Tides Foundation partners with donors to increase and organize resources for positive social change

Tides Center is a founding organization of Tides Network. Tides Center partners with individuals, groups, and funders to implement programs that accelerate positive social change.

It provides back-office services, a legal framework, and capacity-building support for projects that share its vision of a just, healthy, and sustainable world. Tides Center accelerates social change by enabling new and effective approaches to some of society's most pressing issues.

TIDES CENTER HIGHLIGHTS

Making an Impact

Case studies and profiles highlight Tides Center projects creating positive global change.  Learn More >

Successful Strategies

Learn how fiscal sponsorship contributes to flexibility and innovation in the nonprofit sector.  Learn More >

Services for Projects

Tides Center experts in finance, HR, grants and more enable social innovators to build organizational capacity.   Learn More >

Become a Tides Center Project

A step-by-step guide to become a project and get Tides Center services.   Learn More >
Our Mission Column
Founded

The nation’s leading values-based sponsor of social innovation, Tides Center partners with individuals, groups, and funders to implement programs that accelerate positive social change.

Founded

1996. Tides Center's predecessor program, the Projects Program of the Tides Foundation, began in 1977.

Facts
  • $62.4 million annual revenue for fiscal year 2006.
  • Since 1996, Tides Center has operated 677 projects with combined revenues of $522.4 million.  
Employees

41 core staff with a wealth of leadership, management, and nonprofit experience, plus 350 Tides Center project staff.