For Social Change Leaders

When individual or organizational leaders seek to create new partnerships, particularly those that bridge the private and public sectors, fiscal sponsorship from Tides can help these collaboratives achieve economies of scale and magnify the impact of donors by sharing a single infrastructure and benefiting from expert facilitation.

Tides can also leverage its internal and global network of experts and knowledge to identify new potential collaborators, as well as merger opportunities. Working together, we ensure that your ideas have the best possible change of impacting communities - as well as the national agenda.

Effective nonprofit work requires an effective governance structure: a board of directors, an advisory board, and/or advisors that support the organization's leaders and helping to advance the mission. Tides offers customized consulting and resources to help you build the right governance structure for your organization; these can include new project assessments, written educational materials, training, annual review, conflict of interest management, and year-round consulting to address specific challenges.

Often, creating large-scale systems change involves effecting change on the policy level. Tides' expertise in advocacy can help you understand and navigate the complexities of lobbying, political processes, and funding rules in order to influence policymakers and systems. 501(c)(4) incubation, acceleration and strategic advisory services are also available to groups so they can increase their advocacy efforts.

Through Tides Converge SF and NY, we offer social change leaders affordable, sustainable office and event spaces within a community of like-minded nonprofits and social ventures. Tides Converge San Francisco is an ideal space for leaders to connect, learn from one another, and innovate.

Social change work can involve complex regulations and liabilities. Our expertise in nonprofit management can help you anticipate, identify, and guard against legal and regulatory risks and other potential hazards, ensuring that you can stay focused on your mission.

When your desired impact goes beyond your local community and into the wider world, you need the assurance that your grants and activities are appropriate and effective within a complex system of laws, cultures, and traditions. Tides' experience as an international grantmaker in over 150 countries gives us the wisdom and perspective to help guide you through the sometimes daunting challenges that come with global work.

Partnering with Tides in any capacity gives you the benefit of our knowledge and perspective, gained from our unique vantage point at the nexus of a powerful network of global funders and changemakers. You'll also leverage that network itself: we offer connections within the Tides project community, trainings and webinars on relevant nonprofit topics, and access to knowledge sharing via major online databases. Becoming a part of our community enhances all of our solutions, bringing you to the forefront of social innovation.