Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, and morning and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is a time now or our community connection right
Speaker 1: here on K one one. Do you trust miss Laura.
Speaker 1: How are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, we've got something really kind of unique
Speaker 1: and special coming up. And first of all, tell us
Speaker 1: about your organization and what it does, and then we're
Speaker 1: going to get into the function itself, because this is
Speaker 1: going to be fun.
Speaker 3: Yes, So we are the Bartlesville Community Foundation. We're a
Speaker 3: grant making entity. So we award grants through different programs.
Speaker 3: So maybe that's you coming in and starting a fund
Speaker 3: and supporting the things that you like to do. Or
Speaker 3: we have general grants that we have competitive cycles for
Speaker 3: and that also includes you know, scholarships and so we
Speaker 3: just finished kind of our biggest scholarship cycle ever.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And we are opening a new grant cycle right now.
Speaker 3: So if you are an organization that is on the
Speaker 3: hunt for grants, we have six opportunities open right now.
Speaker 3: I'll close in the beginning of September. And so we're
Speaker 3: really here to be kind of a convener for our community,
Speaker 3: bridging that gap between funders with an interest in organizations
Speaker 3: with a need and we're conto it right and working
Speaker 3: with our community as we identify, you know, ways we
Speaker 3: can improve.
Speaker 1: Wow, in a nutshell, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a lot, and it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: But it's happy work too, because you know you're you're
Speaker 1: finding partnerships that.
Speaker 2: Work exactly that. That is pretty fun. It's pretty energizing,
Speaker 2: I imagine it is.
Speaker 1: Every little every success is a big success when it
Speaker 1: comes to that. Now, for years we've we've had the
Speaker 1: legacy families and the big dinner and the everything. But
Speaker 1: we've changed a little bit and it's going to be
Speaker 1: something that's actually going to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: accessible for folks. Yes, and it's going to be actually
Speaker 1: darn cool. Tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's darn cool. But you know, I'm
Speaker 3: going to brag about it. And you can tell me
Speaker 3: if you if you've.
Speaker 1: Already told you, because I know about it.
Speaker 2: So we have. I have coined a new event.
Speaker 3: It'll be on September seventeenth. We're calling it the Celebrate
Speaker 3: Together event. It's a luncheon and rather than a black
Speaker 3: tied dinner, so it's a forty dollars ticket and join
Speaker 3: us on September seventeenth.
Speaker 2: We will be talking about the work that the Foundation
Speaker 2: has been doing.
Speaker 3: So we will be unveiling a couple of videos that
Speaker 3: promote the foundation.
Speaker 2: One of those being an impact video.
Speaker 3: That summarizes the things that we did in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: which is a lot, which is a lot. We had
Speaker 3: more than two million dollars an impact in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: and so we are we want to talk about that.
Speaker 3: We want to talk about the groups that helped us
Speaker 3: get there and the people who made those grants to
Speaker 3: support the community and the communities that they love with
Speaker 3: that more than two million dollars. And then we're going
Speaker 3: to unveil a promotional video, which we won't do very often.
Speaker 3: We'll do a promotional video just to talk about the
Speaker 3: foundation as a quick resource. You know. We'll probably let
Speaker 3: it live on our website as the Legacy Family videos
Speaker 3: have that way. When you asked me a question, Hey,
Speaker 3: what the BCF do, I can send you send you
Speaker 3: a little video exactly. And so those are the ways
Speaker 3: that we're going to talk about the BCF. But we're
Speaker 3: unveiling two new awards.
Speaker 1: This is exciting.
Speaker 3: This is the exciting part. I mean I got through.
Speaker 3: That's the boring part.
Speaker 2: I'm in BCF.
Speaker 3: We're exciting. We're not exciting compared to this. And so
Speaker 3: we had an open nomination cycle for what we're calling
Speaker 3: the Community Catalyst Award in memory of Charlie and Quirky Bowerman.
Speaker 3: And so the Bowerman's had an incredible impact on our organization.
Speaker 3: They had an incredible impact in our community and the
Speaker 3: sustainability of our community, and so we really wanted to
Speaker 3: capture that essence and recognize folks that are doing that
Speaker 3: today in our community. And so we're going to award
Speaker 3: a Community Catalyst Award on our charliean Quirky Bronment. Now
Speaker 3: we're going to announce that individual in advance, So we
Speaker 3: will announce that an individual next week to the community
Speaker 3: so that they can all join in and come celebrate
Speaker 3: that person's work together at that event. And then the
Speaker 3: second thing that we're doing is what we're calling to
Speaker 3: Tell Your Story grant. That is a twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: grant to an organization in our community to support three
Speaker 3: things general operating Five thousand dollars of that grant will
Speaker 3: go to their general operating they can use it for
Speaker 3: whatever they want to. Five thousand dollars of it will
Speaker 3: go toward a promotional video that incentivizes or talks about
Speaker 3: how building endowment can help that organization. And then the
Speaker 3: last ten thousand dollars of it will go toward an
Speaker 3: endowment for that organization. So if they have one, that's great,
Speaker 3: it'll be a restricted gift to that organization's endowment. If
Speaker 3: they don't, we can start one for them.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is impactful all the way around.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like this, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be exciting.
