Drummond MacGavin Pike was born on October 11,1948 and is an American philanthropist and progressive political activist.
12 Facts About Drummond Pike
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Drummond Pike founded the Tides Foundation in 1976 and served as its president until 2010.
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Drummond Pike currently serves as a principal at Equilibrium Capital Group.
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Drummond Pike studied political science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and became involved in the anti-war movement in the late 1960s.
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Drummond Pike continued his education at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University where he obtained a master's degree in Political Science.
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In 1975, Drummond Pike co-founded the Youth Project in Washington DC, serving as its associate director.
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Drummond Pike was hired as executive director of the Shalan Foundation, based in San Francisco.
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Drummond Pike founded the Tides Foundation, the first fully staffed donor-advised fund in the United States, in 1976.
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Drummond Pike was among the original founders of Working Assets, a San Francisco-based telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism.
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In 1996, Drummond Pike established the Tides Center, an offshoot of the Tides Foundation.
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In 2002, Drummond Pike became the founding chairman of Tides Canada Foundation, a parallel organization of the Tides Foundation.
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In 2008, Drummond Pike anonymously donated $1 million to ACORN after Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN's founder Wade Rathke, was found to have embezzled $948,607.50 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations.