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The Bamboo Fund was created in 2003 to provide substantial grants for social justice organizing groups in the Denver/Boulder Metro area. Each year, Bamboo awards eight to ten grants, ranging from $8000 to $12,000, for general operating purposes; these grants account for approximately 90% of our annual budget. (Please refer to our Grantees page for details and contact information for our current and past recipients.) The remainder is available for technical assistance to groups receiving a grant during the r
At the Bamboo Fund those terms apply to work that addresses the root causes of oppression. We fund organizations working for structural and systemic change, work that seeks to alter the power dynamics of society, efforts that eventually lead to long-term change. We owe a debt of gratitude and praise to the Funding Exchange, and in particular to the Chinook Fund, for pioneering work and education in radical philanthropy of this kind. Violence, poverty, inequality, racism and classism, homophobia, ability/dis