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2008 Annual Report From the President & CEO

The following pages reduce the impacts of HIV/ feature stories of these AIDS, promote peace and McMillan Ross change makers – people disarmament, empower and organizations who are women and youth, and striving, with support from advance our vision of just Tides Canada, to address societies. intractable problems ranging from species Looking Forward extinction to poverty Ross McMillan Addressing the major reduction, from climate social and environmental change to sustainability in challenges of our time will the developing world. require a new response 2008: Mission- from the charitable sector: a smart, activist Minded Amid philanthropy capable of Economic Turmoil long-range thinking and Tides Canada has visionary leadership to link grown and matured 2008 was a year of continued growth and the aspirations of donors remarkably in eight impact amid global with concrete action and short years. economic uncertainty. outcomes. Conceived to fill a gap in Of course, Tides Canada Tides Canada is prepared Canadian philanthropy, and its donors were to lead this new mode Tides Canada initially not immune to the of philanthropy by focused on helping unparalleled correction in expanding our reach, progressive donors global financial markets. deepening our programs support smaller, Our investment portfolio and forging new innovative social justice fared materially better relationships. We will and environmental than market averages, but continue to help you charities. We pioneered still declined significantly. invent new solutions to new charitable models old problems. Despite the global and unique services to We have a vision for serve these objectives. financial crisis, many Tides Canada donors change in society that Today, Tides Canada maintained their gives more people the has expanded its focus, support for the activists opportunity to live in just leading and supporting and charities working societies on a healthy actions that foster a on the frontlines of planet. Your support and healthy environment and environmental and social partnership are critically just Canadian society. issues. In this annual important in our journey. As Canada’s leader in report, we list a few of the Together we are more shared services for the many accomplishments powerful than each of us charitable sector, Tides achieved by our projects working in isolation. On Canada now provides and donors. These would behalf of Tides Canada, my an operational home for not have been possible sincere thanks for working 40 projects across the without uninterrupted with us to find uncommon country and manages financial support. solutions for the common 250 charitable giving good. funds. Our community of Habitat and species social change donors and protection, sustainability initiatives grows each year. programs, and other environmental initiatives Tides Canada helps were the major focus forward-thinking of our project activity philanthropists, and grant-making in foundations, activists and Canada. Internationally, Ross McMillan organizations do the most we facilitated giving to President & CEO with their money, ideas organizations working on and ideals. a range of social issues to

2 3 Client Stories

Preventing What do you do? Bringing Freedom Hoops 4 Hope Extinctions We work with through Sport Q&A with government agencies Q&A with Rick Gill, and local communities Gregg Howald, to build their capacity Fund Advisor Project Director to undertake science- High school teacher driven management of Islands host about 20% Rick Gill and his team islands. We also develop of all species and 50% of student basketball invasive species removal of endangered species. players shot more baskets techniques, and conduct Sadly, extinction rates for fundraising in 2008 research to inform are exponentially greater than most people shoot conservation action. on islands. Globally, 50- in their lives. When they 90% of recorded animal What has been your saw South African youth extinctions have occurred impact? donning their donated Island Conservation Canada on islands, with most sneakers and sports extinction caused by Over the last 15 years, uniforms, they knew it was invasive species. Remove Island Conservation well worth the effort. invasive species and has restored 33 islands covering 44,457 hectares What is Hoops 4 Hope island ecosystems have a about? chance to recover. Gregg protecting 239 species Howald, one of the world’s and subspecies from the Our motto is Freedom How are students in foremost experts on threat of extinction. Through Sport, so Canada involved? island restoration, speaks Which islands in Canada Hoops 4 Hope tries to I want my students about removing rats and are you working on? create freedom through to have better global other invasive species educating kids in Africa, awareness, so together from islands to prevent We’re working on the using sport as a tool for we created a goal to fill extinctions. Scott Islands, located off engagement. up a 40-ft. container with the extreme northern tip Many of the kids we sneakers, footballs, team of Vancouver Island, which uniforms and basketballs, “Removing rats is tough work with live in shanty support upward of two even bikes, and send it off work. There are no towns in Zimbabwe and million seabirds. In Haida to Africa. We sent 13,000 weekends or holidays. You South Africa, and some of Gwaii (Queen Charlotte pairs of shoes as well as sleep on thin mats and them stay home and do Islands), we are removing other sports gear. seabirds are pooping all rats to protect colonies drugs, or the girls get into over your tent. Thankfully, of ancient murrelets prostitution to survive. So we’re trying to show our team of scientists and storm-petrels. Our “We’re a registered non- them that if they get an can depend on Tides objective is to restore profit in the United States education, they can make Canada to take care of habitat for re-colonization but not a charity here in a different kind life for the administrative details and enhance seabird Canada, so by holding a themselves. we don’t have the time or breeding. fund at Tides Canada we can capacity for. ” Why is sport the key? raise money and provide a charitable receipt to our Kids love playing sports, donors. Tides Canada then and soccer and basketball takes care of all our grant- are both games where making.” they just need a ball and maybe a hoop or goal posts. We try to teach them how to learn through group work, with discipline and determination, and the kids start to learn how to work together to achieve goals.

