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November 19, 2003 - San Francisco, CA The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently provided a grant to the Tides Center to work with other fiscal sponsors to increase the effectiveness of support and sponsorship services to the nonprofit sector and to develop a long range plan for the Center. The Tides Center is pleased to announce that we selected Booz Allen Hamilton as our strategy consultants to assist us in this important endeavor.
Two senior professionals in Booz Allen Hamilton's San Francisco office are leading their consulting team. Bruce Pasternack is a Senior Vice President of the firm and their Managing Partner in San Francisco, and Joni Bessler is the Managing Partner of Health and Financial Services in the Western Region and the firm's former Chief Human Resources Officer. The Tides Center is fortunate to have engaged both a highly respected international firm and the personal commitment of two highly respected professionals and their team.
Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the world's leading management and technology consulting firms with over 11,400 client professionals in over 100 offices around the world. In addition to their business practice, the firm also has extensive experience with not-for-profit and public sector clients. They have worked with Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics International, Bay Area Council, and the San Francisco and Dallas Symphony Orchestras.
You can learn more about Booz Allen Hamilton at www.bah.com.
About W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 "to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." Its programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities. To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas. These include: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these areas, attention is given to exploring learning opportunities in leadership; information and communication technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic community development. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
About Tides Center
The Tides Center provides grants management, administrative, financial and human resource support to nonprofit initiatives. The support provided by the Tides Center staff permits creative non-profit managers to focus on delivering essential social, environmental, human service, educational, and social justice programs. For new and emerging nonprofit activities, this arrangement provides convenience, peace of mind, and in most cases, cost savings. Today, the Tides Center has offices in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and operates over 300 small, medium, and large charitable projects in 40 states, with combined budgets totaling more than 60 million dollars annually. The Tides Center has been delivering services for nearly two decades, first as the Projects Program of the Tides Foundation and now as an independent nonprofit corporation.
The Tides Center is part of the Tides Family of Organizations - a group of non-profit organizations linked by a commitment to positive social change, innovation, and environmental sustainability. In addition to the Tides Center, the Tides Family includes the Tides Foundation, Groundspring.org, California Community Clinics Initiative, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, and Tsunami Fund. The organizations that comprise the Tides Family collaborate as partners sharing ideas, technical systems, and an office complex in the Presidio.
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