An LLC of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the American Song Archives is dedicated to preserving the legacy of America’s most enduring and inspiring songwriters. The American Song Archives manages, preserves, and provides access to countless treasures of American creativity from the core collections of the Woody Guthrie Archives and the Bob Dylan Archive.
The FC Tulsa Foundation is dedicated to building a stronger community by focusing in areas of education, health & wellness, and recreational sports. We are dedicated to changing lives by supporting programs and non-profits in the Tulsa community. The FC Tulsa Foundation, a component fund of Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF), administers charitable programs affiliated with the FC Tulsa soccer team.
A project of George Kaiser Family Foundation, Gathering Place is committed to creating a culture that supports the overall mission of equal opportunity for all. Gathering Place strive to create a community space that is a recreational, civic, and cultural destination for all walks of life to enjoy, promoting inclusivity in our city. Gathering Place is passionate about environmental sustainability, continuously striving to enhance the River Parks system while preserving and improving the native ecosystems that have called the Park home for many decades before it was named Gathering Place. Gathering Place is focused on the future of Tulsa, providing free educational opportunities for all ages and abilities to learn through play. Gathering Place aims to serve as a cornerstone for our vibrant community while improving social, economic, and environmental sustainability in Tulsa.
- Custodial Maintenance Host
- Custodial Manager
- Horticulturist
- Maintenance Technician
- Operations Host
- Security Officer
George Kaiser Family Foundation
George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing equal opportunity for young children through investments in early childhood education, community health, social services, and civic enhancement. GKFF works primarily on initiatives developed in collaboration with Tulsa-based direct service organizations.
Healthy Minds Policy Initiative
Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, a fund of the Tulsa Community Foundation, is a nonpartisan team of policy and mental health experts who work to end untreated mental illness and addiction in Oklahoma through large-scale policy and practice transformation. The organization was founded by The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation in 2019.
Since its inception, Healthy Minds has published dozens of pieces of original research and analysis, helped secure tens of millions of dollars in competitive funding for Oklahoma’s behavioral health care system, and initiated more than a dozen community-based partnerships committed to ending untreated mental illness and substance use. Healthy Minds provides data, consultation, and education on best practices to Oklahoma legislators and other leaders committed to improving the mental health of all Oklahomans.
- Associate Director of Community and Systems Initiatives
- Development and Operations Coordinator
- Fellow, Substance Use Policy
- Mental Health Fellow, Workforce and Integrated Care
- Policy Analyst
As an emerging technology ecosystem in the heartland, Tulsa is experiencing a surge of interest from talented individuals and companies drawn to our unique value proposition. InTulsa Initiative, LLC (ITI) is a talent and business matchmaker driven by a single, powerful civic mission: building a thriving tech hub in the heart of our city’s growing, vibrant, and inclusive community. Founded in 2021, we focus on supporting a diverse and booming economic landscape for Tulsa by forging strategic connections between talented professionals and innovative companies in future-focused industries such as cybersecurity, virtual health, fin-tech, ed-tech, energy tech, and advanced aerial mobility.
JusticeLink connects those navigating the criminal legal system in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a full spectrum of community-based services — all under one roof.
In 1998, several charitably minded leaders came together to help create Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF), a tax-exempt public charity organized to receive, administer, and distribute gifts from individuals and organizations for the improvement of the Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma area. TCF is a collection of many charitable funds varying in size from $5,000 to multiple millions of dollars. Each fund has its own identity and benefits from being invested with other funds to create a lasting community resource. TCF manages over $5.6B across more than 1,800 individual philanthropic funds. TCF staff members work daily with nonprofit agencies, corporations, individuals, government officials, and community leaders to provide superior service to the citizens of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma, as well as to increase the charitable dollars contributed to our community.
Tulsa Higher Education Consortium
The Tulsa Higher Education Consortium’s mission is to advance student learning, improve student success, achieve equity in outcomes, and meet workforce needs by working collaboratively to increase higher education opportunities in the region. The Consortium serves as a convener, connector, and communicator for its members, allowing for synergy and true collaboration centered around supporting Tulsa-area students on their postsecondary journeys.
Recognizing that the jobs of the future are rooted in a thriving innovation economy, Tulsa Innovation Labs LLC (TIL) was founded to develop a city-wide strategy that positions Tulsa as a tech hub and leader in the future of work. Through a diverse coalition of public and private partners, led by George Kaiser Family Foundation, TIL is creating economic development programs that seek to make Tulsa the nation’s most inclusive tech community.
Tulsa Responds provides free one-on-one navigation services to Tulsans who qualify for federal assistance programs such as free tax filing through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), Medicaid/SoonerCare enrollment, internet subsidies (ACP), and SNAP benefits. Our work is funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, nonprofit grants, and federal funds.