Rose Community Foundation's Jewish Life program area is dedicated to building a strong and vibrant Jewish community through strategic grantmaking. Rose Community Foundation is the largest funder in the Denver/Boulder Jewish community and one of the largest Jewish life funders in the nation. By the end of 2002, the Foundation's cumulative grants since 1995 to the Denver/Boulder Jewish community exceeded $26 million.

Jewish Life in America is undergoing a renaissance – a resurgence of interest in Judaism, spirituality, education and culture. How Jews define themselves is changing, with many seeking meaning and more personal expressions of Judaism. Guided by an 18-member Jewish Life Committee, the Foundation makes grants that respond to these trends, while also strengthening Jewish institutions. The Foundation's Jewish Life Committee has adopted a statement of diversity as part of its grant guidelines.

Rose Community Foundation's Jewish Life program area grants fund organizations and projects that:

• Connect Jews to the Jewish community
• Help build strong, sustainable Jewish organizations
• Promote innovation in responding to trends and emerging needs
• Develop leaders for the 21st century
• Encourage Jewish philanthropy
• Promote partnerships

In addition to making grants, Rose Community Foundation funds and operates two significant programs that address many of these priorities:

• The Endowment Challenge is a four-year program launched in partnership with the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado to build more than $20 million in organizational endowments for 19 Jewish agencies and synagogues in the Denver/Boulder community.
  
  
• Rose Youth Foundation – "Jewish Youth Making a Difference"  - Rose Youth Foundation is a grantmaking committee of 8th through 12th-graders who were selected to learn about philanthropy and to make grants to organizations serving the Jewish community.
  

Rose Community Foundation also supports community needs through grants to the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado.