Tag Archives: Tzedakah – Philanthropy

Hazon in Colorado awards $20,000 annually in grants ranging $1,000 - $4,000 to individuals and organizations who want to make our community healthier and more sustainable.

Increasingly, charitable donors are interested in "impact investing" with their philanthropically committed capital.

Roots & Branches Foundation, a grantmaking initiative of Rose Community Foundation, has awarded $75,680 in grants to three programs that help low-income families with children ages zero to five.

To create a strategic corporate philanthropy program, or make an existing program more strategic, consider these seven steps.

More than $40 trillion will be inherited over the next few decades — the largest transfer of wealth in history. Forty-five percent of spouses who inherit will seek and find a different financial adviser to manage those funds.

Recently, philanthropic and investment leaders have come to recognize that grants and investments can have both financial returns and social impact.

During the holiday season, our mailboxes are overflowing with catalogs, holiday cards — and requests for donations. Here are five steps towards strategic giving and having more impact with your donations.

Boulder Jewish Community Foundation announces their 2014-15 grant awards to 19 local Jewish organizations/projects.

In the U.S., nonprofit microfinance organizations help low-income people start businesses, create jobs, alleviate poverty and improve their opportunities.

Rose Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Judy Altenberg as Jewish Life Committee chair.

The Mountain States Region of Jewish National Fund and Radio Chavura have selected a Louisville, Colorado therapy dog as the Rocky Mountain Jewish Pet of the Week .

Jewish National Fund announced that since Operation Protective Edge went into effect on July 7, donors have purchased four new fire trucks, 30 mobile bomb shelters, and raised some $2.5 million for projects to keep Israelis safe.

Nearly one in six Coloradans experienced hunger at some point in 2012 - more than 840,000 people. What can you do? Read this and find out.

In response to ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel’s southern, central and coastal cities, Jewish National Fund is working with its partners across the nation there to help the several million Israelis under attack.

In the philanthropic universe, there are many ways to give. The fastest-growing tool in this arena is the widely acclaimed donor-advised fund.

Any objective person recognizes the urgent need for philanthropy, as it may be our last hope of addressing these and other crises — and time is of the essence.

This was the seventh year of Roots & Branches Foundation, which is composed of Jewish individuals in their 20s and 30s from throughout the Greater Denver community.

Being fully "engaged" at work profoundly influences an employee's willingness to learn and perform, and has real impact on a company's bottom line.

Many people buy into myths about giving — myths that undermine their willingness to give (or give more) to worthy causes.

The #MakeItHappen Micro Giving Circle has made grants to support eight new, creative Jewish projects in Boulder and Denver.

The world's major religions actively promote philanthropy by encouraging charitable actions that address such pressing issues as income inequality, hunger, homelessness, climate change, discrimination and injustice.

"It is not reasonable to expect communities to be business-friendly, if businesses are not community-friendly."

Whether you give throughout the year or wait until the end of the year, here are some guidelines for effective philanthropy.

Should philanthropy be instinctive or strategic? A thought-provoking story for Thanksgiving.

In 2012, crowdfunding supported more than 1 million global campaigns. The amount raised was $2.7 billion, an increase of 81 percent from the year before.