Denver, CO—March 18, 2015—During the fourth quarter of 2014, Rose Community Foundation awarded 302 grants totaling more than $6.8 million. Of this amount, $3,471,364 was awarded for 57 grants from Rose Community Foundation’s program areas to nonprofit organizations, government agencies and projects that support the health and well-being of the Greater Denver community. Donor-advised funds housed at the Foundation approved 245 grants totaling $3,347,721. Rose Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $225 million since its inception in 1995.
The Foundation’s board of trustees authorized the following grants between October 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014. Program grants are listed by program area and donor-directed grants are listed alphabetically. Locations indicate the organization’s headquarters, not necessarily the geographic area served.
PROGRAM AREA GRANTS
Jewish Life
Hillel of Colorado (Denver): $69,760 for consultants to provide strategic and real estate planning, coaching, and an executive search process.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado (Denver): $97,500 to hire consultants to provide strategic planning and sustainability campaign planning and implementation.
Rose Foundation (Denver): $911, 636 to support two years of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative.
Aging
Boomers Leading Change in Health Initiative (Denver): $262,500 toward a two-year grant totaling $525,000 to support the training of adults aged 50 and older, to serve as patient navigators, community health workers, and/or healthcare policy advocates. Colorado Nonprofit Development Center serves as fiscal sponsor. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Health program area.
Catholic Charities (Denver): $20,000 to support case management services to low-income older adults and their caregivers in the Denver metro area.
Colorado Center for the Blind (Littleton): $35,000 for the Senior Services Program that provides in-home training and support for older adults who are blind or losing vision and their caregivers.
Colorado Department of Human Services (Denver): $225,000 to support the tenth (10th) year of Senior Source, a multi-media information and education campaign designed to bring resources to older adults and their caregivers.
Denver Regional Council of Governments (Denver): $11,100 for additional funding to oversample Latino elders in the 2014/2015 Community Assessment Survey of Older Adults (CASOA). The survey captures the strengths and needs of older adults as reported by older adults themselves.
InnovAge (Denver): $25,000 for a combination of supportive services that foster independent living for older adults in the Denver metro area.
Longmont Meals on Wheels (Longmont): $25,000 to provide home-delivered meals to homebound older adults in Longmont and surrounding rural areas.
Project Angel Heart (Denver): $25,000 to provide home-delivered meals to homebound low and moderate-income older adults with life-threatening illnesses in the Denver metro area.
Seniors’ Resource Center (Denver): $17,000 for the Transportation Services Program which provides rides to older adults in Adams and Jefferson counties.
Child and Family Development
Bal Swan Children’s Center (Broomfield): $10,000 to support teacher training and quality improvement activities to help maintain 4-star Qualistar rating.
The Bell Policy Center (Denver): $40,000 toward a $120,000 grant to support general operating support for research and analysis, public education, collaboration, outreach, and advocacy. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Education and Health program areas.
Children First of the Rockies (Longmont): $10,000 for a program which educates parents to prevent neglect and abuse and encourages nurturing parenting to promote healthy child development.
Children’s Haven Child Care Center (Lakewood): $11,620 to support quality improvements and staff development for an early education center in Southwest Denver.
Children’s Outreach Project (Denver): $20,000 for professional development and quality improvement of their high quality early childhood educational programming which servies at-risk families.
Clayton Early Learning (Denver): $8,000 to support the state-level early childhood advocacy efforts by helping with the local match for the Alliance for Early Success grant.
Colorado Succeeds (Denver): $5,000 toward a $10,000 grant to partially fund a study on the quality and consistency of READ Act implementation in schools across the state. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Education program area.
Denver Asset Building Coalition (Denver): $20,000 to provide free tax preparation, financial education, and financial services to the low-income people in Denver and Aurora.
Early Childhood Council of Boulder County (Lafayette): $25,000 to support the efforts to ensure that all young children from birth to five in Boulder County are ready to succeed in school and in life.
Early Childhood Funder’s Collaborative (Boston, MA): $3,000 for the Early Childhood Funders’ Collaborative. Third Sector New England serves as fiscal sponsor.
El Centro Humanitario (Denver): $25,000 to support intensive trainings and increased access to employment opportunities for domestic workers.
Friends of the Haven (Denver): $10,000 to support professional training and materials to maintain high quality early childhood programs at The Baby Haven.
Growing Home (Westminster): $20,000 for capacity building, family self-sufficiency and early childhood intervention programs.
Jeffco Public Schools (Golden): $30,000 to partner with the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Program to deliver home-based, parent involved early learning to help children in Jefferson County begin school ready to learn.
Mpowered (Denver): $15,000 to support comprehensive financial coaching to low-income families.
