Liberia: Surviving Gender-Based Violence
One of our projects at Tides, Women’s Rights International (WRI), works with women in conflict situations to document human rights violations. The director, Shana Swiss lived in Monrovia for many years...
View ArticleInnovative Approaches to Grantmaking in Africa
There are so many exciting and innovative grantmaking approaches focusing in Africa these days. Some foundations are taking the lead in challenging traditional models of grantmaking on the continent...
View ArticleShareholder Activism Wins Victories
Guest post by Timothy Smith, Senior Vice President, Environment, Social and Governance Group at Walden Asset Management The investment portfolio at Tides has been managed for decades by Walden Asset...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Integration: The Tides Africa Fund Approach
Why not integrate separate models of care if it could mean better health for clients and their families? That is the essential question that drives the work of our Africa Family Planning and HIV...
View ArticleOil and Anguish: Alaska, Nigeria, and the Gulf Coast
Within a week of the Exxon Oil spill in 1989, currents and winds pushed the slick 90 miles from the site of the tanker, out of Prince William Sound into the Gulf of Alaska. It eventually reached nearly...
View ArticleIPAS Celebrates International Women's Day
I had the privilege of celebrating International Women’s Day yesterday with some colleagues over at the Public Health Institute in Oakland. One of Tides grantees, Ipas (www.ipas.org) showed their film,...
View ArticleDispatches from the Field | Silicon Valley, Meet Silicon Savannah
Part 1 of a 3-part series. For the past week, I have participated on a learning journey in Kenya organized by London-based Leaders’ Quest on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation. Twenty leaders from...
View ArticleRemembering Nelson Mandela
Remembering Madiba: The Beautiful Leader By Toby Thompkins, VP Tides 21st Century I was too young to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to understand how the presence of one person’s life on this...
View ArticleFrom San Francisco to the World: Sharing space at Thoreau Center helps...
Author: Eric Talbert via Bay Area International Link (BAIL) I began working with EMERGENCY USA in 2011 and when we first opened our office in San Francisco I was very excited. As a member of Tides’...
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