2017 Fiscal Year Annual Report July 2016-June 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Message From Our Board Chair 3 About Chinook Fund 4 Our People 5 The Giving Project 6 Our Cohorts 7 Our Grantees 9 30 Plus Change Event 10 30 Years of Social Impact 11 From 1987 to Now 27 Financial Summary 29 Supporters and Sponsors MESSAGE FROM OUR BOARD CHAIR

Dear Chinook Fund community,

A new generation of people are seeing and experiencing the importance and effectiveness of grassroots community mobilizing. The current political and social moment recalls why the Chinook Fund was established in 1987.

In 2016, the Chinook Fund established the Giving Project as an extraordinary opportunity for a diverse group of people of all income levels to come together and learn that social change happens best when it is constituent-led, community-wide, and designed to address root causes of oppression. In fiscal year 2017, we successfully completed our second and third Giving Project cycles. Each cycle was characterized by high energy and passion, increased fundraising capabilities, and fostered new commitment to social justice in Colorado.

The Chinook Fund experienced some important changes in 2017. After seven years as our Executive Director, Nora Bashir stepped down. The Board of Directors is grateful and appreciative of Nora’s passion and commitment. A key strength of a strong leader is their ability to build up the leaders around them. Because of the groundwork laid by Chinook Fund’s leaders we are confident about the future, aware of our challenges and opportunities, and ready to find our next powerful Executive Director.

In 2018, we plan to take Chinook Fund from the best kept secret in Colorado to the most visible leader and funder of grassroots social change! We invite you to join us in that vision by sharing information about the Giving Project with your networks and attending our upcoming events. As always, we are excited to start this new year with you.

Sincerely,

Nancy Hernandez BOARD CHAIR 2 ABOUT CHINOOK FUND

MISSION Chinook Fund supports grassroots organizations working on issues of social and economic justice; by pooling our collective resources, we seed groups making a positive, systemic impact to improve the quality of life for all Coloradans.

$3.1 GIVEN 925 GRANTS 345 ORGANIZATIONS MILLION

HISTORY Chinook Fund was established in 1987 by a group of thoughtful donors who built the organization around a grantmaking model that places funding decisions in the hands of community members.

For over 30 years, Chinook Fund has relied on this model of community-led grantmaking to provide financial support and organizational assistance to grassroots groups working toward social change. We prioritize community organizing as the core strategy to engage and empower these organizations to advance equality and overcome injustice.

3 OUR PEOPLE

STAFF

Nora Bashir Deme Yuan S. Juliette Lee Jessica Nelson Chelsea Manley Executive Director Giving Project Director Program Director Operations & Events & Communications Sept. 2013-Nov. 2017 Oct. 2015-Dec. 2016 Grants Manager Coordinator BOARD Nancy Hernandez Anaya Robinson Ken Stern Sierra Fleenor Board Chair Board Treasurer Brenda Sears Courtney Banayad Mac Liman May 2013-Aug. 2017 VOLUNTEERS

Amanda Rossow Julian Degroot-Lutzner Nirvana Bhatia Veronica Fernandez-Diaz Christa Apone Lucy Loomis Rebecca Saltman Jennifer Lee Marcela Onate-Trules Scott Lynch 54 THE GIVING PROJECT

ABOUT The Giving Project is an innovative model for funding social change, building community, and fostering leaders. It brings together a multi-racial, cross-class group of people to strengthen their skills in fundraising, grantmaking, and movement building. They develop a shared analysis of race, class, and power, then collectively raise and grant money to organizations working for systemic change in Colorado. 25 9 SKILL BUILDING PEOPLE SESSIONS Learn and practice the ideas of grassroots fundraising. 6 Learn about the Chinook MONTHS Fund grantmaking process & social justice ANALYSIS philanthrophy. ACTION

Build shared analysis of Utilize a democratic race and class. Call or email the Program grantmaking process to review, discuss and select Build a cross-class, Directior, Juliette Lee, to set up an informational meeting: grantees. cross-race social justice 303-455-6905 x2 philanthrophic community. [email protected] 65 Raise funds for the grant pool. OUR COHORTS FALL 2016 SPRING 2017

