Tides Foundation supports positive social change through innovative grantmaking. Tides Foundation has awarded over $300 million in grants to nonprofits in the United States and abroad. Here is a list of just a few of the hundreds of groups we have supported (organized by issue area).
Civic Participation
Economic Development
Economic and Racial Justice
Environment
Environmental Justice
HIV/AIDS
LGBTIQ Communities
Native Communities
Progressive Media, Arts and Culture
Violence Prevention
Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health
Youth Programs
CIVIC PARTICIPATION
Tides supports groups that advance social and economic justice through building community-based problem solving and social change efforts and empowering people to participate in the democratic process.
Center for Third World Organizing
Oakland, CA
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) initiates organizing campaigns addressing issues critical to low-income and minority communities, trains young people of color to become effective organizers, and assists grassroots organizations in becoming more effective social and economic justice change agents.
Southern Echo
Jackson, MS
Southern Echo offers technical and legal assistance to African-American and low-income communities throughout rural Mississippi and in 11 other Southern states. Echo works to develop an intergenerational grassroots movement that holds the political, educational, economic, and environmental systems accountable to their needs and interests.
Tenants and Workers Support Committee
Alexandria, VA
The Tenants and Workers Support Committee empowers low-income Latinos and African-Americans through community education, leadership development and mass action. The Worker's Project is a worker and workplace justice organizing project dedicated to increasing collective bargaining and unionizing and expanding the living wage.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Tides supports groups that develop assets, job skills, enterprises, and credit opportunities for communities with minimal resources, and that advance sustainable development solutions.
Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project
Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
The Chitungwiza Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project (CHIYSAP) offers leadership and vocational training for young people aged 16-25, and encourages them to become active participants in decision making processes. Graduates of these training programs can participate in CHIYSAP's small business training program.
New America Foundation
Berkeley, CA
The New America Foundation is a community-assets-building organization that promotes economic empowerment and self-sufficiency for low-income immigrants, refugees and new citizens through training and assisting new entrepreneurs in building both financial and social capital.
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Ponsford, MN
The White Earth Land Recovery Project strives to alleviate poverty and contribute to the economic growth of the White Earth Indian Reservation through restoring traditional land stewardship, developing language fluency, engaging in community development, and celebrating their spiritual heritage.
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ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE
Tides supports groups working to promote social and racial equality and counter economic inequalities faced by low-income people and communities of color.
Direct Action for Rights and Equality
Providence, RI
Direct Action for Rights & Equality is a multi-racial and multi-issue grassroots organization of low-income families primarily headed by single mothers. DARE organizes neighborhood residents through house meetings, community outreach, and committee participation, and mobilizes their constituency through issue campaigns.
Fifth Avenue Committee
Brooklyn, NY
The Fifth Avenue Committee promotes social and economic justice through developing and managing affordable housing, creating employment opportunities, organizing residents and workers, and combating displacement caused by gentrification. The Job Creation Program creates community-owned job-generating businesses and skills training programs.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA
The L.A. Alliance for a New Economy works to protect low-wage workers through grassroots organizing, political advocacy and corporate accountability campaigns. The L.A. Alliance is the lead organization in the Living Wage Coalition, made up of over 100 labor, religious and community groups working to implement and expand L.A.'s living wage ordinance.
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ENVIRONMENT
Tides supports groups that are addressing critical global environmental issues and promoting conservation and community-based natural resource management.
Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
Friends of the Earth is dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental disaster; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an effective voice in decisions affecting their environment and their lives. FOE develops programs to foster partnerships between non-governmental environmental groups around the world.
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Occidental, CA
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is a research and demonstration site for ecological farming and a center for education and organizing. OAEC seeks to address the root causes of environmental, economic, and social challenges and find innovative and practical solutions.
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
Juneau, AK
The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is devoted to protecting the prime ancient forest, fish and wildlife of Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Grassroots mobilization is a cornerstone of their forest protection activities. SEACC works closely with tourism, native and commercial fishing groups, small-scale timber operators, and community leaders.
