Tides urges all fair-minded people to call for an end to an atmosphere of intolerance and embrace dialogue among those with differing views.

Statement from Tides CEO Drummond Pike

It is with great dismay that we have learned that Tides Foundation was a potential target of Byron Williams, who was arrested on Interstate 580 in Oakland over the weekend. Tides has no previous knowledge of or...

In its tenth year, Colin Higgins Youth Courage Awards program champions the bravery and resilience of LGBTQ youth

Featuring Tides media projects, resources for journalists and activists, upcoming events

Tides Communications Director Christine Coleman on right wing media. From What's Possible, the Tides blog.

Heidi Hernandez Gatty asks: What is the purpose of immigration policy? And what is the issue Arizona is actually trying to address with its state law?

Why not integrate separate models of care if it could mean better health for clients and their families? That is the essential question that drives the work of our Africa Family Planning and HIV Integration Fund, or Tides Africa...

As Sam Seaborn of The West Wing White House said, "It’s not glamorous, but the Census has to be taken seriously."

Jody Kent is the Director & National Coordinator of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, a project of Tides. She wrote this piece for the Huffington Post.

New opportunity to get involved with CEP, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit research, policy, and education Tides project that addresses the relationship between human population, resource consumption, and the environment.

The foundation community – and the public at large – can do little to prevent the devastation of the Gulf of Mexico, its coastline and its communities as a result of BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout. But, we can do a great deal to...

Community clinics and health centers are a key source of health care for the poor. What will happen to them now that health care reform has passed? By Tom David, Jane Elizabeth Stafford of Tides' Community Clinics Initiative.

An interview with Lacy Serros, Community Activist Fellow at Tides, 2008-2010; and discussion of the Voter Action Fund at Tides Foundation, a collective giving vehicle for donors engaging a "constant campaign" to support civic...

The Board of Directors of the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award, housed at Tides Foundation, invites you to nominate a candidate for the 13th annual Young Activist Award. The award this year carries a cash prize...

While recently published guidelines are an important first step, the field of fiscal sponsorship must continue to evolve in its structures, policies, and best practices to keep pace with the evolving nature of the broader...

Guidelines from The National Network of Fiscal Sponsors Help Improve and Promote Standards and Best Practices for Fiscal Sponsorship

Sometimes homophobia makes us wince. Sometimes it can bring tears to our eyes. And sometimes it makes us want to grab the bat from the basher. This is one of those moments.

Nation’s top public interest computing honor goes to a software developer working to make cell phones a powerful resource for social change

By Timothy Smith, Senior Vice President, Environment, Social and Governance Group at Walden Asset Management, where Tides manages its investment portfolio.

It’s taken 94 years and many failed attempts for the United States to join the rest of the world’s industrial democracies in making health care a right for all its residents.

Every day, we're faced with choices about aligning our values with our financial activity.

Assets with attitude. Ideas from the latest issue of Tidings.

or don't spend at all. Resources for just buying from the latest issue of Tidings.

Make the financial system work for us. From the latest issue of Tidings.

There is a lot of talk in the air these days about networks. Funding the network, and the tools and capacities a network needs to succeed, has been a growing conversation in philanthropy as we search for ways to realize the kind...

Tom David is a Senior Strategist at Community Clinics Initiative, a project of Tides that was started in partnership with The California Endowment and has granted over $100 million to more than 90 percent of California's...

Annie Leonard has done it again with the book version of The Story of Stuff, which arrives in stores today. It’s personal, political and provocative, and provides information on what you can do (both to change your life and the...

Read about current exciting and innovative grantmaking approaches focusing in Africa.

A report back by China Brotsky from a U.K. conference focused on strategies for nonprofit capacity building and what "third sector" organizations could learn from international models.

Announcing the launch of What's Possible: the Tides Blog – written by and for people interested in creating strong infrastructure for the social change sector.

Shared Services: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Solutions showcases innovative ways nonprofits can do more with less.

Since its founding, the Tides project and fund has gifted over $2.7 million to 87 organizations in 14 countries

I awake to another blue sky, and two UN vehicles in our drive. Is there news? No, nothing. No updates on aid coming in, or anyone going out.

A recent NY Times article raises concerns about an out of control nonprofit sector. There are plenty of reasons for concern about the federal budget, but singling out the nonprofit sector misses the mark.

Six Organizations Receive Grants from the Money Well Spent Fund at Tides Supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

On the NY Times suggestion that playful, entertaining, or arts nonprofits ought not receive 501(c)(3) status, even though they provide well-demonstrated public services.

NY Times reported that even educated blacks may suffer racial discrimination in the job market. It happens to be true for the credit market, the housing market, or any of the various other markets and institutions in our society....

The latest issue of Tidings on connecting sustainability to economic and social justice.

One of our projects at Tides, Women’s Rights International (WRI), works with women in conflict situations to document human rights violations.

Tides today announced the commencement of an executive transition that will ultimately result in new leadership for the 33-year-old organization. Philanthropic pioneer and Tides founder, Drummond Pike, will step down from his...

I've been thinking a lot lately about the concept of "sunk costs," the unrecoverable past expenditures that should not be taken into account when determining whether to continue or abandon a project, effort, or initiative.