Angela Schreffler Katie Terrazas Hoover Bailey Connor Kimiko Tanabe Alyssa Valdez Kathleen Ferrick Cassandra Cordova Lindsay Fallon Brea Zeise LaRae Martinez Clarence Mills Luis Ponce Desirae Salazar-Sarabia LeRita Cavness David B. Weaver Mahi Palanisami Emily Elsenbast Megan Garn Elizabeth Crowe Mary Miller Erik Ortiz Meghan Carrier Elizabeth Sterling Melanie Archuleta Hana Dansky Shay Gonzales Emily Treece Neal Feldman Jason Barth Shalelia Dillard Erika Daggett Sachi Ishida Heather Schreck Vikki Fininen Jennifer Bell Zach Booz

$ $ $ $51,050 10 $ $73,700 19 COLLECTIVELY RAISED ORGANIZATIONS COLLECTIVELY RAISED ORGANIZATIONS FOR GRANTS FUNDED FOR GRANTS FUNDED

67 OUR GRANTEES

ARTS, CULTURE & MEDIA ABOVE WATERS PROJECT $1,600 START-UP CAFÉ CULTURA $5,500 ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR DISABILITY RIGHTS MOTUS THEATER $5,500 ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR ATLANTIS ADAPT $5,500 ESTABLISHED MINOR DISTURBANCE $4,700 ESTABLISHED ECONOMIC JUSTICE/WORKER RIGHTS THEATRE ESPRIT ASIA $4,700 ESTABLISHED EL CENTRO HUMANITARIO $7,300 ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE $2,750 START-UP ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE YOUR COLFAX NEWS $2,000 START-UP & LAND RIGHTS PROJECT AVA $1,000 CONEJOS CLEAN WATER $7,300 START-UP ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR COLORADO JOBS WITH JUSTICE $5,500 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR COLORADO CIRCLES FOR CHANGE $5,500 GREENLEAF $5,500 FORMALLY KNOWN AS VORP; ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR DENVER JUSTICE PROJECT $2,400 WOODBINE ECOLOGY CENTER $2,400 START-UP START-UP 87 FALL 2016 & SPRING 2017

DENVER PERMACULTURE GUILD $1,000 AURARIA CASA MAYAN HERITAGE $1,600 START-UP START-UP

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS COMPAÑEROS $7,300 PROJECT VOYCE $5,500 ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR ESTABLISHED EL CENTRO AMISTAD $6,300 AL FRENTE DE LUCHA $4,700 ECONOMIC JUSTICE/WORKER RIGHTS ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT $5,500 YAASPA $3,500 ESTABLISHED, MULTI-YEAR START-UP INSPiRE $1,600 LGBTQIA+ JUSTICE; START-UP ANTI-OPPRESSION

INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO $6,300 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: ESTABLISHED A process that brings together exploited or DENVER HOMELESS OUT LOUD $6,300 oppressed people to change systems or ESTABLISHED institutions that affect their lives and communities MONTBELLO ORGANIZING COMMITTEE $4,000 through grassroots mobilization and actions that ESTABLISHED demonstrate collective power. SATYA YOGA $2,000 START-UP 98 30 PLUS CHANGE

We officially kicked off a new decade of social change with a historic community building effort on June 3rd. We’re proud to have hosted 34 grantee agencies at our Anniversary Grantee Gathering before filling the Redline Art Gallery with more than 200 community leaders and activists, to commemorate Chinook Fund’s 30 years of social justice feats. Together, we raised over $25,000 and built ongoing support for our commitment to make Colorado a better place for everyone.

We are not just about the here and now, but a reflection of our past and future to listen, to witness and to recognize. To witness the fearless visionaries. To recognize the power of Chinook“ Fund, to help convert shared beliefs and progressive ideals to collective action through our front line investments in grassroots community organizing.

- Nora Bashir, Executive Director, 30 Plus Change

109 30 YEARS OF SOCIAL IMPACT

Measuring social change is much like doing the work – a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach is necessary to capture the full range of our efforts.

When looking at our impacts, we at Chinook Fund like to say that the who we fund is only half of the story; the other crucial half is how we fund. Over 30 years, we have deftly honed our criteria to reflect effective community organizing and advocacy as reflected by our philosophy and practice.

All of our grantees, including the groups highlighted in the following timeline snapshots, embody our guidelines of being Constituent-Led, Community-Wide, and creating a Lasting Effect.

