Teresa Heinz Kerry, Drummond Pike and the Communist TIDES FOUNDATION

Capital Research ^ | 03.04.04

[Coleus]

Money. Money is to the Tides Foundation and Center what water is to the tide. You can’t be sure from what source any part comes. You can’t be sure where any part goes. But it can knock you off your feet and pull you down. And there is an ocean of it. 

The Tides Foundation and its offspring, the Tides Center, effectively “launder” donor dollars when they give to other nonprofits. The San Francisco-based Foundation receives donations from individuals and foundations and then channels them to activist groups. The result is that the original donor can’t be linked to the ultimate recipient. According to the most recent available IRS form 990, the Tides Foundation received $86.1 million in grants, gifts and other contributions in 2001. It gave away over $76 million. Since it was established in 1976, the Foundation has given away over $300 million in grants. (Total 2001 income was $93.2 million; the Foundation had assets of more than $156 million.) 

The Tides Center, established in 1979, has been legally separate from the Foundation since 1996. It helps manage the legal, accounting and other administrative aspects of start-up political advocacy “projects.” In effect, it shelters activists and their fledgling organizations under the umbrella of its own nonprofit tax-exempt status. 

In theory, the Foundation raises and grants money, while the Center manages projects and organizations. A legal firewall divides the two organizations and keeps their functions separate. In fact, each does both. The Foundation awards grants to groups, including groups not managed by the Center, that are promoting a kaleidoscope of liberal issues. 

· environmental extremism
· exclusion of humans from
  public and private wildlands
· anti-war protest
· opposition to free trade
· banning firearms ownership
· abolition of the death penalty
· abortion rights
· gay, lesbian, bisexual and
  transgender advocacy 

As the epicenter of a large financial operation that collects and disperses millions of dollars to left-wing activist groups, the Tides Foundation and Tides Center are uniquely influential within the liberal movement.  Many policy projects established by the Foundation and managed by the Center are eventually spun-off as independent nonprofit organizations. In addition, Tides founder Drummond Pike has set up several for-profit companies. They donate a percentage of their profits to Tides and collaborate with Tides-affiliated nonprofits. 

Here are a few notable nonprofits started, managed or funded by Tides: the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Working Group and the Ruckus Society. The Tides Foundation continues to fund many of these groups, which are in the forefront of left-wing activism. 

Read the complete story here.

Organization(s) featured in this item

Environmental Working Group
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace Fund
Natural Resources Defense Council
Tides Foundation
Tides Center
Union of Concerned Scientists
Wilderness Society
Vira I. Heinz Endowment

Drummond Pike, President
Direct dial: 415.561.6361; email: president@tides.org

Drummond Pike

 

Teresa Heinz and the Tides Foundation

[Coleus]

Teresa on the Stump, Teresa Heinz Kerry, from Mozambique, PRO-ABORTION Catholic, UN Enmployee, etc.

The Tides Foundation

[Coleus]

Teresa Heinz Kerry, Tides Foundation and Abortion

[kimosabe31]

Very informative. It would be good if someone cut off this flow to the scm activists and forced them to work for a living.

[zip]

ping

[Eastbound]

I might be wrong about this, but I think the Tides also helps fund the Violence Policy Center -- the gun-grabbing group of pinkos that floated that phony AWB renewal survey ostensibly sponsored by the Family Consumer group used by the gun-grabbers in the Senate a few days ago. Do a google on Naomi Seligman and you'll see the connection.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I won't apologize.

[Eastbound]

. . . and if you RINO Repuplicans who voted 'yea' on the AWB renewal amendment using that phony survey to justify your vote, you are hereby outed as stinking filth and I hope you are all dumpster diving after November.

[Prodigal Son]

I think this definitely needs to bubble to the top by June.

[DeBug=int13]

 

 

 

Connecting the dots, but good -

 

see  Re: Bush ads, We hit a nerve!!!

 

post #96 in particular

 

 

 

 

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

Some others might want to see this!

Many of these Foundations need to be defanged!

[syriacus]

Thanks, Coleus.

[Grampa Dave]

They are also financing the whining survivors of 9/11 who hate president Bush and want Americans to forget about 9/11.

Whining 9/11 relatives have been paid by Tides Foundation
To Grampa Dave | 03/05/2004 2:15:12 PM PST sent




Thanks to DeBug=int13 for providing these links and the reality of these scumbags.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091052/posts?
page=96#96



And who is this survivors group "9-11 families for a Peaceful Tomorrow"?

