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T ides Canada was founded with a unique goal: to grow and organize resources for the environment and social justice. Our founding donors and board of directors, all seasoned philanthropists and social entrepreneurs, saw gaps in the Canadian philanthropic and charitable landscape: an underdeveloped donor base for
environmental and social justice organizations, and the need for a “natural home” for social change philanthropy.
Six years from start-up, we are well en route to realizing our founders’ vision. By the end of 2006, Tides Canada had granted over 29 million to hundreds of social justice and environmental organizations; and our donor base of strategic philanthropists grows every year. Along the way, we pioneered an international giving service that enables Canadian donors to make receipted gifts to all the places they care about. Our donor partners are changing lives and bringing hope to fellow Canadians and people in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Tides Canada is privileged to help donors support excellent organizations that advance effective strategies for environmental sustainability and lasting social change. Featured in the following pages are some of these innovators and their stories. They are making huge waves in their local communities, across Canada, and all over the world.
Our biggest accomplishment for 2006 was our contribution to the protection of Canada’s 21 million acre Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, the largest and most significant integrated conservation project in North American history. For a planet with too few environmental achievements to celebrate, news of The Great Bear captured the world’s imagination. The story was on virtually every TV, radio and print outlet in Canada. It made front-page of the Washington Post, and was featured in 1,000 news articles including a major piece in the New York Times.
And this year we were honoured to welcome Oxfam Canada’s organizational endowment into our family of funds. They chose to establish their fund with Tides Canada because of our shared values and Socially Responsible Investment policy.
As we look back on 2006, the following highlights emerge:
• Launching the Tides Canada Social Justice Fund. Begun with a $1million challenge grant from Carol Newell and the Endswell Foundation, this collaborative giving fund brings donors together on social justice grant making. Working with Canadian Women’s Foundation, we made the first grants to four innovative violence prevention programs in British Columbia. We also convened a Toronto-based working group composed of key stakeholders focused on affordable housing and homelessness issues.
• Launching Sage Centre’s Ontario demonstration project. With funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and in partnership with Agora Foundation, we are piloting our incubation, infrastructure support, and mentoring model for emerging charitable initiatives. The project features a “Learning Circle” composed of charitable sector funders and policy makers which will share their recommendations on the model.
• Growing environmental philanthropy. Tides Canada, in partnership with Green Legacies, a collaboration of environmental organizations, commissioned research that showed that while environmental awareness in Canada is at an all-time high, environmental philanthropy is alarmingly low and has remained stagnant over the last 10 years. We are proud to support a unified national communications campaign aimed at increasing environmental giving.
• Co-hosting Canada’s first ever National Strategy Session on Social Finance to map an accelerated growth plan for the financial infrastructure urgently needed to support Canada’s charitable sector. Our partners included: Vancity, JW McConnell Family Foundation, PLAN, and Carleton University.
Tides Canada’s rapid growth in the first six years confirms our founders’ belief that social and environmental values are important to Canadians and that it is possible to address the huge gaps in funding and capacity for environmental and social justice work.
But there is still so much to be done. And at Tides Canada, we are dedicated to continue building an engaged donor community to support and further the work of environmental and social change leaders.
Thank you to all our donor partners, colleagues, and program funders for your invaluable and sustained support of social justice and environmental causes. It is a true privilege and pleasure to work with you as you effect positive change in Canada and around the world.
Sincerely,
Tim Draimin, Executive Director
From the Executive Director
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 1
2006 At-A-Glance
Total assets invested under Socially Responsible
Investment Principles: $15.3 million
Grants and program expenditure: $6.7 million
Number of Grants: 308
New Funds Opened: 30
Total gifts to Tides Canada: $7.6 million
From Start-Up in Dec. 2000 to Dec. 31, 2006
Grants and Program Expenditure: $29.1 million
Total gifts to Tides Canada: $43.5 million
B ritish Columbia’s North and Central Coast, called The Great Bear Rainforest, is part of the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest remaining on Earth, and is one of the world’s greatest ecological treasures. A land of old growth forests and rich salmon streams; it is a haven for
wolves, eagles, and bears and home to ancient First Nation cultures. Until 2006, the Great Bear Rainforest was a threatened wilderness.
