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.
This year marks a significant milestone for Making Waves – 35 years of empowering students of color from low-income backgrounds to break through barriers to educational success and economic mobility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Making Waves Education Foundation CEO Patrick O’Donnell joined the Pahara Institute’s Pahara Fellowship. The highly selective program identifies exceptional, values-driven leaders and provides them with leadership development opportunities so they can further transform the education system, especially for students from low-income backgrounds.
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.
Over the past four months, we have ended each Q&A in this CSI blog series with the same question: “What keeps you up at night?”
Richmond, CA. Making Waves Foundation is thrilled to announce the appointment of Patrick O’Donnell as Chief Executive Officer. Since 1989, Making Waves Foundation has provided
