The Tides Community Responds to 9/11/01
Since the events of September 11, 2001, the Tides community has responded in a number of ways.
Tides Foundation has granted over $1.5 million to organizations doing timely and essential peace and justice work, including assisting the working poor and immigrant communities in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, promoting peaceful co-existence within diverse and potentially conflicting communities, guarding against the erosion of civil liberties, and elevating the voices of peace and justice in response to the administration's intention to attack Iraq. More on the Foundation's efforts>>
Tides Center has also done critical work to support a peaceful response to the crisis. Shortly following 9/11, Tides Center helped a group of victims' family members form September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, an advocacy organization seeking effective nonviolent responses to terrorism. These family members continue to be a powerful, persuasive voice in the growing movement to find alternatives to war.
And Groundspring.org (formerly eGrants.org) has played a key role in gathering, processing and granting more than $840,000 in online donations to support a wide range of peace and justice work
Our efforts at Tides are rooted in our over 26 years of working for progressive social change, and we feel privileged to be able to redouble our commitment to such work at this critical time.
Here are a few of the organizations we have been able support over the last year through the commitment and generosity of our partners in social change:
American Civil Liberties Union
Campaign to Defend the Constitution and Human Rights, Education and Law Project.
Afghan Institute of Learning
Providing emergency relief and human rights workshops to Afghan women refugees in Pakistan.
Arab American Action Network
Protecting Arab, Muslim and other immigrants' civil liberties and human rights.
Asociacion Tepeyac de New York
Advocating for and working with families of undocumented workers who died on 9/11.
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Advocating for Arab Americans' civil rights, providing educational programs in schools, and giving legal assistance to hate crime victims.
Center for Constitutional Rights
Public education campaign to educate about the dangers posed by governmental anti-terrorism activities.
Chinese Staff and Workers Association
Ensuring that documented and undocumented Chinese workers and small business owners affected by 9/11 can access needed relief and services.
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes project: promoting peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims and decreasing the tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Global Exchange
United for Peace Coalition
Independent Press Association
Beyond War project
MoveOn.org
Providing a forum for ordinary people to oppose war with Iraq.
National Council of Churches
Coalition building for peace
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Assisting immigrant workers in New York, especially the Latino, Afro-Caribbean and Eastern European communities that were hit hard by 9/11.
New York ACORN
Organizing low-income communities to ensure that rebuilding efforts and federal funds benefit all New Yorkers, and especially low-income people.
Peace Action Education Fund
October 26, 2002 Peace March on Washington.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Campaign to Stop War Against Iraq project.
Renaissance Economic Development Corporation
Emergency loan funds to address the working capital and technical assistance needs of small business in lower Manhattan affected by 9/11.
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
Planning and implementing hate crimes briefings and legislative and law enforcement trainings.
South Asian Network
Media outreach, coalition building, and staffing for civil liberties & detention issues.
