About Thoreau Centers for Sustainability
Operated by Tides Shared Spaces, Thoreau Centers for Sustainability are green nonprofit centers located in San Francisco and New York City.
Tides provides an array of services that amplifies the efforts of forward-thinking philanthropists, foundations, activists and organizations to make the world a better place. Tides helps create environmentally and financially sustainable workspaces for nonprofits and communities to come together.
Through investing in green nonprofit centers, Tides offers values-based investors an opportunity to earn a strong financial return while supporting dozens of nonprofit groups. Organizations sharing space realize cost efficiencies and increased efficiency and gain access to new ideas, potential partners and expanded opportunities.
Tides Shared Spaces is a nationally recognized leader in the field of Green Nonprofit Center development. Tides Shared Spaces leverages its unique advantages as a nonprofit organization to access below-market capital and its proven expertise to develop and operate green nonprofit centers.
Tides Shared Spaces offers a comprehensive solution to the nonprofit workspace challenge that provides a triple bottom line advantage: Economic, Social and Environmental. Tides Shared Spaces develops green nonprofit centers that
- House multiple nonprofit tenant organizations;
- Provide nonprofits with office space at below market rates;
- Facilitate sharing services that might otherwise be prohibitively expensive; e.g., conference and meeting space, kitchen facilities and technology infrastructure;
- Foster opportunities for collaboration and space for community events, and
- Serve a diverse array of clients such as youth activists, seniors, environmentalists, people of color and artists.