How to build your team and embed DEIB in how you and your team operate
If you’re an aspiring or new CEO, having an incredible team is one of the most important levers for driving organizational impact and outcomes. This means a top priority will be building your team and embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in how you and your team operate. CEO Patrick O’Donnell shares learnings from his first five years as CEO.
How to define an approach to strong, inclusive decision-making
Decision-making is an Achilles heel and pain point for so many organizations. CEO Patrick O’Donnell shares three approaches to defining a strong and inclusive approach to decision-making as a part of a series on lessons learned during his first five years as a nonprofit CEO.
How to build resilience in uncertainty
The nonprofit CEO job is challenging and a big part of the leadership role is leading through uncertainty. CEO Patrick O’Donnell shares three approaches to building resilience in the face of challenges as a part of a series on lessons learned during his first five years as a nonprofit CEO.
How to think big and find sustainability
CEO Patrick O’Donnell shares three approaches to thinking big and having an impactful vision while also finding work and life balance as a part of a series on lessons learned during his first five years as a nonprofit CEO.
Listening to Gen Z to Reimagine Education and Employment Pathways
CEO Patrick O’Donnell spotlights how Gen Z is ringing the alarm bell, saying current education and workforce systems aren’t working. He shares how Making Waves is listening to learn from Gen Z and testing and learning from some new approaches – from mentorship to AI to internships.
The demand for college graduates is growing. Let’s meet the demand – without all the student debt.
Making Waves CEO shares why we need to build the pipeline of first-gen college grads and how this can be done without all the student loan debt.
Sharing Our 2022-23 Impact Report
Making Waves brings together the impact of two nonprofits: Making Waves Academy and Making Waves Education Foundation. Together, we are creating equitable access to college and career success for first-generation students of color, and a stronger source of diverse talent in the Bay Area that will accelerate our region’s success.
Celebrating Your Impact In Our Latest Impact Report
The latest Making Waves Foundation annual impact report features students and alumni making waves in college and in their careers and celebrates the 93 college graduates of 2022 with 84% of them graduating debt-free. The report covers how our new core values guide our work to expand educational opportunity and provides an inside look into the new Wave-Maker Success Framework. In addition to sharing college success program outcomes, the report provides more information on our plan to reach more Bay Area students and families in the future. The impact report also includes more on our donors, board, and financials.
Why Making Waves Is Using AI Advising to Support Students
Graduating from college is one of life’s greatest triumphs. With that diploma in hand, graduates are ready to start the next chapter of their lives knowing they have what it takes to succeed. But for high school students with limited financial resources, who are the first in their family to go to college, simply applying to college can be a process filled with systemic barriers. As we pilot our new AI college advisor at Making Waves Foundation, we hope we can help remove those barriers.
