Our programs provide students of color from low-income backgrounds with the educational opportunities, career skills and experiences, and financial freedom they need to meet their goals and thrive. Here are some of the highlights of what that looked like in 2024 and a preview of what’s to come in 2025.
Making Waves Education Foundation earned a $100,000 Ad Grant from LinkedIn to support workforce development for young professionals overcoming barriers. Making Waves is using the funding to make career resources more accessible and support college students and recent graduates in reaching their career goals.
“Sometimes lab research can feel very impersonal, but I really enjoy the interpersonal interactions and the community aspect of science,” shared Ysabel David (she/her), a first-gen college student and graduating senior at Scripps who is sharing about her path finding community and pursuing her passions for science, dance, and DEIB.
We implore you to step into diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, or DEIB, work, not back away. Here are some of our key learnings that we hope help your efforts too.
Moderated by Bay Area reporter Stephanie Lin, this panel brings together college students and college grads who are sharing about their experiences building community in college, at their jobs, and beyond.
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.
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.
Drive impact. Build community. Do hard things. Learn and grow. Promote equity. These are the five core values that guide the work of Making Waves Education Foundation. Making Waves chief operations officer and people and culture manager share the ways that Making Waves instills their core values throughout the organization.
Research shows that salary negotiation is an inequitable process that marginalizes women and people of color. On July 1, 2022, a no negotiation policy took effect at Making Waves Foundation as a part of a revised compensation model that allows for greater transparencies and a bolstering of equity.
At Making Waves Foundation, you’ll find a great community of people and a dynamic, collaborative, and rewarding work environment. We are proud to offer an
In December 2021, the Making Waves Foundation Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve new organizational Core Values. The values will guide the work of the Making Waves Foundation community of students, alumni, staff members, board members, and other stakeholders in pursuit of the foundation’s mission to advance educational opportunity and strategic plan to increase the college graduation rate for underrepresented students in Contra Costa County.
Dear members of the Making Waves community, Over the past year, violence toward Asian and Pacific Islander communities has increased dramatically. Racist rhetoric calling the
