Board of Directors | About Tides

Melissa Lynn Bradley, Secretary
Melissa Lynn Bradley is founder and president of New Capitalist. She has served as a Financial Regulatory Affairs Fellow with the U.S. Treasury researching the impact of welfare reform, micro-enterprise lending and Individual Development Accounts on the financial industry and providing recommendations to the banking sector. She founded The Entrepreneurial Development Institute-an international NGO focused on social change, economic development and community empowerment.

Joanie Bronfman, Director
Joanie Bronfman is a long-time advocate for social justice and donor activism. She is the Associate Dean of the Family Office Exchange Learning Center and a consultant and speaker on issues of wealth. Joanie has served on the boards of Tides Canada and the Threshold Foundation, where she was a founder of Threshold's Social Justice Committee.

Quinn Delaney, Director
Quinn Delaney supports the work of civil rights and youth organizations through her Donor Advised Fund at Tides Foundation. She is the director of the Akonadi Foundation, which focuses on racial justice. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Resourceful Women and as a board member of the ACLU of Northern California.

Drummond Pike, Tides Founder and CEO
Drummond Pike is founder and chief executive officer of Tides. Awarded as an Outstanding Foundation Professional, Drummond helped pioneer the advent of donor advised funds in philanthropy. Through his leadership, Tides has helped increase the capacity and effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. Drummond was a founder and Associate Director of the Youth Project in Washington, DC, and served as Executive Director of the Shalan Foundation from 1976 to 1981. He was among the original founders of Working Assets, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism.

john a. powell, Director
john a. powell, a nationally recognized authority on civil rights and civil liberties, is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, and is the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. He has taught law at Columbia, Harvard, University of Miami, and University of San Francisco, and has served as National Legal Director of the ACLU. john also serves on the board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Wade Rathke, Director
Wade Rathke is Chief Organizer of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO. He is also founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN, a national network of community organizations representing the interests of low and moderate income people. Wade serves on the boards of both Tides Foundation and Tides Center.

Charles C. Savitt, Director
Charles C. Savitt is President and Publisher of the Center for Resource Economics/Island Press, which he started in 1984 in order to provide the environmental community with the latest informational tools to address the multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems. He is also a director of the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation.

Joel Solomon, Chair
Joel Solomon is President of Renewal Partners seed capital firm and the Endswell Foundation, both focused on a conservation economy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a founding Board member of Tides Canada, former President of the Threshold Foundation, and a founding member of the Social Venture Network.

Lauren Webster, Foundation CFO, Treasurer
Lauren Webster has been a part of the Finance component at Tides since 1990, and currently manages the Foundation's accounting and finance functions. This also includes providing services to Highwater, Inc. and to a number of family foundations that contract with Tides for management services. Lauren has worked in the nonprofit sector since 1979 for a variety of organizations focusing on social service, social justice, and environmental issues. She currently serves on the board of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center and works with the Sowing Circle of Northern California.

Robin Wolaner, Director
Robin Wolaner is the founder and CEO of TeeBeeDee (www.tbd.com), a network for people at midlife. She is also an author and the founder of Parenting Magazine. She formerly served as a member of the executive committee of CNET Networks and as Vice President of Development for Time Publishing Ventures launching Vibe Magazine. Her approach to business and entrepreneurial management is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.