Chinook Fund Founded Chinook Fund 1987 Chinook Fund is founded by people of wealth– committed to change power dynamics by putting grantmaking power in the han [...]
Jobs with Justice Forms Worker Justice 1987 In addition to Chinook Fund’s creation in 1987 – the national organization, Jobs with Justice, also forms in 1987 with [...]
Civil Disobedience Disability Justice 1987 Over the course of seven years of direct action, ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit – changed to Americ [...]
Organizing to Educate around the HIV/AIDS Epidemic LGBTQIA+ Justice 1987 Chinook Fund quickly recognizes the need to support the LGBTQIA movement in Denver. During the Reagan era, when Americans were w [...]
Meaningful Legacy Arts for Social Change 1987 Chinook Fund values artistic movements as large cultural connectors of different social movements and begins funding key players i [...]
Beginning of Grantmaking Chinook Fund 1990 Chinook Fund begins our legacy by funding community organizing groups across Colorado through an activist-led Grantmaking Committ [...]
The New Jim Crow Criminal Justice Reform 1990 Prison population doubles over the span of five years due to the passage of the Mielke bill –which doubled prison senten [...]
Immigration Act of 1990 Immigrant Justice 1990 As a forefront of support for immigrant rights activists in Colorado, Chinook Fund celebrated with the nation when Congress began [...]
Rural Environmentalism Environmental & Food Justice 1990 Organizers in the Western Slope of Colorado stand strong in the face of corporations that threaten to destroy ecosystems and dump [...]
Americans with Disabilities Act Passes Disability Justice 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in emp [...]
