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| Drummond Pike Founder and CEO, Tides 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. |
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| China Brotsky Senior Vice President, Tides and Managing Director, Tides Shared Spaces China Brotsky is part of the executive team at Tides which is responsible for the integrated management of the Tides organizations. China is also Managing Director of Tides Shared Spaces, which creates, operates and promotes sustainable work space for nonprofits. China joined Tides in 1990 as Chief Financial Officer. During her tenure at Tides, China managed the restoration and development of the Thoreau Centers for Sustainability in San Francisco and New York. China also co-founded and directs The NonprofitCenters Network, a cross-sector national network of nonprofits and their real estate partners. She also served as the founding executive director of Groundspring.org, a nonprofit technology service provider. Prior to Tides, China served six years in public accounting and was the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration at the Exploratorium Science Museum. China is a member of the board of directors of Global Greengrants Fund and CorpWatch. She received a B.S. in accounting from Golden Gate University and is a CPA in the state of California. |
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| Brian Byrnes Senior Vice President, Tides and Managing Director, Tides Foundation As a Senior Vice President at Tides, Brian Byrnes is responsible for the integrated management of the Tides organizations along with the executive team. He is also Managing Director of Tides Foundation and responsible for shaping strategy and directing its operations. Previously, Brian was the President / Chief Executive Officer of the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF). During Brian’s leadership, between 2003 and early 2008 assets at the VCF grew from roughly $70 million to nearly $170 million and annual grants tripled. He also led the VCF through a major campaign to reassess their business model and to connect more closely to the long-term social change needs of the community. Prior to the VCF, Brian served as Deputy Executive Director of Programs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, as well as Education Director for AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Education Director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Brian previously held an appointment to the Vermont Human Rights Commission and was a member of the Community Foundation Leadership Team at the Council of Foundations. He is currently a member of National Task Force on Community Leadership. Brian received a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Meinrad College, and Masters degrees in Musicology from New England Conservatory and New York University. |
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| Carla Dartis Senior Vice President, Tides and Managing Director, Tides Center Carla Dartis is part of the executive team at Tides which is responsible for the integrated management of the Tides organizations. As Managing Director of Tides Center, Carla is also responsible for directing its operations, including full service fiscal sponsorship services to over 200 Tides Center projects. Carla has over 25 years’ experience in nonprofit management and economic development with an emphasis on providing support and infrastructure to vital nonprofit efforts. Prior to Tides, she was the Vice President of Community Investment for the East Bay Community Foundation. Previously, Carla was the Program Officer for Children, Families, and Communities at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and an Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Families Leadership Fellow. She was also Vice President for the Bank of America Community Development Bank, President of the Drew Economic Development Corporation, and Principal Loan Officer for the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development in Los Angeles. Carla is a commissioner on the First 5 California Commission and serves on the boards of the Zions Bank Community Investment Corporation and the Mercy Housing Loan Fund. Carla holds a B.S. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. |
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| Ellen Friedman Executive Vice President, Tides Ellen Friedman has been with Tides since 1987. As Executive Vice President, she is responsible for organizational operations and integrated management of the Tides organizations. Ellen also manages the Community Clinics Initiative, a partnership with The California Endowment working to strengthen community health centers throughout California. She brings a long history of advising individual donors on issues of philanthropic planning, violence against women, the Jewish community, and environmental issues. Before coming to Tides, Ellen served as a Program Officer at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Los Angeles. She is a board member of the 3 Guineas Fund, New Field Foundation, Institute for Jewish Spirituality and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. |
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| Gary D. Schwartz Senior Vice President, Tides and Managing Director, Tides New York Gary D. Schwartz is part of the executive team at Tides which is responsible for the integrated management of the Tides organizations. Gary is also Managing Director of Tides New York where he is responsible for directing operations of the New York office and overseeing Tides services to clients in the New York region. Gary joined Tides in 1999 after he served for nearly ten years as a consultant and the Executive Director of the Fund of the Four Directions in New York. The Fund was a leading grant making institution in the areas of indigenous peoples’ organizing, women’s empowerment and environmental sustainability. Gary has spent his entire career working in the nonprofit arena including tenure at the Houston Area Women’s Center Rape Crisis Center and Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City. He currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline and is a trustee with two private family foundations, as well as a trustee for Artists For A New South Africa. A former Peace Corps Volunteer (stationed in the Fiji Islands), Gary studied creative writing at Southern Illinois University and nonprofit management at the New School in New York City. |
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