INVESTING IN SOCIAL CHANGE TOOLS FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

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1 INVESTING IN SOCIAL CHANGE TOOLS FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

2 At Tides, we have bee workig for more tha 30 years with people like you to make the world a better place. Our missio is to parter with activists, philathropists, foudatios, ad orgaizatios across the coutry ad aroud the globe to promote ecoomic justice, robust democratic processes, ad the opportuity to live ad work i a healthy ad sustaiable eviromet where huma rights are protected. We offer a array of services to simplify ad amplify your efforts. From door advised fuds to fiscal sposorship, from gree oprofit ceters to programmatic cosultig, from grats maagemet to risk maagemet ad more, Tides gives you the freedom to focus o the chage you wat to make i the world. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT INNOVATION FOR THE GREATER GOOD?

3 MERGING VALUES AND VISION: CREATING CAPITAL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Whe idividuals ad busiesses look for ways to merge their etrepreeurial efforts with core values of fairess, equality, ad evirometal sustaiability, they tur to Tides. Tides provides a combiatio of iovatio ad expertise alog with ifrastructure to help develop uique programs that address the emergig eeds of what is icreasigly kow as the fourth sector where market-based activity ad philathropy coverge. We ca work with you to structure charitable ivestmets i iovative social vetures. We ca help create or maage a doatio-liked corporate givig program. We ca develop gratmakig programs that stimulate grassroots ecoomic developmet or stimulate research i ew techologies. Whether you wat to create a ew givig program, add ifrastructure support to your existig program, or reach overseas to support global oprofits, Tides services, ifrastructure, ad expert advice ca help you icrease the impact of your philathropy. Together, let s fid out what s possible. Parter o Flexible ad Iovative Philathropic Solutios Achieve a Triple Bottom Lie Reach Across the Natio ad Aroud the Globe Gai Expert Maagemet of Your Orgaizatio s Givig Program

4 how YOU ca work with TIDES develop Flexible ad Iovative Philathropic Solutios Givig collaboratives, opportuities to ivest i oprofits, gree-desig oprofit real estate projects, ad more, all for the greater good. Developig solutios for your philathropic goals is our missio at Tides. We parter with idividuals ad istitutios, big ad small, to create programs ad charitable vehicles that alig with your values ad your missio. From maagig ad advisig multi-parter givig collaboratives to creatig the first oprofit owed brokerage firm, from ivestmet opportuities i gree-desiged oprofit ceters to microfiace vehicles for fair trade compaies, our professioal staff works with you to meet your eeds ad to make the world a better place. Achieve a Triple Bottom Lie: SMART INVESTMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE If you have charitable assets that you wat to distribute over a log time horizo, Tides offers the optio of ivested door advised fuds where you ca choose betwee several socially resposible ivestmet vehicles, icludig a socially screeed fud ad a small cap fud that proactively ivests i iovative, socially resposible compaies. Additioally, we ca help you leverage charitable assets through a door advised fud to create missio-related ivestmets i the form of low- or o-iterest loas or private equity ivestmets i emergig ad missio-related busiess vetures. Reach Across the Natio ad Aroud the Globe If you wat to reach out to your local commuity, across the coutry, or aroud the globe, Tides has the expertise. We have crafted ad maaged grat programs throughout the Uited States ad throughout the world. Tides grated more tha $70 millio overseas sice 2000 ad is oe of the leadig global gratmakers i the coutry, with the experiece ad commitmet to avigate a icreasigly complicated regulatory eviromet. Gai Expert Maagemet of Your Corporate Givig Program As the well-wor busiess axiom goes: focus o your core competecy. Whether you eed assistace i maagig your curret corporate givig or are developig a ew program, Tides ca help. Our corporate cliets iclude socially resposible busiess leaders like Workig Assets ad Patagoia, well-kow brads like Reebok ad Liz Claibore, ad emergig social etrepreeurs workig i adveture travel, publishig, ad fiace. Our admiistrative ad cosultig services help corporate givig programs operate more efficietly ad effectively. We ca hadle a wide rage of eeds from maagig applicatio ad review processes, hadlig iteratioal grats, ad coductig due diligece, to desigig creative ad iovative programs. We ca also provide a coveiet web-based process so you ca exted requests for proposals ad review those grat proposals olie. 3 TIDES Tools for Social Iovatio