Tides Continues to Navigate the Complex Regulatory Landscape for International Grantmaking While Offering New Service Improvements

Tides works in partnership with a wide array of LGBT philanthropists, foundations, activists, and organizations.

Tides convened over 500 of the progressive sector’s leading changemakers for three days in September 2009 in a vibrant, exciting, stimulating exchange of ideas, forum for debate, and venue for connecting and socializing. Here are...

Jane Bagley Lehman Awards for Excellence in Public Advocacy Honor Activists Dedicated to Advancing Immigration Reform with Grants Totaling $22,500

As Congress debates Health Care Reform, the stimulus package starts showing signs of positive impact, and the war on Afghanistan intensifies, what is the right wing media up to?

July 28, 2009 – San Francisco, Calif. – Tides today announced that Gary D. Schwartz, 10-year Tides veteran and long-time head of Tides’ New York Office, has accepted the role of Managing Director of Tides Foundation. In this...

An historic year of great achievements. See the highlights.

July 2, 2009 - Washington, DC - Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg has been named President of the Connect U.S. Fund, the organization announced today. On July 8, Ms. Soderberg will succeed Eric Schwartz, who has been appointed...

Winners honored with $10,000 grants to further their leadership and activism on behalf of LGBT human rights

Developer Receives $10,000 Prize for Creation of Free Medical Record System Used by Health Clinics around the World

President Obama nominates the Director of Tides project Connect U.S. Fund for Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration, State Department

New nonprofit, a project of Tides, to produce investigative journalism

Latest issue of Tidings features victories from Tides grantees, projects, and partners

Funds Greatly Increase Support to Women with the Greatest Reproductive Health Needs

Save the date for Momentum 2009, Sep. 7-9, San Francisco

Over $108 Million in Grants Includes $20 Million for Civic Participation During Election Year

BOSTON, MA – December 3, 2008 – On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) is happy to announce receipt of a grant of £868,000 ($1.3 million) from the United Kingdom's Department...

Tides' new guidebook for foundations details benefits of shared workspace, services

Drummond Pike and john powell Respond to Recent Article

Watch the healthcare briefing, Kate Kendall, Bishop Gene Robinson, Sony Kapoor, and more

August 26, 2008 - Tides is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Andrea Kydd on August 11, 2008. Andrea served on the Tides Foundation board of directors beginning in 1989 until 2002, and she chaired the board from 1996 to...

August 21, 2008

Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio, San Francisco, was selected to participate in next month’s 2008 Architecture and the City Festival. Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and...

August 20, 2008

During a review of internal records in March 2008, Tides Foundation discovered that an employee had diverted funds for personal use—approximately $45,000 from Tides Foundation per year for three years. Within...

Jane Bagley Lehman Awards for Excellence in Public Advocacy Give $30,000 to Activists

Winners of $10,000 Grants Became Leaders in the Face of Discrimination

Tides Center Fund will grant $700,000 for awareness-raising, strengthening coalitions, rights advocacy

Groundbreaking collaborative a project of Tides Center

Where did your stuff come from? Where does it go when you throw it out?

Open Source Activist Winner of Nation’s Top Award for Public Interest Computing

Eight Local Foundations across the Country Receive Grants

Global Network of HIV Positive Activists Awarded Three-Year $5.2 Million Grant

Progressive Voices in November '08 and Beyond, July 20 – 22, 2008

Green Design, Shared Services, and Social Investment Opportunities Mark New Coveted Workspace for Nonprofits in Lower Manhattan

Lambent: adj.: Flickering gently; Softly bright or radiant; Glowing; Marked by brilliance

Six Private Funders Continue Innovative Collaborative to Save Lives. Recent 2006 Grants Awarded $1.2 Million to 44 Grantees in 18 States; Grants in 2007 Will Bring Four-Year Total to More than $4.5 Million

Jane Bagley Lehman Awards for Excellence in Public Advocacy

Reproductive Justice Fund Crosses the $2.5 Million Mark With Latest Round of Grants

Info & inspiration to create & operate Green Nonprofit Centers. Oct. 4, NYC

Community Investment Enterprise business model combines traditional brokerage services with social responsibility; will reinvest profits to revitalize underserved communities

Questions and Answers About the New Federal Regulations for Donor Advised Funds

On recent compelling research that proves that giving and volunteerism contribute to both individual and communal wealth creation and in turn, happiness.

Innovative New York Artists Awarded $126,000 through Lambent Fellowship Award

The unsung heroes of public interest computing may soon receive much more of the recognition they deserve, thanks to a new annual competition launched by the Florence and Frances Family Fund, a donor-advised fund at Tides...

New Editorial Desk for Marketplace™, Nation’s Leading Business News Program, Supported by Tides’ Kendeda Sustainability Fund

San Francisco, Calif. (May 22, 2005) – The Community Clinics Initiative (CCI) today announced it has received a $1 million grant from Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) to advance the technology capacity of community...

Kellogg Foundation Leads Funding of National Nonprofit Infrastructure Organization

Philanthropic leader will be presented with Outstanding Foundation Professional Award on November 15, 2004

August 4, 2004

Over the past few months, Tides Foundation and Tides Center have been the subjects of a growing number of misleading news articles, opinion pieces and viral emails flying across the internet. Most of these concern...