Tides Center and Tides Foundation, U.S.-based public charities, serves as the grant and financial administrator of the Collaborative Fund. The Tides Network has more than 25 years of experience as a funder of grassroots peer-reviewed grantmaking in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, public health, international development, and community development. Tides Network has significant experience in the development and administration of collaborative funds that bring multiple donors together to support community-based funding mechanisms.
In July 2004, the WHO announced funding for treatment preparedness activities through its Preparing for Treatment Program. Through a competitive bidding process in which 130 applications were submitted, the Collaborative Fund became the first and sole recipient of these funds, signing a contract for a total of $1 million dollars for treatment preparedness activities in all eight funding regions in 2004-2005.
Having raised core funding for operations in every region of the world in 2004-2005, the Collaborative Fund is now poised for further growth through inclusion of additional funding partners. An impressive and growing list of funders are now supporting the Collaborative Fund, recognizing the value of an established and proven mechanism to direct HIV/AIDS funding to community-guided grants in any region of the world in 2006 and 2007.
Current collaborative funders include:
- AIDS Fonds Netherlands
- American Jewish World Services
- Calamus Foundation
- Department For International Development (DFID)
- Elizabeth Taylor Foundation
- Elton John AIDS Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Ford Foundation Russia
- Gagarin Family Trust
- Gesso Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- John M. Lloyd Foundation
- Johnson & Johnson
- Levi Strauss Foundation
- Daniel McCord Trust
- MAC AIDS Fund
- Open Society Institute
- Overbrook Foundation
- Pfizer Foundation
- Pfizer Inc.
- Puget Sound Fund
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Starry Night Fund
- Stephen Lewis Foundation
- Tides Foundation donors
- UNAIDS
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Vanguard Associates
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Tides Network, ITPC and the partners of the Collaborative Fund are now engaging in conversation with a large number of new potential funding partners to realize full funding for grantmaking activities in all nine global regions for 2007.