4 5 Client Stories

Working for Global How does the Halifax Empowering Kids adults. On top of growing TunaHAKI Canada Economic Justice Initiative make a in Africa their own food, they have difference? innovative ideas on how Q&A with Q&A with Rob Eisen, to become financially Thanks in part to our sustainable, and our Fraser Reilly-King, efforts, Canada now plays Fund Advisor & Project Director Founder family really likes that. a key role in deepening The centre’s philosophy is debt relief offered by the Did you know that around It’s not exactly a typical long-term. World Bank and IMF. As 10% of Canadian aid, family vacation – taking well, Export Development What did you do to raise

Halifax Initiative roughly $350 million your children to Africa Canada, which had no money? dollars a year, goes to to examine the gums of environmental policies the World Bank? Do orphans – but that’s what eight years ago, has In September 2008, we Canadian taxpayers Toronto dentist Rob Eisen adopted policies to take had an indoor volleyball subsidize destructive did. In December 2007, better account of the tournament, where we environmental and his family put the animal environment. invited friends and family social practices around safari on hold and opted to form teams, and each the world? The Halifax We also produced a for volunteer tourism team member had to Initiative, a coalition of “mining map” highlighting instead. They spent a week raise $100. Two hundred 22 organizations, poses 23 Canadian mining at the TunaHAKI centre fifty people showed up, these questions when projects that were having for Child Development in and we raised more than it educates and informs negative environmental Tanzania. $30,000 in one day. We the public about the and social impacts on had a blast! We even had When the Eisen family impacts of Canadian and countries they work in. people dancing in the returned to Toronto international funding on It included information sand. Who knew that they were inspired to developing countries. about taxpayer support raising money could be so help the centre become given to these projects. much fun? What issues about financially sustainable, so international funding they called Tides Canada should Canadians be for advice on fundraising “Tides Canada has allowed “At first we looked at aware of? and international grant- our very small staff team becoming a Canadian making. The World Bank and to do the work we feel foundation ourselves the Government of passionately about. Our What was it about the and discovered it’s quite Canada fund private coalition can thrive in an centre that matched your a tedious process. Tides companies for large- atmosphere of collaborative view of real change? Canada made it easy for us scale infrastructure leadership without the to cut through the red tape. projects that can have stress of establishing an Lots of money thrown Tides Canada enables us a negative impact on infrastructure that might into Africa evaporates, but to fundraise by providing the environment and be perceived as competing this organization wants a range of gift and grant the communities they’re with or depleting to be sustainable. They management services, supposed to help. resources from member want to see these kids stay including online donations.” organizations.” in school long enough To satisfy World Bank and to become productive IMF lending conditions, countries often have to restructure their own public spending, increase taxes, cut or freeze wages, decrease funding to health care and education, and cut subsidies to farmers. They often have to do so overnight, leading to the collapse of local industries and livelihoods.

6 7 Client Stories Our Projects

Transforming Scarborough has the Environmental Leadership Tides Canada Initiatives Communities highest concentration of Conservation Development social housing in Ontario, BC Marine Conservation Canadian Youth Climate Q&A with with a large number of Analysis Coalition Anne Gloger, immigrants, particularly ForestEthics Canada Contact Project Project Director from the Tamil and Somali populations. It’s really Forum for Leadership on Reel Youth It’s a warm Thursday in important they have easy Water (FLOW) Urban Youth Riding the park grounds of St. access to critical services Global Reef Initiative Project Margaret’s-in-the-Pines and resources. Anglican Church in East Island Conservation Social Inclusion and Scarborough, Ontario. Canada Civic Engagement The community festival “Tides Canada is the perfect platform for us. They Naramata Conservation Centre for City Ecology market is in full swing with Initiative colourful tables spread manage our finances and and Jane’s Walk East Scarborough Storefront handle our payroll. When across the green lawn, Oceans Initiative Marine Forum on Privatization and local vendors selling we have questions about Wilderness Project insurance or HR standards, and the Public Domain everything from local Pacific Wild Initiative crafts to fresh fruit and they provide us the answers. Headwaters Initiative vegetables. Tides Canada frees us up to Rainforest Action Network Project focus on our goal of creating Canada Media Democracy Project The market is supported a thriving community in East Rainforest Solutions by East Scarborough Scarborough.” Remember Our Sisters Project Storefront, a unique Everywhere (ROSE) Rivers Without Borders hub of 35 social service Scarborough Access agencies operating from Why is it unique? Round River Canada Centre an old police station. It’s The Storefront model a one-stop shop that’s Sustain Ontario – The is unique in that all Education and proving to be a vital link Alliance for Healthy Food the service agencies Research in the between the culturally and Farming collaborate under one Environment, diverse community and roof. Bringing the different Community and Arts York Region Alliance to social services. agencies together allows ArtBridges End Homelessness us to serve the community What is the Storefront Banyan Youth Initiatives Strengthening the more effectively. In 2008 about? Charitable Sector we responded to more Canadian Biotechnology The Storefront is a number than 50,000 requests for Action Network (CBAN) Capacity Waterloo Region of different things, but assistance. it’s mostly about building Halifax Initiative East Scarborough social infrastructure at a Urban Solutions Institute Storefront neighborhood level. East