But on February 8th, 2006, after over a decade of exceptionally hard work, an unprecedented and historic alliance among environmental groups, First Nations, logging companies and governments marked a watershed event in modern conservation. The Province of British Columbia and coastal First Nations announced long-awaited land use agreements that protect at least 5 million acres of the rainforest from logging and places more than 18 million acres under strict land management guidelines called Ecosystem Based Management.
Almost a year later, on January 21st, 2007, the Federal Government committed $30 million to complete the $120 million Great Bear Rainforest conservation financing initiative which will provide conservation management and economic diversification funds for First Nations in the region.
Tides Canada leads the Canadian fundraising initiative to support the commitment by private funders to match public investments in the conservation financing program. Having supported the coalition-building and scientific research that contributed to this agreement, Tides Canada worked with The Nature Conservancy to raise funds for this initiative in Canada and the United States.
Tides Canada celebrates this extraordinary vision for sustainability crafted by Canadians. We salute the pioneering efforts of Greenpeace Canada, Sierra Club of Canada- British Columbia Chapter, ForestEthics, and the Rainforest Action Network, and the dedication to sustainability demonstrated by the First Nations of coastal British Columbia.
We are proud to be part of the Great Bear Rainforest project, one of the largest and most ambitious conservation initiatives in history and a template for future conservation successes around the globe.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 2
Year of the Great Bear Rainforest
“This is the greatest, most far-reaching conservation and sustainability project in British Columbia, in which we all can take considerable pride. It has been an honour to be part of this extraordinary undertaking. “
Rudy North North Growth Foundation
Donors $1 Million+ North Growth Foundation
$500,000+ Endswell Foundation
$250,000+ The Young Fund, Hamilton Community Foundation
$100,000+ Michael Robbins and Lorna McMillin Swift Family Foundation Viewpoint Charitable Foundation The Willow Grove Foundation
$75,000+ Donner Canadian Foundation
$25,000+ Ron Dembo Illahie Foundation Peter Johnson and Erin Thrall Michael and Honor de Pencier
$10,000+ Anonymous Donors Michael Detlefsen and Louise Le Beau Alice Klein Jim Morrisey Jesse and Julie Rasch Foundation Fund
$5,000+ Estate of Marguerite Germaine Jerome Drummond Pike Joel and Dana Solomon Fund Nan Shuttleworth Rosemary Speirs Barb and John Taylor
$2000+ Draimin-Haddon Fund
Up to $1000 Anonymous Donors Martha Burton Pamela Chaloult Tricia Cummings Michael and Virginia Froman-Wenban Cindy Mack Louise Mackay Ross McMillan and Darcy Dobell Paul Richardson and Lynda Prince Darcy Riddell and Jean-Michel Toriel Dr. Harald Stover and Maria Antonakos Lynne D. Whenham Jodi White Margaret Zeidler
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 3
2006 Grant Recipients
With help from our donor partners, Tides Canada awarded $ 6.7 million in grants to the following charities:
Acorn Institute Canada
Arts for Children of Toronto
Atira Women's Resource Society
Banque D'Aliments Sudbury Food Bank
BC Centre for Ability Foundation
BC Society for Non-Profit Sustainability
BC Spaces for Nature
Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service
British Columbia Conservation Foundation
Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management
Camp Miriam
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canadian Community Economic Development Network
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Canadian Society Promoting Environmental Conservation
Canadian Women's Foundation
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation
Centre for Integral Economics
Children's Heritage Fund
City of Vancouver
City of Victoria
Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society
Couchiching Conservancy
Creative Peace Network Society
David Suzuki Foundation
Design Exchange
Dignitas International
Driftwood Foundation Society
Earthlife Canada Foundation
Ecotrust Canada
EAGLE—Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education
EYA Environmental Youth Alliance Society
FarmFolk/CityFolk
Federation of Alberta Naturalists
First Three Years - Parenting Resources & Training
Foodshare Toronto
Foundations for Education - Canada
Framework Foundation
Friends of Cortes Island Society
Georgia Strait Alliance
Global Youth Education Network Society
Gray House Guild
Houselink Community Homes
Immortal Performances Recorded Music Society
Institute for Media Policy and Civil Society
Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association Inc
Institute of Tibetan Classics
Integra Foundation
Inter Pares
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
International Development and Relief Foundation
Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver
Labour Environmental Alliance Society
Linnaea Farm Society
Literature for Life
The Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia
Marmot Recovery Foundation
Massett Recreation Centre Charity Corporation
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
North Coast Cetacean Society
Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society
Nova Scotia Nature Trust
One to One Literacy
Ottawa Hospital Foundation
Pacific Foundation for Understanding Nature Society
Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Education
Persons with AIDS Society of BC
Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation
Phoenix Community Works Foundation
PHS Community Services Society
Physicians for Global Survival
Pivot Foundation
Plan Institute for Citizenship and Disability
Popular Education and Research Catalyst Centre Inc.
