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Creative Oklahoma Announces FY20 New Chairman and Five New Board Members
Creative Oklahoma elected Robyn Elliott, Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Communications and Community Development at The Chickasaw Nation as its new board chairman for FY20. “It’s great to have Robyn coming in as board chair at this particular time because, after being in existence for 12 years, we are now at a time where…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma Helping Startups in its MIT-Backed Mentoring Program
Article from Velocity – Greater Oklahoma City Chamber (JULY 30, 2019) Anyone’s who’s done it can tell you – launching and growing a successful business from the seed of an idea is not for the faint of heart. It’s hard. It’s stressful. And it’s lonely a lot of the times. Yet, the ability of the…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma Hosts 18 International Scholars Studying Innovative Solutions To Economic & Workforce Development
OKLAHOMA CITY (July 30th, 2019) — Creative Oklahoma (COK) is hosting a group of 18 experienced foreign faculty and practitioners who are visiting Oklahoma and two other states as part of a U.S. State Department-funded program to study socioeconomic trends that have changed the concept of work, workforce development and career paths in the United…
Read More →Oklahomans Study Innovative Urban Development and Placemaking as Economic Development Strategies in Three Cities in Germany
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 18, 2019)— Two Oklahomans representing the nonprofit organization Creative Oklahoma traveled to three cities in Germany to study their significant successes in developing diverse and robust economies through improving community livability via urban place-making, investing in community-accessible high performance computing and strategically nurturing ecosystems that support growth in a wide variety of…
Read More →New Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentoring Program (OKEMP) Officially Launches With Five Entrepreneur Teams
Oklahoma City – Creative Oklahoma has chosen five promising entrepreneurs to be the first included in its inaugural Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentorship Program (OKEMP), an initiative licensed from and modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Venture Mentoring Service. This statewide non-profit program provides free in-person mentorship and coaching to emerging entrepreneurs by matching them with…
Read More →2019 Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors Announced
Oklahoma City — Governor Kevin Stitt will designate eight prominent Oklahomans as Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors on Monday evening, April 8th, at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. The 2019 Ambassador honorees who will be present to receive their awards from Governor Stitt will be Mr. C. Kendrick Fergeson, Nationally recognized advocate for arts…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma’s Founding Board Member and CEO Susan Mccalmont Retiring; Rep. Meloyde Blancett to Become Interim Executive Director
Date: January 15, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:Stephanie Coderre Porras405.232.5570 x2stephanie@creativeoklahoma.org As a founding board member of Creative Oklahoma in 2006, and President/CEO of the nonprofit since 2011, Susan McCalmont, noted nonprofit leader and creativity advocate, is retiring from the organization. She will hand the reigns to state legislator, Meloyde Blancett, who will serve…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma’s Ambassador Spotlight featuring Suzy Amis Cameron
A noted environmental advocate, founder and mother of five, Suzy Amis Cameron is committed to the principles of sustainability in all aspects of our lives, with emphasis on plant-based solutions to address climate change. She is the author of OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet (Simon & Schuster/Atria,…
Read More →The Startup Squad
By Stephanie Gardner, OCC Durant “When my circle got smaller, my vision got clearer.” For aspiring entrepreneurs, there is no shortage of how-to books or small business seminars from which to learn the mainstream steps to success. A simple Google search will return nearly a million results. In Durant alone, we have at least six…
Read More →When It’s a Good Thing to Burst Your Bubble
By Lucy Swanson, OCC Guthrie As a community, we are constantly engaged in the creative process of finding new, more effective ways to serve the wonderful people that inhabit Guthrie. It isn’t an easy process. It isn’t simple either. It is a journey. And it is an adventure. Finding our way to building our community…
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