Challenging the Status Quo
Our Vision
A world of shared prosperity and social justice, founded on equality and human rights, a sustainable environment, healthy individuals and communities, and quality education.
Our Mission
Tides accelerates the pace of social change, working with innovative partners to solve society's toughest problems.
Our Approach
We believe that to achieve shared prosperity and social justice, we must take a collaborative, bold approach to the work.
We cross boundaries and link sectors, communities and cultures
We act with empathy and respect
We engage with those whose lives are most affected
We embrace risk
We prioritize ideas that scale
We bring unlikely partners together, leveraging our unparalleled community of global and community leaders to identify new solutions.
Explore Our Partners and Impact
We take a comprehensive approach toward investing for impact.
Today’s challenges require diverse models and tools to drive change.
Philanthropy, entrepreneurship, impact investing, and advocacy cannot be siloed if we are to actually solve today’s challenges. We push the boundaries with every dollar and idea, looking for ways to compound impact using every tool at our disposal. For decades, we’ve been innovating in how we invest for impact, looking across sectors, asset classes, and investment types for social and environmental impact.
Scale of our Impact
Tides works across borders and issues. We leverage the scale of our work to amplify the power of every one of our partners.
$223.6M for social change
Grant totals in 2016 by issue area:
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$69.7M Equality and Human Rights
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$71.1M Quality Education
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$46.5M Economic Development
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$20.5M Healthy Individuals and Communities
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$15.8M Sustainable Environment
$110M+ for support of 150+ social ventures
$300M+ in impact investments