News from Rose Community Foundation

August 15, 2008
News Media Contact: Phil Nash, 303.398.7444

Rose Community Foundation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Grants

Denver, CO –During the second quarter of 2008, Rose Community Foundation awarded 103 grants totaling more than $2.3 million. Of this amount, $2,156,354 was awarded for 49 grants from Rose Community Foundation’s program areas to nonprofit organizations, government agencies and projects that support the health and well-being of the Greater Denver community. In addition, 54 grants totaling $151,960 were approved from donor-advised funds housed at the Foundation. Rose Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $135 million since its inception in 1995.

The Foundation’s board of trustees authorized the following grants between April 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. Program area grants are listed by program area and donor-directed grants are listed alphabetically. Locations indicate the organization’s headquarters, not necessarily the geographic area served.

PROGRAM AREA GRANTS

Aging

Boomers Leading Change (Denver): $80,000 to support this Rose Community Foundation initiative to engage the metro Denver baby boom generation in opportunities for employment, community service and lifelong learning.
coloradoboomers.com

Boomers Leading Change (Denver): up to $205,000 to provide matching grants to projects developed through the Foundation’s Boomers Leading Change initiative.
coloradoboomers.com

Jewish Family Service of Colorado (Denver): $100,000 for services to help older adults remain in their homes.
jewishfamilyservice.org

Volunteers of America, Colorado Branch (Denver): $225,000 over two years to support home-delivered meals and in-home safety support services that enable older adults to live independently.
www.voacolorado.org

Child and Family Development

Children's Outreach Project (Denver): $25,000 to support an organizational assessment and to develop a strategic plan.
childrensoutreachproject.org

Colorado Center on Law and Policy (Denver): $100,000 to promote the Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard and Colorado Self-Sufficiency Calculator. The calculator is an online tool to aid Coloradans in determining the income they need in order to be economically self-sufficient.
cclponline.org

CP of Colorado (Denver): $30,000 to implement a professional development plan for the organization’s six early childhood education centers.
cpco.org

Denver Indian Center (Denver): $21,000 toward a $42,000 grant to support strategic and business planning. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Education program areas.
denverindiancenter.org

Friends of the Haven (Denver): $12,500 for tools needed by clients to participate in a workforce development program.
havenfriends.org

Intercambio de Comunidades (Boulder): $20,000 for an English language education program targeted to Spanish-speaking immigrants in Denver and Boulder.
www.intercambioweb.org

The Kempe Foundation (Denver): $50,000 to support an outreach and education campaign for the Postpartum Depression Intervention Program.
kempe.org

Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People (Denver): $15,000 for outreach and distribution of the bilingual edition of The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law, and for a dual-language resource website for parents of children with disabilities.
thelegalcenter.org

Metropolitan State College of Denver (Denver): $45,745 to expand a school readiness program, Tools of the Mind, to 30 Jefferson County Public Schools kindergarten classrooms and 600 students.
www.mscd.edu

Rocky Mountain Parents as Teachers (Denver): $15,000 for a home-visitation program that teaches parenting skills.
parentsasteachers.org

Stride (Lakewood): $25,000 to support this program that helps low-income individuals and families become economically self-sufficient.
stride-co.org

Education

Alternatives for Youth (Longmont): $2,500 to to support after-school programs at several elementary and middle schools in Boulder County.
alternativesforyouth.org

Catholic Charities (Denver): $15,000 for the Beacon Neighborhood Center at Kunsmiller Middle School.
ccdenver.org

Colorado Department of Education (Denver): $4,000 to support a retreat for the Colorado Commissioner of Education and staff, and the Colorado State Board of Education.
www.cde.state.co.us

Colorado Staff Development Council (Morrison): $91,838 for professional development within individual schools.
co-csdc.org

Denver Public Schools (Denver): $33,500 to develop a fiscal model to accommodate changes being proposed to ProComp, the district’s new teacher-compensation system.
www.dpsk12.org

Denver Public Schools Office of Intentional School Culture (Denver): $14,961 to create an instructional film on how to build school cultures.
charactereducation.dpsk12.org

Hope Communities (Denver): $5,000 to support after school programs at three sites.
hopecommunities.org

“I Have a Dream”® Foundation of Boulder County (Boulder): $10,000 to encourage students in grades 3 through 12 to graduate from high school and attend college.
ihadboulder.org

Mapleton Public Schools (Denver): $275,000 to support the school district’s shift to small schools operating within a traditional school-district framework.
acsd1.k12.co.us

Mi Casa Resource Center for Women (Denver): $15,000 to support a Beacon Neighborhood Center.
micasadenver.org

Public Education & Business Coalition (Denver): $50,000 for the organization’s professional development work in metro area schools.
pebc.org

Regis University (Denver): $7,500 to support the Porter-Billups Leadership Academy for high school students.
regis.edu

Save Our Youth (Denver): $10,000 for summer academic programs at North High School and Rangeview High School.
saveouryouth.org

Health

Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry Educational Foundation (Denver): $15,000 to provide information to the business community about health care issues and engage business leaders in the health care policy reform debate.
cochamber.com
bizhealthforum.org

Community Health Services (Commerce City): $20,000 to support this safety-net health provider.