The events and organizations highlighted in the following pages are just the beginning of a large undertaking here at Chinook Fund to categorize and display the long-term effect of our funding and community engagement. While we know as well as you that this work is far from over, we celebrate the great strides made over the last 30 years by our grantees and community.

To interact with the full timeline, visit: timeline.chinookfund.org

To contribute to the impact, visit: chinookfund.org/donate-now

10 CHINOOK FUND

Chinook Fund Founded A Firm Stance 1987 2006 Chinook Fund is created by people of Chinook Fund continues to be wealth committed to changing power visibly radical as a funder and dynamics by putting grantmaking power in community organization, publicly the hands of communities most impacted taking a stand on immigration, by oppression. Modeled after the Funding marriage equality, and many other Exchange, Chinook Fund joins a network controversial issues in Colorado. of sister funds across the country funding social justice community organizing.

1987 1990-2002 2006

Beginning of Grantmaking Education as a Radical Act 1990 2002 Chinook Fund begins its legacy by funding Chinook Fund’s grantmaking program is community organizing groups across so successful that volunteers and grantees Colorado through an activist-led Grantmaking ask for additional education from our staff Committee (GMC). A trendsetter in Colorado, and communities. Chinook Fund responds we are the only foundation at the time shifting by piloting an anti-oppression education power dynamics to ensure the committee Resources to Expand program. holds full grantmaking power. 1995 Chinook fund support, resources, and community grow to such a level that we buy a house to create more intentional community space for our grantmaking.

11 From GMC to The Giving Project 2015 Grantmaking committee members, past and current volunteers, donors, and community members are brought in to large dialogue to gauge community support for implementation of a new model of grantmaking – The Giving Project. Board approves piloting of The Giving Project model for 2016 spring grantmaking cycle. This model brings in new volunteers and incorporates aspects of the Social Justice Institute and a model from Social Justice Fund, which Chinook Fund now partners with for guidance. Giving Project volunteers fundraise grant dollars and make grants through Chinook Fund’s community process.

2013 2015 2017

Critical Funding 30 Years of Change 2013 2017 Chinook Fund continues to take risks in funding Chinook Fund celebrates 30 years as Colorado’s start-up, grassroots organizations creating premier local social justice funder – giving out 2.9 community-led solutions to injustice. We are first million to 333 organizations in the form of 888 grants. funders for the HIV/AIDs movement, LGBTQIA+ justice, homelessness activism, food justice, and many more.

12 LGBTQIA+ JUSTICE

Organizing to Educate around the HIV/AIDs Epidemic Anti-Discrimination Act 1987 2007 Grantee Changemakers: ACT-UP DENVER-AIDS Coalition to Grantee Changemakers: Speakers Project to End Discrimination, Unleash Power, CGLTF- Colorado Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Transgender Rights Legal Defense & Education Project. Four Corners Walking Tall Safe School Coalition, Survivors Organizing for Liberation Chinook Fund quickly recognized the need to support the LGBTQ movement Through their efforts and advocacy, grassroots organizations in Denver play in Denver. During the Reagan era, a time when Americans were witnessing a central role in passing Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act and Employment a conservative shift in politics that closely resembled the closeted culture of Nondiscrimination Act, adding protections for sexual orientation and transgender the ‘50s, Chinook Fund began moving resources to grassroots organizations’ identities in the workplace, areas of housing, and public accommodations. addressing civil rights issues and responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

1987 1992-2006 2007

Amendment 2 Resistance Amendment 2 Amendment 43 Resistance 1992 Unconstitutional 2006 Grantee Changemakers: Four Corners Action 1996 Grantee Changemakers: Simple Coalition, Gender Identity Center, Le Gente Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Justice, Two Spirit Society of Denver Unida, Lambda Community Center, Pueblo Safe School Coalition, Inside/Out Amendment 43 passes, adding a new After 2, Western Equality, GLBT Community Youth Services section to the Colorado constitution Services Center of Denver, Equality The U.S. Supreme Court hears the banning same-sex marriage. Chinook Colorado, Black Mens XChange, Ground Zero case for Amendment 2 and rules it Fund’s roots within the LGBTQIA+ After 53% of Colorado voters approve Amendment unconstitutional. Our community gains community begin to deepen as we support 2, Chinook Fund provides more grants to LGBTQIA+ some momentary relief, but continues our grantees fighting on the front lines of organizations across the state than all previous years planting seeds for justice and preparing civil rights obstruction. combined. for the battles ahead. 13 Justice 4 Nate & Jessie Vive 2014 Grantee Changemakers: Survivors Organizing for Liberation (formerly known as Colorado Anti-Violence Program) On March 1st, 2014, Nate Mancha defended himself against a homophobic hate crime. Nate was arrested and remained in jail for almost 9 months until his trial. The jury came back with a guilty verdict for 1st degree Felony Assault charge. On Dec 12th, Nate was given the maximum sentence of 32 years. Nate’s support campaign continues through 2017.

