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AT TIDES, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. Our missio is to parter with philathropists, foudatios, activists, ad orgaizatios across the coutry ad across the globe to promote ecoomic justice, robust democratic processes, ad the opportuity to live i a healthy ad sustaiable eviromet where huma rights are preserved ad 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 see. WHERE CAN YOU GO TO CHANGE THE WORLD?
GREEN SPACES FOR A GREEN FUTURE MULTI-TENANT NONPROFIT CENTERS WORKSPACE: THE CONSTANT CRISIS The power to chage the world lies i the ability of people to come together, share ideas, ad work to make their visios real. Yet too ofte activists ad commuity orgaizatios do ot have the workspace they eed to forward their missio, grow their commuity, or support a larger movemet. High rets ad tight markets are displacig vital oprofits at a icreasig rate. This tred ofte leaves social chage leaders i poor quality space, isolated from their peers ad far from the commuities who eed them most. SHARED SPACES: LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS Gree Noprofit Ceters are buildigs that house multiple orgaizatios ad provide healthy, efficiet, quality, missioehacig workspace. More tha just offices, these facilities ca become sustaiable ceters of stregth for commuities to dream together, work together, ad grow together. Tides has take the lead i this burgeoig movemet, parterig with istitutios ad idividuals like you to create log-term solutios to the oprofit space crisis. SUPPORTING THE NONPROFIT SECTOR WITH REAL ESTATE EXPERTISE Create Sustaiable Space for Chage Agets i Your Commuity Explore Triple Bottom Lie Ivestmet Opportuities i Gree Buildigs BUILD FUNDER COLLABORATIONS FOR LOCAL WORKSPACE Fid out what s possible by workig with Tides
Supportig the Noprofit Sector with Real Estate Expertise how YOU ca work with TIDES REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FOR REAL CHANGE LEVERAGE HANDS ON EXPERIENCE Complex real estate developmet processes ad markets ca be difficult ad time-cosumig to avigate. Tides has the experiece, the kowledge, ad the etworks to help you successfully create oprofit real estate assets. CREATE SHARED SPACE FOR SHARED IDEAS Buildig Coectios ad Buildig Commuity Gree oprofit ceters ot oly result i shared overhead costs but also create a hub for social chage orgaizatios, where shared ideas ca tur ito shared actio. FIND THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE INVEST IN GREEN NONPROFIT CENTERS Soud fiacial ivestmets that also support positive social chage ad advace cuttig edge sustaiable desig create a triple bottom lie for our parters. Developig, operatig, ad promotig gree, affordable shared office space for oprofits is ot oly a iovative opportuity for social mided ivestors but also creates more stability ad much eeded ifrastructure for the progressive commuity. COMMON VISION, COMMON RESOURCES BUILD LOCAL WORKSPACE FUNDER COLLABORATIONS By supportig oprofit ceters, you have a immediate platform to brig together local fuders i your regio. Together, we ca icrease the impact of commuity ivestmets. Oe ivestmet ca support multiple orgaizatios ad help stregthe a commuity. 3 TIDES
TIDES IN ACTION: CASE STUDIES Thoreau Ceters Cuttig Edge Gree Desig A Commuity of Social Chage Noprofits o Two Coasts More Tha 70 Noprofit Teats Models of Efficiet Gree Operatios THOREAU CENTERS FOR SUSTAINABILITY CREATING QUALITY NONPROFIT WORKSPACE I 1996, the coversio of a military base to the Presidio Natioal Park provided the perfect opportuity for Tides to create ot just a ew home for itself but also a vibrat space for the sustaiability movemet. By leadig a gree reovatio of historic Letterma Hospital, Tides opeed up 150,000 square feet of quality office space to more tha 60 orgaizatios. This first Thoreau Ceter for Sustaiability has bee a model of gree buildig operatios ad commuity programmig. Over its twelve-year history, the Thoreau Ceter for Sustaiability Sa Fracisco has saved its teat orgaizatios over $13 millio i ret ad provided a stable home i a rapidly fluctuatig real estate market. I October of 2007, Thoreau Ceter New York opeed its doors. Located i Lower Mahatta directly across the street from the New York Stock Exchage, the LEED-certified buildig features Class A eergy-efficiet gree desig. It is also home to more tha te oprofit