, President Trump retweeted three videos shared by a far-right British activist. One purportedly depicted a “Muslim migrant” beating up a Dutch boy on crutches (in fact, reports suggest the assailant was…
Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
THE NEW YORK TIMES — September 18, 2017 — For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite…
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 4TH ANNUAL NYC NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY AWARDS
Ten Library Finalists Announced in Annual “Oscars of Libraries,” Vying for Top Honors and $20,000 Prize Record-Breaking 24,000 New Yorkers Nominated their Beloved Branches for This Year’s NYC Neighborhood Library Awards New Perennial Excellence Award Launched, Recognizing Consistently Outstanding Branches…
New Publications Feature Launched!
The Revson Foundation is proud to present a new feature on our website: the Publications page. Here, you can view and download reports and articles that the Foundation has funded from 2009 onward. We hope these publications will be of interest…
REAL-ESTATE COSTS DOUBLE WHEN ONE NYC AGENCY GETS INVOLVED
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — April 9, 2017 — A study shows that the price and time frame for these jobs skyrocketed when the Department of Design and Construction was involved. New York City’s libraries and other cultural organizations looking to…
LIBRARIES OFTEN SEE DELAYS AND HIGH COSTS, REPORT FINDS
TIMES LEDGER — April 14, 2017 — Capital construction projects for libraries and other cultural institutions often rack up outsized financial and time investments, according to a new analysis from the Center for an Urban Future. The center worked with the…
NYC LIBRARIES AWAIT FIXES FOR FOUR YEARS ON AVERAGE, REPORT FINDS
CURBED NEW YORK — April 10, 2017 — New York City’s process of managing capital construction projects for cultural institutions and libraries is marred by bureaucratic setbacks, a new report by the Center for an Urban Future finds. Under the leadership…
POL HOPES NEW BILL WILL EMBARRASS AGENCIES INTO FINISHING PROJECTS ON TIME
DNA INFO— April 13, 2017 — Councilman Andrew Cohen hopes a new bill of his will embarrass city agencies into finishing their capital projects on time and on budget. The recently proposed bill would require all city agencies to notify the…
HOW SLOW CAN YOU GO?
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — April 12, 2017 — It’s not you. Your local library overhaul really is taking forever. A new report reveals exhausting and costly delays of new buildings and renovations overseen by the city’s Department of Design and…
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE REPORT: SLOW BUILD
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE — April 2017 — by Eli Dvorkin, Maria Doulis, and Jonathan Bowles — This report finds significant problems with NYC’s process for managing capital construction projects for libraries and cultural institutions, with the median capital project…
PROPUBLICA, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS WIN PULITZER GOLD MEDAL
PROPUBLICA — April 10, 2017 — Propublica and the New York Daily News today won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, honoring their joint investigation on abuses in the New York City Police Department’s enforcement of the nuisance abatement law. The…
OLD TOOLS, REVOLUTIONARY RESULTS – A Retrospective of the Revson Foundation’s work with NYC Libraries
DUKE UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY & CIVIL SOCIETY— February 7, 2017 — written by Tony Proscio — With all the trendy talk in philanthropy focused on “innovation,” “disruption,” and “impact investing,” it’s helpful to pay attention, now and then, to…
THE 4th ANNUAL NYC NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY AWARDS LAUNCH ON WNYC’S BRIAN LEHRER SHOW
On February 7th, 2017, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show hosted Revson President Julie Sandorf and Sarah Needham, program officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, to announce the fourth annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards! The show featured an interview with Roxana Benavides, branch manager…
Muslim Leadership Initiative
November 2016 — The Muslim Leadership Initiative was featured in several articles outlining how alliances between Jews and Muslims are more important now than ever before. Click the following links to read the articles: Jewish Telegraphic Agency — November 14, 2016 — Jews and Muslims…
The 21st Century Neighborhood Library – Cooper Hewitt Design Journal Fall 2016
COOPER HEWITT DESIGN JOURNAL — Fall 2016 — written by Julie Sandorf — “Whatever agencies for good may rise or fall in the future, it seems certain that the free library is destined to stand and become a never-ceasing foundation of good to all…
NY1 Online: A New York Tragedy
INSIDE CITY HALL — October 17, 2016 —Days after her sudden death, Neil Barsky of The Marshall Project joined Errol Louis to remember Venida Browder, the Bronx mother who had vowed to carry on the memory of her son, Kalief Browder. Click…
Monitoring the Vote With Electionland
PROPUBLICA — September 8, 2016 — Today we’re announcing a new project, aimed at monitoring the vote in real-time, nationwide. And you’re invited to join. There is no more essential act in a democracy than voting. But making sure that the balloting is…
6 revealing stats about Jewish nonprofits and the people who work for them
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY— September 9, 2016 — Jewish nonprofit workers are inspired, respected and challenged. They’re also stretched thin, lack regular feedback from their bosses and are itching to switch agencies. Those are some lessons from “Are Jewish Organizations Great Places…
Serving Israel, At A Cost: Growing numbers of Arabs performing national service face ostracism in their own communities.
THE JEWISH WEEK — September 21, 2016 — Jerusalem — Leen Jaber is in high demand in the hematological oncological day ward at Hadassah-Ein Kerem. “Leen, can you translate?” a Hebrew-speaking nurse asks before treating an Arabic-speaking patient. “Leen, can you catch…
More Arab Israelis join national service, discovering state benefits, patriotism
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — August 15, 2016 — They sound like your average religious Zionist couple in Israel: she serves in the Jewish state’s national service and he is an army combat veteran. Except they are both Muslim Arabs, and she,…
Dr. Robert Kingston and Errol Louis elected to the Revson Board of Directors
At the meeting on June 22nd, 2016, the Trustees of the Charles H. Revson Foundation elected Dr. Robert Kingston and Errol Louis to the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Starting in the Fall of 2016, Dr. Kingston and Mr. Louis will…
Adding Classes and Content, Resurgent Libraries Turn a Whisper Into a Roar
THE NEW YORK TIMES— July 4, 2016 — New York City’s 217 public libraries have rebounded in the past two years amid an infusion of city dollars, after years of budget and service cuts. An outpouring of support from library lovers has…
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL NYC NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY AWARDS
New York, NY – June 7, 2016 – The winners of the annual “Oscars of Libraries” have been chosen! Six library branches from Queens (Arverne, Glen Oaks), Brooklyn (Sunset Park), Manhattan (Inwood), and the Bronx (Morrisania, Jerome Park) have won…
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 3RD ANNUAL NYC NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY AWARDS ON WNYC’S BRIAN LEHRER SHOW
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show announced the 10 finalists for the third annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Charles H. Revson Foundation. These 10 finalists were selected based on a rigorous review of nearly 19,000 nominations from library users across the City. In June 2016, five of the 10 finalists will win $20,000 each for outstanding service to their communities. This year, there is also a new award from the Heckscher Foundation which will recognize a library for their outstanding children’s programming.
Where the Edge and the Center Meet— Driving Innovation in New York City’s Public Libraries
Revson’s President, Julie Sandorf, posits neighborhood libraries as the ideal ‘labs’ for the innovation and experimentation necessary to meet the 21st Century needs of NYC's growing population.
Capturing Human Moments Amid Chaos in Israel and the West Bank
THE NEW YORK TIMES — February 18, 2016 — In “This Place,” an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, life and photography and art cause sparks to fly. Its more than 600 images have been taken by 12 well-known photographers, and document life on…