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The Tides Board of Directors consists of Board members from Tides Foundation and Tides Center.
Noa Emmett Aluli, Director
Noa Emmett Aluli is a Native Hawaiian physician on Moloka'i and a long time activist for the preservation of Hawaiian culture and beliefs, the preservation of historical sites, and environmental integrity. He serves as a member of a number of organizations pursuing this work and he serves as the Chairman of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, the State agency overseeing the clean-up and restoration of Kaho'olawe.
Melissa Lynn Bradley, Director
Melissa Lynn Bradley is founder and president of New Capitalist. She has served as a Financial Regulatory Affairs Fellow with the U.S. Treasury researching the impact of welfare reform, microenterprise lending and Individual Development Accounts on the financial industry and providing recommendations to the banking sector. She founded The Entrepreneurial Development Institute, an international NGO focused on social change, economic development and community empowerment.
Joanie Bronfman, Director
Joanie Bronfman is a long-time advocate for social justice and donor activism. She is the Associate Dean of the Family Office Exchange Learning Center and a consultant and speaker on issues of wealth. Joanie has served on the boards of Tides Canada and the Threshold Foundation, where she was a founder of Threshold's Social Justice Committee.
Dan Carol, Director
Political strategist Dan Carol is a long-time pioneer of new generation network politics and the catalyst and co-founder of The Apollo Alliance. Formerly an energy and budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and former Research Director for the Democratic National Committee, Dan's work to strengthen the tools and tactics of progressives has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal and his commentary has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Nation, Alternet, Salon, and Boston Review.
Stephanie J. Clohesy, Director
Stephanie J. Clohesy is a public service leader with experience in public policy, women's rights, citizen participation/democratization, organizational and leadership development for the U.S. and international non profit sectors. Currently an independent consultant, she specializes in providing strategic organizational and program planning and development.
Quinn Delaney, Director
Quinn Delaney supports the work of civil rights and youth organizations through her Donor Advised Fund at Tides Foundation. She is the director of the Akonadi Foundation, which focuses on racial justice. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Resourceful Women and as a board member of the ACLU of Northern California.
Martha Jiménez, Director
Martha Jiménez has over 20 years of experience in leadership positions in nonprofit, philanthropic health, and governmental organizations. She was Vice President of Policy and Development at TransFair USA, Senior Program Officer at The California Endowment, and Executive Director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. She has received numerous awards including the San Francisco Bar Association’s Award of Merit. Martha currently serves as the Senior Health Deputy for Supervisor Gloria Molina, L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
Lawrence Litvak, Director
Lawrence (Larry) Litvak serves as a board member of, or adviser to, several nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Larry was part of the management team at Working Assets, a socially progressive wireless, long distance, and credit card company, until 2003 when he semi-retired as CFO, and continues to work part-time for the company. Before joining Working Assets, Larry co-managed $3.2 billion in assets as a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the U.S. Trust Company of Boston. He is the author of Pension Funds and Economic Renewal and Innovations in Development Finance.
John R. O'Neil, Director
John O'Neil is the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal, a global network of leadership researchers, practitioners, and advisors. He has been active in speaking, writing, venture capital activities and leadership advising, consulting most frequently with senior officers and directors on strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational issues. John has shared his insights, inspirations and innovations in several books including the best-selling Paradox of Success, as well as Leadership Aikido, and Seasons of Grace.
Drummond Pike, Founder and CEO
Drummond Pike is founder and chief executive officer of Tides. Awarded as an Outstanding Foundation Professional, Drummond helped pioneer the advent of donor advised funds in philanthropy. Through his leadership, Tides has helped increase the capacity and effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. Drummond was a founder and Associate Director of the Youth Project in Washington, DC, and served as Executive Director of the Shalan Foundation from 1976 to 1981. He was among the original founders of Working Assets, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism.
john a. powell, Director
john a. powell, a nationally recognized authority on civil rights and civil liberties, is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, and is the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. He has taught law at Columbia, Harvard, University of Miami, and University of San Francisco, and has served as National Legal Director of the ACLU. john also serves on the board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
Wade Rathke, Director
Wade Rathke is Chief Organizer of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO. He is also founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN, a national network of community organizations representing the interests of low and moderate income people. Wade serves on the boards of both Tides Foundation and Tides Center.
Charles C. Savitt, Director
Charles C. Savitt is President and Publisher of the Center for Resource Economics/ Island Press, which he started in 1984 in order to provide the environmental community with the latest informational tools to address the multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems. He is also a director of the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation.
Joel Solomon, Director
Joel Solomon is President of Renewal Partners seed capital firm and the Endswell Foundation, both focused on a conservation economy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a founding Board member of Tides Canada, former President of the Threshold Foundation, and a founding member of the Social Venture Network.
Maya Wiley, Director
Maya Wiley is the founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI), an applied research and advocacy organization which supports community groups to dismantle structural racism. A civil rights attorney and social justice advocate, she has worked for the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Wiley also served as an advisor to the Open Society Institute and as a consultant to the Open Society Foundation. She has assisted several nonprofits on program and strategy development.
Robin Wolaner, Director
Robin Wolaner is an author and the founder of Parenting Magazine. She formerly served as a member of the executive committee of CNET Networks and as Vice President of Development for Time Publishing Ventures launching Vibe Magazine. Her approach to business and entrepreneurial management is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, and numerous magazine and newspaper articles.
