Sharing Becomes a Movement

Sharing Nonprofit Space & Services
Grows into a Movement

Across North America and around the globe, thousands of community, philanthropic, government and private sector leaders are investing in nonprofit shared services and building projects to promote healthy, vibrant communities. Through our creation, operation, and promotion of sustainable workspace and administrative services for nonprofits, Tides has taken the lead in this burgeoning movement.
 

The Nonprofit Shared Space & Services Conference

May 9-11, 2011, Los Angeles, CA
Building Opportunities is the largest event in North America dedicated to creating and managing shared workspace, administrative services, technology and programs for the nonprofit sector. With three days of practical workshops, dynamic networking events and inspirational tours, the conference is for anyone interested in learning What Works from hundreds of successful projects helping nonprofits gain greater efficiencies and create lasting social change. Learn more >

Reflections on 10 Years of Building Opportunities

by China Brotsky, Senior Vice President, Tides Shared Spaces

In 2007 a group of Carbondale, Colorado residents had a vision that an empty elementary school building could become a dynamic community resource filled with artist studios, social service offices, and meeting space for organizations, businesses, neighborhood groups and environmentalists of all kinds. With the town's vision and ongoing support, a broad partnership grew that included a local developer, an architect, a community development corporation, a local bank, and a social entrepreneurship fund. Rather than start from scratch, this group decided to see if anyone else had tried this idea and what they could learn from them.  Read more >
 

China Brotsky interviewed on American Public Media's Marketplace: Nonprofit center helps immigrants build business
Plaza Adelante in San Francisco has become a nonprofit hub that's helping the surrounding Latino neighborhood create and build their small businesses.

• Sierra Health Foundation opens nonprofit center to foster shared knowledge and innovation
• Alliance for Sustainable Colorado creates nonprofit center to advocate for statewide social change

Foundation For The Carolinas dramatically scales positive impact of local nonprofits by funding providers of nonprofit shared services

As one of the largest community foundations in the country, Foundation For The Carolinas (FFTC) exists to help individuals, families, nonprofits, and corporations make a positive impact in Carolina communities. FFTC convenes a funder collaborative that strives to create a more effective, efficient, and innovative nonprofit sector by supporting strategic mergers, innovative service models, partnerships, and collaborations among nonprofits. Tides conducted a feasibility study to determine what shared services would most benefit local nonprofits. Learn more >
 

See the Videos!
Nonprofit Centers Powering Change
in Communities across the U.S.

The Carroll Nonprofit Center solves a dire need for office space in Westminster, MD

The NonProfit Center in Boston: Sustainable space for progressive social change organizations

YouthVille Detroit: A center designed by youth for youth who don't have a place to go