8 9 Charitable Giving Funds

7th Generation Fund Community Investment IBM International Rockefeller Brothers Coast Research and Foundation Fund Opportunities Foundation Annual Funds Brainerd Foundation Development Fund Fund Climate Change Fund Ignite Excellence Contact Project Fund Foundation Fund Sacharuna Klabona Keepers Ball Family Foundation Fund Support Fund Corridor of the Clouds Fund Illahie Fund Brainerd Northern Rivers Simons Foundation Fund Initiative Opportunity CPAWS – Nova Scotia Impact Fund Grants Fund Conservation Fund Skeena Wild Fund Inhance Charitable

Annual Funds Annual BC Environmental DLN Fund Foundation Fund Social Entrepreneurship Fund Capacity Fund Draimin-Haddon Fund International Institute Social Finance Program British Columbia Fund for Child Rights and Development Fund Ecosystem-Based Development Fund British Columbia Management Fund *Social Venture Institute Fund Marine Planning Fund Ivey Boreal Strategic Elaine Dulsey Fund Social Venture Partners Initiatives Fund Bullitt Foundation 2010 Toronto Fund Endswell Fund Olympic Legacy Fund Jantzi Research Fund SOLID Fund ENP Toronto Fund Canadian Centre for Policy Linnaea School Building Fund Somos El Barco Fund Alternatives (CCPA) Fund Erwin Kuechau Fund Literary Review of Stephen Lewis Foundation Causeway For Trees Fund Canada Fund Fund CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Footprints Fund MacGavin Fund Strategic Philanthropy Corporation) Trust Fund Ford Foundation Turning McMillan-Dobell Fund Course Fund Chaloult/Wallace Fund Point Initiative Fund Michael and Amelia Sustainable Forestry Fund Chandos Fund Forest Conservation Humphries Earthrise Support Taku Tlingit Fund Network Fund Fund Chauvel Fund Taku Conservancy Fund Futures Fund Moore RSP Fund Chosen Waters Fund Terrevive Fund Global Security Institute Fund Moore TWA Fund Clayoquot Conservation Twin Island Protection Fund Fund Green Research Fund Naramata Conservation Fund Underdog Fund Climate Action Fund Hewlett Coast Opportunities Natural Capital Fund Foundation Fund Unitus Fund Climate Change Natural World Museum Fund Solutions Fund Hewlett Oil and Gas Fund Urban Aboriginal Study Fund Northern Rivers Initiative Coast Conservation Hewlett Great Bear Rainforest Fund Valerie Elia Fund Endowment Fund Supporting Grants Fund Organizing For Change (OFC) Valerie Hussey Family Fund Foundation Fund Hewlett Mapping Fund Fund Vancouver Bicycle Fund Coast Opportunities Hewlett Rainforest Solutions Packard Foundation TPI Fund Vancouver Folk Music Festival Foundation Fund Project Fund Packard RSP Fund Sustainability Fund Cohen Building Fund Hewlett Spirit Bear Fund Packard RSP Fundraising Vancouver Island Marmot Communicopia Fund Hewlett-Turning Point Capacity Fund Recovery Fund Initiative Fund PACT Canada Fund Village Fund Pathfinder International Fund Wilburforce Donor Advised Fund Pigott Family Fund Wild Faith Fund PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship Fund Wildlands Project Fund Priorities for Ontario JB Fund Environmental Leadership Joel and Dana Solomon Fund Fund Wild Salmon Ecosystem Fund Rachel Davis Foundation Fund Willie Foundation Fund Rasch Foundation Fund Richardson Family Fund

