Ride the Wave Foundation
The Path is to The Person
the path is to the person
What We Do
Ride The Wave Foundation is a nonprofit organization creating relational, dignity-based pathways for individuals in crisis, especially those experiencing homelessness.
Our programs are rooted in servant leadership, conscious leadership, and positive leadership. We meet people where they are and walk beside them through mentorship, transportation, leadership training, advocacy, and storytelling.
We don’t fix people. We walk with them.
What we offer:
- One-on-one mentorship through the WaveMaker Mentorship Program
- Transportation to essential services for those with no access
- Leadership and life skills training for personal and professional growth
- Advocacy through Project Dignity to pilot test a modular home community
- Storytelling through books, outreach, and the Ride The Wave Podcast
Everything we do leads to one destination:
The Ride The Wave Campus, our vision for a long-term community of healing.
How It Started
Ride The Wave wasn’t born in a boardroom. It began the moment Jeff Fisher walked across the street from his mother’s house to a convenience store and met Darryl, a man experiencing homelessness. Jeff didn’t offer money. He offered a conversation. That conversation turned into friendship. And that friendship became the spark.
At the same time, Jeff was shaping the culture of NCK Equipment, a company he owns, built on values passed down from its original founder, Ray Maurone, a man who named the company after his three daughters and lived by family, integrity, and faith.
Two worlds came together.
A conversation on the street. A legacy in business.
Ride The Wave was born.
Projects
Every initiative we launch brings us closer to building the Ride The Wave Campus.
These are the active projects we’re working on right now:
Project Dignitiy
A pilot project demonstrating a better way forward. We collaborate with local leaders to provide modular homes and mentorship, guiding the way toward our long-term vision of a healing university-style campus.
Wave Transportation
We provide free, safe rides to medical appointments, shelters, recovery centers, interviews, and more. Access is dignity, and sometimes, a ride changes everything.
WaveMaker Mentorship Program
WaveMaker Leadership
Ride The Wave Podcast
Hosted by Jeff Fisher and Javon Blue, the Ride The Wave Podcast is a real, raw, human conversation with people who have lived, led, and overcome. From street stories to boardroom breakthroughs, we explore identity, redemption, purpose, and leadership.
New episodes weekly on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
Want to be a guest?
If your story can inspire hope, challenge systems, or model healing, we want to hear from you. Visit our Contact page and share your story.
Thank you to 100% Chiropractic for sponsoring the Podcast.
Books
The Words That Built the Wave
WaveMaker
A practical and personal guide to servant leadership.
This book unpacks 12 transformative principles for those who want to lead with presence, not perfection, and create lasting change in the lives of others.
Perfect for mentors, outreach leaders, nonprofit workers, and anyone called to serve.
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WaveMaker for Kids
A vibrant, illustrated version of the WaveMaker principles, told through the eyes of a child. Created to help young readers build empathy, confidence, and kindness from an early age.
This book is a seed. One that grows leadership from the inside out.
Training
Train the Heart. Lead with Presence. Serve with Purpose.
Our training programs are built to equip everyday people, mentors, teams, and future leaders to walk with those in crisis, not above them, but beside them.
We are developing a free online training program that empowers homeless individuals who aspire to a better life with servant and positive leadership principles, inspiring them to create positive change. By developing essential leadership qualities, participants acquire the skills needed to navigate challenges, build a brighter future, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.
WaveMaker Mentorship Training
A step-by-step training experience for mentors working directly with individuals experiencing homelessness. This program teaches how to build trust, guide people toward purpose, and stay consistent even when things get messy.
WaveMaker Training
Open to anyone who wants to become a more present, courageous, and servant-minded person. Ideal for outreach teams, volunteers, church groups, and anyone called to connect with those society often ignores.
WaveMaker for Business
A leadership and culture-building training for mission-driven companies.
Includes values-based coaching, purpose mapping, and guidance on how to link a company’s vision to a greater social mission.
WaveMaker for Schools
(Coming Soon) A future certification program designed to teach kids how to lead with empathy, listen with compassion, and create emotionally safe environments at school.
WaveMaker for Inner-City Schools
(In Development) A specialized version of our future school curriculum designed specifically for underfunded, underserved communities, equipping youth with leadership principles that turn pressure into purpose.
Campus
Our Grand Committment
Everything we do leads here.
The Ride The Wave Campus will be a modern, community-first residential hub for long-term support. It will not be a shelter. It will not be transitional housing.
It will be a home for healing, where individuals can stay, grow, and recover until they feel like their best selves.
We are in early concept development. Our goal within the next three years is to complete drawings, select a contractor, identify land, and raise the capital to build this vision from the ground up.
This is not just a building.
It’s the physical expression of everything we believe.
Outreach
Showing Up Where It Matters
We believe outreach should feel like family. Real, relational, local, and lasting.
One of our recent outreach projects was in partnership with Be The Change NJ. Together, we painted an interactive mural with kids in a Newark city park and handed out backpacks filled with school essentials.
That was just the beginning.
Stay tuned for more Ride The Wave outreach events in the coming months.
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Connect With Us
Jeff Fisher, the founder of Ride The Wave, owns NCK Equipment (NCK), which adopted Ride The Wave as its guiding company culture. NCK was named after the founder Ray Maurone’s three daughters, reflecting Ray’s family values, relationship-building skills, and positive mentorship with Jeff. More than industry leaders, we’re propelled by deep-rooted values. RTW, our foundation, guides NCK’s innovation and community efforts. It fuels us to be much more than a process equipment company, enhancing our customer support and sparking internal innovation. See NCK’s website to see how we have tied in RTW, which is interwind with NCK’s culture. Visit the NCK Website.
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for supporting us in this endeavor.
Foundation Partners
Business Partners
Reach Out
Would you like to volunteer or be a guest on our podcast? We’d love to hear from you! Please fill out our inquiry form to get in touch.
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