Nonprofits & Grants

Rose Community Foundation is currently accepting applications for four open funding opportunities as part of the 2022 grantmaking cycles. While each funding opportunity is designed to address different community needs, all are guided by the Foundation’s mission of advancing inclusive, engaged and equitable Greater Denver communities through values-driven philanthropy.  Social-emotional learning in education  These grants […]

Rose Community Foundation is excited to announce this new funding opportunity and encourage Metro Denver nonprofits to learn more and apply. Community First Foundation, Rose Community Foundation and The Denver Foundation today launched the Metro Denver Nonprofit Loan Fund, a new funding mechanism aimed at helping local nonprofits mitigate the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while countering historic disparities in

In 2017, Out Boulder County’s (OBC) Executive Director, Mardi Moore, began hearing increasingly from community members who were experiencing hate incidents and hate crimes. However, Moore recalls, few of these episodes were being reported. “People were afraid to talk to the police,” shares Moore, who joined OBC in 2013 after working for the New York

Ekar Farm, a communal urban farm located in Denver, is inspired by ancient Jewish tradition. “The Torah is a record of an agriculturally based people,” says Sue Salinger, the organization’s executive director. “We have a clear direction on how to create a just society where everyone has what they need and the community takes care

While a large portion of Jewish teenagers will become b’nai mitzvah, many drop out of Jewish life soon after. And Moving Traditions, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the social and emotional well-being of Jewish teens, gets it. Life as a teenager can be overwhelming. The myriad social and academic pressures that teens face increasingly contribute

About five years ago, Rose Community Foundation’s Health Committee, along with the Child and Family Development Committee began to explore the topic of mental health care for very young children. Both committees believed it important to understand what early childhood mental health is…