Power of Hope Society
QQS (Eyes) Projects Society
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Right to Play International
Ripple Effect Arts & Literature Society
Roots of Empathy
Royal and McPherson Theatres Society
RSBC Rivershed Society of British Columbia
Sage Centre - Coast Opportunities Foundation
Sage Centre - Contact Project
Sage Centre - Cortes Ecoforestry Society
Sage Centre - Dogwood Initiative
Sage Centre - ForestEthics Canada
Sage Centre - Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Sage Centre - Island Conservation Canada
Sage Centre - Markets Initiative
Sage Centre - Naramata Conservation Initiative
Sage Centre - Northern Rivers Initiative
Sage Centre - One Northwest BC
Sage Centre - Rainforest Solutions Project
Sage Centre - Rivers Without Borders
Sage Centre - Round River Canada
Sage Centre - Salt Spring Island Land Bank Society
Sage Centre - Stickler Syndrome Educational Film
Sage Centre - Turning Point Initiative
Sage Centre - Ubuntu Choirs Network
Sage Centre - World Peace Forum
Salt Spring Island Land Bank Society
Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto
Save a Family Plan (1986)
Save the Cedar League
Schools Without Borders
Shenpen Fund Canada
Sierra Club of BC Foundation
Sierra Club of Canada Foundation
Sierra Legal Defence Fund
Smart Growth BC
Society for the Education of Children with Specific Learning Disabilities
Southern Cortes Community Association
St. Mary's Hospital Foundation Society - Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast Conservation Association
Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity
The Colin B. Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children
The Land Conservancy of British Columbia
The Sustainability Institute of Canada
Tlingit Family Learning Centre
Tractors for Our Daily Bread
Trust for Sustainable Forestry
United Way of Greater Toronto
United Way/Centraide Ottawa
University of Calgary
Valhalla Wilderness Society
Vancouver AIDS Society
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Vancouver Summer Festival Society
Victoria International Development Education Association
Victoria Society for Educational Alternatives
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Western Canadian Pediatric Aids Society
Wildsight
Working Women Community Centre
World Wildlife Fund - Canada
York House School Society
Youth Challenge International
Yukon Conservation Society
Q&A with Debbie Field,
Executive Director
T oronto-based Food Share has been working on food and
hunger issues for 22 years. Their multi-awarded grassroots
projects promote healthy eating, teach food preparation and
cultivation, develop community capacity and create non-market-
based forms of food distribution.
Executive Director Debbie Field is a recognized leader in the world of
food security and has been instrumental in the growth of more than
400 student nutrition programs in Toronto.
Tell us the story of the Sunshine Garden.
The Sunshine Garden is a 7000 sq ft urban market garden on the
grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Toronto
(CAMH). It is a community-driven project with the goal to bring both
skills and confidence to patients at the hospital. It won the Green
Toronto Award in 2005. But the funding stopped and we almost had
to stop digging. Tides and the Funding Network came through with
over $14,000 to keep the garden going. Now the hospital funds the
garden.
When do you know the hard work is worth it?
I heard a story about a patient who works in the garden who said his
blood pressure had gone down and hadn’t needed to see to his
doctor in months. Then he added, “You’ll be proud of me, I’ve only
been to Mcdonald’s once this week instead of three”.
Where do the vegetables grown in the garden go?
They are sold at the growers market, go to www.foodshare.net to find
out how to buy them.
What are you working on at the moment?