5 TIDES IN ACTION: CASE STUDIES Iovative SOLUTIONS FOR POSITIVE CHANGE Groudbreakig For-Profit/Noprofit Hybrid Comprehesive Gratmakig Services Philathropic Cosultig The First Noprofit-Owed Brokerage Firm AltruShare Securities Fiacig childcare support i low-icome commuities. Ivestmet i microloa programs for residets of uderserved eighborhoods. Career developmet for youg people about to eter the workforce. These are ot usual activities of a ivestmet brokerage firm. But AltruShare Securities is ot your typical firm. Lauched i 2006, AltruShare is the world s first oprofit-owed istitutioal brokerage firm as well as the first commuity ivestmet eterprise i the brokerage commuity. Whe lookig for a philathropic parter to help lauch this iovative busiess model, AltruShare tured to Tides. Tides helped structure this uique firm to both advace its visio of a busiess dedicated to the best i corporate social resposibility ad to comply with existig regulatory requiremets. A for-profit veture, oe-third of AltruShare s profits are grated to the AltruShare Opportuity Fud, which actively supports programs i youth developmet, educatio, ad ecoomic opportuity i the commuities i which AltruShare does busiess. Tides maages this fud, providig gratmakig, research, ad philathropic advisory services to esure that AltruShare is workig toward its missio of providig sustaiable support for diverse commuities as it returs value to its ivestors. BUSINESS VEHICLES TO MOVE A SOCIAL AGENDA Microledig To Get Capital Where It s Needed Buildig Grassroots Capital Ecoomic Developmet for Ecoomic Justice Promotig ecoomic opportuity for commuities aroud the world is a itegral part of the Tides missio ad the passio of may of our parters. Through collective givig fuds ad idividual parterships, we have supported gratmakig ad ivestmet strategies that have empowered idividuals ad commuities i achievig ecoomic self-determiatio ad sustaiability. Missio-Related Ivestmets Low to 0% Loas to Noprofits Our parters have supported umerous oprofit ad grassroots orgaizatios ad programs usig microeterprise ad micro-ledig vehicles to address lack of access to capital. Gramee USA Foudatio s Village Phoe Direct Program, Refugee Wome s Network, ad La Mujer Obrera are just a few of the orgaizatios supported by Tides parters. Through a iovative mix of missio-related ivestmets, low-to-0% loas, ad grats, our parters help further ecoomic empowermet for commuities of color, wome, ad people with disabilities i urba, rural, ad idigeous commuities both domestically ad globally. Tools for Social Iovatio TIDES 4

6 A Academy Award for Social Chage Media Missio-related Ivestmets i Film The film Taxi to the Dark Side wo the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documetary Feature for its portrayal of the cotroversial death of a Afgha taxi driver beate to death while beig held i extrajudicial detetio at Guataamo Bay, Cuba. Critically acclaimed director Cherie Dabis film, Amreeka, documets the life of a Palestiia immigrat ad her teeage so who arrive i rural Illiois to escape a life of oppressio, oly to ecouter the fallout from the war i Iraq. MISSION AND MESSAGE: THINKING DIFFERENTLY Usig Philathropy To Move Hearts ad Mids Ivestig i Powerful Media A Commitmet to Our Missio Both films brig to light some of the most cotroversial ad critical global issues of our times. Ad they have somethig else i commo: through Tides admiistratio of missio-related ivestmets, both films were supported by doors who have fuds at Tides. At Tides, we utilize missio-related ivestmets, icludig ivestig i social chage media, as a iovative ad uique way to create social chage. Gree Spaces for a Gree Future Real Estate Developmet for the Noprofit Sector High rets ad the fight to fid adequate workspace are hard realities that oprofits across the coutry face o a daily basis. Too ofte activists ad commuity orgaizatios that are doig vital work do ot have the basic office space they eed to forward their missio or grow their commuity. Gree oprofit ceters are buildigs that house multiple orgaizatios ad provide healthy, efficiet, quality, missio-ehacig workspace. Tides has take the lead i this burgeoig movemet, developig, operatig, ad promotig these real estate projects across the coutry. The Thoreau Ceter i Sa Fracisco ad Thoreau Ceter New York are just two examples of how Tides ca parter with istitutios ad idividuals to provide fiacial, evirometal, ad social beefit returs to ivestors while creatig more stability ad much-eeded ifrastructure for the progressive commuity. FINDING THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE Soud Ivestmet Opportuity Support Local Activists Promote Gree Architecture 5 TIDES Tools for Social Iovatio

7 HELPING YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY, YOUR IDEAS, AND YOUR IDEALS. At Tides, we have bee workig for over 30 years with people like you to make the world a better place. Today, Tides provides fiscal sposorship for over 200 groups across the coutry. We are spearheadig the movemet for gree oprofit ceters, ad we have grated more tha $550 millio to progressive oprofits sice 2000 aloe. IF YOU ARE A PHILANTHROPIST, Tides offers door advised gratmakig, philathropic advice, iteratioal gratmakig, collective givig optios, scholarship programs, ad other opportuities to improve the lives of people aroud the globe. IF YOU ARE A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR OR NONPROFIT LEADER, Tides allows you to focus o your visio through fiscal sposorship icludig fiacial, payroll, ad huma resource services providig ready-made ifrastructure for your work. IF YOU ARE AN ESTABLISHED FOUNDATION, Tides parters with you to create, maage, or expad effective ad efficiet grats programs. We operate iteratioal fudig collaboratives ad provide program support, cotracts maagemet, ad real estate cosultig. IF YOU ARE A SOCIAL-MINDED INVESTOR, Tides is creatig ew opportuities such as real estate ivestmets that also provide gree, sustaiable space for oprofits with a focus o strog fiacial ad social returs. Tides coects philathropists ad activists, foudatios ad etrepreeurs, ideas ad actio. Committed to our values ad to professioal service, we brig together people, resources, ad iovatio for positive social chage. Together, let s fid out what s possible For more iformatio, please call us at or us at ifo@tides.org Tools for Social Iovatio TIDES 6

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