About — Chinook Enterprises

We are a Social Enterprise

We are a non-profit designed to operate as a business, but with a social mission: supporting full participation in community life for people with disabilities or other barriers. Full participation must start with successful employment.

Chinook’s diverse customer base consists of five customer groups. Our revenue is used to self-fund our mission.

We manufacture and assemble goods in our award-winning production division.
Local businesses contract with us to maintain their grounds and landscaping.
Government agencies partner with us to provide support services to qualified job seekers.
We assist Job Seekers in finding great employers.
Employers utilize our services to find great employees.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Danny Hagen
Board Chair

Silvia Reed
Vice Chair

Hector Leal
Secretary

Matt Ray
Treasurer

Peter Browning
Director

Tom Doughty
Director

Karla Dills
Director

Doug Kelly
Director

Mark Sabo

Director

Bob Shrumm

Director

Justin Smock
Director

Pat Thurman
Director

Rob Martin
Founder

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Nikki Wegner
Chief Executive Officer

Angela Warnke
Human Resources &
Corporate Compliance Manager

Tom Williams
Production Manager

Renee Silva
Community Employment Services Manager

Kayla Cruz
Community Employment Services
Coordinator

Heidi Murphy
Community Employment Services
Quality Assurance Coordinator

Mackenzie Wilms
Operations Manager

Lucy Rocha
Controller

Carlos Perez
Landscaping Manager

Laurie Russell
Marketing Specialist

Crystal King
Partnership Specialist

Tiff Ballinger
Administrative Assistant

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

To date, we’ve served 6,245 individuals through employment services, empowering them to contribute to their communities.

Our goal: To help people live more productive and fulfilling lives by striving to gain competitive employment as well as inclusion in the community.

Our action: We demonstrate a positive environment to work, train, and provide service to our customers regardless of culture, age, gender, abilities, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, genetic information, socioeconomic status, and language of origin. We prioritize diversity education for our staff and stakeholders and regularly assess our employee, customer, and stakeholder demographics to improve our effectiveness.

Non-Discrimination Policy: Chinook Enterprises strictly prohibits unlawful discrimiation. Employees or Service Recipients who believe they have experienced discrimination should seek assistance from Chinook’s Human Resources Manager and may do so without reprisal.

Annual Report

Publishing our annual report provides us with an opportunity to summarize and share accomplishments and financial accounting with our supporters and the community at large. We invite you to download our Annual Reports to gain a better understanding of what we do and how we do it.