Jessie Hernandez was a young queer Latina who was murdered by the Denver Police Department on January 26, 2015. The fight for justice for Jessie’s family and community continues through 2017.

2013 2014 2017

Civil Union Act Transgender Justice 2013 2017 Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Changemakers: You Legal Initiatives Project, PFLAG As we celebrate 30 years of social justice successes, Denver, Southern Colorado we keep in mind the pervasive nature of systemic Equality Alliance oppression. Now that transgender rights have Recognition and respect for the become the focus of the latest struggle between LGBTQ community in Denver emerges federal and state lawmakers, Chinook Fund is prominently as Colorado adopts the determined to keep fighting the good fight for Civil Union Act in 2013, establishing equality and remains dedicated to another 30 Plus relationship recognition for same-sex years of progressive change across Colorado. couples. 14 IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

Immigration Act of 1990 PATRIOT & DREAM Acts 1990 2001 Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Progressive Coalition, Colorado Grantee Changemakers: Pueblo Immigrante en Marcha, Colorado Refugee Coalition, Colorado Coalition Against English Only Progressive Coalition, Rights for All People, El Centro Amistad, El Chinook Fund celebrated with the nation when Congress passed was the Centro Humanitario , which increased available visas by 40 percent, retained The passing of the PATRIOT Act leaves immigrant communities susceptible to family reunification as the major entry path, doubled employment-related unjust targeting and treatment by law enforcement and government agencies. immigration, and was the first immigration law to address intersectionality by Chinook Fund continues to lead the resistance by funding local immigrant and removing homosexuality as a reason to disqualify foreigners from immigrating or refugee rights movements. With unwavering support and aid from grassroots even visiting the . organizations across the nation, the DREAM Act is first introduced in Congress.

1990 1996 2001

National Regression 1996 Grantee Changemakers: Rights for All People, Compañeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center Three major bills pass that lay the framework for the modern deportation spikes we still see today. The Reform, Immigrant Responsibility Act, Anti-Terrorism Act and Effective Death Penalty Act increased the imprisonment of non-violent, non- criminal immigrants and allowed for the deportation of immigrants with minor crimes. These laws made it significantly easier to deport people and a lot harder for unauthorized immigrants to ‘get legal’, ultimately resulting in the deportation of 200,000. This same year, Chinook Fund begins funding two organizations; Rights for All People and Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center. Twenty years later, these two organizations are still leading the fight for Immigrant rights across our state.

15 Raids in Colorado Expansion of DACA 2013 2014 Chinook Fund Changemakers: AJUA, Burma Community Grantee Changemakers: Hispanic Affairs Project, Colorado Immigrant Rights Rangers, Global Refugee Center, Compañeros Four Coalition, Rights for All People, Compañeros , El Centro AMISTAD Corners Immigrant Resource Center, Somali American The Executive Action creating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and programs Community Center of Colorado, Hispanic Affairs Project allowing undocumented immigrants to qualify for deferred action and apply for work permits Raids continue throughout Colorado. Immigrants are deported is huge step for immigrant rights; this progress is directly linked to organizing work on a local and detained, but Chinook Fund grantees are leading the way level by Chinook Fund grantees and coalitions who worked tirelessly to inform lawmakers of their advocating for changes in legislation and educating populations in issues and community-driven solutions. cities and rural areas of Colorado with Know Your Rights trainings as part of their action.

