"Through comprehensive services and an extended day, Making Waves Academy immerses its students in rigorous academic courses through instruction that is sensitive to student learning styles and cooperative learning techniques that are culturally relevant and responsive."
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