Aww - phooey on them -

The real name of the outfit is September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

And from all appearances it is a fund-raising front for the Tides Center (EIN 94-3213100) of San Francisco - and "Peaceful Tomorrows" doesn't try to hide that they are affiliated on their contribute page. I know some Freepers are familiar with the Tides Center, and for those who are not, it is a non-profit organization that rakes in fairly big bucks ($63+ mill in FY 2002, which included $5+ mill in Government grants) to distribute out grants and allocations to various and sundry "social" projects and causes, with left-wing groups getting decent cuts of the action - they consistently lay out a good bit of change to anti-second amendment groups, for instance. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows doesn't appear to be necessarily autonomous from the Tides Center. Interestingly, the P.O. box listed on the "Peaceful Tomorrows" site shares the same location address and zip in the neighborhood with such notable organizations as The New Formulation: an Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books (a biannual journal examining the value of recent publications to the development of contemporary anarchist theory and politics), Institute for Anarchist Studies, Radical Magick (an "Eclectic Ceremonial Based Magick Group"), South Asian AIDS Action, Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, Dyke Action Machine! or DAM! - not that there's anything wrong with that (in Jerry Seinfeld voice). The Fellowship of Reconciliation website that is also mentioned on "Peaceful Tomorrows" contribute page says it all - offices in Wash. DC and also San Francisco.

Though they may splash New York this and New York that all around, "Peaceful Tomorrows" is created and based in Oakland California, founded and directed by Barry Amundson and sister-in-law Kelly Campbell, with the web technical matters being handled by Steve Simitzis of Saturn5 Productions in San Francisco, which has an apparent mission statement of providing web consulting and "hosting for artists, online communities, activist organizations"


Amundson is Designer and IT manager for the San Francisco branch of Fenton Communications, a "public interest communications" company that has offices in Washington DC, New York NY and San Francisco.

They have a rather interesting list of clientele that include -

MoveOn.org
People For the American Way
Nelson Mandela - Presidential Election
Greenpeace
Ben and Jerry's
Rock the Vote (which is also a "top five" paid contractor for the Tides Center)

Can probe here for the whole listing.





Here's a bit from lengthy LA Times article about what they do and the crowd they hang with - I think the Moderators won't have a cow over this excerpt -

October 1, 2002
Operation: Peace
Antiwar movement reflects a different America than in past eras, but diverse allies keep the spirit alive.
By REED JOHNSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER


"We want to poison your mind," teases the woman with slate-colored hair outside First Baptist Church in Koreatown. Swathed in natural fibers and sporting an anti-Dubya button, she's minding a table piled high with books, pamphlets and stickers decrying the sorry state of the planet--wars, corporate malfeasance, environmental disasters-in-the-making, and so on--along with half a dozen copies of the revolutionary rabble-rousings of Chairman Mao.

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But the rally's emotional climax occurred when Kelly Campbell and Barry Amundson, members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a group composed of relatives of 9/11 victims, embraced beneath a giant video screen where images of the burning twin towers had flashed by moments earlier. Barry Amundson, 32, is the brother of Craig Amundson, a 28-year-old Army multimedia specialist who was killed when the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon; Campbell is his sister-in-law. Both were in Los Angeles to voice their conviction that the response to last year's attacks on New York and Washington shouldn't be more mangled bodies and grieving relatives.


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And over at Indymedia -

9/10 Event in L.A. Features Peaceful Tomorrows
The Nation | 08.09.2002 20:19

"starring" Tom Hayden, Robert Scheer, Alfre Woodard, Ramona Ripston, Medea Benjamin, Maria Elena Durazo, Rev. George Regas and Rabbi Allen Freehling.

(Interesting links on that page)






Socialist birds of a feather flocking together........






96 posted on 03/05/2004 2:28:18 AM PST by DeBug=int13

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

WOW.

That kinda of nails it!

[Coleus]

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows>>

Now let's all join the communist party, let our hair grow, smoke a joint and sing Kumbaya

Post #96 right on target, they're all left wingers are too dumb to know that 9-11 was the result of Clintoon's policies and radical terrorists and that we are and have been at war.

[Grampa Dave]

Aren't Freepers awesome when it comes to slice and dicing the BS presented as news by the mediots?!

[Hon]

Teresa Heinz Kerry Funded Group Calls For Censure Of Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079318/posts

The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077429/posts

[Hon]

These are posters from a group, United For Peace And Justice, that is funded by the Tides Foundation. Her Heinzess has given the Tides Foundation more than $6 million dollars:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

GD, look what we have here!

[Grampa Dave]

The more I read of what the Tides has funded in the past and in this political campaign, the more I think that Kerry's wife is more dangerous to our survival.

She hates America and our culture with a true passion.

[Carry_Okie]

Here are a few notable nonprofits started, managed or funded by Tides: the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Working Group and the Ruckus Society. The Tides Foundation continues to fund many of these groups, which are in the forefront of left-wing activism.

This is just plain wrong. I have been writing about Tides for over two years. The Tides Foundation was organized in 1976. They are primarily funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts (Sunoco money).

NRDC was organized in 1970, predating Tides, and is far more influential. NRDC doesn't need organizational help from anybody.

GreenPIECE was founded in 1971, also predating Tides. They don't need Tides to money or organizational help to survive either.

The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded in 1969, also predating Tides.

EWG and the Ruckus Society are Tides projects.

Get your facts straight before posting, please.

[Coleus]

I have been writing about Tides for over two years.>>

Oh, you have? Please furnish me with your books, journal articles and published writings on this topic?