Program Related Investments: Changing Business as Usual for Philanthropy

Posted by cdodd in Economics, Impact & Innovation, Impact Investing, Philanthropy, Tides.org on May 17, 2012 | No Comments

Last week Tides attended the Mission Impact conference in Seattle, to continue to explore the best way to leverage program-related investments in Tides’ signature MRI Pooled Fund, and to learn more about the changes afoot in the philanthropic investors community. At the conference, More for Mission and PRI Makers Network announced they have joined forces to become Mission Investors Exchange, an organization dedicated to helping philanthropic investors increase the impact of their capital.

Composed of more than...

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Nominate a Young Activist for the 2012 Mario Savio Young Activist Award

Posted by cdodd in Civic Participation, Tides, Tides.org on May 14, 2012 | No Comments

"To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is. That's what marks us off from the stones and the stars. You can speak freely. It is really the thing that marks us as just below the angels." Mario Savio, 1994.

Mario Savio was one of the key members of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the 1960's. He rose to prominence after an address given at Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley on December 2nd, 1964, where he urged students that, "There's a time when...

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