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Why Work with Tides?

Because:

Tides enables you to have greater efficiency and impact with your money, ideas, and ideals.

We provide service, expertise, and global reach.

You join an active, connected, and growing community of like-minded donors.

As a Tides donor, you become part of an engaged community of donors who align their giving with principles of social justice and farsighted environmental stewardship.

Rather than give in isolation, you have the opportunity to learn and collaborate on key issues such as climate change, climate justice, poverty and homelessness, small and large-scale forest and marine conservation, and violence prevention.

Our staff and board can help introduce you to high-impact charitable investment opportunities.

With over a century of combined experience and expertise, our board and team at Tides can help donors identify and invest in some of the most innovative and effective charitable organizations and projects in Canada.

Tides leads the way in Socially Responsible Investing.

Giving to charity is only one part of supporting positive change. Harmonizing your values with how your dollars are invested creates even greater impact.

From our inception, Tides has only invested in companies whose policies and practices are aligned with our mission to support social justice and environmental protection.

Tides’ financial assets, including those of our advised funds and endowments, are managed under socially responsible investment (SRI) policies. We strive to ensure that our investments do not contravene the work of our grant recipients, charity and non-profit partners, and donors.

You can make grants across Canada and support causes in all the places you care about.

As a national public foundation, Tides enables you to make grants anywhere in Canada, no matter which community, city, or province you live in.

We offer the country’s leading international giving services and counsel, in partnership with Tides Foundation in the U.S. This makes it easy for Canadian and U.S. donors to make donations and recommend grants on either side of the border and across the world.

Our client-centered services make your giving easier, cost-effective, and more enjoyable.

Giving should be easy, personally meaningful, professionally administered, and ultimately, effective. Tides has developed giving strategies that respond to donor needs and focus on issues that concern them.

Through our focus on charitable giving funds, we can tailor a broad range of effective grant-making programs for you.

Whether you’re a seasoned philanthropist, a new donor looking to diversify, deepen, and simplify your giving, or a charity wanting to increase long-term support for your mission, Tides offers easy and effective solutions.