Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter of 2023.
If 2022 was any indicator of what’s to come, we have a lot to look forward to this year. Our individual and family partners supported Bay Area housing initiatives, funded unsung heroes of reproductive justice, created a participatory grantmaking fund for food policy councils, and so much more. Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make this world what we need it to be for all of us.
As we settle into 2023, Tides remains committed to amplifying the impact of your grantmaking and impact investing. With our CEO Janiece Evans-Page at the helm, Tides is on course to meet its new mandate:
Tides will shift and strengthen the power of proximate leaders, communities of color, and other historically excluded groups who face systemic barriers — to grow their resources so they can achieve sustainable systems change for equity and justice.
This goal aligns with Tides’ long and deep commitment to social justice. We look forward to being in community with you this year as we work together to move toward a more just and equitable world.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas or questions.
In solidarity,
Molly Norton
Managing Advisor
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// Funding Water Justice in East Palo Alto: The annual Honig Initiative for Bay Area Social & Economic Justice has selected Nuestra Casa for a two-year grant to fund a water justice fellow and support its efforts to increase access to safe and affordable drinking water.
// Participatory Processes Shape Better Food Policy Fund: Led by practitioners in the food policy council space, this collective action fund ran a participatory co-development process that involved 300+ stakeholders and will soon make grants in support of civic collaboration for better food policy.
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The voter turnout gap between white and BIPOC voters is exacerbated in state and local elections compared with presidential and midterm elections. Beth Huang, program officer of civic engagement and democracy at Tides Foundation, shares how the Healthy Democracy Fund is making it possible for community groups to mobilize voters before high-stakes local and state elections like the upcoming Wisconsin judicial election, which will determine the outcome of abortion rights and gerrymandered legislative maps.
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Driven by her experience growing up in segregated Mississippi and surviving Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, Katherine Egland has been on the frontlines of social change for decades. In this moving interview, she discusses how the organization she co-founded is repealing racist zoning laws and practices with support from the Tides Foundation Frontline Justice Fund.
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