Chinook Fund

Helen Wolcott has seen Chinook Fund grow over many decades. Now in her late nineties, Helen, recently shared more about her relationship with Chinook Fund over the past 40 years..
"Chinook Fund played a large part in my involvement in movements and has been a real part of my education. My father had a long-standing charitable foundation, but it was very traditional. Chinook Fund empowered me on how to do things differently. All the education I got came from Chinook Fund and it's model. I kind of feel like a child of Chinook Fund. What inspires me about Chinook Fund is how they continuously involve the community in new and different ways. It's been like magic watching it grow and spread out.".
Helen first connected with Chinook Fund in 1989. She went on to join a grantmaking committee in 1992, served in various volunteer roles over the next three decades, participated in Chinook Fund's very first Giving Project cohort in 2016, and much more. Throughout the years, Helen has been a dedicated voice who recognizes the moral obligation and strategic importance of funding grassroots organizations. Thank you, Helen, for modeling the way our involvement in movements may ebb and flow over a lifetime!.
[Image ID: Three photos of Helen at Chinook Fund gatherings over the years.]

Chinook Fund is so grateful to have a Board of Directors made up of grantee leaders and Giving Project alum. Thank you Melia, Matt, Reed, Dee, Emma, Jessica, and Anna for all that you do to support grassroots, community organizing across Colorado! .
[Image ID: Collage of profile photos of Chinook Fund's current board members, with Chinook Fund's tag line 'Change not Charity'.]