Rose Community Foundation is excited to announce ViVe Wellness Founder and Executive Director Yoli Casas and Organización Papagayo CEO Marielena Suarez as the 2024 co-recipients of the Sheila Bugdanowitz Leadership Development Award. The award is named in memory of Sheila Bugdanowitz, who led Rose Community Foundation for 18 years before her passing in 2016. Seeded by […]
Through artistic expression, individuals from diverse backgrounds have a platform to share their stories, experiences and unique identities. Exposure to various forms of art can also help dismantle stereotypes, reduce prejudices and cultivate a sense of unity within communities. In 2023, Rose Community Foundation awarded $382,000 to 29 organizations promoting social change and justice through
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Libby Bortz, a Rose Community Foundation Legacy Circle member and donor, was honored with induction into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2022. Additionally, an assisted living center in Littleton bears her name. However, her impactful journey in philanthropy, advocacy, and advancing equity began in a small town in New York. Libby grew up
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In 2023, Rose Community Foundation awarded $555,000 to 26 organizations to support strong and inclusive civic engagement in the Greater Denver region. Grants were made to nonprofits and programs that focused on elevating the voices and priorities of those furthest from opportunity through voter participation and engagement, community organizing and leadership development. Communities with powerful civic engagement
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Rose Community Foundation is excited to welcome four new members to the staff. These individuals all bring deep community relationships, extensive professional expertise and inspiring track records of service and impact to their roles and to the Foundation’s work to advance inclusive, engaged and equitable Greater Denver communities through values-driven philanthropy. Brittany Bailey Accounting Associate
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Photo credit: Kevin J Beaty | Denverite I am sad and mad for George Floyd and his family. I am sad and mad that the list of names before him is increasingly too long to remember easily but remember we must. I am sad and mad for the mothers, fathers, husbands, wives and children who feel
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With Rose Community Foundation commemorating its 25th anniversary this year, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the Foundation’s early days. The best job I’ve ever had was being a consultant, hired in the spring of 1995, to help with the creation of something, likely a private or operating foundation, to be formed with the
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“It’s like family, everyone is so welcoming,” says Lindsay Stroiman, whose children, ages four and two, participate in ECE programming at the Boulder Jewish Community Center (JCC). “My kids love the programs, and I really feel a sense of community here.” Stroiman’s experience is exactly what Rose Community Foundation’s initiative, BUILDing Jewish ECE, is aiming
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Manuela Torres is 67. Homebound with no access to transportation, she stays inside her apartment all day, alone. Torres does not speak English and does not know where to go or how to get English lessons. She also has no health care benefits, and when sick, she toughs it out until she can get to
Two longtime trustees have completed their terms on the board. Jennifer Atler Fischer and Rob Klugman bid the board farewell at its December meeting. Both trustees served on the board for 10 years.
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