Tides Partners

The mission of the National Farm to School Network (NFSN) is to increase access to local food and nutrition education to improve children’s health, strengthen family farms, and cultivate vibrant communities. Farm to school and early childhood education (ECE) is a win for kids when they eat nourishing food in meals and snacks, participate in hands-on activities, and learn about where food comes from; a win for farmers when school market opportunities provide reliable and consistent sales and fair pay; and a win for communities when food is grown, distributed, prepared, and consumed for the benefit of every community member. To ensure all communities see the benefit of these wins, farm to school must be firmly grounded in equity.

NFSN has a vision of a racially just food system for all, and we work to achieve that vision through farm to school – the ways kids eat, grow, and learn about food in schools and early care and education settings. To do this, we develop a strong network of partnerships across sectors, build awareness about farm to school, and increase activities at the state and regional levels through training, capacity building, and policy advocacy. NFSN serves more than 200 national, state, and community partners in all 50 states, Washington D.C., the U.S. Territories, and sovereign nations as well as over 20,000 educators, school administrators, school nutrition directors, farmers and food producers, nonprofit and state agency staff, policymakers and advocates, children and parents, and many others from across the country.

The National Housing Resource Center (NHRC) is the advocate for the nonprofit housing counseling industry, as well as for housing consumers, for communities of color, for the elderly, and for under-served populations.

Housing counselors are on the front lines of the American housing crisis, facing the flood of foreclosures, the difficulties home buyers experience in qualifying for affordable mortgage credit, the housing challenges facing communities of color, the needs of ex-homeowners entering the rental market, and the many scam artists working the housing field.

NHRC is mobilizing housing counseling agencies, networks, and Intermediaries into one united organization. There is a need to tap into counselors experience, elevate their issues and voices, and unite them into a national advocacy program. The nonprofit housing counseling industry is an important part of the housing market and, when properly mobilized, can help address the inequalities in mortgage, foreclosure, and rental situations.

The National Veterans Network (NVN)’s mission is to educate current and future generations about the extraordinary legacy of American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry in order to promote equality and justice. Our vision is a world free of racism where everyone is treated equally with dignity and respect.

Our goal is to achieve social justice and democracy by telling the stories and lessons of the American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry, through national initiatives that include museum exhibitions, teacher training, curriculum, and public outreach.

The NVN was established in 2010 through its grassroots campaign to award the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to the Japanese American WWII veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service.

To learn more, please visit www.nationalveteransnetwork.com or email us at [email protected].

The New Policy Institute is a non-partisan think tank based in Washington D.C. Our mission is to imagine and build a 21st century America capable of meeting the challenges of our time.

We believe that to replicate our 20th century success in the 21st century, we will need to do three things:
– Offer ideas that tackle the challenges of our time
– Master the new media and technology that are changing
the way people communicate with one another
– Understand the changing demographics of our country
and engage new Americans

The New Policy Institute conducts research and builds solutions that address all three of these areas. We work to provide insightful analysis and detailed strategies that will help America succeed in the 21st century.

The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security is a coalition of 14 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda at the United Nations and around the world.

We believe that sustainable peace can only be achieved if women’s human rights are promoted and respected and that women have meaningful participation across all conflict prevention and resolution efforts, as well as in post conflict rebuilding activities.

Our members work in over 50 countries that have been affected by conflict and partner with over 200 NGOs and 75 networks of civil society actors and activists. We are the only civil society of its kind working on the women, peace and security agenda in New York. Through targeted advocacy, monitoring and gender analysis, we hold the Security Council, UN leadership and Member States accountable for their obligations under Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions which form the women, peace and security agenda.

Since 2000 we have been working to bring the voices of women’s rights defenders and local peacebuilders into the New York peace and security discussions. We serve as a bridge between women’s human rights defenders and peacebuilders working in conflict-affected situations and senior policy-makers at UN Headquarters.

On behalf of women, peace and security civil society we are formally and regularly invited to provide the UN Security Council with the civil society perspective on the women, peace and security agenda. We are publicly credited as increasing the Security Council’s engagement with civil society by advocating for entry to Council spaces.

Multiracial, intergenerational power-building in upstate New York

Grants primarily for health and cardiovascular, diabetes, and arthritis research.

The mission of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) is to unite farm and food system practitioners and allies to build a sustainable, just and economically vibrant region in the Northeastern United States. Our main audience is the practitioners in the trenches, working on farm and food issues from any angle. They include farmers, professors, health care practitioners, engineers, advocates, scientists… nearly every profession has something to offer to build a better food system.

Founded in 1999, the mission of Oasis For Girls is to partner with girls and young women of color from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to help them cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures.

Oasis For Girls partners with young women of color aged 14-18 from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures, redefining their communities in their wake. Our Springboard Series of programs empowers girls to pave paths to successful academic and career goals; understand social justice issues and advocate for change in their communities; and develop confidence, advocacy, and self-care tools for healthy growth through high school and college, the workplace, and beyond.

Oasis’ signature Springboard Series for Girls is a sequence of three programs emphasizing comprehensive girls’ development, internal awareness, and external skills in a gender-specific and culturally-relevant setting. The Series encourages girls to stretch their perspective and skills while drawing on their own diverse experiences through the creative arts, women’s rights and life skills, and career and academic exploration. Our programs provide girls with opportunities to create trusting relationships with positive, supportive adults; to develop a sense of identity and partnership with each other and the San Francisco community; and build skills and knowledge for their future dreams.