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Tides Center provides back-office services, a legal framework, and capacity-building support for projects that share our vision of a just, healthy, and sustainable world. Tides Center accelerates social change by enabling new and effective approaches to some of our society’s most pressing issues.
As the country’s leading fiscal sponsor, Tides Center has set the benchmark in providing infrastructure and services to hundreds of nonprofit projects nationwide. To learn more about what Tides Center provides for fiscally sponsored projects, see our Services section.
Tides Center and our projects believe healthy societies rely fundamentally on respect for human rights, the vitality of communities, and a celebration of diversity. Projects work to effect change in the areas of social justice, economic development, civic engagement, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, human rights, community development, international affairs, and nonprofit capacity building, among others. Varying in size from a single dedicated volunteer to a staff of hundreds, Tides Center projects are located all over the nation. For information on individual projects, see our Project Directory.
1996. Tides Center's predecessor program, the Projects Program of the Tides Foundation, began in 1977.
45 core staff with a wealth of leadership, management, and nonprofit experience, plus 350 Tides Center project staff.