2006-2007 2013-2014 2017

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Openly Hostile Administration 2006-2007 2017 Grantee Changemakers: We are America Alliance, Changemakers: You El Centro AMISTAD, El Centro Humanitario Para Los As we celebrate 30 years of social justice successes and Trabajadores, Companeros Four Corners Immigrant continued resistance, we cannot ignore the current climate Resource Center, Pueblo Immigrante regarding immigration in our country. It is imperative Demonstrations erupt nationwide as immigrants and allies rally that Colorado continue to protect our most marginalized for immigration reform. Chinook Fund visibly participates at the communities and fight unlawful and unjust legislation that forefront of actions and rallies in support of the Comprehensive directly targets these populations. Chinook Fund remains Immigration Reform Act. dedicated to another 30 Plus Years of immigrant justice across Colorado.

16 DISABILITY JUSTICE

Civil Disobedience Olmstead Supreme Court Case 1987 1999 Grantee Changemakers: Atlantis Grantee Changemakers: Atlantis ADAPT, Capitol Hill Action & Recreation Community, Atlantis ADAPT Group, Domestic Violence Initiative for Women with Disabilities, Over the course of seven years of direct action, Sangre de Cristo Independent Living Center, Colorado Cross-Disability ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Coalition, DCRA @ Ctr for Community Development, Disability Careers, Public Transit), rises in the national spotlight Inc., Denver Center For Independent Living, NAMI-Colorado demanding access to public transit in Denver. A United States Supreme Court case regarding discrimination held that under the Americans with Disability Act, individuals with mental disabilities have the right to live in the community rather than in institutions.

1987 1990 1999

Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 Grantee Changemakers: Atlantis ADAPT, Domestic Violence Initiative for Women with Disabilities, People First, Capitol Hill Action & Recreation Group The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is Civil Rights legislation that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, and government activities. This milestone is directly attributable to direct action by Atlantis ADAPT.

17 Money Follows the Person Community First Choice Option (CFCO) 2005 2013 Grantee Changemakers: DBA BrainStorm Career Services, ARC of Larimer Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, County, Atlantis ADAPT, Family Voices Colorado, Domestic Violence Atlantis ADAPT, Domestic Violence Initiative for Women with Initiative for Women with Disabilities Disabilities, Family Voices Colorado Money Follows the Person (MFP) is integrated into healthcare funding. MFP is part of a CFCO will move the Home and Community-Based Services waiver into comprehensive, coordinated strategy to assist U.S. states to make widespread changes the Medicaid state plan. These services include hands-on assistance, to their long-term care support systems. This initiative will assist states in their efforts to safety monitoring, queuing for assistance with activities of daily living, reduce their reliance on institutional care, while developing community-based long-term instrumental activities of daily living and health related functions based care opportunities, thus enabling the elderly and people with disabilities to fully participate on functional needs, not diagnosis or age. in their communities.

2005-2013 2017

Affordable Care Act Healthcare is a Civil Right 2017 2017 Grantee Changemakers: Atlantis ADAPT, Changemakers: You Colorado Cross- Disability Coalition As we celebrate 30 years of fighting for what 18 disability rights advocates were arrested is right for our most vulnerable populations in protesting Colorado representative support Colorado. Chinook Fund is determined to keep of the repeal of the ACA. Due in a large part to fighting the good fight and remains dedicated the demonstrations of Chinook Fund grantee to another 30 Plus years of progressive activists, the ACA lives on, ensuring that those disability rights work for Coloradoans who need care are still covered.

18 WORKER JUSTICE

Jobs with Justice Making Change at Walmart 1987 & OUR Walmart Grantee Changemakers: Proyecto de Poder 2005 Trabajador Agricola, Colorado Labor Forum, Grantee Changemakers: 9 to 5 Colorado, Colorado Jobs with Justice Colorado ACORN, Elyria/Swansea/Globeville, In addition to Chinook Fund’s creation in 1987, the national People United for Families, Boulder Living organization, Jobs with Justice, also formed with the goals Wage Campaign, Colorado Jobs with Justice, of creating a sustainable, powerful network of grassroots El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores) coalitions to strengthening the movement for workers’ Making Change at Walmart & OUR Walmart are rights, economic justice, and our democracy. created to create economic change in targeting this large organization for economic reform.