We’re trying to change the curriculum of schools to include food
literacy as a part of the formal education system in Canada.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 4
Grant Recipient: FoodShare
“We believe food is vital to the health of individuals and communities, and that access to good, healthy food is a basic human right.”
“The healing nature of gardening is incredible, every hospital in the country should have a therapeutic garden.”
Q & A with Mae Burrows, Executive Director
O ffering workshops on toxic inventory substitution in offices, schools and homes,
LEAS has become recognized as Canada's leading organization that identifies and
eliminates the exposure of toxic chemicals to workers and families.
Can you share some of the outcomes from the workshops?
A working single mom from Vancouver Island attended our workshop for cleaners of
hospitals. She then convinced her hospital’s board to support her project of identifying
and substituting products containing carcinogens. She was able to stop staff and patients
from being exposed to harmful chemicals – and prevent runoff
going directly into the ocean…. that’s tens of thousands of litres of
carcinogenic chemicals NOT going into the Georgia Strait
everyday.
A woman from the Langley school district came to a workshop. She
then went back to her school district, which has since come up
with a district wide mission statement to eliminate toxic products
from their schools, and gave maintenance workers the right to
refuse using these products.
How has Tides Canada helped LEAS move forward?
Tides was the first organization that had faith in our vision for our Cancer Smart
Consumer Guide. We've sold nearly 30,000 copies and The Toronto Star's environment
reporter called it "required reading for all Canadians."
It has fundamentally transformed thousands of buyers' behaviors. A survey we did
recently found that after reading this guide:
● 95% of people changed their behavior in the products they buy.
● 62% spoke to a politician to get ‘right to know’ labeling on products.
● 60% quit using pesticides after using the guide
How does your work create sustainable change?
There is a fabulous offspring from replacing dangerous products, which creates green
entrepreneurship. Since we started, we have seen toxic products go off the market and
green products come on. The whole process empowers people to make change.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 5
Grant Recipient: Labour Environmental Alliance Society
T he Taku River Tlingit First Nation people have a special
relationship with their land. Their environmental and cultural
value system stems from a deep rooted understanding of a
reciprocal interdependency with all life forms.
The Tlingit Family Learning Centre offers Taku River Tlingit families
child care, an After-school Culture and Language Program, language
classes taught by elders, employment counseling and training. It also
serves as the hub for conservation and sustainable economic
development projects within the Taku River Watershed, the largest
unprotected and pristine watershed in western North America.
Since 2000, Tides Canada has been working with the Taku River Tlingit
First Nation to support them in their efforts to protect their aboriginal
rights and title and their traditional territory and culture.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 6
“The children love to perform and feel good that they have made their own regalia and drums. The parents are pleased to see their children practicing their traditions and learning who they are and where they come from.”
“The children are very knowledgeable about their land, how vegetation works, and natural medicines. They taught me about different salmon species and their habitat. These traditional values need to be passed on.”
Grant Recipient: Tlingit Family Learning Centre
“The Tlingit way of life is strongly connected to the mother earth. Our elders taught us to respect and sustain our land for future generations. “
Charitable Giving Funds Anonymous Funds
7th Generation Fund
African Rural Development Fund
ASEM Canada Fund
Ashoka Canada Fund
Aurora Fund
Ball Family Foundation Fund
Brainerd Northern Rivers Initiative Opportunity Grants Fund
British Columbia Fund
British Columbia Marine Planning Fund
Brothers Footprints Fund
Bullitt Foundation Olympic Legacy Fund
Canadian Boreal Fund
Canadians for Popular Education in Health(EPES) Fund
CANRAD Fund
Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund
Chandos Fund
Chauvel Fund
CHOICE Humanitarian Fund
Clayoquot Conservation Fund
Coast Opportunities Foundation Fund
Communicopia Fund
Community Investment Research & Development Fund
Contact Project Fund
Cortes Ecoforestry Fund
Dadiya Rural Development Fund
Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education Fund
Dignitas International Fund
Division of PM&R Fund
DLN Fund
Don Rubenstein Housing Fund
Draimin-Haddon Fund
Drug Policy Reform Fund
Elaine Dulsey Fund
Endswell Fund
Endswell Long-Term Fund
Footprints Fund
For Trees Fund
Forest Conservation Network Fund
Genocide Intervention Network Fund
Give Girls a Chance Fund
Global Security Institute Fund
Green Research Fund
Holden Village Fund
Hollyhock Scholarship Fund
Illahie Fund
Impact Fund
Independent World Television Fund
International Institute for Child Rights and Development Fund
Ivey Boreal Strategic Initiatives Fund
Jantzi Research Fund
Joel and Dana Solomon Fund
Kapasseni Society Fund
LAM Canada Fund
Light Up the World Foundation Fund
Linnaea School Building Fund
MacGavin Fund
Mae On Project Fund
Markets Initiative Fund
Naramata Conservation Fund
Northern Salmon Rivers Initiative Fund
Oceans Fund
ONE Northwest BC Fund
Oxfam Canada Fund
PACT Canada Fund
Pathfinder International Fund
(PETA) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Fund
Physicians for Global Survival Fund
Physicians for Global Survival Operating Fund
Pigott Family Fund
Planeterra Endowment Fun
Planeterra Partners Fund
Power of Giving Fund
Real Assets Fund
Richardson Family Fund
Room to Read Fund
SEAS Project Fund
Simons Foundation Fund
Social Justice Fund
Social Ventures Institute Fund
Sojourners Fund
SOLID Fund
Somos el Barco Fund
St. Paul's School Fund
Stephen Lewis Foundation Fund
Stickler Syndrome Support Fund
Sustaining Design Fund
Taku Tlingit Fund
Terrevive Fund
The Funding Network-Toronto Fund
Tibetan Nuns Project Fund
Twin Island Protection Fund
Tyee Fellowship Fund
Underdog Foundation Fund
V. Paul Lee Family Foundation
Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society Sustainability Fund
Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Fund
Village Fund
Wild Faith Fund
Wild Salmon Ecosystem Fund
Wild Salmon Fund
Wildlands Project Fund
William and Flora Hewlett Canadian Oil and Gas Development Fund
William and Flora Hewlett Great Bear Rainforest Supporting Grants Fund
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 7
Thanks to Our Donor Partners
Q & A with Nina Bains-Cassils, Fund Advisor
T he Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund supports selected NGOs in Southeast Asia providing
education, improved health care, agriculture and hope to needy children and their
families.
How did your philanthropic interest start?
During business trips or adventure travels in Southeast Asia, my husband and I would
make side trips to remote villages rarely visited by tourists and were exposed to
malnourished and sickly children. We knew we had to do something.
Can you share some of your favourite
success stories?
In a mountain village in Laos we came upon
a shaman performing rites on two small
children lying on the floor, one partially
blind and the other unable to walk - both
victims of vitamin deficiency. After a month
in the local hospital both children fully
recovered. The cost for two children in
hospital for one month including doctors
fees, medicine and food for their father:
$100.
Khai Hin was born with several birth defects,
including a malformed leg, a direct result of
Agent Orange. In 2002, we provided for a new
prosthesis for his leg allowing him to run and
play ball with the other children. Today, he
climbs trees, fences, plays soccer, and roars
around faster than others with no limitations.
What are your future plans?
To assist other donors to set up similar programs
for funding. It's so fulfilling to watch our concept
become this project that has changed children's
lives. Imagine how many more children can be
helped if there were more of us doing this.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 8
“The children's appetite for knowledge is so strong; and their determination to read, to go to school, to support their families, and to grasp new ideas is fierce.”
Donor Partner: Cassils Wettstein Asia Fund
“It's amazing how a small group like ours can make such a differ-ence. The key is: a little bit goes so far; it really doesn't take much to make a positive impact. $100 will send 2 children to school.”
“In 3 short years we've seen the Children of Forest's free day school program go from 45 children in 1 classroom to 210 children in 8 bamboo classrooms. We've had fish ponds constructed, vegetable gardens irrigated, and training programs for the benefit of poverty stricken children and their families.”
Q & A with Nicole Salmon, Fundraising Manager
I n the Horn of Africa, Oxfam Canada is making tremendous
advances pioneering Asset-Based Community Development and
is becoming a model for others in Africa and around the world.