// Orange = New funds opened in 2008

10 11 Charitable Giving Funds

African Rural Development Kapasseni Society Fund Aurora Long-Term Fund Physicians for Global Survival Fund Fund Endowment & LT Funds Keep A Child Alive Fund Ball Family Foundation AIDS-Free World Fund Endowment Fund Planeterra Endowment Fund LAM Canada Fund Angkor Hospital for Children Canadian Centre for Policy Physicians for Global Survival Laura Louie Hope Foundation Fund Alternatives (CCPA) BC Long- Long-Term Fund Fund Term Fund ASEM Canada Fund Strachan Hartley Legacy Light Up the World Chowyuan Family Members Endowment Fund Ashoka Canada Fund Foundation Fund Fund Street Kids International Fund Big Wild Fund Lindalee Tracey Award Fund CUSO-VSO Endowment Fund Terrevive Long-Term Fund Cambodia Landmine Local Food Plus Fund Dr. Bik May Wai Lam Museum Relief Fund Transformation Endowment Mapendo International Fund Endowment Fund and Long-Term Funds Canadian Boreal Fund Mirasol Project Fund Don Rubenstein Housing Up With Women Long-Term *Canadians for Popular Collective Giving Funds Collective Fund Oceans Fund Fund Education in Health (EPES Dragonfly Long-Term Fund Fund) Pacific Wild Fund V. Paul Lee Family Foundation Draimin-Haddon Endowment CANDI Cats and Dogs PETA (People for the Ethical Valerie Hussey Family Long- Fund International Fund Treatment of Animals) Fund Term Fund Endswell Long-Term Fund Canodia Fund PowerUP Canada – Canadians for Climate Leadership Fund John Kenneth Galbraith Prize Canopy (Markets Initiative Endowment Fund Fund) Project Enlighten Jon Gates Foundation Fund CANRAD Fund Rideau Institute Research Fund Lindalee Tracey Award Long- CW (Cassils Wettstein) Asia Term Fund Fund Robert Huber Memorial Fund Michael and Amelia Charlie Russell Bear Room to Read Fund Humphries Earthrise Coexistence Fund SEAS Project Fund Endowment Fund CHOICE Humanitarian Fund Sojourners Fund Oxfam Canada Chordoma Foundation St. Paul’s School Fund Endowment Fund Cancer Research Fund Stephen Lewis Foundation Cortes Ecoforestry Fund Fund CPAWS Nova Scotia Stickler Syndrome Support // Orange = New funds opened in 2008 Conservation Fund Fund Dadiya Rural Development Strachan Hartley Legacy Fund Foundation Fund Dalai Lama Center for Social Venture Partners Peace and Education Fund Toronto Fund Dignitas International Fund Social Venture Institute Fund Drug Policy Reform Fund The Funding Network- Environmental Education Toronto Fund Outreach Fund Tibetan Nuns Project Fund ForestEthics Charitable TunaHAKI Canada Initiatives Fund Foundation Fund Fund for Action on Tyee Investigative Fellowship Investment Responsibility Fund (FAIR) Fund Tyee Solutions Fellowship Genocide Intervention Fund Network Fund Up With Women Fund Give Girls a Chance Fund Holden Village Fund Hollyhock Scholarship Fund Hooplaw Children’s Fund Hoops 4 Hope Fund

12 13 Project Activity 07-08 Projects 2008 Highlights 2% Strengthening the Charitable Sector • Reel Youth, which teaches leadership through film making 61% Environmental and multimedia, produced over 200 films made by Sustainability marginalized youth across BC. 11% Leadership Development • With support from ForestEthics Canada and the Headwaters Initiative Project, First Nations and local 11% Civic Engagement communities secured moratoriums on fish farm development and drilling for coal bed methane around British Columbia’s pristine sacred headwaters. • 6,000 people in cities all over North America engaged in Jane’s Walks to rediscover and learn to shape their urban neighborhoods. • Working with Canopy, Canadian Geographic produced its July edition on paper made from wheat straw waste, and the Globe and Mail became the first North American daily to develop an Ancient Forest Friendly™ paper policy. • The Contact Project released research on the importance 15% Environmental Education and Research of developing a personal development learning space for social change activists in Canada.

Canadian Grant-making 07-08 Canada

3% Health • The HIPPY program at the Working Women Community 53% Environmental Centre enabled low-income immigrant women in Toronto Sustainability 6% Culture and Arts to maximize the educational potential of their young children.

8% Education and • A resolution to ban cosmetic pesticides was passed and Research model pesticide legislation drafted in British Columbia because of the work of Toxic Free Canada. 8% Strengthening the Charitable Sector • A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) brought to light systematic violations of employment as well as health and safety standards for farm workers in British Columbia. • St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing continued to develop another 200 units of mixed-income affordable housing in Toronto.

22% Social Development and Community Services

International Giving 07-08 International

4% Animal Rights • CW (Cassils Wettstein) Asia Fund raised over $1,000,000 27% Women Empowerment, to provide food, medicine and emergency supplies to 4% Peace and Disarmament Children, and Youth isolated communities devastated by the Myanmar Cyclone.

