Investing in the Mission and Beyond

This week, Council on Foundations is holding its Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Tides CEO, Melissa L. Bradley, was a panelist at the conference and has authored this guest post on Mission Related Investing.

To see more from the Council on Foundations Annual Conference, click here to read blog postings from conference participants.

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Join Tides Next Week in Charlotte

Tides is pleased to participate in the 2010 Community Foundations Fall Conference in Charlotte, NC.  Be sure to check out one of two sessions where Tides will present on innovative shared space and services for nonprofits, and stop by Exhibit hall Booth #401 to say hello!  We hope to see you in Charlotte....

Giving Leads to Success and Happiness, Therefore…

At the opening plenary of the Council on Foundation’s Family Philanthropy Conference, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute presented some compelling research that proves that giving and volunteerism contribute to both individual and communal wealth creation and in turn, happiness.   Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the research is that it shows that the connection between giving and wealth are not merely correlative, but causal.  Brooks started out trying to de-bunk the theory that many new entrepreneurs...