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News from Rose Community Foundation
August 5, 2008
News Media Contacts:
Kassy Reiff, Red Chicago
312.782.7922
Mike VanBuren, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
269.969.2148
Rose Community Foundation Named a 2008 Recipient of National Leadership in Action Award by W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Denver, CO - The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced Rose Community Foundation as one of the five 2008 recipients of its prestigious National Leadership in Action Award, recognizing excellent work by nonprofit organizations and philanthropic institutions in communities of color.
Denver-based Rose Community Foundation was selected for its leadership in advancing cross-cultural collaborations with Colorado’s Latino community and its support of the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, an initiative to promote philanthropic participation within the Latino community. As a recipient, Rose Community Foundation will receive a $50,000 grant, as well as an original commissioned art piece created by emerging artists from across the country. Rose will be honored at a local award reception on September 2, 2008 at the Foundation’s offices.
”We thank the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for this prestigious award, and want to recognize our Latino Community Foundation of Colorado funding partners: Hispanics in Philanthropy, The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation and the Western Union Foundation,” says Sheila Bugdanowitz, Rose Community Foundation’s president and CEO. “As an organization rooted in the Jewish values of nondiscrimination and philanthropy, Rose Community Foundation is pleased to support another community in developing its philanthropic voice.”
The National Leadership in Action Award program recognizes, celebrates, and promotes outstanding philanthropic institutions and nonprofit organizations with innovative approaches to connecting resources of time, money, and know-how for philanthropic work by communities of color. Award winners were peer-nominated and screened by a committee of nonprofit and philanthropic leaders from across the United States.
“We are at an incredible moment in our society as the power of philanthropy continues to accelerate as a result of the innovations these committed organizations offer,” said Anne Mosle, vice president for programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “As the Foundation re-energizes our mission to support the success of vulnerable children, with a strong commitment to racial equity, we hope to see more opportunities to partner with strong organizations such as these to ensure philanthropy achieves its full potential.”
In addition to Rose Community Foundation, 2008 winners include: Native Americans in Philanthropy (Minneapolis, Minn.), The Twenty-First Century Foundation (New York, N.Y.), Potlatch Fund (Seattle, Wash.) and ACCESS (Dearborn, Mich.).
ABOUT ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Rose Community Foundation supports efforts to improve the quality of life throughout the Greater Denver community through its endowed grantmaking programs, and by advising and assisting donors who wish to make thoughtful charitable investments to better the community. The Foundation has granted more than $135 million since it was founded in 1995. For more information, visit www.rcfdenver.org.
ABOUT W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION
Established in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
For more information on the National Leadership in Action Award or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, visit www.wkkf.org or www.culturesofgiving.org.