Tides Center
For Connect Humanity
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/14/2021
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Connect Humanity serves a unique role in the landscape as a fund able to blend and build complex capital stacks that ensure communities have the type and size of resources they need to achieve digital equity. It supports, catalyzes, and scales holistic solutions providing people with the internet access and means needed to participate fully in a digital society. This grant will help Connect Humanity refine its theory of change and impact frameworks. Once done, the clear articulation of these concepts will be worked into reporting, communications, and management practices in an effort to align their work pooling funding, investing in digital equity, and communicating results to stakeholders ranging from the foundation and corporate partners, to the nontraditional operators in whom we invest.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.tides.org
Address
1012 Torney Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the LeaderSpring Center
LeaderSpring, a fiscally sponsored project of the Tides Center, invests in supporting and developing leaders in the Bay Area. It seeks to foster a powerful, equity-driven social sector by strengthening leaders and organizations, developing communities of leaders, and transforming the systems in which they work. This support will enable LeaderSpring to deepen its efforts to shift organizational culture and structures to oppose and dismantle systems of oppression.
for the Climate and Community Project's work on Community Benefit Agreements in a Just Transition
The Climate and Community Project is fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center. The project is a network of academics and policy experts conducting research at the climate and inequality nexus. This grant will fund a project to explore the potential of community benefit agreements (CBAs) to support a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The goal is to produce a policy-oriented report and an environmental justice CBA toolkit that will examine what kinds of benefits negotiated agreements may offer to frontline communities, as well as potential shortcomings and unintended consequences of such accords. (Substrategy: Transition Minerals)
for the Mosaic initiative
This grant supports Mosaic, a project of the Tides Center, in its efforts to strengthen the infrastructure of the environmental community by investing in communications, leadership development, tools and training, field knowledge, and building relationships between organizations and communities. (Substrategy: Build the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