6% Education • The Tom and Gail Kaneb Family Foundation supported Root Capital in pioneering financing for grassroots 7% Human Rights and businesses in rural areas of developing countries. Social Justice • Room to Read worked with 2,200 communities in eight countries to build schools, establish libraries and provide long-term scholarships. • The Corridor of the Clouds Fund enabled the efforts of the Nectandra Institute in Costa Rica to restore the montane cloud forest ecosystem through education, research, and watershed stewardship.

12% Environment

20% Community Economic Development 20% Humanitarian Aid, HIV/AIDS & Health 14 15 Board and Leadership Program Funders & Partners

Board of Directors The Brainerd Foundation The Nature Conservancy Tides Canada Bullitt Foundation North Growth Foundation Alan Broadbent Calgary Foundation Oak Foundation Chair, Tides Canada Foundation Canadian Council for Ontario Trillium Foundation James A. Morrisey International Co-operation Open Society Institute & Chair, Tides Canada Initiatives CIDA Canadian International Soros Foundations Network Development Agency Susan Gibson The David and Lucile Packard Tides Canada Tides Andrew Heintzman Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Foundation Ed Levy Patagonia, Inc. City of Toronto Ross McGregor Rockefeller Brothers Fund Ducks Unlimited Canada Susan Pigott Robert Wood Johnson Donner Canadian Foundation Foundation Drummond Pike The EJLB Foundation Sacharuna Foundation Joel Solomon Jodi White Employment Ontario The Schad Foundation Margie Zeidler Endswell Foundation Tides Foundation Ross McMillan (non-voting) Environment Canada Toronto Community Foundation FERN – The Forests and the European Union Resource Town Creek Foundation Network Leadership Vancity Friends of the Greenbelt Vancity Community Ross McMillan Foundation President & CEO Foundation Walter & Duncan Gordon Vancouver Foundation Sarah Goodman Foundation Victoria Foundation Vice-President, Business Development and Services Government of British Columbia Walter and Duncan Gordon Alan Wong Foundation Chief Financial Officer Hamilton Community Foundation Wallace Global Fund The Harbinger Foundation Weeden Foundation Henry P. Kendall Foundation Wilburforce Foundation The William and Flora William C. Kenney Watershed Hewlett Foundation Protection Foundation Human Resources and Skills World Wildlife Fund Development Canada Willow Grove Foundation IDRC The International York Region Development Research Centre Inter Pares Ivey Foundation Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation The Lazar Foundation Lifebridge Foundation, Inc. Mark Torrance Foundation Metcalf Foundation The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Mountain Equipment Co-op The McLean Foundation

16 17 Grant Recipients

A.H.P. Matthew Elementary Canadian Harambee The Colin B. Glassco

FarmFolk/CityFolk Society 2008 (Surrey, BC) Education Society Charitable Foundation for Fatal Light Awareness Children Acadia University Canadian International Program Inc.

