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The Youth Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) is now accepting applications for Cohort 6! High school freshmen and sophomore students in the Tulsa area are eligible to apply. Learn more at http://ypitulsa.org/
Applications are due June 11, 2012. Apply today!
Join us in signing a pledge of unity for Tulsa. A pledge against racism and violence. A pledge for healing and peace.
Sign the pledge today at www.TulsaUnites.com
For the past eight years, our Foundation has been honored to partner with two incredible community organizations to make Valentine’s Day a special day for members of our community who are experiencing hard times. The Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless provides an average of 400 people with shelter and services each day, and the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma works with 450 partner programs to distribute enough food to prepare more than 70,000 meals each week.
This year, we wanted to offer a window into the remarkable experience of sharing food with the people who need and showing love in celebration of our common humanity. After all, hunger and homelessness are global issues with local impact. Every day, in our communities, in our neighborhoods, in our own backyards, people are going without food and shelter. There is so much we can do individually and collectively to help. Read More »
AMBER TAIT
As the arts education curator for the Arts & Humanities Council, Amber works to ensure that all Tulsa-area children receive a high-quality arts education . Learn more…
BARBARA SHEPHERD
As the director of national partnerships for the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Barbara is instrumental in designing and leading the Any Given Child initiative. Learn more…
HOUSTON DAVIS
As the vice chancellor for academic affairs with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Houston works to ensure college access for Oklahoma students. Learn more…
STACEY LEAKEY
As part of the Infant Mental Health community, Stacey is working to create a trauma informed educational tract in infant mental health. Learn more…
Cross-posted from The Huffington Post
Michael Kaiser
President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
I have written before about the Kennedy Center’s comprehensive arts education program: Any Given Child. This program assesses the arts education opportunities in a given community (offered by schools, arts organizations, community groups and others) and designs a comprehensive kindergarten through eighth grade sequence that utilizes all of these opportunities in a format consistent with the school curriculum in that community. It is a new approach that is affordable and gives each student (any given child) a less haphazard arts education than is available in most communities.
This is a relatively new program. I developed the concept in 2008, with support from the Ford Foundation, and executives from my able Education Department–Darrell Ayers and Barbara Shepherd–took the concept and ran with it. They began implementation in Sacramento, California just two years ago. Since Kevin Johnson, the dynamic mayor of Sacramento, agreed to make his city the first Any Given Child site, six other communities have adopted the program: Springfield, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada and Sarasota, Florida.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2012
/PRNewswire via COMTEX/
In a dramatic response to the nation’s critical shortage of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, more than 115 organizations gathered at Google’s Washington, D.C. offices have committed to bold, measurable plans to recruit, train, hire, develop, and retain 100,000 new, excellent STEM teachers in the next decade.
With the addition today of a $1.5 million pledge from CA Technologies, the partners’ commitments to STEM teachers are now backed by a $24 million fund pledged by 15 donors who also include: J.P. Morgan Chase, Google, The Dow Chemical Company, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NewSchools Venture Fund, and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr., Boston, Michael and Susan Dell, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Bill & Melinda Gates, Greater Texas, Heising-Simons, William and Flora Hewlett and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family foundations.
Across the nation, people are rebooting Valentine’s Day as Generosity Day. They are taking the pledge to make the day about love by forgoing the greeting cards in favor of giving back. In just three easy steps, you can honor your loved ones with a $14 gift that will keep on giving as part of the Unleashing Generosity Tulsa program. Read More »
The Tulsa Lighthouse Charter School is accepting applications for students and teachers.
Student Applications are available at http://www.lighthouse-academies.org/schools/tlcs - click on the “Apply” tab! Applications are due April 6, 2012.
Applications, including job descriptions, for teaching positions PK-4th grade and Director of Instruction are available at www.lighthouse-academies.org/apply – look for jobs in the Tulsa region!
If you have any questions about either application, contact info-TLCS@lighthouse-academies.org or call 918.231.4212.
About Lighthouse:
Follow progress of Tulsa Lighthouse Charter School as the leaders prepare to welcome the inagural class in Fall 2012: http://lhatulsa.wordpress.com/
Dear friends,
In just five months, Tulsa will be on the national stage as we inaugurate the summer Institute in the company of nearly 1,000 inspiring young leaders who represent what is best about our nation. We share their optimism and drive to accelerate the pace of change in our country’s education system, and we are excited about what this program and Teach For America mean to our community. Read More »
A must read from the Tulsa World in case you missed it.
On Monday, as we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people across the nation will come together to serve in ways as diverse as the tapestry of America’s people.
Right here in Tulsa, thousands will attend our annual MLK Day parade, which this year will include a student-organized food drive to benefit families struggling with hunger. I hope you will support the teens of REV Tulsa by joining them at ONEOK Field after the parade to contribute, collect and sort cans of food
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