Tides Center
For The Connect U.S. Fund
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The U.S. foreign policy community includes a variety of actors: policymakers navigating a complex, interconnected foreign policy landscape; NGOs competing for the policymakers’ time and attention; and foundations supporting projects to advance their vision of a better world. Since 2003, the Hewlett Foundation has supported the Connect U.S. Fund, a project of the Tides Foundation that builds relationships among these diverse players. The Fund has become increasingly recognized as a key convener and driver of high-level policy advocacy in five important issue areas: nonproliferation, climate change, reform of international financial institutions, support for U.S. civilian agencies engaged in development, and human rights. Not only do NGOs turn to the Fund for assistance, but policymakers ask it to facilitate conversations with NGOs on major policy issues. The Fund is among the few organizations that can respond to requests for rapid funding and therefore react nimbly to unforeseen events, thus multiplying its impact. In addition, the Fund provides grants to organizations that facilitate collaboration across issue areas. This renewal grant is a collaboration between the Global Development and Special Projects programs, in recognition of the fact that the Fund has broadened its issue areas far beyond those solely of interest to Global Development.
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 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)
for the Resound Research for Reproductive Health Project
The Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) is a project of the Tides Center. TxPEP has been generating key evidence about the impact of reproductive health policies over the last 12 years, filling a unique role in Texas’ reproductive health, justice, and rights ecosystem. It evaluates how policies and legal decisions impact access to reproductive health care and people’s lived experiences, and are a go-to source for reliable information by community organizations, policymakers, and the media. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
