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Jewish Life
Rose Community Foundation believes that the most effective way to ensure Jewish continuity is to foster a diverse, vibrant, rich quality of Jewish life with a strong sense of community. The Foundation supports and encourages inclusion, open dialogue, and diversity within the Jewish community. Rose Community Foundation affirms the authenticity of all the denominations' approaches to Judaism, and seeks to foster a wide range of Jewish expression and choices. The Foundation believes in the importance of civil, respectful discourse that enhances the dignity of all segments of the Jewish people.
In the Jewish Life program area, Rose Community Foundation focuses on the future, with the long-range goal of strengthening and supporting a dynamic Greater Denver Jewish community. The Foundation considers proposals for program support as well as systemic change initiatives. Generally, the Foundation does not consider requests for general operating support, or for activities exclusively for the members of a particular synagogue or congregation.
Rose Community Foundation's Jewish Life area places highest priority on proposals that primarily serve the Jewish community and address one or more of the following areas:
Outreach to Unconnected Jews
Rose Community Foundation supports the development and implementation of new or successful outreach programs that connect Jews to Jewish life and to each other. Proposals may be for innovative program development, as well as for the replication or expansion of successful outreach programs.
Experiences that Promote Jewish Growth
Rose Community Foundation supports activities that promote Jewish growth, including those that inspire and facilitate lifelong Jewish learning for the largest possible number of Jews. Consideration is given to cultural, social, recreational, spiritual and heritage-related activities in both formal and informal educational settings. The Foundation also supports programs for youth in the process of identity formation, young families and adults, and programs that remove barriers to involvement in Jewish activities.
Organizational Development
Rose Community Foundation supports Jewish organizations in areas such as professional development, strategic planning, program evaluation and dissemination, resource development, management, financial planning, computer-technology acquisition and training, and physical plant.
Leadership Development
Rose Community Foundation supports activities that enhance the capabilities of Jewish institutional leadership, both lay and professional. The Foundation also supports efforts to recruit, motivate, retain, educate and develop sufficient numbers of high-quality volunteer and professional leaders to meet the challenges of the future. In addition, Rose Community Foundation supports activities that prepare leaders to guide and facilitate institutional change, foster greater mutual respect among lay and professional leaders, and promote cross-denominational leadership development.
Rose Community Foundation's Jewish Life program area places higher consideration on requests that address:
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partnerships and cooperative programs among agencies, synagogues and institutions;
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collaboration among professionals across categories and settings;
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seed grants for new projects;
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emerging needs;
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grassroots initiatives that mobilize new resources, people and ideas; and
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efforts to promote institutional self-sufficiency.
Rose Community Foundation's Jewish Life program area will not consider requests from organizations that undermine or obstruct its work in the Jewish community.
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