Tides Partners

We are a native-led non-profit. Based in San Francisco, California, Turtle Island, we work in the Americas and the Pacific, collaborating with communities, organizations and individuals of all kinds, native and non-native.

Through research, education, advocacy and media production we work with Native communities on a wide range of cultural restoration and environmental protection projects.

Dream Defenders are building a powerful, deep, local organization and movement for freedom and liberation Nationally.

We believe that our liberation necessitates the destruction of the political and economic systems of Capitalism and Imperialism as well as Patriarchy. We believe in People over profits. We believe that nonviolent resistance is “the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom” and are fundamentally committed to nonviolence as our means of struggle against a violent oppressor.

Our mission is to bring social change by training and organizing youth and students in nonviolent civil disobedience, civic engagement, and direct action while creating a sustainable network of youth and student leaders to take action and create real change in their communities.

The Guardsmen is a group of Bay Area men mobilizing their significant talents and resources to enhance and improve the lives of at-risk youth. This all-volunteer organization, founded in 1947, provides access to high-quality educational and outdoor activities for inner-city youth. The opportunities created through The Guardsmen’s scholarship and campership programs mean that every year kids who otherwise would not have a chance at success are given the opportunity to excel as productive members of society. Sometimes that support means giving kids a chance to “just be kids,” by giving them their first experience to hike, bike, or play a game of softball in the great outdoors. Sometimes that support means the difference between attending a low-performing public school, and access to a higher-quality private education and the life-changing course such an opportunity creates.

The Joseph and Mercedes McMicking Foundation was created by its benefactors, Joseph and Mercedes McMicking, to benefit education for children in need.

The goals of our foundation are:

– To be an example of charitable giving to children of all ethnic groups and ages.
– To support curriculum in K-12 schools and at the university level in the San Francisco Bay Area.
– To assist major museums and cultural organizations with their educational programs for children and families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About the Organization
The origins of the LeadersTrust are within the Haas Jr. Fund where the Flexible Leadership Awards program was born in 2005. Over time, our work expanded to include new foundation partners eager to catalyze investments in the leadership capacity of organizations and movements. In addition to our ongoing work for the Haas Jr. Fund, our other foundation partners include the Packard, Heising-Simons, Grove and Irvine Foundations.
Operating for years under the overall name, the Haas Leadership Initiatives, in 2021, we became the LeadersTrust. Our new name reflects our belief in the critical importance of trust in capacity building, philanthropy, and making change as well as the way our organization centers people in everything we do. The LeadersTrust continues as a fiscally sponsored social venture project of the Tides Center.
The LeadersTrust believes that a deep investment in the leadership and organizational capacity of change makers is critical for success. By delivering responsive, long-term, high-touch investment in the people at the heart of organizations, we unlock the radical imagination and inherent power of leaders, organizations, and movements to achieve transformative change. Our work builds a social change eco-system that is rooted in trust, where resources are invested more equitably, power is shared, and agents of change have the capacity, connections, and investment they need to reach their goals and thrive.

To help improve patient lives and advance clinical research investigating the use of a cord blood stem cells as a treatment for various conditions, Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®) established the Newborn Possibilities Fund.

The Newborn Possibilities Fund provides financial support, in the form of grants, to non-profit organizations committed to improving the lives of their patient communities.

Our mission,
To empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.

Co-founded in 2005 by Robert Redford and his son and board chair, James Redford, The Redford Center harnesses the power of film, video and new media to engage people through inspiring stories that galvanize environmental action.

Drawing on the family’s multi-generational expertise in filmmaking and activism, we produce, fund and fiscally sponsor impact-driven productions that showcase stories of individuals taking action to protect and restore the planet.

Leveraging our network of issue experts and a stable of talented directors and producers, The Redford Center carefully vets each project we take on through one of our programs.

Redford Center Original Productions produces original impact-driven documentaries that showcase stories of people taking action to protect and restore the planet for current and future generations. Each carefully vetted project starts with a thorough analysis of the issues and is produced in-house by a nimble team of adept filmmakers. All feature length Redford Center original productions are released with an accompanying long-term community impact campaign designed to engage people with inspiring stories that galvanize environmental action.
Redford Center Grants provides early-stage funding to independent media makers telling hopeful stories that drive awareness, education and tangible action on a variety of environmental topics.
Fiscal Sponsorships extend our 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to independent filmmakers so they can solicit tax-deductible donations from individuals, foundations and other grantors.
Throughout our process, we collaborate with artists, activists, issue experts, policymakers, educators, scientists, business leaders and philanthropists. We invite issue outliers into the conversation as well so they can understand how they too can be part of the solution.

Because we believe a greater impact occurs when environmental champions join forces, The Redford Center works with change-making organizations to lead community engagement campaigns that spark conversation and galvanize environmental action.

The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people. We make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists from around the country to carefully review every application we receive. We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Every penny we raise goes to our grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached because we truly believe in trans leadership.