Chet Tchozewski is the founder and president of the RTC Impact Fund, a broad-based social and environmental impact fund that provides access to essential capital for mines damaged communities that seek to exploit their natural resources for sustainable development throughout the world.
In 1993, Chet founded the Global Greenrants Fund - an international environmental foundation that grants small loans to grass-roots environmental groups in developing countries. He also co-founded Grantmakers Without Borders (now EDGE Funders) in 2000 and in that same year he was a member of the Global Philanthropy Forum committee. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Chino Cinega Foundation, the Voqal Fund, the Council of Foundations, the CDR associates and the Group of Sustainable Development Strategies.
Chet has collaborated with dozens of NGOs around the world including activist, donor and academic groups, and has participated in disparate global events such as the World Social Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil.
Prior to founding the Global Greengrants Fund, Chet was an Executive Director for the Greenpeace South Pacific Regional Office in San Francisco from 1989 to 1993. He was on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee - Rocky Flats Project - in the 1970s and 1980s and co-founded the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in 1983.