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It is run by KI BOIS Community Action, Inc., a private, non-profit 501(c) corporation formed in December 1968 by merger of earlier Community Action agencies in Haskell, Latimer, and LeFlore counties. The primary purpose of KATS is to help poorer communities by providing low-cost access to Senior Citizen centers, grocery stores, medical services ...
Tulsa Community Foundation is a tax-exempt, public charity organized in 1998. It was founded by Tulsa oilman, banker, and philanthropist George Kaiser, who felt that Tulsa's historical dependence on unorganized private giving from its wealthy families was no longer effective. Beginning with gifts from seventeen local philanthropists, by 2006 ...
Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local white mob gathered and ...
Just two communities — Roseville, California, and Tulsa, Oklahoma — have achieved the top discount for their residents. ... dam inundation maps and emergency action plans with local officials ...
The city was able to negotiate an agreement with residents to disband the camps in exchange for the placement of 50 vacant homes in a community land trust, but it later went back on this promise. Nearly 50 residents were given rental assistance from the city to pay for private housing, and the city partnered with a private developer to build 12 ...
Community Action Agencies. In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies ( CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program ( CAP ), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty . CAAs are ...
Community Action Bus Lines: Washington County: Marietta: Community Action Rural Transit System: ... Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority: Tulsa: Tulsa 7,367 57 7,620 ...
Vision 2025 was a series of four propositions to increase Tulsa County's sales tax rate by $0.01 in order to fund capital improvements and provide economic development incentives. Two prior proposals, in 1997 and 2000, were rejected by Tulsa County voters. However, all four components of Vision 2025 were approved by voters in a September 9 ...