Tides Partners

Open MIC is a non-profit organization working to foster vibrant and diverse media through market-based solutions.Our primary tool is shareholder engagement. We promote values of openness, equity, privacy, and diversity – values that we believe provide long-term benefits for companies, the economy and the health of democratic society.

Open MIC believes shareholders have a right and responsibility to add their voices to discussions affecting both traditional and emerging media forms. We aim to deploy the collective power of investment management and advisory firms, mutual fund companies, foundations, pension funds and advocacy groups to help shape corporate media policies and practices.

Open Square knows a world can exist where women play a full and equal role in decision making at every level… where challenges, change and truth are embraced with inclusivity and respect. We nurture and advocate for those who are marginalized, minimized, ignored and disparaged. Open Square sees women, young women and girls for the driving force they are.

In the United States, more than 4.6 million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are neither in school nor employed. About half of us are living in poverty. In recent years we have been called “Opportunity Youth” both because we are seeking opportunity and we offer the nation an opportunity if it would invest in ways for us to rebuild our communities and our lives.

OYUnited is a national movement of young people and allies from all backgrounds committed to creating a society that invests adequately in the education and welfare of its children and youth, supports family and community life, ends mass incarceration and discrimination of all kinds, promotes a robust participatory democracy, and is structured to provide opportunity and responsibility for all.

Our vision is a society with opportunity and responsibility, love and respect, education and employment, justice and equality for all. We envision a nation where all young people can reach their highest potential and noblest aspirations in the context of safe, supportive, and healthy communities.

We have developed a set of policy recommendations to Increase Opportunity and Decrease Poverty in America to get us there.

The Orphaned Starfish Foundation is dedicated to helping orphans, victims of abuse, victims of trafficking and at-risk youth break their cycles of abuse and poverty through computer based education, job training and job placement assistance.

Since our beginning in 2001, ORPHANED STARFISH programs address the challenges facing orphans, victims of abuse and at-risk youth by providing them with technology training. OSF funds the construction and operation of vocational training facilities, including funding for furnishings, purchasing required equipment, teacher salaries, job placement services and scholarships for higher education.

OSF also provides English language software & classes, a Life-Skills Program, Scholarships & helps with job placement whenever possible.

Since 1993, Pacific Forest Trust has epitomized innovation, daring, and a savvy understanding of market forces to create new economic incentives that reward private forest owners for conserving their lands and practicing sustainable forestry.

We’re a visionary think-and-do-tank of scientists, conservationists, policy wonks, entrepreneurs, and outdoor enthusiasts that have helped shape forest conservation and climate policy. Working closely with other forest stakeholders, from landowners to agencies to environmental nonprofit partners, we create and advance high-leverage, catalytic strategies that engage the commitment, imagination, and resources of many individuals, businesses, and organizations to make it easier and more rewarding to do good things for the forests—and forest landowners—on which we all depend.

The only conservation organization focused on private forests in California, Oregon, and Washington, we’ve conserved more than 270,000 acres of vital forestland regionally, holding easements on more than 105,000 acres. Our work has been recognized for its excellence by government agencies, philanthropies, and non-profit organizations.

Palestine Legal is an independent organization dedicated to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom. Our mission is to bolster the Palestine solidarity movement by challenging efforts to threaten, harass and legally bully activists into silence and inaction.

We provide legal advice, Know Your Rights trainings, advocacy and litigation support to college students, grassroots activists and affected communities who stand for justice in Palestine. Palestine Legal also monitors incidents of repression to expose trends in tactics to silence Palestine activism.

Founded in 2012, Palestine Legal is the only legal organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to supporting the movement for Palestinian rights. Our attorneys are based in Chicago, New York City and the Bay Area, and our work spans all 50 states and Washington D.C. We work closely with several organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild and others, to provide legal support to activists around the country.

Partnerships For Change®(PFC) is a team of social impact strategists and practitioners. PFC disrupts the status quo and implements lasting change. Since 1990, we have harnessed the power of stories and partnerships to accelerate change through direct action projects with all forms of media. We continue to perfect the craft of transformation. We strategically engage local partners around the globe and mobilize filmmakers, authors, artists, political advocates, broadcast and print journalists, social media, web and mobile platform architects to bring change.

Our sustainable forays are to advance compassion and abolish cruelty to people, animals and the environment by accelerating economic, social and health empowerment projects, awaken the conscience from compelling stories, and build advocacy with awareness and policy change.

Advance compassion and Abolish cruelty, Awaken conscience, and Advocate change.

The goal of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.

Since its inception in January 2003, PRE has directly engaged hundreds of foundation representatives (including program staff, management, board members and individual donors) in discussions of racial equity and, in particular, how they can advance the mission of achieving racial equity through their own philanthropic institutions.