Thanks to a joint initiative between Oxfam and a local NGO called
Hundee, millet producers in the central highlands of Ethiopia are
finally making a modest profit and have a reliable supply of grains year
-round.
In 2006, Oxfam Canada started their national endowment fund at Tides
Canada.
Why Tides for Oxfam’s endowment?
Much of our work revolves around social justice and our programs
focus on women’s rights. Real change takes time and effort,
particularly in changing the root causes of poverty. Tides Canada
mirrors our vision and values in creating change. Tides’ policy on
ethical investment was a very important consideration for us. We like
to know how our fund would be stewarded.
What does Tides offer that you can’t do yourself?
Tides brings the expertise we need to manage our endowment on a
large scale. Tides’ offers the possibility of expansion from our
traditional supporters, attracting donors we would not normally be in
contact with.
What are you excited about right now?
We're now focused on women’s rights – an area that we really could
have an impact on. After all, 70% of women in the world are living on
less than a dollar a day. Asset-Based Community Development which
we've dubbed “ABCD”, helps communities identify and build on their
assets and capacities – what they know, what they do, the resources
they can tap.
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 9
Endowment: Oxfam Canada
“Tides Canada brings the expertise we need to manage our endowment on a large scale. They offer the possibility of expansion from our traditional supporters; attracting donors we would not normally be in contact with.”
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 10
Tides Canada Foundation
Alan Broadbent Chair [1,3]
Maytree Foundation
Joel Solomon Vice-Chair [2,3,4]
Renewal Partners / Endswell Foundation
James A. Morrisey Treasurer [1]
Ernst & Young
Valerie Hussey Secretary [2,4]
Consultant—Publishing and Non-profits
Ed Levy [2]
Ilahie Foundation
Tim Draimin ex-officio [1,2,3,4]
Susan Gibson[3]
Conservationist
Susan Pigott [2]
St. Christopher House
Drummond Pike Founding Chair
Tides Foundation
Ross McGregor [4]
Toronto Region Research Alliance
Jodi White [4]
Public Policy Forum
Margie Zeidler [2,4]
Urban Space Property Group
Martha Burton Asst. Treasurer [1]
Renewal Partners
Lesley Anderson Asst. Secretary [2,4]
Tides Canada Foundation
Committees
[1] Investment & Finance
[2] Program
[3] Governance & Nominating
[4] Donor Engagement
Tim Draimin Executive Director
Lesley Anderson Director of Philanthropic Services
Simon Jones Director, Finance and Administration
Cindy Mack Grants and Programs
Cristina R. Vélez Communications
Doug Kerr Sage Centre Ontario Project
Doug Taylor Client Services & Development Toronto
Kate Follington Executive Assistant
Katherine Beardsell Controller
Mary Hiebert Office Administration
Patricia Flores Sage Centre Client Services
Rachel Rocco Sage Centre
Shahla Sharafi Accounting & Payroll
Tricia Cummings Client Services
Staff
Maria Antonakos
Senior Associate, Development
Harvey Locke
Senior Program Advisor
Ivan Thompson
Senior Program Advisor
Mike Magee
Senior Program Advisor
Ross McMillan
Senior Associate
Advisors
Board of Directors and Officers
L-R: Valerie Hussey, Tim Draimin, Ed Levy, Margie Zeidler,
Ross McGregor, Martha Burton, Drummond Pike,
Jim Morrisey, Joel Solomon
Auditors
Grant Thornton
Legal Counsel
Margaret Mason
Bull, Housser & Tupper
Investment Advisors
Inhance Investments
Genus Capital Management
Guardian Capital LP
Past Staff (2006-2007)
Kristen Watson Controller
Florence James Executive Assistant (to July 2006)
