• Bold Solutions for Equitable Systems

    Helping mission-aligned leaders turn strategy into lasting impact across culture, capital, and community.

  • About Thrive Tide Partners

    Bold Solutions for Equitable Systems

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    Thrive Tide Partners is a strategic advisory firm founded by Taneshia Nash Laird to support mission-aligned organizations in building power, clarity, and sustainability. From cultural institutions to equity-driven ventures, Thrive Tide helps leaders transform ideas into engines of innovation, impact, and community wealth.

    What We Believe:

    • Equity must be actionable, not aspirational
    • Cultural power is economic power
    • Institutions thrive through clarity, accountability, and collective vision
  • What We Do

    Organizations call on us when they’re ready to grow with clarity, equity, and cultural power.

    Outcomes We Deliver

    • Stronger, more effective boards
    • Increased major gifts and funding capacity
    • Deeper community trust and alignment
    • Clearer strategic direction
    • Elevated messaging and positioning
    • Forward momentum with cross-sector partners

    How We Work

    • VIP Days & Intensives for fast clarity
    • Leadership Advising for strategic growth
    • Workshops & Retreats to align and activate
    • Residencies & Talks to shift mindsets
    • Facilitation grounded in equity and lived experience
  • Signature Frameworks

    Culture Core Blueprint

    A strategic model for revitalizing communities through cultural institutions, cross-sector partnerships, and inclusive economic development.

    Harmony in Leadership

    A leadership training framework using the structure of a gospel choir to strengthen organizational alignment, shared stewardship, and values-based governance.

  • Select Client Work

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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.

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    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.

  • Let's Work Together

    We’d love to hear from you. Whether you're ready for a strategic partner or exploring how to build capacity from within, we’re here to help.

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