Rose Community Foundation’s Jewish Life program area seeks to support organizations and programs that are reflective of Greater Denver’s Jewish communities and offer meaningful and relevant opportunities to engage in Jewish life, while welcoming diverse individuals, families and practices.
Donor Name: Rose Community Foundation
State: Colorado
County: Adams County (CO), Arapahoe County (CO), Boulder County (CO), Broomfield County (CO), Denver County (CO), Douglas County (CO), Jefferson County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/29/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Priority Funding Areas
Organizations funded under this opportunity should reflect at least one of the following priorities:
- Efforts to increase the organizational strength and capacity of a Jewish organization working in support of the seven-county Denver metro area Jewish community. Applications in this category should consist of grants working toward a major organizational goal that strengthens the core functions of the organization, like sustained increased enrollment or a new revenue stream. These may include key staff positions, planning grants, new systems (CRM, software, etc.), professional development, coaching, or other similar projects.
- Program or project that is reflective of diverse Jewish communities and offers meaningful and relevant opportunities to engage in Jewish life. These applications should include data demonstrating the need for the program/project/organization and show that the grant would fill a gap in the local Jewish ecosystem, rather than duplicating other existing efforts. General operating or program grants may fall into this category.
- Jewish initiatives seeking to advance social justice by engaging Jewish people and using Jewish values and traditions to respond to one or more key social and economic issues of our time. National data demonstrates that Jewish people, particularly younger generations, tend to express their Jewish identities through social justice. Applications in this category will ideally demonstrate that their justice-oriented work is informed by, and supports, the population/issue area it serves. In addition, there should be some measurement of how this social justice programming supports the development of Jewish identities, relationships, meaning, and/or values of its Jewish participants.
Funding Period
Grants may be structured as programmatic or general operating support. Funds cannot be used for endowments, cash reserves, debt repayment, or pass-through grants. Grants will be for a period of 12 months, and organizations are eligible to be awarded funds only once in a 12-month period. In limited instances, multi-year grants may be awarded based on staff, committee and board discretion. Priority will be given to organizations that have demonstrated community need and interest in a proposed project, and where multi-year support would help to advance or achieve outcomes which may otherwise not be possible. First-time grantees are unlikely to receive multi-year grants. Grant requests should generally not exceed 15% of the current year’s operating budget.
Eligible Applicants
Jewish organizations operating in the seven county Greater Denver region. Applicants must be a nonprofit organization, school, or other tax-exempt organization in the seven-county Greater Denver region of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. Unincorporated organizations, groups and initiatives may apply but must have a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor.
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