Sarah Harvey Executive Assistant (July 2006 –May 2007)
Ping Xu Accounting Assistant
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 11
Thank You for Your Support
Photo Credits
Cover (clockwise)
FoodShare/Laura Berman Sea Lions in the Great Bear Rainforest: Ken Beatty Little Prince Rupert Girl: Al Harvey/slidefram.com Kermode Bear: Ken Beatty
Footer (From L-R)
Sea Lions in the Great Bear Rainforest by Ken Beatty
Reach Out Mbuya Kids, Uganda: Victoria Anismen-Reiner Stephen Lewis Foundation My fish from the net: Midori Kirby Tlingit Family Learning Centre
Ethiopia ABCD Program: Pat Kipping Oxfam Canada
Taku Bear: Doug Milek, Round River
Greeting to the fish we got in the net: Midori Kirby Tlingit Family Learning Centre
Kermode Bear: Ken Beatty
Surinder Labour Environmental Alliance Society (LEAS)
Children of the forest: Nina Bains-Cassils
CAMH garden organic farm stand: FoodShare/Laura Berman
Page 1 Tim Draimin: Jamie Kowal Photography
Page 2 Tree in the Great Bear Rainforest: Tom Green Kermode Bear: Ken Beatty
Page 3 Background photo: FoodShare
Page 4 All photos: FoodShare/Laura Berman
Page 5 All photos: LEAS
Page 6 All Photos: After-school Culture and Language Program, Midori Kirby
Page 7 Background photo: Tom Green
Page 8 All photos from the Children of the Forest Program: Nina Bains-Cassils
Page 9 Photo: Pat Kipping, Oxfam Canada
Page 10 Board of Directors Photo: Melvin Yap/yap.dphoto.com Background photo: FoodShare/Laura Berman
Pages 11 and 12 Background photo: FoodShare/Laura Berman
Sage Ontario Learning Circle
Alan Broadbent
Amanuel Melles
Anita Stellinga
Bruce Lourie
Carolyn Milne
Chris Brillinger
Christopher Smith
David Stevens
Leslie Wright
Lynn Eakin
Lynne Toupin
Martin Connell
Michael Manolson
Nathan Gilbert
Pat Bradshaw
Pat Else
Patrick Johnston
Sandy Houston
Affordable Housing Toronto
Working Group
Alan Broadbent
Alan Pyle
Alex Speigel
Beatriz Tabak
David Hulchanski
David Peters
David Walsh
Genevieve Vallerand
Heather McGregor
Jeff Evenson
Jerry Maisner
John Van Nostrand
Julia Deans
Margie Zeidler
Maureen Fair
Michael Lewkowitz
Rick Eagan
Sally Wright
Susan Pigott
Valerie Hussey
Aaron Pereira
Al Etmanski
Al Harvey
Amyn Musa
Anderson Charters
Andre Carothers
Andres Dussan
Andrew Sniderman
Andy Goodman
Ann Krumboltz
Arifin Graham
Arthur Wood
Bev Wybrow
Bill Carter
Bill Young
Bonnie McFarlane
Bonnie Sutherland
Brian Harrison
Brian Pinch
Caroline Cramer
Carol Hunter
Carrie Butcher
Colin Doylend
Coro Strandberg
Dale and Cindy Hogg
Dana Bass Solomon
Dave Mowat
David Jeffrey
David Berge
Don Lin
Erica Bailey
Eugene Ellmen
Farouk Jiwa
Greg Kiessling
Gregor Robertson
Heather Topp
Hendry Swinton McKenzie
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis
Jane Levikow
Janice Stein
Janis Margolis
Jason Mogus
Jennifer Johnstone
Jennifer Leonard
Jennifer Simons
Jesse Moore
Joan Blight
Karen Mahon
Katharine Pearson
Kathryn Townsend
Kaye Jackson
Ken Johnston
Ken Beatty
Kim Bilous
Kristin Watson
Laird Hunter
Linda Caisley
The Latremoille Group
Lois Lemke
Lorne Pollock
Malcolm Burrows
Maria Dobrinskaya
Marian Moore
Mark Blumberg
Mark Palmer
Mark and Susan Torrance
Maxine Crook
Michael de Pencier
Michael Goodman
Michael Jantzi
Michael Lewkowitz
Michaela Moudra
Natasha van Bentum
Nathan Gilbert
Nora Layard
Paul Born
Paula Glick
Peter and Midori Kirby
Peggy Lee
Peter Johnson
Peter Mortifee
Peter Poole
Pic Walker
Rhea Suh
Richard Ivey
Richard Jeo
Rick Smith
Rob Follows
Robyn Sussel
Ron Dembo
Russell Cobb
Ruth Bender
Ryan Thompson
Sam Tucker
Sara Gould
Scott Rehmus
Seth Klein
Shauna Sylvester
Sol Kasimer
Stephen Huddart
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Whipp
Steve Johnson
