Rose Community Foundation is seeking Jewish teens in grades 9 through 12 to help grant $60,000 to organizations serving the Denver metro Jewish community, including Boulder. The selected teens will be part of Rose Youth Foundation, an initiative providing Jewish youth with the opportunity to be grantmakers and to learn about philanthropy and the Jewish community. Applications will be accepted through October 12, 2009.
Now in its ninth year, Rose Youth Foundation will meet twice per month on Sundays from November 2009 through March 2010. The teens will learn about grantmaking, assess community needs, review grant proposals, and make site visits to prospective grantees. As a youth-led group, members also learn leadership skills, group decision-making and communications skills. Rose Community Foundation staff will provide oversight and guidance.
Rose Youth Foundation will have eight returning members in 2009-2010. "No other activity can empower, inspire and develop you as a leader like Rose Youth Foundation can," says Stephen Lurie, a member of Rose Youth Foundation for three years who is now in his first year at The University of Chicago.
Rose Community Foundation is committed to recruiting a diverse group of Jewish youth - affiliated and unaffiliated, secular and religious, and those from different geographic areas and life circumstances. Jewish teens in grades 9 through 12 who are interested in being part of Rose Youth Foundation are encouraged to visit
rcfdenver.org/RYF for an online application and more information, or they may contact Sarah Indyk at 303.398.7416.