Tides Center

(San Francisco, CA) Organization www.tides.org Project www.rockridgeinstitute.org	Total Award: $95,000 over 1 year
Rockridge Institute	Program Contribution Environment Program, $65,000 Arts and Culture Program, $5,000 Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice, $10,000 Jewish Life and Values/Contemplative Practice, $15,000

Presidential Authority Grant
To continue to support the work of the Rockridge Institute, a project of the Tides Center, with NCF grantees in framing initiatives for social change in the areas of the environment, health, arts and culture, and Jewish Life. Rockridge Senior Fellow Dr. George Lakoff will continue working with NCF grantees to help them to more effectively conceptualize and organize their work, set policy agendas and goals, and communicate with broad audiences across lines of issue, constituency and geography. The grant will also support the expansion of a fellowship program for young intellectuals concerned with issues of social justice.

This grant also satisfies:

Environment Program: Objective I, Strategies 1 & 2, and Objective 2, Strategies 1 & 2
Arts and Culture Program: Objective II, Strategy
Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice Objectives I & II
Jewish Life and Values/Contemplative Practice: Goal I, Objective 1