About Us
RestoreOKC is an asset-based community development organization focused on the restoration of health, education, residences, and employment alongside our neighbors in Northeast OKC.
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Our process
RestoreOKC is a place where friendship can be cultivated across “dividing lines” so that we can see a more just, merciful & reconciled community. We aren’t relief (though we have some great partners who are), we are relationship based, community-driven redevelopment based on the principals of CCDA focused in Northeast Oklahoma City a place of great beauty, history & also injustice.
Assistance with housing, food, and heaLthcare.
Gain education, job training, and financiaL Literacy.
Support finding new jobs, affordabLe housing, homeownership pathways, and strengthening famiLies.
Our Programs
As a place-based organization, everything we do is informed by relationships with our neighbors Here in NE OKC.
The programs at RestoreOKC are designed to work holistically to address systems & break cycles. Each of these programs: Restore Health, Restore Education, Restore Residences, Restore Employment – are led by an incredible staff team of leaders from a variety of backgrounds who reflect our core values: grace-centered, team multipliers, active reconcilers, humble listeners, & joy-filled pursuers of people.
Add that our board of directors who reflect the same in their governance & are majority from the community & we think this is the single-most critical piece of the success we have seen over the past 5 years.
Impact
Restorative justice and restored communities.
Since we began, we have watched neighbors, volunteers, partners & community leaders work together to see the impossible made possible. We have opened a community-owned & led grocery store in a former food desert with an 18-year life discrepancy rooted in food insecurity. And, it is supplied by our very own Urban Farm. Our community schools have been resourced & supported – moving teacher retention from less than 6% to more than 80%. We have seen homes transformed into affordable rentals or transitional housing.
We have built businesses that have employed hundreds of neighbors. And, above all else, experience the true joy of belonging to a resilient & beautiful community that shows up big & rejoices bigger! When all of these arms work together, we believe the result is pretty profound: WHOLE FAMILIES BREAKING WHOLE CYCLES & FLOURISHING ACROSS THEIR WHOLE LIVES & FOR THE GOOD OF OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY.
$5.4
Mil
of revenue generated across our three social enterprise businesses
273
New Jobs Created
80
+
Neighbors employed
74
%
Increase in Teacher Retention
Our Partners
