Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
India. Time now for our community connection right here on K one, the
one you trust it is right now eight thirty three and we've got a big
to do coming up here very very shortly with the Bartlesville Community Foundation. Miss
Laura, how are you doing today? I'll thank you. Well, you've
got your notes all categorized and categorized and already to go, and you're far
more with it than I am today. But tell us we've got a big
event and it's got just a little subtle difference this year, a subtle difference.
Yes, we have the Legacy Hall of Fame Gala that will be on
May twentieth at the Bartlesville Community Center and this is our fifteenth Legacy Gala.
Wow, so we are very excited. We did make a slight change this
year. We are recognizing local organizations rather than local families and that was just
because we felt like making a little change this year. Well, you've got
we can pass around a little bit more celebration all the way around, because
there's so many organizations and people who not only belong to them, but on
boards and what have you. But it we're also helped by it. So
this really kind of spreads the Yay power along. It does. And when
we received the videos last week and so we've seen the kind of preview of
those were making some final edits and tweaks. But it's fun to see how
people in both big players in both there are the same in both organizations,
and so it's like we get to recognize families too. We get to recognize
the people that have helped make those organizations work, the boards that have helped
continue to make them successful. And I believe both of them are celebrating great
milestones in the next year. I'm going to get the years wrong, the
number of years wrong, but I know Boys and Girls Club, which is
one of the organizations we're recognizing, is reaching a big milestone next year.
Anniversary milestone next year. And then okaym is a tradition in our community.
So we're excited to unveil the history of both of those groups. In both
have quite the story to tell. They had a really great story to tell,
and one is rather unique that you have to get your ticket to hear
it, so that that's really going to be something marvelous. Now, the
people who put together your videos. I get a kick out of those each
and every time I at ten because not only do they tell the story,
but they use a little bit of humor and uh, and it keeps you
really engaged with the story the whole the whole way through, and there's no
lull. There is no lull. And she's the person who makes our videos
is Christy Hewitt. She owns Bit Brilliant as a company here in town,
and she does a wonderful job. And she does not only puts the videos
together, but really coordinates the interviews with the people that the organizations have selected
to speak on their behalf and tell their story. And so you're right,
it's going to be fun and engaging in those videos. Have just a little
bit of humor along with a lot of history, and they do and it's
it's great storytelling and it's well worth the price of admission, if not just
for the videos, because you know you're going to learn a lot in just
a few minutes that they're up there and everything, but it's really a nice
get together for the entire community. You get to see folks maybe you haven't
seen in a while and visit with them, and of course we get to
honor and celebrate ourselves. The best part. We get to honor and celebrate.
Yep, come and celebrate. That's what it is. Now tell us
a little bit about the foundation itself. It's more than just this one big
gala. It's you help a lot of organizations along the way throughout the year.
Every year we try our best to yes. So we have The Bartiswa
Community Foundation is twenty three years old. We were officially established as our own
NST in two thousand, so we get to mark our years pretty easily with
the year of the calendar. So you're twenty three and we see a rough
amount of about two point two million dollars back out of the community and the
communities that our donors serve every year. So we have think of the Community
Foundation is like your philanthropic bank. You can come to the Community Foundation and
we have fund types that help people reach their philanthropic goals like a bank would
have reaching someone their financial goals. And so we have a bank partner.
We are not a bank just heavy out there, but we have endowed funds
that act for the best interest of our community in perpetuity. So we get
to be our community savings account and we get to see all that go back
out and affect everybody well for the positive talk about the fountain of proverbial foundation
youth we try. We're going to come back in a little bit. We're
gonna tell folks how they can get tickets to the big legacy event. And
of course we want to hear how the story of how it got all started
here too as well. That's coming up here in just a little bit right
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time is eight forty and continuing with our conversation with miss Laura here from the
Bartletsfield Community Foundation. You guys have a little bit of a story yourself,
not just being twenty some odd years old, but how it got started is
quite unique too. This doesn't happen in every community, no, and there's
really in the state of Oklahoma, there are very few community foundations, darn
few. Indeed, there are you know, like seven or eight pretty known
ones. Tulsa Community Foundation is the largest foundation in the country. So we're
pretty fortunate to be down the street from someone who's doing really awesome work in
their community. Our Community Foundation, as I mentioned, is twenty three years
old, and we have been kind of the little engine that could. And
then we received very life changing gifts in about twenty and seventeen, well fifteen
fifteen that built our endowment that helped us be a sustained organization, and so
that really shifted our focus from hosting events to you know, fund our operating
so we could do the things that we were meant to do to fund it
overhead, so that we could just do the things that we were here to
do. So that's what we get to help other organizations try to achieve through
endowment funds for themselves to benefit their organizations so that we can just continue serving
our community and not worry about what you know, fundraising the next dollar.
Now, the big event, the big gale of the night is the night
is May twentieth, and it's going to be at the Bartlesville Community Center.
H Yes, and godly last year, boy, that place it dolled up
nice. You guys don't have to throw a party. We try really hard
and we have a great committee that does it with me and my staff or
our team at the Community Foundation does it. We are small but mighty.
We have three of us and then we have a committee of six and we
just try our best to get it good. A great evening, put together,
lighting, everything was just perfect. Now, how can we get tickets
to this ground? Salare? You can find them at the Bartlesville Community Foundation,
which is Bartlesville CF dot org. You can call her office nine eight
three three seven two two eighty seven, or just stop by and we have
an office dog. You give the office dog a little treat and you buy
a ticket to the Legacy Hall of Fame event. Well, there you go,
just like coming home, isn't it? And it absolutely is? All
right? Well, lord, thank you for being with us today. It's
my pleasure. Thanks for having me. All right, Folks, you've been
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