1987 1991-1993 2005

Civil Rights Act Passed Family and Medical Leave Act 1991 1993 Grantee Changemakers: Coal Employment Project / Grantee Changemakers: Coal Employment Project / Colorado Women Miners Colorado Women Miners Support Group, Colorado Support Group, Colorado Labor Forum, Greeley Comm. Study Group for Social Labor Forum, Greeley Comm. Study Group for Change, HOPE Alive, National Farmers Union, Proyecto de Poder Trabajador Social Change, HOPE Alive, National Farmers Agricola, San Luis Valley Christian Community Services, 9 to 5, Colorado Jobs Union, Proyecto de Poder Trabajador Agricola, San with Justice Luis Valley Christian Community Services, 9 to 5, The FMLA federally requires employers to provide employees with job-protected and unpaid leave Colorado Jobs with Justice for qualified medical and family reasons. Coalitions built amongst many grantee partners ensured Civil Rights Act is passed which expands the rights of employees this bill was passed. who sue their employers for discrimination.

19 Surge in Grassroots Organizing Amendment 70 2012 2016 Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Jobs with Grantee Changemakers: Colorado Jobs with Justice, 9 to 5 Justice, Colorado People’s Alliance, Interfaith Fight for 15 is created to push for $15 minimum wage Alliance of Colorado across the U.S. The Debt- Free Future Campaign begins Passage of Amendment 70 institutes a plan to reach a campaigning for mechanisms to reduce student debt. $12 minimum wage by 2020, Supreme Court rejects ‘Ban the Box’ campaign is signed by Gov. Hickenlooper, home care exclusion of caregivers from minimum and coalition of worker rights organizations and civic wage and overtime protections. engagement efforts reach 250,000 Colorado voters.

2009-2010 2012-2016 2017

POWER Act Introduced Protecting the Working Class 2009-2010 2017 Grantee Changemakers: 9 to 5 Colorado, Changemakers: You Colorado Jobs with Justice Colorado ACORN, El A plan to reach a minimum wage of $12 is a good start for Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores Colorado workers but we know there are many other issues Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is signed into law by President that must be addressed to protect and support our working Obama, it rolled back severe restrictions on the time- class identities – particularly around the intersectionality of period for filing complaints of employment discrimination race, gender, sexual orientation, and undocumented status. concerning compensation, Protect Our Workers from Chinook Fund grantees are hard at work canvassing, educating, Exploitation and Retaliation Act (POWER Act) is first organizing, and demanding change from legislators and fellow introduced to congress. Coloradoans.

20 ARTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Meaningful Legacy Beyond Performance Resisting the Anti-Immigrant Climate 1987-1990 1987-1990 2000-2006 Grantee Changemakers: Su Teatro, Colorado Grantee Changemakers: Montelibre Grantee Changemakers: Barrio Warriors de Black Arts Festival, Terra Infirma, Chicano Monthly, Nuclear Arsenal Project, Aztlan, Asistencia Para Latinos, Andy Zanca Humanities & Arts Council, Ya Basta, Radical Information Project Bookstore, Youth Empowerment Program, Su Teatro Eulipilons KGNU, KRZA, Social Issues Forum The Chicano arts movement builds momentum as Chinook Fund values artistic movements as large In addition to creating a legacy of funding a powerful force to demonstrate change, merging cultural connectors of different social movements and performance-based arts organizations with the Immigrant Justice movement; coalition and begins funding key players in the growing Chicano and working for social change, Chinook Fund community-building reaches a new height during the Black Arts Movements in Denver and across Colorado. intentionally supports publications and immigration reform marches. amplifiers of anti-oppressive rhetoric.

1987-1990 1991-1993 2000-2006

Native Expression 1991-1993 Grantee Changemakers: Native Monthly Reader, Aztlan Visions, Four Winds Survival Project, Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council, Adobe de Oro-Concilio de Artes Native organizing and arts collaboration rises in funding precedence as Chinook Fund grants funds to multiple start-up organizations based in indigenous communities.

21 ARTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Focus on Youth Asian American 2008-2017 Theatre Grantee Changemakers: Café Cultura, Slam Nuba, Creative 2012 Strategies for Change, Andy Zanch Youth Empowerment Program, Grantee Changemakers: Represent! Represent!, Youth on Record, Flobots, Art-N-Motion Art Theatre Esprit Asia, Collective, Celebrate Possibility, Move Mountains Projects, Project Boulder Asian Pacific VOYCE, Big Hair, Bigger Dreams Alliance Chinook Fund’s Grantmaking Committee (GMC) notices a shift in applicants and The Southwest’s first Asian grantees to create more youth centered arts and engagement programming American focused Theatre that serves exclusively oppressed identities. company is formed, Theatre Esprit Asia.