2008 Freedom of Expression Trust Collingwood General and Action Group on Federation of Canadian Marine Hospital Foundation Erosion, Technology and Canadian Memorial Artists Concentration United Church Columbia Institute Federation of Ontario Africa Inland Mission Canadian Opera Company Community Arts Council of Naturalists International (Canada) Vancouver Canadian Parks and Festival International de Alberta Wilderness Wilderness Society Community Opportunity Lanaudiere Association Foundation of Alberta Canadian Physicians for Fondation Cite de la Aldeburgh Connection Aid and Relief Compagnie F, Sante de Laval Concert Society Entrepreneurship Pour Canadian Society Promoting Fondation de l’Universite Femmes Alexander Elementary School Environmental Conservation de Sherbrooke (Cowichan Valley, BC) Concordia University Canadian Thousand Islands Fondation de L’Universite Amnesty International Heritage Conservancy Conrad Grebel University Laval College Arts for Children and Youth Canadian Wildlife Federation Fondation de Polytechnique Corporation de l’Ecole des Arts in Action Society Canadian Women Fondation du Centre de Hautes Etudes Commerciales Atira Women’s Voters Congress Sante et de Services Sociaux de Montreal Resource Society Canadian Women’s du Sud de Lanaudiere - Cortes Community Baycrest Centre Foundation Foundation Hopital Pierre-Le Gardeur Health Association BC Children’s Hospital Capilano College Foundation Fondation du Centre Cortes Elementary School Foundation Capitol Theatre Hospitalier de Granby Inc (Campbell River, BC) BC Spaces for Nature Heritage Foundation Fondation du Centre Cortes Island Seniors Society Hospitalier de l’Universite Belleville General Hospital Capitol Theatre Cowichan Valley de Montreal Foundation Restoration Society School District Fondation du Centre Bethany Bible College Carleton University Credit Valley Hospital Hospitalier Pierre Boucher Casey House Foundation Better Environmentally Foundation Fondation Hopital Laval Sound Transportation Cedar Valley Cultus Lake Community School Association Foundation for Gene & Cell Big Brothers Big Sisters of School (Chilliwack, BC) Therapy Orillia & District Centennial College Dalai Lama Center for Foundations for Education Bill Reid Foundation Central Canadian Public Peace and Education (Canada) Television Association - Bird Studies Canada Dalhousie University WNED Fraser Academy Association Blackburn Elementary School David Suzuki Foundation Fraser Basin Council (Prince George, BC) Central School (Horizon, AB) Dignitas International Fraser Valley Conservancy Bloorview Kids Rehab Centre for Integral Economics Douglas Harkness School Foundation Check Your Head Friends of Cortes Island (Calgary, AB) Society Board of Trustees District Chief Maquinna Elementary Douglas Hospital No. 39 Vancouver School (Vancouver, BC) Friends of Glendon College Driftwood Foundation The British Columbia Children of the Promise Friends of the Earth Society Technology Foundation Canada Friends of the Royal Ducks Unlimited Canada Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Children/Youth as British Columbia Museum Hospital Foundation Peacebuilders Dyana Afghan Women’s Fund Foundation Buckhorn Elementary School Children’s Heritage Fund Earthroots Fund Friends of Wye Marsh (Prince George, BC) Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ecojustice Canada Society Frontier College Foundation Caia Connection Ontario Foundation Ecole Spruceland Elementary Georgia Strait Alliance Canada’s National CKUA Radio Network School (Prince George, BC) Gitche M’Qua Centre for History Society Clean Water for Haiti Ecology Action Centre Healing and Dying Canadian Centre for Charities Organization Ecotrust Canada GiveMeaning Foundation Policy Alternatives Club Musical de Quebec Environmental Defence Glenrose Rehabilitation Canadian Feed the Children Coast Conservation Canada Inc. Hospital Foundation Canadian Friends of the Endowment Fund Environmental Mining Global Youth Education Israel Guide Dog Center Foundation Education Foundation Network Society for the Blind Eva’s Initiatives

18 19 Grant Recipients

The Governing Council of the Justice Institute of BC Montreal General Hospital Opera de Montreal 2008 University of Toronto Foundation - Police Academy Foundation ORT Canada Governors of St Francis Xavier Kelowna General Hospital Morfee Elementary School Ottawa Chamber Orchestra (Prince George, BC) 2008 University King’s College Foundation Ottawa Hospital Foundation Grand River Hospital Mount Allison University Kingsburg Coastal Our Lady of Perpetual Help Foundation Conservancy Association Mount Sinai Hospital Church Grandview/?Uuqinak’uuh Foundation of Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival Owl Foundation Elementary School Association of Mully Children’s Family (Vancouver, BC) Pacific Salmon Foundation Greater Toronto Charitable Foundation Habonim Zionist Society - Peace it Together Conflict Koinonia Christian Education Multiple Sclerosis Charitable Trust Operating Transformation Society Society - Koinonia Christian Society of Canada Camp Miriam School Music Toronto The Pembina Foundation for Haig-Brown Institute Environmental Research and Lakeshore General Hospital Muskoka Concert Band Education Halton Healthcare Services Foundation National Ballet of Canada Corporation Persons with AIDS Society Lawyers’ Rights Watch National Circus School of BC Halton Women’s Place (Legal Research) Canada Foundation Peter F. Drucker Canadian Hamilton Health Science Learning Support Council National Shevchenko Musical Foundation Foundation The Light Up the World Ensemble Guild of Canada Peterborough Regional HanneHowardFund Group Nature Canada (formerly Health Centre Foundation Harwin Elementary School Linnaea Farm Society Canadian Nature Federation) Pettes Memorial Library (Prince George, BC) Lions Gate Hospital The Nature Conservancy of Phoenix Community Works Hastings Elementary Foundation Canada Foundation Community School Literature for Life Nature Trust of British (Vancouver, BC) Pivot Foundation London District Catholic Columbia Health Arts Society Plan Institute for Citizenship School Board Nightwood Theatre and Disability HIPPY CANADA (Home London Health Sciences Norquest College Foundation Instruction for Parents of Plan International Foundation Preschool Youngsters) The North Coast Canada Inc. LTA The Land Trust Alliance of Cetacean Society Hospital for Sick Children Pollution Probe British Columbia Foundation North Shore Health Services Popular Education and MacKenzie Art Gallery Foundation Hot Docs Research Catalyst Centre Inc. Incorporated North Vancouver Human Rights Watch, Inc. Port Colborne General Mackenzie Elementary School District - Artists for Hospital Foundation Hummingbird Foundation School (Prince George, BC) Kids Trust Portage la Prairie Huntsville District Memorial Manitoba Children’s Northumberland Hills School Division Hospital Foundation Museum Inc. Hospital Foundation Power of Hope Immortal Performances Marianopolis Millennium Northwest Institute for Recorded Music Society Foundation Bioregional Research Society Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society Institute for Christian Studies Markham Stouffville Hospital Nova Scotia Nature Trust Princess Margaret Hospital Institute for New Economics Foundation Nova Scotia Sea Foundation Public Interest Research Marmot Recovery School Society Association Inc. Foundation Providence Healthcare Oak Ridges Moraine Foundation International Centre Maude Burke Community Land Trust for Human Rights and School (Melfort, SK) Public Television Association Oakville Hospital Foundation Democratic Development of Quebec McGill University Foundation Odd Fellows and Rebekahs International Development QEII Health Sciences Centre McMaster University Personal Care Homes Inc. and Relief Foundation Foundation Memorial University of Okanagan Boys and Girls Israel Cancer Research Fund QQS (Eyes) Projects Society Newfoundland Clubs (Toronto) Queen Alexandra Elementary Mennonite Home Association On The Ground Society for Jazz.FM91 Inc. (Vancouver, BC) of York County Documentary Photography JCC - Jewish Community Queen’s University at Mid-Toronto Community Ontario Educational Centre of Greater Vancouver Kingston Services Inc. Communications Authority Jumblies Theatre Quest Outreach Society Montreal Children’s Hospital Ontario Genealogical Society Junior Undiscovered Foundation Quinson Elementary School Open Learning Agency Math Prodigies (Prince George, BC)

