Tides Partners

The Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) is a professional association of environmental, conservation, and climate and energy grantmakers. Today, approximately 75 funding institutions, predominantly private foundations, are formal members, while more than 200 other grantmaking institutions benefit from our activities as program partners. Altogether we reach nearly 1,000 philanthropic staff and trustees, mostly based in the United States with some based in other countries around the world, including Canada, England, and Switzerland.

We believe that grantmakers are more effective when they learn and work together, with focused and sustained collaborations allowing for deeper engagement and understanding on a variety of biodiversity issues. The Biodiversity Funders Group fosters cooperative and collaborative grantmaking by nurturing groups of funders who network, learn, and explore opportunities to work together, with active leadership from members who act as co-chairs or serve on planning committees and steering committees. We plan yearly gatherings, coordinate webinars on a wide variety of topics, and distribute electronic newsletters, announcements, and reports, to help members and program partners learn about opportunities and keep up with relevant news about each other, biodiversity, and philanthropy.

Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, we act as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, Bioneers connects people with solutions and each other. Our acclaimed annual national conference and local Bioneers Network events are complemented by extensive media production including a vibrant online media presence, award-winning radio and podcast series, book series, and role in third-party media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The 11th Hour and Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

Our dynamic programs and initiatives focus on game-changing initiatives related to Restorative Food Systems, Biomimicry, Rights of Nature, Indigeneity, Women’s Leadership and Youth Leadership.

Vision
Boost! believes that every child across urban communities across California should have equitable access to opportunity and educational experiences that inspire and support youth with the skills and confidence needed to become positive contributors to their communities.

Mission
BOOST! seeks to strengthen students’ academic performance, and cultivate leadership in self and community through individualized one-on-one tutoring, mentoring, community activities, and enrichment opportunities.

“Cafe Rx has a responsibility to provide its community with healthy food options – incorporating locally grown, sustainable, and organic ingredients whenever possible. Our goal is to combine the concept of farm to table with new and innovative techniques in order to create amazing food that is a comfort for the mind, body, and soul

The California Consortium for Urban Indian Health (CCUIH) supports health promotion and access for American Indians living in cities throughout California. Established in 2006, CCUIH is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) statewide alliance of Urban Indian health organizations and substance abuse treatment facilities collectively referred to as UIHOs. By blending the leadership and experience of our consortium members with shared resource development, and by combining applied research with educational and policy advocacy efforts, our mission is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of American Indians living in urban communities.

CCRF is a statewide alliance of more than 40 organizations working to promote sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice in California through collective policy advocacy, strategic communication and collaboration.

CCRF was informally started nearly 30 years ago to encourage strategic coordination of policy advocacy activities among key players in the state reproductive health and rights movement. Over the past three decades, the Coalition has grown from a handful of pro-choice organizations based in Sacramento to a dynamic, diverse membership of more than 40 groups from across California.

CCRF is the only statewide coalition in California dealing specifically with reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice policy issues. On all of these issues, CCRF plays a key role in facilitating rapid and broad response by keeping the lines of communication open, disseminating information and calls to action throughout our membership, and encouraging strategic coordination and collaboration wherever possible. CCRF is looked to nationally as a model for successful coalition work in the reproductive health, rights and justice movements, both in terms of the policy wins resulting from our members’ collective advocacy, and in terms of our commitment to being a truly diverse, democratic coalition.

CCRF’s vision is that California policies and programs will promote sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice for the diverse women and girls living in our state, and that the voices of those women and their communities will be represented among the leadership of policy advocacy efforts.

The most basic way citizens participate in civic affairs and strengthen America’s democracy is by voting. Throughout the United States and California, a significant gap exists across populations between those eligible to vote and those who actually do so. More striking is that low-income communities and communities of color in California, as a whole, are considerably less likely to vote compared to the rest of the population. Improving voter participation rates among these groups depends on year-round, nonpartisan strategic initiatives that will connect to citizens’ everyday life, create pipelines and new issue environments for progressive candidates, generate concrete policy changes, and, ultimately, create a large and active progressive base.

The Color of Democracy Fund (CDF) aims to promote a more just society in California by ensuring that underrepresented communities can fully participate in the political process.

CDF supports the empowerment of communities of color and the increase of their electoral engagement by supporting and partnering with nonprofit organizations through provision of technical and financial resources, capacity building support, and access to electoral tools and strategies. CDF’s goal is to expand Californians’ progressive values and policy positions. To achieve this goal, CDF will partner with anchor groups, state and community-based organizations, networks, and coalitions.

Strategic initiatives – e.g. ballot initiatives and legislative campaigns – will center around issues such as minimum wage increases, affordable housing development, and land use/zoning policies. These strategic initiatives will harness political opportunity, consolidate progressives, and generally provide focused learning moments to change the values and issue positions of mainstream voters as campaign cycle begins.

California Health Report is a news site covering health and health policy throughout the state, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities and populations. We’re non-partisan, grant-funded and editorially independent.

As the only journalism organization dedicated exclusively to covering health issues in low-income communities,we are a trusted source of information about the state of health and health care across California.

The mission of CASBA is to further the practice of straw-bale construction by exchanging current information and practical experience, conducting research and testing, and making that body of knowledge available to working professionals and the public at large. Strawbale building is being seen as a promising alternative to conventional construction methods, both in terms of positive environmental impact and in its potential for becoming economical.