2009-2010 2008-2017 2015-2017

Emerging Media Arts & Disruption 2015-2017 2017 Grantee Changemakers: Your Colfax News, Community Changemakers: You Resources for Action, Volunteerism, and Education, The No medium has the capacity to engage the Institute for Media and Education Justice hearts and minds of the public like that of a As we become more immersed in new forms of media and well-told story. Chinook Fund provides a space methods of communication, community organizing opportunities for grantees to share their stories each year are capitalized by innovative new organizations who are reaching at our Grantee Celebration, Seeding Change. more constituents and opening up possibilities to partner We all must continue to create avenues for organizations to grow their reach and impact. traditionally silenced voices to share their truth.

22 CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

The New Jim Crow Ban the Box 1990 2012 Prison population doubles over the Grantee Changemakers: Colorado People’s span of 5 years because of the Mielke Alliance, Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, Bill (which doubled prison sentences for Second Chance Center felony offenses) and the privatization Signed by Gov. Hickenlooper, ‘Ban the Box’ is an of prisons in the 70s and 80s. Criminal initiative aimed at persuading employers to remove Justice reform is in its early stages in from their hiring applications the check box that Colorado. asks if applicants have a criminal record.

1990 1999-2009 2012

Hiatus on Prison Building Reform Efforts Increase Progress: Years 2007-2009 1999 2003 2007-2009 Grantee Changemakers: Victim Grantee Changemakers: Rocky Mountain Peace Grantee Changemakers: Victim Offender Offender Reconciliation Program & Justice Center, Epimethian Press, The Color of Reconciliation Program of Denver, Sensible of Denver, Friends and Family of Justice, Sensible Colorado Colorado the Imprisoned Parole reform bill passed, but over $100 million in tax payer Reform in the system is achieved, including changes A bill calling for a three year hiatus on money was funneled into construction of another state so youth at the age of 19 are sentenced through the prison building in Colorado is proposed penitentiary. Chinook Fund grantees lobby and educate Youthful Offender System in lieu of Adult prison. By but fails in Congress. extensively around reform efforts. Plans to build private 2009, five Colorado prisons have closed since 1989. prisons in Lamar and Pueblo are defeated because of Additionally, the End Racial Profiling Act is introduced coalition building across the state. to Congress.

23 Racial Justice Decriminalizing Homelessness 2015-2016 2016-2017 Grantee Changemakers: Survivors Organizing Grantee Changemakers: Denver Homeless Out Loud, Interfaith for Liberation, Victim Offender Reconciliation Alliance Program of Denver, Project VOYCE Homelessness advocacy group, Denver Homeless Out Loud, leads the fight Police brutality, particularly involving communities of color, to change the system that criminalizes the growing homeless-identified is at the forefront of the media. In Denver, the murders of community in Denver. They introduce the ‘Right to Rest’ bill to the state Jesse Hernandez and Paul Castaway spark community- legislature and build coalitions with faith-based and racial justice organizing wide outrage and organizing at the intersection of mental groups to build power. The group gains Class Action Suit status for their illness, youth, queer, native, and latinx identities. fight against unlawful, targeted ‘Homeless Sweeps’ from the City of Denver.

2014 2015-2017 2017

HB1355 portion of CDOC’s Reentry A New Approach to Crime and Justice 2014 2017 Grantee Changemakers: Second Chance Center, Victim Offender Changemakers: You Reconciliation Program of Denver The Justice Reinvestment Crime Prevention Initiative bill moves funds spent HB1355 is passed ensuring that a significant portion of CDOC’s reentry budget is on imprisoning offenders to productive community based initiatives, like the allocated to community organizations (including Chinook Fund grantee, Second Second Chance Center, that are designed to tackle the underlying problems Chance Center). Communities Against Mass Incarceration is formed to push the Ban that give rise to criminal behavior. This new approach to criminal justice gives the Box campaign. local rather than central government the power to decide how money will be best spent to produce safer, more productive local communities.