Speaker 3: And we're unveiling that one at the event, so you
Speaker 3: have to come and be there in order to know
Speaker 3: who is going to get that twenty thousand dollars grant.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know some hungry people. It'd be there.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's going to be great lunch melodies, catering, so
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: You can go there.
Speaker 3: We're having lasagna, salad roles. You know, we're going to
Speaker 3: roll out of there.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, So this is really going to be great.
Speaker 2: This is going to be at the community Center.
Speaker 1: Yep. All right, And where do we go to get
Speaker 1: the tickets?
Speaker 3: So you can buy tickets on the Foundation's website bartlesvillecf
Speaker 3: dot org. And we've actually just completely redone the website.
Speaker 3: So go on there and tell me whether or not
Speaker 3: you like it.
Speaker 1: I can voucher that because Laura was trying and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: where did I put that on the website. It's brand
Speaker 1: new and it looks great.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's easier to navigate than you think, folks, you know,
Speaker 1: so go on there and take a look. See what
Speaker 1: the foundation is all about, what they do. Play the videos,
Speaker 1: of course, and get your tickets while they last, because
Speaker 1: they get the feeling these are going to be what
Speaker 1: they call faster.
Speaker 2: We're at about. We probably have a forty tickets left.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's it. Forty tickets left.
Speaker 1: Wow. Ye, So if you haven't done it, let's get
Speaker 1: her done by lunch today.
Speaker 2: Get it done.
Speaker 1: Oh my heaven's sakes. Now, you've been there for a while,
Speaker 1: almost three years.
Speaker 3: So I've been in my role almost three years, but
Speaker 3: I've been with the foundation seven and a half years.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, very good, very good, And no two days
Speaker 1: are the same because you just never know what's gonna
Speaker 1: as they say, walk in.
Speaker 2: That door exactly.
Speaker 3: We've grown so much in the last seven eight years.
Speaker 3: You know, we went from a place where we had
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty ish fund relationships now we have
Speaker 3: over two hundred and so we've just continued to grow
Speaker 3: the service that we've provided and that's really resulted in
Speaker 3: us been able to have some flexibility with impact in
Speaker 3: the way that community needs us to have an impact
Speaker 3: like this grant.
Speaker 1: We're kind of in a select group that a lot
Speaker 1: of communities can't do this, right. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: there's only a handful in Oklahoma that do well.
Speaker 2: So there's only four I may have that number wrong.
Speaker 3: There's only four community foundations in the state of Oklahoma
Speaker 3: that are staffed and running community foundations.
Speaker 2: That's really unique. You look at.
Speaker 3: Kansas and they're there are quite a few more, I mean,
Speaker 3: probably thirty community foundations, and each one of those has
Speaker 3: really what we call robust affiliate relationship, So that community
Speaker 3: foundation represents a region and then maybe each county has
Speaker 3: an affiliate relationship that's a volunteer board that represents that
Speaker 3: geographic area, and then they're able to get the structure
Speaker 3: and the credibility and the accreditation that comes with being
Speaker 3: a partner with that host Foundation, and so we have
Speaker 3: that too. We at the BCF, we have three affiliates,
Speaker 3: the Blueston Medical Foundation, the Barsview Public Schools Foundation, and
Speaker 3: the Nowada Community Foundation. So we do all the back
Speaker 3: office work for those organizations. And we are now a
Speaker 3: nationally accredited community foundation. We finished our accreditation in the
Speaker 3: spring and we've received that kind of checkmark on our
Speaker 3: on our credibility, and so those organizations, because they're under
Speaker 3: our umbrella, also received that benefit.
Speaker 1: Nice. I remember doing the news story on that. That
Speaker 1: was that was a pretty exciting time. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work went into that.
Speaker 3: It's been a lot it's been a long process, but
Speaker 3: you know, it has to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get it done. But wow, it's incredible.
Speaker 1: Hats off to you guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you well.
Speaker 3: Right, and like I said, we're you know, number four,
Speaker 3: we're the large, the third largest in the state, the
Speaker 3: second the first largest in the state, Tulsa Community Foundation,
Speaker 3: you know, but we're in there, we're in their backyard.
Speaker 2: They're the second largest in the country.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a little bit of a shadow.
Speaker 3: Only second to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. So they
Speaker 3: they are really doing some incredible work and We're just
Speaker 3: glad to be able to watch and see what we
Speaker 3: can do here.
Speaker 1: Well, that is great. We'll keep up the good work.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And again the website again.
Speaker 2: Websites Bartlesville cf dot org.
Speaker 1: All right, lord, thank you for popping by. I know
Speaker 1: you got a thousand and one things to do before
Speaker 1: this thing takes off here in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It's my pleasure, but that's off to get you did good,
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