Before City Care formally organized in 1996, a group of friends gathered weekly at a downtown church to serve pancake breakfasts to people experiencing homelessness. The pancakes were an invitation to connection, a weekly reminder that their neighbors were not forgotten. When the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building destroyed some of […]
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Politics, Not As Usual
Let’s Fix This, the non-profit advocacy group founded by Andy Moore, emerged from the state budget crisis of 2016. Oklahoma had experienced two revenue failures, across-the-board cuts in spending on services and furloughed state employees, including Department of Health employees who approved pharmaceutical allocations for patients. Moore, a licensed counselor with degrees in theology and […]
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Funding Forward
What do you picture when someone says “the arts”? For many, it’s the curtain rising on an Oklahoma City Ballet performance; it’s the sound of the Philharmonic as it tunes up. It’s a festival crowd spilling through the downtown streets; it’s opening night at Lyric. It’s true: those touchstones are such an important part of […]
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Rooted in Environmental Stewardship
As it starts to get warmer (and then cooler and then warmer again), you may have started to notice the green leaves creeping back onto once barren branches in parks, medians, and neighborhoods across Oklahoma City. Maybe the calls of cardinals and robins have started waking you up in the morning. Or, maybe you’ve heard […]