"Making Waves sets the gold standard in best practices for educating young people from low-income backgrounds. It is a model for raising achievement and attainment for less advantaged students that needs to be implemented in hundreds of communities nationwide."
Providing The Educational Opportunities That Change Lives

Our Supporters
$1,000,000 or more
- Anonymous
- Fullerton Family Foundation, a Supporting Organization of Marin Community Foundation
- Phoebe Snow Foundation
- Regina and John Scully
$500,000 or more
- Suzanne Duca
- Mary and Ronald Nahas
- Mary and Bill Poland
$100,000 or more
- AT&T
- California Healthcare Foundation
- First Student*
- Dr. Alfred Kulik
- Dominic Kulik
- Glenn Kulik
- MCI
- Wendy and Eric Schmidt
- State of California-Department of Education
$25,000 or more
- 2311 Corporation
- S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
- Comcast Foundation
- The James Irvine Foundation
- The Kimball Foundation
- Betsy and Ed McDermott
- Tamra and Kurt Mobley
- Morrison and Foerster*
- Susan and William Oberndorf
- Irene S. Scully Family Foundation
- Silver Giving Foundation
- TomKat Charitable Trust
- Y & H Soda Foundation
$5,000 or more
- Bank of the West
- Marian Berg and David Wehlitz
- The Bodri Foundation
- The Ernest Bates Foundation
- K&F Baxter Family Foundation
- Suzanne and George Bull
- The California Wellness Foundation
- The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
- ChevronTexaco
- Mary Ann and Ronald Cohan
- Mary A. Crocker Trust
- Dodge & Cox
- Dana and Robert Emery
- Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Foundation
- Laura and John Fisher
- Gruber Family Foundation
- Michael Heffernan
- Heffernan Group Foundation
- Hellman Family Foundation
- Dr. William Jenkins
- Kevin Johnson
- Anton Jungherr
- Kaiser Permanente
- Tom Klein and Alicia Malet Klein
- Shelly and Tom Larsen
- Roy S. Latka and Bridget Anderson Latka
- The Lia Fund
- Betsy and Ed McDermott
- Carol and Robert Momsen
- The Overaa Family Group Charitable Trust
- Liebe and Bill Patterson
- Paula Pretlow
- Progress Investment Management Company
- Mark Rafanelli
- Jim Schwartz
- R. F. Smith
- Wells Fargo
- Connie Rubiano and Peter Yedidia
- Sandra and Mike Yuen
$1,000 or more
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- Pam and Larry Baer
- Edward and Rosemary Baker Family Foundation
- Richard C. Barker
- Sue and Jim Bartlett
- Hilary Perkins and Skip Battle
- R. David Bergonia
- David Bonderman
- Aaron Braun and Joan Dehovitz
- Leona Bridges
- Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena
- Marx L. Cazenave II
- Penny and James Coulter
- Janet and Rick Cronk
- Edie and Bill Dagley
- Jane T. Daiss & Robert M. Daiss Family Foundation
- Anita L. Defrantz
- W.A. Dinsmore III
- Robin and Leonard Eber
- Sharon and Stephen Edelman
- Barbara Erion
- Faltz Associates, Inc.*
- Willard C. Felsen
- Randi and Bob Fisher
- Barbara H. Fries
- Robert M. Gloger
- Bob Goldsborough
- Phillip Gordon
- Sheila and Patrick Gross
- Corinne M. Hedrick
- Patricia and Brian Herman
- Kristin Hite
- Dianne and Ron Hoge
- Telly Hoimes
- Donna Hubbard and Glenn W. Holsclaw
- Leslie and George Hume
- Jack and Jill of America
- Patricia and Bill Jahnke
- Kaplan McLaughlin & Diaz Architects (Mexico Office)
- Don Kay
- Annette and Charles Keenan
- Kreitzberg Family Foundation
- Jeanne and Bill Landreth
- The Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation
- Judith Little
- Lockheed Martin Employees Foundation
- Deborah and Peter Magowan
- Marc McMorris
- Patricia Melehan
- MLK Golf Tournament
- Tina and Hamid Moghadam
- Moors Children’s Foundation
- Lou Moreno
- Muller Family Foundation
- Susan and Gib Myers
- John Odell
- Patricia and Kelly Palmer
- Irena Panda and Daniel Smith-Rowsey
- Scott Pearson
- Peter Pervere and Georgia Cassel
- Prospect Sierra School
- Frances and Kenneth Reid
- Elizabeth Rodrigues
- Neil Rudolph
- A. Salzman
- San Francisco Giants
- Mary and John Schelling
- Sherry Smith and Philip Arca
- Molly and Greg South
- Carolyn and Stephen Spitz
- Madeline and Isaac Stein
- Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
- Richard Thalheimer
- Michael Towbes
- Pauline and Thomas Tusher
- Reginald Van Lee
- Weiksner Family Foundation
- Wells Fargo
- Darrell Williams
- Lisa and Ted Williams
- Jean and Lewis Wolff
- Paul M. Wythes
- Jonathan N. Zakin Foundation
- Zickler Family Foundation
- The Ziegler Family Charitable Foundation
$500 or more
- José Allen
- All Stars Helping Kids
- Bridget Anderson and Morgan Cronin
- C. Derek Anderson
- Jocquin Bolden
- David Brailer
- Leona Bridges
- Julia Brown
- Betty Burnham
- Nancy and John Buttita
- Velva Cornelious
- Stefanie and Peter Coyote
- Cathy and Sandy Dean
- Patti and Steve Doctors
- Frank Dunlevy
- Lindsay and Terry Eakin
- The Gambs Family Foundation
- HKIT Architects
- Keiter Family Foundation
- Kate Kelly and Tom Klein
- Jasmine Kim and Thomas Turner
- Kreitzberg Family Foundation
- Lillian and Jon Lovelace
- Karen and Ronnie Lott
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lydster
- Colleen and Charles Malet
- David P. Mans
- Krista Martin
- Angel Mejia
- Anna and Franco Muggia
- Elizabeth Obershaw
- Ed Paasch
- Dustin Peterson
- Katie Peterson
- Ellen Rosenberg
- Jane B. Ross
- Gary Tolman
- James Willenborg
- Chris and Steve Wisley
Partners
The Community Partners listed below enable us to bring the best services to our Wave-Makers:
- California Teleconnect Fund
- Erate
- Faltz Associates, Inc.
- First Student
- Frugé Psychological Associates
- YMCA Coronado
- Summer Search
- Planned Parenthood
- Cynthia Wiseman-Kelley
- John Casey of Cresa Partners
- Attain Learning Source
- HKIT Architects
- RT Fisher Enterprises
- Contra Costa County Office of Education
- San Francisco Unified School District
- West Contra Costa Unified School District
- Revolution Foods
- Upward Bound Program
- Non-Violent Communications
- Educational Student Tours-Black College Tour
- Iota Phi Theta Fraternity
- Alpha Zeta Omega Chapter
- Xi Omega Chapter
- Youth Radio
- Prisoners Literature Project
- Ella Baker Center
- 924 Gilman Project (Alternative Music Foundation)
- Building with Books
- Alameda County Food Bank
- Animal Rescue
- Dharma Publishing
- Food Not Bombs (Berkeley)
- Amigos De Las Americas
- Bay Area Rescue Mission
- Tsunami: Making Waves Education Program Parent Association
- Making Waves Academy Parent Association
*In-kind Supporters

