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JFS Executive Luncheon

April 22, 2025
Luncheon: Noon – 1:30 p.m. 
Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel
1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202
 

Join us as we bring together the Denver philanthropic community to learn more about JFS, enjoy lunch, present the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Community Leadership Award to the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation, and listen to what’s sure to be a fascinating moderated conversation between journalist and 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark and Anderson Cooper.

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Past Events

Faces of JFS

December 4, 2024
The Cable Center

The evening included cocktails, dinner, entertainment, and a short program as we celebrated and honored our Yana Vishnitsky Leadership Award recipient, Dr. Richard Sanders, and Joyce and Kal Zeff Humanitarian Award recipient, Dr. Nancy Reichman. 

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Executive Luncheon

May 8, 2024
Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center
Guests enjoyed lunch, a short program, a presentation of the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Community Leadership Award Temple Emanuel during their 150th anniversary, and listened to a fun, moderated conversation with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart. 

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Family Concert Experience

Sunday, August 27, 2023
Mission Ballroom
The 2023 Family Concert featured the lively sounds of Ozomatli. Their music is as multifaceted as its members and influences. Meeting as young political activists and musicians, the original band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 to play a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga—all while following a key mantra: it will take you around the world by taking you around Los Angeles. 

Event Chairs: Amanda and Jonathan Alpert, Jenny and Don Strasburg, Stephanie and Sam Zaitz

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JFS Executive Luncheon

Friday, April 28
Sheridan Downtown Denver Hotel
The 2023 Executive Luncheon featured New York Times best-selling author Michael Lewis. Guests enjoyed lunch and a short program followed by a moderated conversation with Lewis, a New York Times best-selling author known for his books “The Big Short,” “The Blind Side,” “Liars Poker,” and “Moneyball.”
Event Chair: Cintra Pollack

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