Tides Partners

Inspire … then educate.

The Center creates and oversees national science education programs with a focus on Earth and space. Programs are designed to provide an authentic window on science as a human endeavor, and recognize that scientists and engineers can and should be heroes and role models to our children. The Center’s mission is to help ensure a science literate public and a next generation of scientists and engineers—both of which are of national strategic importance in an age of high technology.

A diverse array of programs for schools, families, and the public; professional development workshops and institutes for grade K-12 educators; world-class exhibitions for museums, science centers, and universities; and online and Web 2.0 experiences, embrace the notion that science education should be about conceptual understanding at an emotional level.

The Center embraces a Learning Community Model for science education where the Center’s programs for diverse audiences can be combined to engage an entire community. Programming is designed to be sustainable; tailored to the strategic education needs of the community; and delivered systemically across school districts.

The Center’s partners include the Smithsonian Institution, NASA, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation, and at the local level: museums, science centers, and school districts.

The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), founded in 1997, is a coalition of thirty-four national Asian Pacific American organizations around the country. Based in Washington D.C, NCAPA serves to represent the interests of the greater Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities and to provide a national voice for AA and NHPI issues.

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.