We can make a difference because YOU are part of our community!

We donate a percentage of our classes to support causes that are important to our community.

What’s MAKING WAVES STUDIOS about?

We want to have a greater impact by supporting organizations & individuals that need support and/or making the change that our community wants to see.

We’re here to make “waves” together and we invite you to join us, so we create the biggest ocean we can dream of.

With our community’s support, we’ve donated over $25,000 since March 2020:

1 — Flying Studios, supported an Oakland local business, where Andreina & Adriana taught until 2020.

2 — Dancing Saved My Life supporting women dealing with cancer through stress-relieved retreats.

3 — Melrose Leadership Academy fund, to support families in need during the shelter-in-place.

4 — Alameda County Community Food Bank: 2,000 meals were provided with our donation.

5 — Unconscious Bias Project.

6 — Luz Marina, single mother: helping a single mother who couldn’t pay her rent/food during the quarantine.

7 — Lodestar families that were in need during the shelter-in-place.

8 — Migrant Center for Human Rights.

9 — New comers Fremont High School.

10 — Mother of participant diagnosed with cancer.

11 — The East Oakland Collective, working towards racial & economic equity.

12— Oakland Indie Alliance.

13 — The Marsha P. Johnson Institute.

14 — Monument Crisis Center.

15 — Two women struggling in Venezuela during the pandemic.

16 — Immigration case of member’s family.

17 — Color of change.

18 — Freedom Community Clinic in Oakland.

19 — One individual in the Bay Area referred by a community member.

20 — Shipibo-Konibo Tribe Medical Emergency during COVID-19.

21 — UndocuFund for disaster relief in Sonoma county.

22 — RedCross Wildfires.

23 — Keep Oakland Housed.

24 — Carl B. Metoyer Center for Family Counseling.

25 — Covid relief fund to support businesses in Oakland.

26 — Charlotte Maxwell Clinic supporting women with cancer.

27 — Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC)in Berkeley .

28 — Meals on Wheels.

29 — Couple in need during the pandemic (laid off & kicked out of their home).

30— Bay Area Rescue, feeding the homeless.

31— Summer Search, supporting the Youth.

32— Trybe, building communities in the East Bay.

33— Embrace Race, building a generation that is thoughtful, informed & brave about race.

34— Earth Justice, building a better future.

35— STOP AAPI Hate, supporting our own communities, staying together & strong.

36— Urban Mentors, supporting young population that mostly lives in East Oakland.

37— Alameda County Community Food Bank, we donated $2,170 from one online fundraiser event (3.12.21)

38— KITS CUBED, introducing youth to the wonders of science through fun, affordable & accessible means.

39— MUA, providing support to immigrant Latina women.

40— PSI, Postpartum Support International.

41— USB , supporting the proffesors at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela.

42— CareIndia.org, providing support during the COVID-19 crisis in India.

43— Hurricane Ida, supporting the Red Cross efforts to help people affected by it.

44— Surfside towers collapse, supporting the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

45— The UN Refugee Agency, supporting Afghan refugees.

46— Health in Harmony, reversing global heating by protecting the forest. (In progress)

You can suggest where our next donation is going.