About Thrive Tide Partners
Bold Solutions for Equitable Systems
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
Trusted by Cultural and Civic Institutions
I help leaders turn vision into action. Let’s build what’s next—together.
Cultural Institution | Board & Fundraising Strategy
Developed the advancement framework and advised on board growth and fundraising strategy for a cultural institution founded by a creative icon and New York Times bestselling author, as it activates a 1930s-era theater in a historically Black cultural district. The strategy—guided by a customized Momentum Map™—supports institutional expansion and future public engagement.
Cultural Anchor Institution | Strategic Advising for Education and External Engagement
Engaged by one of the nation’s most prestigious cultural institutions to conduct stakeholder mapping and landscape analysis in support of its strategic plan, with a focus on education, external engagement, and the advancement of equity-centered community partnerships.
