Olmstead Supreme Court Case Disability Justice 1999 A United States Supreme Court case regarding discrimination held that under the Americans with Disability Act, individuals with me [...]
Government Mandates Passed Immigrant Justice 2003 More government mandates are passed that directly oppress immigrant populations in the United States, including the Real ID Act, O [...]
Amendment 43 Resistance LGBTQIA+ Justice 2006 Amendment 43 passes, effectively banning same-sex marriage in Colorado. Chinook Fund deepens its support for the LGBTQIA+ communit [...]
Food Deserts Environmental & Food Justice 2006 Food justice gained coalesces in social justice conversations and landscapes in Denver as food deserts emerge due to gentrificat [...]
POWER Act Introduced Worker Justice 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is signed into law by President Obama which rolled back severe restrictions on the time-period for fi [...]
New Executive Director Chinook Fund 2013 Chinook Fund gets rid of the Co-Executive Director leadership model. Nora Bashir becomes the Executive Director of Chinook Fund, [...]
Alamosa River Thrives Environmental & Food Justice 2013 Fish return to the Alamosa River after the entire ecosystem was decimated in the early 1990s. Grantee Changemaker: Land R [...]
Expansion of DACA Immigrant Justice 2014 In 2012, President Obama creates a new policy for immigration, Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals (DACA). DACA functions as a [...]
Crucial Funding Chinook Fund 2015 Chinook Fund continues to give out crucial funds to social justice community organizers across the state. [...]
Ditch the Ditch Campaign Environmental & Food Justice 2016 Coalitions of community organizers, environmentalists, and youth advocates coalesce to fight proposed changes to I-70 that will dr [...]