20 21 Grant Recipients

Raincoast Conservation Southern Cortes Toronto Public Library The Vancouver Summer Foundation Community Association Foundation Festival Society 2008 Reena Foundation Southlake Regional Health Toronto Rehabilitation Vancouver Symphony

2008 Regent College Centre Foundation Institute Foundation Orchestra Grant Road School St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing Toronto Symphony Vancouver Talmud Torah Society Association Rouge Valley Health System Toronto Wildlife Centre Foundation St. Justine Hospital Toronto Youth Wind Vanway Elementary School Foundation (Prince George, BC) Royal Military College Club of Orchestra Canada Foundation Inc St. Mary’s General Hospital Toronto Zoo Foundation VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation Kitchener- Foundation Royal Ontario Museum Toxic Free Canada Society Waterloo Victoria AIDS Respite Care Royal Ottawa Health Care St. Michael’s Hospital Trillium Health Centre Society Group Foundation Foundation Victoria Society for Royal St. George’s College St. Paul’s College Trinity College Educational Alternatives Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation Inc. Turtle Gardens Spay Victoria University Foundation Neuter Society St. Jerome University Wayoata Elementary School Royal Victoria Hospital of St. John Rehab Foundation United Way of Greater (River East Transcona, MB) Barrie Foundation Toronto St. Mary’s Hospital West Coast Environmental Ryerson University Foundation United Way Centraide Ottawa Law Research Foundation Ryerson University - CAW St. Mary’s University Universite de Montreal West Coast LEAF Association Sam Gindin Chair in Social Universite du Quebec a Justice and Democracy St. Peter Catholic School Western Canada Wilderness (Algonquin & Lakeshore, ON) Trois-Rivieres Committee Saskatchewan Council for University of Alberta International Cooperation St. Rita Catholic School Whole World Foundation (London, ON) University of British Columbia Scarborough Hospital Wildlife Preservation Canada Foundation St. Stephen’s Elementary University of Calgary Wildsight School (Halifax, NS) Seeds of Diversity Canada University of Guelph Wilfrid Laurier University Stephen Lewis Foundation Seeds of Hope Foundation University of Manitoba William Osler Health Centre Stratford Shakespearean University of New Brunswick Seneca College of Applied Festival of Canada Windsor-Essex Catholic Arts and Technology University of Ottawa District School Board Strathcona Community Shaw Festival Theatre School (Vancouver, BC) University of Regina Women’s College Hospital Foundation Canada Foundation Sunnybrook Health Sciences University of Saskatchewan Shenpen Fund Canada Working Women Centre Foundation University of St. Michael’s Community Centre Sheridan College of Applied Sunshine Coast Conservation College and Technology World Literacy of Canada Association University of Toronto Sierra Club of BC Foundation World Society for the The Sustainability Institute University of Victoria Sierra Club of Canada of Canada (Sustainability Protection of Animals University of Western Ontario Foundation Network) (Canada) University of Western Ontario Simon Fraser University T. Buck Suzuki Environmental World Vision Canada - Richard Ivey School of Foundation World Wildlife Fund - Canada Sir John Franklin Community Business School (Vancouver, BC) Tanzania Education and York Central Hospital Micro-Business Opportunity University of Windsor Sistering - A Women’s Place Foundation Uxbridge Cottage Hospital Theatre Rusticle Inc York House School Society Smart Growth BC Foundation Thickson’s Woods Heritage Social and Enterprise York University Foundation Valhalla Foundation for Development Innovations Ecology and Social Justice Young People’s Theatre TLC - The Land Conservancy Societe de Developpement Young Women’s of British Columbia Valhalla Wilderness Society Communautaire de Montreal Christian Association of VanCity Community (SODECM) Tlingit Family Greater Toronto Learning Centre Foundation Soulpepper Theatre Vancouver AIDS Society Company Toronto Aerospace Museum Vancouver Folk Music South Muskoka Hospital Toronto East General Hospital Festival Society Foundation Foundation Inc. Vancouver Rape Relief Southern Alberta Toronto General & Western Society Land Trust Society Hospital Foundation

