The Tides Center
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| Motto | What's Possible |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Drummond Pike |
| Type | Public charity |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Kriss Deiglmeier (CEO) |
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Revenue
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$259 million (2015) |
| Expenses | $258 million (2015) |
| Mission | "Tides accelerates the pace of social change, working with innovative partners to solve society's toughest problems" |
| Website | www |
Tides is a public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive policy in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, gay rights, women's rights and human rights. It was founded in San Francisco in 1976. Through donor advised funds, Tides distributes money from donors to other organizations, which are often politically liberal. It manages two centers in San Francisco and New York that offer collaborative spaces for social ventures and other nonprofits.
Since 1996, Tide has overseen the Tides Center, which is an incubator for smaller progressive organizations. In 2004, Tides formed the Tides Shared Spaces offshoot which specializes in renting office space to nonprofit tenants. In 2008, Stephanie Strom referred to Tides Network as the umbrella organization for these entities.
Tides was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, who worked with Jane Bagley Lehman, heir to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fortune. Lehman served as the chair of the organization from its founding to her death in 1988. Tides was conceived as a nationally oriented community foundation, and founded out of Pike's frustration with established philanthropy's perceived neglect of progressive issues. He envisioned using fiscal sponsorship for progressive political activism. Fiscal sponsorship uses a tax-exempt charity to provide financial support to a non-exempt project or organization, therefore lending it tax exemption as long as the charity retains control of the way its funds are spent. He served as its CEO until he was replaced by Melissa L. Bradley in 2010.
Pikes founded a Canadian version of the organization, Tides Canada, in 2000. Tides Canada, which is based in Vancouver, makes grants through its foundation and has a charity that supports environmental and social justice projects. It consists of several separate organizations: the Tides Canada Centre Society, the Tides Canada Foundation, and the Tides Canada Ventures Society.
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