Policy Matters (Wheat Ridge): $8,333 towards a $25,000 grant for one year of state-level legislative monitoring services. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Education and Health program areas.
Rose Foundation (Denver):
$75,000 toward a $150,000 grant to support the Opportunity Youth Initiative over three years. This grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Education program areas.
$7,500 for consulting services to assist Rose Community Foundation and other early childhood funders to participate in the development of Pay for Success financing structures.
Tools of the Mind (Denver): $25,000 to support a locally developed early childhood curriculum, in its transformation from start-up to national model. Third Sector New England serves as fiscal sponsor.
University of Colorado Foundation (Broomfield): $70,000 over two years for the Pregnancy and Parenting Partners to provide accessible and affordable prenatal, postnatal, and infant care to low-income women and their children.
Work Options for Women (Denver): $25,000 for a program that helps impoverished women gain the skills and confidence they need to work their way out of poverty and become gainfully and permanently employed in the food service industry.
Education
Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (Denver): $10,000 for a Return on Investment study to determine which teacher induction or teacher mentoring model is the most cost effective.
The Bell Policy Center (Denver): $40,000 toward a $120,000 grant to support general operating support for research and analysis, public education, collaboration, outreach, and advocacy. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Health program areas.
Center for Teaching Quality (Carrboro): $100,000 for connecting, readying and mobilizing teachers to transform the current career pathways for all educators.
Colorado Succeeds (Denver): $5,000 toward a $10,000 grant to partially fund a study on the quality and consistency of READ Act implementation in schools across the state. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development program area.
Colorado Youth for a Change (Denver): $35,000 for the Futures Academy in Aurora Public Schools.
Padres & Jóvenes Unidos (Denver): $25,000 for the College Prep for All Campaign to expand More and Better Learning Time in Southwest Denver.
Policy Matters (Wheat Ridge): $8,333 towards a $25,000 grant for one year of state-level legislative monitoring services. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Health program areas.
Relay Graduate School of Education (New York): $125,000 to launch a new Relay Graduate School of Education campus in Denver.
RISE Colorado (Aurora): $45,000 to support the Educate, Engage and Empower (EEE) Program in Aurora Public Schools. Rights for All People serves as fiscal sponsor.
Rocky Mountain PBS (Denver): $25,000 to promote awareness and engagement with Standing in the Gap, a documentary series, radio, web and outreach campaign highlighting the student achievement gap in the metro Denver area.
Rose Foundation (Denver):
$30,000 for the Climb Higher Colorado Initiative (CHCI) to deepen understanding and build support for critical components to student success and school improvement in Colorado.
$75,000 toward a $150,000 grant to support the Opportunity Youth Initiative over three years. This grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Education program areas.
$25,000 to support communication efforts around the re-design and re-negotiation of the ProComp program.
Health
The Bell Policy Center (Denver): $40,000 toward a $120,000 grant for general operating support for research and analysis, public education, collaboration, outreach, and advocacy. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Education program areas.
Boomers Leading Change in Health Initiative (Denver): $262,500 toward a two-year grant totaling $525,000 to support the training of adults 50+ to serve as patient navigators, community health workers, and/or healthcare policy advocates. Colorado Nonprofit Development Center serves as fiscal sponsor. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Aging program area.
The Center for African American Health (Denver): $50,000 for general operating support and staff and volunteer training to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors among Denver-area African Americans.
Center for Improving Value in Health Care (Denver): $50,000 to provide Medicaid with data analytic tools to improve assessment of hospital and physician performance.
Clínica Tepeyac (Denver): $26,351to support Medicaid eligibility screening and improve clinic revenue and sustainability.
Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care (Denver): $29,398 for promoting access to mental health services through school-based health centers.
Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition (Aurora): $30,000 to support greater efficiencies and cost-savings in Colorado’s childhood immunization system.
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (Denver): $200,000 for general operating support for this organization whose mission is to increase health care coverage and access for all Coloradans.
Doctors Care (Littleton): $18,500 to develop a business case and feasibility analysis to determine revenue-generating services for a health care clinic.
Inner City Health Center (Denver): $20,000 for an assessment aimed at expanding behavioral health services for underserved Coloradans.
Policy Matters (Wheat Ridge): $8,333 towards a $25,000 grant for one year of state-level legislative monitoring services. The grant was jointly funded by the Foundation’s Child and Family Development and Education program areas.
DONOR-DIRECTED GRANTS
Donor-advised funds housed at the Foundation made 245 grants totaling $3,347,721.