orgaizatios promotig educatioal access, evirometal stewardship, ad social justice. NoprofitCeters Network Over 150 Members Across the U.S. ad Caada THE NONPROFITCENTERS NETWORK BUILDING A LEARNING COMMUNITY As ews of the Thoreau Ceter s success spread, orgaizatios ad idividuals tured to Tides ad a hadful of other oprofit ceters atiowide to lear how they could replicate these models of collaboratio ad efficiecy. Coectig Foudatios ad Noprofits with Real Estate Experts Sharig Best Practices for Creatig Evirometally Coscious Facilities I 2001,Tides preseted the first Collaboratig for Success Coferece to share the tools, experieces ad cotacts gathered durig the creatio of the Thoreau Ceter. Two cofereces later, the demad for ogoig educatio cotiued. The result is The NoprofitCeters Network, a commuity of oprofit ceter leaders, foudatios, ad professioals from the fiacial, real estate, ad public sectors dedicated to sharig their kowledge ad etworks with emergig projects ad each other. With over 150 members, the Network a program of Tides Shared Spaces cotiues to grow, offerig traiig, techical assistace, cosultig, educatioal resources, ad coectios to esure that commuities have the tools they eed to build ad operate complex real estate projects. TIDES 4
ALLIANCE CENTER Leveragig Tides Expertise Fouders of the Alliace for Sustaiable Colorado came to Tides to help them realize their dream of a missio-drive ceter advacig sustaiability through collaboratio. Alliace members participated i semiars offered through The NoprofitCeters Network, but they also wated oe-o-oe advice ad guidace. Tides partered with the Alliace to provide ogoig strategic cosultatio throughout the desig ad developmet phases of their project. From gree buildig desig to teat relatios, Tides brought together its lessos leared ad kowledge of ceters aroud the coutry to help the Alliace make iformed decisios that saved them time ad moey. The double LEED-certified Alliace Ceter ow houses 27 oprofit orgaizatios ad four virtual teats that champio a rage of evirometal, health, media, social justice, ad civic egagemet projects. From this hub, located less tha two miles from the Dever State Capitol, the Alliace is buildig a statewide sustaiability movemet fosterig collaboratio amog oprofits, busiesses, academia, ad govermet. SHARING KNOWLEDGE TO CREATE NEW WORKSPACE Moey-savig Developmet ad Fiace Expertise Customized optios That Ca Work for Your Commuity Supportive Soudig Board for Complex Real Estate Decisios GREENSPACE PROMOTING INNOVATIVE FUNDING STRATEGIES SOCIAL MINDED INVESTMENTS Whe real estate professioals ad philathropists Diego Recalde ad Marjorie Torres atteded the 2003 Collaboratig for Success Coferece, they ever dreamed it would lead them to start a $200 millio real estate ivestmet pool. The coferece led to a partership with Tides to help create a ew office ad oprofit ceter i New York City. Their successful collaboratio with Tides i developig Thoreau Ceter for Sustaiability New York has prompted them to start GreeSpace, a private real estate developmet ad fud maagemet firm with sigificat oprofit owership. Their visio is a fud that ca provide fiacial, evirometal, ad social beefit returs to ivestors while helpig to create gree oprofit facilities atiowide. This iovative fudig strategy will brig a ew source of fiacig to these capital-itesive projects. Leveragig New Resources for Social Beefit Support for Iovative Fourth Sector Projects Opportuities for Triple Bottom-lie Ivestmet Returs A Philathropic Istitutio That Uderstads Etrepreeurs 5 TIDES
HELPING YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY, YOUR IDEAS, AND YOUR IDEALS. 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 by providig fiscal sposorship, icludig fiacial, payroll ad huma resource services effectively outsourcig your back-office operatios. 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. Our experiece ad expertise give you a oe-stop shop from admiistratio to program. 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 committed to professioal service, our goal is to brig together people, resources, ad iovatio for positive social chage. Together, let s fid out what s possible. www.tides.org www.tidesfoudatio.org www.tidesceter.org www.tidessharedspaces.org For more iformatio, please call us at 415.561.6400 or email us at ifo@tides.org TIDES 6
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