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Rose Community Foundation Staff
Lisa
Farber Miller
Senior Program Officer
As senior program officer at Rose Community Foundation since 1997, Lisa Farber Miller directs the Foundation’s Jewish Life program area. Farber Miller has been instrumental in creating and directing many major foundation initiatives including The Endowment Challenge, Rose Youth Foundation, BOOST (Building Organizational Operating Strength Together), Live On: Build Your Jewish Legacy, and the Next Generation Initiative.
With an extensive background in strategic planning, marketing, resource development and management for nonprofit organizations, Farber Miller was a consultant to nonprofits prior to joining the Foundation. Her clients included The Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Denver, where she advised the Board of Directors on the $6 million renovation and transition of the JCC to a consumer-driven organization. In addition, Farber Miller served as director of enterprise at the Denver Children’s Museum, overseeing all earned income and marketing activities from 1979 through 1984.
Co-author of the book Nonprofit Piggy Goes to Market, Farber Miller is the editor and writer of the nationally distributed Apples & Honey newsletter series, which was funded by a grant from The Covenant Foundation. She wrote “Birthdays, Jewishly,” a chapter in Jewish Family and Life, Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today’s Parents and Children published by Golden Books, in addition to “Making Museum Education Programs Self-Supporting: The Case of the Denver Children’s Museum,” included in the book Museum-School Partnerships. She has also authored numerous magazine articles.
Farber Miller graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College and is a graduate of the Museums Collaborative/Columbia University Graduate School of Business Management for Nonprofit Managers course. Farber Miller’s community involvement has included serving as a board member of the Anti-Defamation League, Big Sisters, Denver Cooperative Preschool, Graland County Day School Board of Trustees Multicultural Committee and the national Jewish Funders Network. She is currently on the board of Colorado Public Radio. A member of Temple Sinai since 1972, Farber Miller and her husband David are parents of two sixth-generation Denverites, Dena and Charlie.
Lisa Farber Miller