( ) – indicates number of distributions to organization
9to5 Colorado
ACE Scholarships
Alliance for Children Foundation
Alzheimer’s Association, Colorado Chapter
American Indian College Fund
American Jewish World Service
Anchor Center for Blind Children
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Anti-Defamation League, Mountain States Region
Arts Street (2)
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
Aspen Community Foundation
B’nai Vail Congregation
BBYO
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver
Bravo Colorado Music Festival Endowment Foundation
The Bridge Project, University of Denver
Carbondale Clay Center
Carbondale Community School
Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities
CASA of Adams and Broomfield Counties
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Center for Women’s Health Research, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Chabad Jewish Community Center
Cherry Hills Palmer Scholarship Foundation, Inc.
Children’s Diabetes Foundation at Denver (2)
Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation (3)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Colorado Academy
Colorado Children’s Campaign (2)
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Colorado Golf Association
Colorado Nonprofit Development
Center (3)
Colorado Organization on Adolescent
Pregnancy, Parenting, and Prevention
Colorado Public Radio (3)
Colorado Public Television
Colorado Symphony Association
Colorado Wild Public Lands
Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Columbia University
Committee for the Rescue of Israel’s Babies
COMPASS for Lifelong Discovery
Compassion & Choices
Congregation Ateres Shloime-Hornosteipel
Congregation Beth Menachem of Glogev
Conservation Colorado Education Fund
Contemplative Outreach of Colorado
The Couse Foundation
Craig Hospital Foundation (2)
Cultural Survival
Dartmouth College
Denver Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
Denver Botanic Gardens (2)
Denver Children’s Home
Denver Film Society
The Denver Foundation
Denver Health Foundation
The Denver Hospice
Denver Jewish Day School (3)
Denver Justice Council
Denver Scholarship Foundation
Doctors without Borders
Dumb Friends League
Echo Foundation
Edge of Seven
Ekar Farm (2)
Energy Outreach Colorado
English in Action (2)
Equity Trust
Ethiopia Reads
Facing History and Ourselves
Family Tree
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado (2)
Food Bank of the Rockies (4)
Fort Logan Mental Health Center Auxiliary
Friends of the Arava Institute
The Gathering Place
Girls Inc. of Metro Denver (2)
Global Down Syndrome Foundation (2)
Global Fund for Women
Global Kindness
Grassroots International
Gunnison Trails
Hampshire College Trustees
Hartley Film Foundation
Help for Survivors of Domestic
Violence and Assault
Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families
High Country News
Himalayan Children’s Fund
Inner City Health Center
International Community Foundation
Invest in Kids (3)
The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc.
Jerusalem U
Jewish Community of Amherst
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Inc.
The Jewish Experience (2)
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles (2)
Jewish Family Service of Colorado (6)
Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts
Jewish Inspiration
Jewish National Fund (2)
Jewish National Fund, Mountain States Region
Jewish Student Connection
JEWISHcolorado (3)
Jews for Judaism International
Judaism Your Way (5)
Judi’s House
Kavod Senior Life
Kent Denver School (3)
Kestrel Land Trust
Lewis & Clark College
LIFT-UP
Link Hands for Humanity
Literacy Outreach
The Literacy Project
The Logan School for Creative Learning
Mackintosh Academy
Marion Downs Center
Marshall Direct Fund
McCormick Foundation
Menlo College
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Mile High Business Alliance
Mile High United Way
Milken Institute (2)
Mizel Arts & Culture Center MACC at the JCC
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
Mountain Resource Center
Moving Traditions (2)
National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mid-South Chapter
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy in Colorado
Neshama Center
Northfield Mount Hermon
Oxfam America
PassageWorks Institute
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Phillips Exeter Academy
Pitzer College
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (3)
Posner Center for International Development
The Private Redemption Foundation
Project C.U.R.E.
Protect Our Winters
Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center (3)
Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center
Rocky Mountain PBS
Rose Community Foundation
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
Seeds of Solidarity Education Center
Seniors Project Support
Shalom Cares
Sharsheret
ShelterBox USA
Smithsonian Institution
Solar Cookers International
Special Olympics Colorado
Springfield College
St. Francis Center
Stanley British Primary School
Starfish One by One
Temple Emanuel
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home
There With Care
Third Way Center
Tipping Point Community
The Trust for Public Land
Tufts Hillel Foundation
Tufts University (2)
Turner Syndrome Society Colorado Chapter
Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of the Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America
The University of Arizona Foundation
University of California San Diego Foundation
University of Colorado Foundation (3)
University of Denver (2)
University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2)
University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Pan American Foundation
Urban Peak
USA Outreach Priority 1
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch
Western Golf Association
Wilderness Workshop
Women Donors Network
Women’s Bean Project
World Learning
The Wyly Art Center
Yavneh Hebrew Academy (2)
Zimmer Children’s Museum