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Tides supports groups that are challenging destructive corporate practices and protecting the health and well-being of affected communities, especially indigenous, people of color and low-income communities.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Oakland, CA
The Asian Pacific Environmental Network works to unify and empower low-income Asian and Pacific Islander communities around environmental and social justice issues. APEN's Youth Initiative develops the leadership and organizing capacity of young women as an integral component of building a strong, democratic organization.
Honor the Earth Campaign
St. Paul, MN
Honor the Earth supports front line Native environmental work through increasing funding and public support for Native communities protecting the Earth. Honor the Earth's grantmaking program focuses on environmental justice on Native lands, buffalo protection, and restoring traditional indigenous values in Native communities.
Project Underground
Berkeley, CA
Project Underground makes the critical links between human and indigenous rights and the environmental movements. It promotes the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation by exposing abuses by these industries and facilitating local and international action to address such abuses.
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HIV/AIDS
Tides supports groups that advocate for people infected, affected by and at risk for HIV, work to meet the immediate needs of those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and work to reduce transmission of the virus.
Blue Mountain Heart to Heart
Walla Walla, WA
Blue Mountain Heart to Heart operates in rural southeast Washington state, working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through client case management, needle exchange and education/prevention outreach programs for women, men who have sex with men, and injection drug users.
Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
New York, NY
LESHRC is a culturally diverse, community-based organization working to reduce the spread of HIV among injection drug users and the community. LESHRC accomplishes this goal with a harm reduction philosophy that nonjudgmentally accepts drug users while offering a spectrum of practical strategies, ranging from safer use to managed use or abstinence.
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
San Francisco, CA
The Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center offers case management, peer advocacy, HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy and nutritional supplements to HIV-positive individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Its clients include those with a history of substance abuse and/or mental illness, and people who are homeless, are commercial sex workers, and/or identify as transgendered.
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LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, INTERSEX and QUESTIONING COMMUNITIES
Tides supports groups that work to empower and engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and groups to combat homophobia and foster leadership; and to help young people understand and accept their sexuality.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
San Francisco, CA
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network connects California's school-based Gay-Straight Alliances to each other and to community resources, and grows the capacity of youth activists to create safe environments for LGBTIQ students, educate the school community about sexual orientation and gender identity, and fight discrimination, harassment and violence in schools.
Odyssey Youth Center
Spokane, WA
The Odyssey Youth Center provides education, support, information and a safe location for LGBTIQ youth ages 16-24 in eastern Washington state and northern Idaho. Through the Center, youth conduct peer-led HIV/AIDS and STD prevention and education workshops.
Southerners on New Ground
Durham, NC
Southerners on New Ground was founded to integrate work against racism, sexism, and economic injustice into LGBTIQ organizing, and work against homophobia into broader social justice struggles. Led by LGBTIQ people of color, SONG strives to build a progressive movement across the South by assisting local organizing efforts and providing training and skills-building sessions for Southern activists.
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NATIVE COMMUNITIES
Tides supports groups working to sustain Native traditions, protect Native lands, develop sustainable and traditional land use practices, and build effective community development projects.
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
Durango, CO
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment is a Navajo environmental organization working within the Navajo homeland to educate and advocate for traditional teachings as it protects and provides a voice for all life in the Four Sacred Mountains. Its main goal is to empower local and traditional people to organize, speak out, and determine their own destinies.
Indigenous Women's Network, Inc.
Austin, TX
The Indigenous Women's Network empowers indigenous women, their families, communities, and nations throughout the Americas and the Pacific Basin. IWN educates about and advocates for revitalizing indigenous languages and cultures, preserving religious and cultural practice, and protecting and recovering Native lands.
Native Action
Lame Deer, MN
Native Action is a community empowerment organization located on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. It works on issues including environmental protection, economic development, social justice, youth leadership, women, family and elder empowerment, cultural and historical site preservation, and violence prevention.
