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

Peter Rasco
Chair

Tom Doughty
Vice Chair

Matt Ray
Treasurer

Kari Burrows
Secretary

Barb Leander
Immediate Past Board Chair

Marty Lehr
Director

Peter Browning
Director

Danny Hagen
Director

Sunshine Vickie Allen
Director

Kurt Hefferline
Director

Pat Thurman
Director

Rob Martin
President Emeritas

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Nikki Wegner
Chief Executive Officer

John O’Rourke
Chief Financial Officer/Finance Director

Angela Everest
Office Manager/Human Resources

Tom Williams
Production Manager

Renee Silva
Community Employment Services Coordinator

Lisa Fisher
Community Employment Services
Quality Assurance Coordinator

Susan Hibma
Accounting Specialist

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

We’ve helped place over 1,153 people in jobs since we opened our doors in 1980

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.

Community Partners

We could not continue our great work without great partners.

It takes cooperation from a caring community, businesses, and government to secure jobs that are needed for individuals living with significant disabilities. We thank our Community Partners for their role in helping to achieve this goal.

BOEING SHARED SERVICES GROUP
BLUE SEA SYSTEMS
BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT COMPANY
DAKOTA CREEK INDUSTRIES
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION (DVR)
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION (DDA)
GENERAL TOOL CORPORATION
MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSITIONS PROGRAM
PEACE HEALTH UNITED GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER
PORT OF ANACORTES
PORT OF SKAGIT – LACONNER MARINA
SKAGIT 911 CENTER
SKAGIT REGIONAL CLINICS
SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE
SKAGIT VALLEY HOSPITAL
SKAGIT REGIONAL AIRPORT
WOODSTONE CORPORATION
WASHINGTON STATE PATROL

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.