22 23 Financials

TIDES CANADA 2008 (Incorporated under the Society Act of British Columbia)

2008 Combined Statement of Financial Position*

Year Ended Year Ended Dec. 31, 2008 Dec. 31, 2007 ASSETS Cash $1,335,339 $2,601,765 Term deposits 7,760,110 2,687,688 Accounts receivables 686,536 797,087 Prepaid expenses 83,665 103,312 Investments 19,477,297 38,274,433 Donated assets 819,762 819,762 Property and equipment (Note 1) 1,390,277 268,647 TOTAL ASSETS $31,552,986 $45,552,694

LIABILITIES Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $455,336 $398,662 Deferred capital contribution 922,000 - Note 1: A $1M gift of leasehold improvements TOTAL LIABILITIES 1,377,336 398,662 was received in 2008 enabling us to move to much needed larger office premises. FUND BALANCES General 2,191,272 2,215,230 Note 2: In 2007 and 2008 we received large Restricted 21,997,245 42,154,582 contributions and made significant one-time Endowment 5,987,133 784,220 grants associated with our Great Bear Rainforest TOTAL FUND BALANCES 30,175,650 45,154,032 capital campaign. These contributions and disbursements were incremental to our regular TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES $31,552,986 $45,552,694 grant-making.

Combined Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balances* Year Ended Year Ended Dec. 31, 2008 Dec. 31, 2007 General Restricted Endowments Total Total REVENUES Support grants and earned income $128,366 $ - $ - $128,366 $348,776 Other grants and donations 276,953 31,566,821 5,374,957 37,218,731 45,395,608 Investment and other revenue 858,818 351,631 48,410 1,258,859 870,260 TOTAL REVENUES 1,264,137 31,918,452 5,423,367 38,605,956 46,614,644

EXPENSES General and administrative 978,905 1,412,710 21,150 2,412,765 1,642,194 Grant and program expenditures 141 47,280,741 7,543 47,288,425 12,899,837 TOTAL EXPENSES 979,046 48,693,451 28,693 49,701,190 14,542,031

Excess of Revenues over Expenses (Note 2) 285,091 (16,774,999) 5,394,674 (11,095,234) 32,072,613

Fund balances, beginning of year 15,761,994 28,607,818 784,220 45,154,032 13,130,744 Fund reclassification (13,546,764) 13,546,764 - - - Interfund transfers 16,025 (119,054) 103,029 - - Unrealized losses on investments (325,074) (3,263,284) (294,790) (3,883,148) (49,325) FUND BALANCES, END OF YEAR $2,191,272 $21,997,245 $5,987,133 $30,175,650 $45,154,032

* Extracted from the combined financial statements of Tides Canada Foundation and Tides Canada Initiatives Society. Full copies are available at: http://tidescanada.org/about/reports/

24 25 About Us Photo Credits Tides Canada Tides Canada Tides

Tides Canada provides innovative philanthropic, 01 Ross McMillan by Jamie Kowal financial, and project management services for change makers – philanthropists, foundations, activists, and civil 06 Island Conservation Canada organizations. 07 Hoops 4 Hope As experts who share your values, we help you create 09 TunaHAKI a healthier planet and improve the lives of people in Canada and around the globe. 10 East Scarborough Storefront • If you are an experienced grant-maker or represent a 26 http://www.flickr.com/photos/polifemus/ foundation, Tides Canada provides program delivery 27 http://www.flickr.com/photos/16822508@N05/ and grant-making support, giving you a partner for turning your wide-reaching programmatic ideas into reality. • If you want to extend your business’s social impact, Tides Canada works with you to craft a charitable giving strategy that resonates with your corporate values. • If you lead a charity or non-profit, Tides Canada offers awide range of services that can expand your donor base and provide long-term support for your organization. • If you are a social entrepreneur, Tides Canada provides the tools and support you need to allow you to stay focused on making your mission a reality.

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