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PROGRESSIVE MEDIA, ARTS AND CULTURE
Tides supports organizations that provide arts and educational opportunities to communities that have limited access to such programs, and groups that promote alternative media and progressive information sources.
Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble
San Francisco, CA
Loco Bloco preserves the artistic traditions of the Americas and sponsors three youth ensembles that perform approximately thirty times annually. Seven professional artists of color serve as mentors to approximately 75 low-income teenagers ages 12-18 and provide instruction in percussion, dance, theater, and spoken word.
Middle East Research and Information Project
Washington, DC
The Middle East Research and Information Project is a peace and social justice-oriented collective committed to bringing critical analysis of Middle Eastern political economy and US policy toward the region to the media and the general public.
National Coalition Against Censorship
New York, NY
The National Coalition Against Censorship is an alliance of 51 national nonprofit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups, promoting laws and policies supportive of free expression, mobilizing action in opposition to censorship, and facilitating communications between local activists and national organizations.
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VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Tides supports organizations that promote gun safety and rational gun policies, and that work for death penalty reform with the ultimate goal of abolition.
Americans for Gun Safety
Washington, DC
Americans for Gun Safety seeks to save lives by demanding and achieving common sense gun responsibility and safety from owners, dealers, manufacturers, law enforcement, government, and society at large. AGS activities include running a national gun safety educational campaign, supporting statewide and smaller anti-gun violence organizations, and working on passage of gun reform policies.
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Chicago, IL
The Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that the state's historic moratorium on executions is sustained and to win permanent repeal of the death penalty through educational, legislative, organizing and media efforts. It actively seeks the participation of the Latino and organized labor communities, as well as death row inmates and their families, and the wrongly convicted.
Men Stopping Violence
Atlanta, GA
Men Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women. Its focus is to stop battering, rape, and incest, and to confront other power hierarchies that are based on race, class, and sexual orientation.
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WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Tides supports groups that advocate on behalf of marginalized women, work to ensure women and girls' access to reproductive health and sexuality education, and enable girls and women to develop self-esteem and promote social change.
ProChoice Resource Center
Port Chester, NY
ProChoice Resource Center works to safeguards reproductive freedom through providing grassroots pro-choice groups and supporters with publications, a clearinghouse, a toll free hotline, a fax and global email network, and trainings. Training topics include coalition-building, organizational development, and effective use of technology.
Self-Employed Women's Association
Bhadra, Ahmedabad, India
With a membership of about 250,000 women, the Self-Employed Women's Network develops worker-owned cooperatives, establishes collective bargaining, and operates a lending bank for low-income women. SEWA also trains health care workers, child care providers and women making traditional arts and crafts, and provides technical assistance in developing cooperatives.
Young Women's Work Project
Brooklyn, NY
Young Women's Work Project is a national multicultural organization dedicated to providing meaningful, well-paid employment. YWWP promotes a new model of employment-one in which adults and young women train and teach each other how to run effective agencies or businesses that are for and about young women.
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YOUTH PROGRAMS
Tides supports groups that build the abilities of youth of color and low-income youth to become effective leaders in their communities and that work to ensure equal access to quality education for all students.
Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment
Greenville, SC
The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, through its Youth Organizing Program, is at the forefront of challenging racial disparities in public schools. It provides a voice for students by bringing students and parents to the policymaking table with school officials. CAFE facilitates organized issue campaigns, ongoing training and leadership development opportunities, and various youth empowerment activities.
Coleman Advocates for Children/Youth Making a Change
San Francisco, CA
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth works to make San Francisco a place where children, youth, and their families can thrive and where the voices of young people are heard. Y-MAC, its youth organizing group, is a youth-led effort providing young people with hands-on leadership training in community organizing in order to develop their skills in improving their own lives as well as those of their peers.
YouthAction
Albuquerque, NM
YouthAction seeks to build a social-change movement in which young people play an important role in creating and fighting for solutions to the problems affecting them and their communities. It works to develop the capacity to actively involve young people in community organizing efforts related to social, environmental, and economic justice.
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