Steve Vaccaro
Susan Bell
Susan Latremoille
Susanne Jeffery
Suzanne Hawkes
Ted Jackson
Ted Richmond
Terry Bisset
Tim Brodhead
Tom Williams
Tony Grundhauser
Tony Pigott
Tonya Surman
Vali Bennett
Walter Ross
Will Horter
Program and
Operational Support
The Brainerd Foundation
The Bullitt Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard
Foundation
Donner Canadian Foundation
Endswell Foundation
Ford Foundation
Hamilton Community Foundation
Ivey Foundation
J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
The Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sacharuna Foundation
Tides Foundation
Vancity
Wallace Global Fund
Weeden Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
Renewal Partners / Endswell
Foundation
Alexandra Pearson
Anna Strom
Carol Newell
Jacqueline Zhu
Joel Solomon
Julia Watson
Laurel Brewster
Lynne Whenham
Martha Burton
Pamela Chaloult
Paul Richardson
The Funding Network-
Toronto
Chris Varley
Janis Rukavina-Thomas
Jeff Melanson
Patrick Phillips
Sandra Shaul
Tides Canada Foundation—2006 Annual Report 12
Year Ended
December 31, 2006
Year Ended
December 31, 2005
ASSETS
Current
Cash 767,921 375,280
Term deposits 1,170,332 1,853,800
Investments 8,479,984 6,493,585
Donated assets 49,816 49,816
Accounts receivable 533,176 1,644,676
Trust assets 6,744,687 6,567,766
Prepaid expenses and other 22,453 12,580
17,768,369 16,997,503
Property and equipment 28,560 44,516
TOTAL ASSETS $17,796,929 $17,042,019
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 137,479 238,420
Trust liabilities 6,744,687 6,567,766
6,882,166 6,806,186
TIDES CANADA FOUNDATION (Incorporated under Society Act of British Columbia) Statement of Financial Position
Year Ended
December 31, 2006
Year Ended
December 31, 2005
General Externally
Restricted
Endowments Total Total
REVENUES
Support grants and earned income 258,571 - - 258,571 526,143
Other grants and donations 5,457,335 1,788,897 134,594 7,380,916 7,343,836
Investment and other revenue 640,126 - 19,706 659,832 336,316
TOTAL REVENUES $6,356,032 $1,788,987 $154,300 $8,299,319 $8,206,295
EXPENSES
General and Administrative 692,705 259,210 7,574 959,489 848,678
Grant and program expenditures 5,165,809 1,492,501 2,590 6,660,900 5,278,390
TOTAL EXPENSES $5,858,514 $1,751,711 $10,164 $7,620,389 $6,127,068
Excess of Revenues over Expenses 497,518 37,276 144,136 678,930 2,079,227
Transfers (556,760) 549,425 7,335 0 0
Fund balances beginning of year 8,614,471 1,248,716 372,646 10,235,833 8,156,606
FUND BALANCES END OF YEAR $8,555,229 $1,835,417 $524,117 $10,914,763 $10,235,833
Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balances
Financials
Tides Canada Foundation
Vancouver
#680-220 Cambie St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9
T 604-647-6611 F 1-866-780-6611
Toronto
#360-215 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, ON M5T 2C7
T 416-481-8652 F 1-866-780-6611
1-866-TIDESCA (843-3722)
toll-free within Canada and the U.S.
Canadian Registered Charitable
Tax Number:
86894 7797 RR0001
Note: Extracted from the consolidated financial statements of Tides Canada Foundation and Sage Foundation full copies of which are available at: www.tidescanada.org/cms/page1346.cfm
FUND BALANCES
General Fund
Unrestricted 290,410 247,986
Internally restricted for future operations 1,149,314 751,631
Internally restricted for grantmaking 7,086,945 7,570,338
Invested in property and equipment 28,560 44,516
General Fund 8,555,229 8,614,471
Endowments 524,117 372,646
Other externally restricted funds 1,835,417 1,248,716
10,914,763 10,235,833
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES $17,796,929 $17,042,019