Family Voices Colorado (Denver): $1,000 to print and distribute a report from a summit on providing health services to individuals with dual or multiple health conditions. CP of Colorado serves as fiscal sponsor.
familyvoicesco.org

Grantmakers in Health (Washington, DC): $3,500 to support the activities of this national association of grantmakers dedicated to improving the nation's health.
gih.org

Metro Community Provider Network (Englewood): $700 for the Healthy Start Project to increase the rate of infants born healthy.
mcpn.org

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation (Denver): $25,000 to support Prevention First Colorado, a coalition of nonprofit organizations supporting the reproductive health of women and girls in Colorado.
conaral.org

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): $5,000 to explore the feasibility of developing a tool to monitor and evaluate progress on health reform in Colorado.
rcfdenver.org

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): $15,000 to print and distribute Health Care and Business: The Bottom Line, an effort to engage business leaders in the health care policy reform.
rcfdenver.org
bizhealthforum.org

Jewish Life

Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado (Denver): $10,000 for a Community Summit to consider the results and recommendations of the 2007 Metro Denver/Boulder Jewish Community Study.
jewishcolorado.org

Denver Community Kollel (Denver): $108,780 to support the implementation of a three-year organizational development plan, including a new development associate and technology.
denverkollel.org

Hillel of Colorado (Denver): $111,000 to pilot a new Jewish Campus Life Student Internship program, including a website.
hillelcolorado.org

Jewish Family Service of Colorado (Denver): $24,300 for the Rafael Spiritual Healing Center’s integration of Jewish rituals and traditions into counseling and support groups.
jewishfamilyservice.org

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): $11,000 to provide grants to Limmud Colorado participants for projects that promote new approaches to Jewish learning.

The following organizations and individuals received Jewish learning grants:

Wendy Aronson and Karli Sherwinter
For a workshop in Boulder that will allow participants to examine their relationship to Judaism and reinvigorate their faith.
Boulder Jewish Community Center
For a series of workshops and speakers on raising children with Jewish values.
boulderjcc.org
Yehudis Fishman and Scott Slack
For a series of classes for children to learn about the Hassidic storytelling tradition.
Rabbi Sara Gilbert
For a series of Shabbat celebrations for members of the community who have no family with whom to celebrate the holiday.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado
For a series of seminars on exploring and recording participants’ Jewish lineage and heritage.
jewishgen.org/jgs-colorado
Judaism Your Way
For gatherings to discuss Jewish life in communities with less access to Jewish programming.
judaismyourway.org
Minyan Na’aleh
For an intimate Shabbat gathering with educators and scholars in the Highlands neighborhood.
naalehdenver.org
Lauren Ross (with Amy Berkowitz-Caplan and Karli Sherwinter)
For a program for families with young children.
Danny and Karli Sherwinter
For a monthly gathering of young Jewish couples in the Boulder area for informal learning sessions.

limmudcolorado.org
rcfdenver.org

STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal) (St. Louis Park, MN): $41,500 to support a training program to improve marketing, volunteer engagement, fund development and assessment at seven Denver/Boulder synagogues.
starsynagogue.org

Opportunities and Innovation Fund

American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado Foundation (Denver): $15,000 for efforts to protect and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Colorado through education, litigation and advocacy.
aclu-co.org

Community Shares of Colorado (Denver): $15,000 to support this organization that links donors to grassroots organizations through workplace giving campaigns.
cshares.org

Denver Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau (Denver): $50,000 for the 2008 Symposia of the Rockies, a series of nonpartisan symposia to be held at the same time as the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
symposiaoftherockies.com

FRESC (Denver): $15,000 to support the Civil Leadership Institute, an educational series to develop an analysis of the needs of working families and promote changes through public policy.
fresc.org

Metro CareRing (Denver): $15,000 for Hunger for Justice, which brings together different faith organizations to advocate for public policies that help people move out of poverty.
metrocarering.org

Metro Organizations for People (Denver): $80,000 to help low- and moderate-income individuals engage in their communities through community organizing.
mopdenver.org

Metro Volunteers (Denver): $50,000 to support this organization that connects volunteers to service opportunities in nonprofit organizations.
metrovolunteers.org

Donor-Directed Grants

(The number in parentheses indicates the number of grants awarded during the quarter. The amount is the total of all grants awarded.)
Alley Cat Allies: $250
Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado: $17,000 (3)
Alzheimer's Association Colorado Chapter: $375
Anti-Defamation League, Mountain States Region: $1,250
Best Friends Animal Society: $250
Boulder Jewish Community Center: $6,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver: $375
Camp Tzivos Hashem Denver: $375
Colorado Agency for Jewish Education: $360
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare System: $50,000
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $7,000 (2)
Colorado Public Radio: $1,200 (2)
Colorado Symphony Association: $2,250 (2)
Colorado Youth Danse Theatre: $500
Denver Public Schools: $18,000
Excelsior Youth Center: $375
Friends of Manual: $400
Friends' School: $1,000
Gateway Battered Women's Services: $375
Getty House Foundation: $500
Glide Foundation: $1,000
Greenpeace Fund: $750
Humane Society International : $250
International Fund for Animal Welfare: $250
Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $1,375 (2)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Rocky Mountain Chapter: $2,500
The Kempe Foundation: $250
Matthew Shepard Foundation: $375
McCormick Foundation, Colorado Rockies Charity Fund: $4,000
Mental Health Center of Denver: $375
Metro Volunteers: $500
Mile High United Way: $10,000
National Conflict Resolution Center: $500
National Resources Defense Council: $250
The Nature Conservancy: $250
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: $250
Planned Parenthood of San Diego & Riverside Counties: $500
Ralston House: $5,000
School Leaders for Colorado: $4,000
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: $500
Seeking Common Ground: $1,500
Shalom Park: $250
Tara Performing Arts High School: $500
Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge: $250
University of Colorado Foundation: $500
University of Northern Colorado: $4,000
Women Donors Network: $4,000
World Wildlife Fund: $250