24 ENVIRONMENTAL & FOOD JUSTICE

Rural Environmentalism Food Deserts 1990-2000 2009 Grantee Changemakers: Western Colorado Congress, People’s Grantee Changemakers: Greenleaf, Alternative Energy Services, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Terra Eastside Growers Collective, The Infirma, Environmental Information Network, High Country Growing Project Citizens’ Alliance, Southwest Earth First! Food Justice coalesces in social Organizers in the Western Slope of Colorado stand strong in the face of justice landscapes in Denver as food corporations threatening to destroy ecosystems and dump toxic waste into deserts emerge due to gentrification, the air and water. Aspen clearcutting is limited to ensure public lands are displacement, and generations of protected and low-elevation canyon country is elevated to wilderness status systemic racism. ensuring that rural areas are protected.

1990-2000 1994-2002 2009

Irresponsible Mining Land Rights 1994 2002 Grantee Changemakers: Alamosa Riverkeepers Grantee Changemakers: Irresponsible mining practices at the Summitville mine Land Rights Council contaminates the Alamosa River with cyanide and toxic After 21 years of fighting, the metals. The extent of the pollution was so dire that the river original settlers of the Sangre was designated a Superfund site. The Alamosa Riverkeepers de Cristo Land Grant retained is formed shortly after to improve the water quality and the grazing, firewood gathering, ecological functionality of the Alamosa River. and timber harvesting rights in a supreme court decision.

25 ENVIRONMENTAL & FOOD JUSTICE

Rural Organizing in Antonito Ditch the Ditch Campaign 2016 2016 Grantee Changemakers: Conejos Clean Water Grantee Changemakers: Project VOYCE Conejos Clean Water organizes their rural constituency to educate and Coalitions of community organizers, engage around significant issues: Illegal dumping, youth engagement, land environmentalists, and youth advocates grant advocacy, and fracking. coalesce to fight proposed changes to I-70 that will drastically change Swansea, Elyria, and Globeville.

2013 2016 2017

Alamosa River Thrives Environmental Racism 2013 2017 Grantee Changemakers: Alamosa Changemakers: You Riverkeepers, COPEEN, San Juan The impact of systemic racism intersects with access to healthy & Citizen’s Alliance, High Country nourishing food, green space, and disturbingly enough – clean air and Conservation Advocates, Grand clean water. Many Chinook Fund grantees listed in other areas of this Valley Citizens Alliance, Western program are working within their communities around issues of food and Colorado Congress environmental justice. We all must work together to protect our earth to Fish return to the Alamosa River after the ensure another 30 Plus years of positive change. entire ecosystem was decimated in the early 90s.

26 FINANCIAL SUMMARY

INCOME ASSETS RELEASED FROM RESTRICTION SUPPORT AND REVENUE OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS $216,319 CONTRIBUTIONS FOUNDATION GRANTS 50,700 FEX ENDOWMENT 26,672

SPECIAL EVENT REVENUE 25,570

NET INVESTMENT INCOME 180,935 OTHER 14,187 INVESTMENT NET ASSETS RELEASED FROM RESTRICTION INCOME FOUNDATION SPECIAL EVENT GRANTS SATISFACTION OF PROGRAM RESTRICTION 51,796 REVENUE FEX ENDOWMENT TOTAL ASSETS $560,383

2827 EXPENSES

EXPENSES

PROGRAM PROGRAM SERVICES: SERVICES SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE $282,029 TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 282,029 SUPPORTING SERVICES: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 73,184 FUNDRAISING 33,790 TOTAL SUPPORTING SERVICES 106,974

TOTAL EXPENSES $389,003

CHANGES IN NET ASSETS 171,380 FUNDRAISING GENERAL ADMINISTRATION NET ASSETS: BEGINNING OF YEAR 1,403,390

NET ASSETS: END OF THE YEAR $1,574,770

2928 SUPPORTERS AND SPONSORS

Abby Eurich Becca Gan Levy Claire Magrath Donna Mae Spring Hava Gordon Jessica Gibson Adrian Mintzmyer Bee Jetton Clarence Mills Donovan Cordova Heather Baker Jessica Goad Akilan Palanisami Betsy Crane & Bill Mushkin Clayton Dewey Douglas Hadra Heather Chikoore Jessica Hoppe Alan Greenberg & Liane Morrison Betsy Hunt Cody Moiseve Douglas Linkhart Heather Frazier Jessie de la Cruz Aleia Metzler Betty Lou Booz Drumright Coleen Daggett Duane C. 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