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The Tides BED Donor Collaborative is in its fifth year of funding. The following 16 organizations are receiving grants in this cycle.
| Organization | Grant Amount |
| ACORN Living Wage Resource Center The Living Wage Resource Center (LWRC) provides ongoing technical assistance to organizers from community, labor and faith-based coalitions in their efforts to promote living wage policies at the local, state and federal level. It explicitly promotes a grassroots response to the problems of income inequality, (specifically low wages and lack of health benefits), and economic development policies. |
$45,000 |
| Arizona ACORN ACORN is one of the nation's largest and most successful networks of community organizations with over 100,000 low and moderate-income member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 37 cities. Since 1974, it has been building solidly rooted and powerful community organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and have taken action and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to its members. Its priorities include; better housing; living wages; more investment in communities from banks and governments; immigrant rights, and better public schools. |
$25,000 |
| Brennan Center for Justice Founded in 1995 in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, the Brennan Center is a public interest legal and policy advocacy institute committed to a multidisciplinary approach for promoting social change. Through its Poverty, Democracy, and Criminal Justice Programs, the Center supports research and analysis to identify new strategies for addressing public policy problems, and then employs a wide range of advocacy tools, including public education, legislative advocacy, scholarship, and litigation, to implement them. |
$45,000 |
| Center on Policy Initiatives The Center on Policy Initiatives was established in 1997 to promote higher standards of living for poor and moderate-income families through research, policy development, public education and effective advocacy. It focuses on research and policy development that address structural factors and issues crucial for linking community and regional economic development. |
$25,000 |
| Coalition of Immokalee Workers The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) organizes, through reflection, analysis, and action, to fight for the following changes: a fair wage, more respect from bosses and the industries, better and cheaper housing, the right to organize without fear of retaliation, and an end to the abuse of undocumented workers. It is a community-based labor organization whose members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. It strives to build strength as a community through coalition-building across ethnic divisions, as well as an ongoing investment in leadership development. |
$25,000 |
| East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) is a grassroots organization whose mission is to build a movement in the East Bay to end low-wage poverty and increase equity in the regional economy. It combines coalition building, worker training and sophisticated research to win local government policies, such as living wage ordinances, and uses them to benefit and empower low-wage workers. |
$25,000 |
| Florida ACORN ACORN is a grassroots community organization of low and moderate income families organized into democratically run neighborhood groups that identify community issues and develop campaigns to resolve these issues. ACORN members advocate that low and moderate income people should receive equal services and have a voice and a role in creating and implementing policy. |
$30,000 |
| Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) unites workers, community organizations, the labor movement, faith-based groups, academics, and civic leaders to enable working people and our communities to change unjust wealth and power relationships. It does this through worker and community organizing, research, education, policy development, and advocacy. |
$25,000 |
| Miami Workers' Center The Miami Workers' Center builds a workers' movement in Miami by developing the leadership of low and no-wage workers. It addresses and eradicates the fundamental causes of poverty and exploitation. The Center is dedicated to grassroots direct action organizing and raising political consciousness. It helps workers build and lead their own social change organizations. |
$20,000 |
| New Mexico ACORN New Mexico ACORN is an organization of 3,000 low and moderate income families that have won numerous campaigns for affordable housing, living wage jobs, and voter, immigrant, and welfare rights. |
$25,000 |
| People Organized to Win Employment Rights People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) is organized and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change. It has united to fight against the people who defend the economic and social systems that keep others down. It will not stay silent while others profit from poverty. As an organization largely consisting of women and people of color, POWER connects its struggle with the struggle of other working people around the world who make up the backbone of the global economy. |
$25,000 |
| Progressive Maryland Education Fund The Progressive Maryland Education Fund (PMF) is an independent, multi-racial political alliance. It uses public education and training of grassroots activists to advance a progressive agenda for Montgomery County, Maryland. Its organizing and advocacy arm, Progressive Maryland (PM), a separate 501(c)(4), runs grassroots campaigns to win living wage jobs, excellent public schools, and sustainable development. PM is an alliance of thousands of working families strengthened by dozens of faith, community, and labor organizations working for living wages, tenants' rights, comprehensive after-school programs, and electoral reform. |
$25,000 |
| Pulaski County ACORN The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has 70,000 member families, with chapters in 26 states. Its overall purpose is to help people empower themselves through formation of neighborhood or issue-based groups, working to win specific and visible institutional reforms for their schools and communities. Its mission is to organize to win a fairer share and a greater voice for low and moderate income Americans. For the last thirty years, Pulaski County ACORN (the founding chapter of the national Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been a voice for the county's low- and moderate-income households. |
$20,000 |
| Santa Fe Living Wage Network Santa Fe Living Wage Network is currently an informal network of individuals, unions, businesses, and church, social action, environmental and political organizations that has been successful in achieving a ground-breaking private-sector living wage ordinance in the city of Santa Fe. It is transforming to a more formal organization with the mission of increasing the depth and breadth of support for an anti-poverty and economic justice agenda in Santa Fe and surrounding areas, including defending and extending the living wage in the community and providing support to other communities seeking to do likewise. |
$20,000 |
| SPIN Project The SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network) provides nation-wide media technical assistance to nonprofit public-interest organizations who want to influence debate, shape public opinion and garner positive media attention. It offers public relations consulting, including comprehensive media training and intensive media strategizing and resources to community organizations across the country. It is growing the capacity of organizations to get their voices heard and do more effective media work on issues important to the future of our society. |
$48,900 |
| Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee The Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee/ Apoyo de Inquilinos y Trabajadores (Apoyo) was founded in 1986 to promote the empowerment of the residents of Alexandria, VA, particularly low-income Latinos and African Americans. It uses community education and self-help initiatives in its work. Apoyo fosters social change through a combination of community-based institutional development, indigenous leadership development, and mass action. The Worker's Project (WP) is a three-year community-based, women-centered, worker and workplace justice organizing project of Apoyo. WP's organizational goals are to increase collective bargaining and unionizing; expand the living wage in Arlington, VA; and develop leadership and training skills within various communities. |
$25,000 |
| Total Bridging the Economic Divide Year 5 Funding |
$453,900 |
