Program Areas • Grants
Urban Affairs: New York City
The Foundation, based in New York City, focuses its urban program on the city's future. It seeks to enhance the capacity of individuals, organizations, and the public sector to improve New York and the lives of those who live and work there.
Grants — 2010
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 |
| For the 'Support our Shelves' campaign in five branch libraries | |
| CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE
New York, NY | $15,000 |
| To support development of a policy on the economic impact and growth potential of New York City's design sector | |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
New York, NY | $20,000 |
| To support the purchase of critically needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City | |
| EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
New York, NY | $15,000 |
| To support cultural and arts programming for children | |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
New York, NY | $500,000 |
| To support the rebuilding and renaming of the Charles H. Revson Fountain.
(Year 5 of eight-year $4,000,000 grant) | |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
New York, NY | $125,000 |
| To support the 'Drowning in Debt' initiative, whose goal is to preserve thousands of units of New York City multifamily, affordable rental housing endangered by overleveraging | |
| NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST SWEATSHOPS
New York, NY | $2,500 |
| To support the education and advocacy work of NMASS on behalf of working people in Manhattan and Brooklyn, in memory of Virginia Yu | |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND
New York, NY | $25,000 |
| 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
New York, NY | $100,000 |
| 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
(Year 1 of three-year $1,000,000 grant) | |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
New York, NY | $432,200 |
| To continue support of the Charles H. Revson Law Student Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN), enabling 75 New York-area law students to work in public interest law organizations during the summer; and to support NYU's Public Interest Legal Career Fair
(Year 1 of three-year $1,296,600 grant) | |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
New York, NY | $575,900 |
| For continued support of the Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN), enabling at least 100 New York-area law students to work in public interest law organizations during the summer
(Year 3 of three-year $1,727,700 grant) | |
| RESERVE ELDER SERVICE
New York, NY | $142,000 |
| To support the Queens Library Project, which utilizes retired professionals to preserve and expand the Library's community service programs
(Year 1 of three-year $495,000 grant) | |
| Total: | $1,967,600 |