Tides Partners

READ Global brings together education, enterprise and community development to create lasting social change in rural communities. READ partners with rural villages to build Community Library and Resource Centers (READ Centers) that offer knowledge, information and opportunities to villagers that lack the most basic educational resources.

READ Centers are designed to serve whole communities and their surrounding areas. Resources are available for all – adults, children, students, teachers, women and even those who are illiterate.

Once a READ Center has been built, READ works with each community to seed a for-profit enterprise that will generate much-needed income to sustain the center over the long run. To establish the most successful enterprises, READ business development managers collaborate with Library Management Committees to explore market opportunities in each community.

From extreme waste and environmental destruction to illegal wages and unsafe working conditions, the fashion industry’s focus on trendy, disposable clothing has staggering impacts on people and our planet. Remake is a community of millennial and Gen Z women who pledge to wear our values and put an end to fast fashion.

How We Make a Difference
Build local leaders: We train women leaders around the globe by hosting workshops, panels, and webinars to educate, inspire, engage, and uplift the voices of our community. In turn, our community hosts film screenings, clothing swap parties, and educational panels to mobilize others in our fight against fast fashion.

Stay in the know: We create documentary films, fact-filled stories, campaign assets, and workshop materials to empower our community and recruit more women to our movement.

Drive transparency and accountability: Remake’s Seal of Approval process – built by experts – makes it easy for our community to call out greenwashing and support better brands. Our Seal of Approval process pushes brands to disclose better information publicly.
Our mission is to make fashion a force for good.

Rights4Girls is a human rights organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence in the US. We advocate for the dignity and rights of young women and girls so that every girl can be safe and live a life free of violence and exploitation.

Rights4Girls works to change the narrative and policies that criminalize girls who have been impacted by gender violence. We advocate for solutions that provide girls and young women with access to safety, justice, and support. We do so by centering the voices and experiences of our most marginalized girls to ensure that their lives are not only contemplated in mainstream conversations around justice reform and gendered violence, but that their needs are made a priority.

The mission of Rivers Without Borders is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the wild transboundary watersheds of Southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia such as the Taku, Stikine, Alsek and Unuk, in a time of declining wild salmon populations and climate change.

Rivers Without Borders (then the Transboundary Watershed Alliance) formed in 1999 as an alliance of 22 groups to continue work begun in the Taku Watershed in 1995, and to extend that model of international collaboration to the Stikine and other transboundary watersheds. We now function as a distinct organization, while coordinating with a range of conservation groups, First Nations, and other allies.

The Ryan’s Well Foundation, together with local partners, provides access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene education in the poorest regions of developing countries. We educate and motivate people to share our passion and contribute to achieving change in the world.

The San Francisco Beacon Initiative is an organization that coordinates public and private partnerships and funding that enable schools, communities, and families to offer academic, social, and emotional support to their youth. SFBI is an intermediary organization that supports the sustainable and quality implementation of the Beacon Model in San Francisco through capacity building, technical assistance, leadership development for the San Francisco Beacon Network including it’s CBO partners, funders and staff.

Beacon Centers transform public schools into youth and family centers that become a beacon of activity for the surrounding neighborhood. Drawing on the existing wealth in their communities, Beacon Centers create pathways to lifelong learning through which young people and adults can always find the next challenge or step in their process of learning, growth, and development throughout a lifetime.

Emerging from the movement to end violence against women, the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium (SFDVC) is dedicated to eliminating domestic violence and ensuring the basic rights of safety, self-determination and the well-being of victims and survivors of domestic violence. Founded in 1982, the SFDVC is a network of seventeen domestic violence service agencies that come together with the goal of providing high quality, coordinated, and comprehensive services to San Francisco’s victims of domestic abuse. Services of the individual agencies include emergency shelter, transitional housing, crisis lines, counseling, prevention programs, education, and legal assistance.

The mission of the International Ocean Film Festival (IOFF) is to save our oceans one film at a time. The annual film festival takes place every March, with additional screenings year-round.

The IOFF is a registered 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization made possible by the spirit, passion, and hard work of our board of directors, screening committee, and numerous volunteers.
Dedicated to using film as a medium to increase public awareness of the environmental, social, and cultural importance of marine ecosystems and foster a spirit of ocean stewardship, IOFF is now the premier venue in North America for ocean-related films.

Every year, IOFF produces an acclaimed festival of ocean-themed films from all over the world that are largely unavailable to the general public. Themes range from marine science and industry to sports and adventure. We look for films that entertain, educate, and encourage active participation in ocean conservation.

We are a global community making mindfulness and emotional intelligence practical and accessible. Together, we’re working toward a more peaceful world in which all people feel connected and act with compassion.