Shawna Friedman

 

Shawna E. Friedman is the Jewish Life Initiatives Manager at Rose Community Foundation. She directs Rose Community Foundation’s Next Generation Initiative, and Live On: Build Your Jewish Legacy, a grant initiative designed to help 27 Jewish organizations build permanent endowments through estate gifts. Prior to Rose Community Foundation, Shawna worked at the Boulder Jewish Community Foundation and Boulder JCC. Shawna moved to Colorado from Washington, D.C., where she had worked for Congressman Tom Allen on environmental and energy issues. Shawna’s commitment to promoting social change and the health of our communities was nurtured by her early experience as a City Year Corp member in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to attending Vassar College. Shawna is deeply committed to generational issues and is actively helping to add to the next, and as yet, unnamed generation, as she and her husband welcomed their first child last fall.

Tutorial: How to Apply for the Rose Learning Grants

Lisa Farber Miller, Shawna Friedman

Experts from Rose Community Foundation will help you write your application for the Rose Jewish Learning Grants available only to Limmud Colorado participants. Rose Community Foundation invites you to create new Jewish learning programs and activities that build upon or are inspired by the Limmud experience. The goal is to foster the development of new Jewish educational activities and programs that bring Jews together to learn. Applicants may apply for up to $1,000. Individuals and nonprofit organizations may apply. This tutorial will enable you to submit your completed application today.

Treating NextGen Jews as a Problem is the Problem!

Engaging Jews in Their 20s, 30s, and 40s

Shawna Friedman, Eliana Schonberg

Global History & Culture, Identity & Responsibility

An informal briefing on Legwork, Framework, Artwork Engaging the Next Generation of Jews, a report that provides a snapshot of Rose Community Foundation’s work with Jews aged 20-40. NextGen Jews are fundamentally redefining what it means to be Jewish, to do Jewish, and to think Jewish. Come hear how.

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