Roots & Branches Foundation

Roots & Branches Seeks Grant Proposals

Roots & Branches FoundationIn its sixth year of grantmaking, Roots & Branches Foundation, an initiative of Rose Community Foundation, will grant a total of $68,220 to nonprofit organizations serving Greater Denver and Boulder. Roots & Branches Foundation has established two funding priorities for the year: supporting access to high-quality integrated health services for low-income and uninsured people; and engaging Jewish people ages 21 to 40 in ongoing volunteer programs that promote social justice. The group is seeking proposals for only the Jewish engagement priority and will award up to $20,450 to qualified grant seekers in that area of focus.

Roots & Branches Foundation’s complete Request for Proposals, including a full description of these grant priorities and information about how to submit a proposal in response to the Jewish engagement priority is available online at rcfdenver.org/initiatives_roots.htm or by calling Sarah Indyk at 303.398.7416. The deadline to submit a grant proposal is December 10, 2012 at 12:00 noon.

Roots & Branches Foundation’s members are a diverse group of Jewish people, age 25 to 40, from throughout Greater Denver and Boulder. The group has been meeting since July to identify needs in the community and to learn about Jewish philanthropic traditions, grantmaking approaches and strategies.

Roots & Branches Foundation 2012-2013 Members

  • Nhi Aronheim
  • Alonit Cohen
  • Rena Dulberg
  • Sarah Felsen
  • Elizabeth Freudenthal
  • Josh Gold
  • Adam Goodman
  • Coby Gould
  • Dan Harrison
  • Shanna Kattari
  • Shoshana Kraus
  • Kate Lewis
  • Ari Michaeli
  • Miranda Miller
  • Lorii Rabinowitz
  • Jennifer Sarché
  • Josh Trager
  • David Weingarden

Rose Community Foundation works to enhance the quality of life of the Greater Denver community through its leadership, resources, traditions and values. Since its founding in 1995, the Foundation has made more than $187 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and initiatives throughout the seven-county Denver Metropolitan region focused in the areas of Health, Education, Child and Family Development, Aging and Jewish Life.

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