Grantee Profile: Tides Foundation

To support the organization's online "carbon shift hub."

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology
• Leadership and Civic Engagement

Tyee Solutions Society

To support activities designed to produce a more environmentally responsible supply chain in the paper, printing and publishing industries in Canada and the United States.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology

Canopy

For renewed operating support. Organizing for Change will coordinate advocacy and voter engagement activities for a cross-section of British Columbia's best-known and most effective environmental groups.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Leadership and Civic Engagement

Tides Canada Initiatives - Organizing for Change

For expenses associated with the establishment of a fund to enable Vancouver, BC to realize its vision of becoming the greenest city in the world.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology

Contact

To advance progressive environmental policies and achieve greater influence and effectiveness with citizens and decision makers in British Columbia.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Leadership and Civic Engagement

Tides Canada Initiatives - Organizing for Change

To advance Forest Stewardship Council standards for timber production and practices and expand usage of recycled content for books and other printed materials.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology

Canopy

To engage and educate citizens on the potential risks of tankers on BC's inside passage and the Fraser River.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology

Dogwood Initiative

For creation of a climate change "desk" for this online publication that will utilize multiple channels to inform debate and understanding of solutions to complex problems that accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Energy, Industry, and Technology
• Leadership and Civic Engagement

Tyee Solutions Society

To support continuation of the Market Initiative's work to shift Canadian corporate demand for paper toward environmentally sustainable sources and away from virgin fiber derived from endangered forest types.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Canopy

To strengthen and enforce a 34-year moratorium on oil tanker traffic in the mid and north coast of British Columbia, and to prevent expansion of oil and gas infrastructure in Georgia Strait and the lower Fraser Basin.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative

The grant supports the Markets Initiative Program which aims to promote the use of ancient forest friendly paper by the Canadian publlishing industry.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Canopy

The grant supports the Dogwood Initiative to advance the production and use of FSC wood in British Columbia.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative

The grant supported the Dogwood Initiative's efforts to organize and assist First Nations to use legal and financial strategies to halt harmful logging projects.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative

The grant supported Markets Initiative's Ancient Forest Friendly Publishing Initiative.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Canopy

The grant provided continuing support for the Dogwood Initiative's British Columbia forest tenure reform campaign.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative

The Tides Foundation partners with donors to increase and organize resources for social change, deliver effective grantmaking programs, create opportunities for learning, and build community among donors and grantees. It is the fiscal sponsor of Taku Wild Products, an economic development venture by the Taku River Tlingit First Nation. The grant supports a project to produce and market a smoked salmon product, the proceeds from which will fund conservation efforts in the Taku River basin.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Taku Wild Products

The Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation seeks to motivate and financially support groups involved in research and education toward conservation of the Earth's ecosystems. The grant supports the Markets Initiative project, designed to safeguard the biodiversity and temperate old growth rainforests of British Columbia by shifting Canadian corporate consumption away from wood and paper products derived from BC's ancient rainforests. $10,000 is awarded as a one-to-one challenge grant for individual donors.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Canopy

The Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association conducts research and policy studies on issues of economic and ecological sustainability. The grant supports a project by the Forest Futures Society, a group working to create sustainable community solutions for lands and people. The project, on forest tenure reform in BC, supports aboriginal rights to land, and promotes First Nations and community eco-forestry. $10,000 is awarded as a one-to-one challenge grant for new individual donors.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative

Friends of Clayoquot Sound works to defend the earth, air, land, and waters of Clayoquot Sound and global temperate forests. The grant supports a project of the Markets Initiative Coalition to reduce Canadian consumption of ancient forests and create economic and political leverage for their protection by changing the way businesses purchase wood and paper products.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Canopy

The Institute for New Economics undertakes research in and promotes issues of economic and ecological sustainability, including energy, agriculture, trade, employment, environment, forestry, general economic changes, and social welfare. The grant supports the work of the Forest Futures Society to build a land reform campaign by assisting First Nations in British Columbia in regaining control of their land and resources.

Regions

• British Columbia

Program Areas

• Inactive Programs

Dogwood Initiative