About Thrive Tide Partners
Thrive Tide Partners was founded by Taneshia Nash Laird to support the transformation of nonprofits, cultural institutions, and equity-driven enterprises. We specialize in high-impact advising, capacity-building frameworks, and strategic stakeholder engagement. Our work centers the wisdom already within communities and provides the tools to help it flourish.
What We Believe:
- Equity must be actionable, not aspirational
- Cultural power is economic power
- Institutions thrive through clarity, accountability, and collective vision
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Partnered with a cultural institution founded by a high-profile creative leader and bestselling author to guide fundraising strategy and board development in support of expanding its community-centered artistic vision by occupying a 1930s-era theater located in a historically Black cultural district.
Supporting a major American cultural institution, the second oldest of its kind in the nation, through stakeholder ecosystem mapping, strategic engagement, and the co-development of a comprehensive education and external engagement program aligned with the organization’s equity and community goals.
