ACLU of Oklahoma
The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma is a nonprofit, non-partisan, privately funded organization devoted exclusively to the defense and promotion of the individual rights secured by the U.S. and Oklahoma constitutions.
Executive Director: Ryan Kiesel
Email: acluok@acluok.org
Address: P.O. Box 1626
Oklahoma City, OK 73101
Phone: (405) 524-8511
Website: acluok.org
Addiction Center
African Americans and Afro-Caribbean Americans account for a large portion of the United States population. Substance abuse patterns in both African American and Afro-Caribbean American groups differ greatly based on cultures, spirituality, and social views. There are distinct differences in cultures and attitudes that contribute to substance abuse discrepancies in these communities.
Phone: (855) 401-9224 or (877) 416-1550
Website: addictioncenter.com/addiction/african-americans-afro-caribbean/
American Dream Center
Areas of Legal Assistance: Adjustment of status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), employment authorization, family-based petitions, naturalization/citizenship, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of legal assistance: help completing forms, filings with USCIS
Email: casey@amdreamcenter.com
Address: 13111 E. 21st ST. , Tulsa, OK 74134
Phone: (918) 609-3247
Website: amdreamcenter.com
Angels Foster Family Network
Our mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, and neglected children, match them with a select group of trained foster parents and ensure the maximum emotional, social, and intellectual development of each child.
Founder/Executive Director: Jennifer Abney
Assistant Director: Carla Dobbs | carla.dobbs@angelsfosterokc.org
Address: 129 Ed Noble Parkway
Norman, OK 73072
Phone: (405) 531-0352
Fax: (405) 701-7149
Website: angelsfosterokc.org
Chickasha Tri-County NAACP Branch
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities.
Email: rpashanti-alexander@okcps.org
Website: oknaacp.org
Citizens Caring for Children
Citizens Caring for Children has provided for children living in foster care by meeting their material, emotional, and intellectual needs.
Executive Director: Lynne Roller
Address: 730 W. Wilshire, Suite 111 & 112
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Phone: (405) 753-4099
Website: citizenscaringforchildren.org
Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma
To raise awareness and provide resources, as well as promote acceptance and inclusion for people with down syndrome.
Executive Director: Sarah Soell | sarah@dsaco.org
Email: info@dsaco.org
Address: 521 W Wilshire Blvd., Suite 130
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Phone: (405) 600-9981
Website: dsaco.org
Dream Action Oklahoma
Dream Action Oklahoma is a nonprofit organization that aims to empower the local immigrant community through advocacy and education to ensure justice for all immigrants. We do this through promoting education, equity, civic engagement, and community service in the state of Oklahoma.
Executive Director: Serena Prammanasudh | serena@daok.org
Outreach & Advocacy Director: Jose Rubio | jose@daok.org
Address: PO Box 1081
OKC, OK 73101
Website: daok.org
Drug Rehab Services/Addicted.org
At Drug Rehab Services and Addicted.org, we feel that it is impossible to continue our mission without acknowledging and shedding light on the role of systemic racism in addiction, substance abuse treatment, and recovery in America. It is nothing new and is a pervasive element of our society. Fighting against addiction, we naturally find ourselves in alignment with all efforts that strengthen the human spirit and seek to end hatred, discrimination, and suffering.
We support Black Lives Matter and its goal to improve black people's lives by ending systemic racism and the ongoing violence against black communities.
To help spread awareness on this issue, we have created a resource to help individuals better understand how systemic racism is prevalent in substance abuse and addiction recovery. It discusses how outdated policies have created an unfair environment for people of color and proposes potential solutions for the future.
Phone: 1-800-304-2219
Website: https://www.addicted.org/blm.html
Empower OKC
Lilyfield's mission is to provide stable, loving families for children and youth through adoption, foster care placements, specialized counseling for those impacted by adoption and foster care, independent living services for former foster youth, and EmpowerOKC, which is a prevention program that serves children and families at-risk of involvement with the foster care system.
Email: tramirez@lilyfield.org
Address: 1841 Exchange Ave.,
Oklahoma City, OK 73108
Phone: (405) 602-8861
Website: empowerfamiliesokc.com
Freedom Oklahoma
Freedom Oklahoma works to secure lived equality and legal protection for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer people through advocacy, public education, coalition building, and empowerment in the civic process.
Executive Director: Allie Shinn
Email: info@freedomoklahoma.org
Address: PO Box 18711
Oklahoma City, OK 73154
Phone: (405) 446-8836
Website: freedomoklahoma.org
Institute for Child Advocacy
OICA was established to create a strong advocacy network that would provide a voice for the needs of children and youth in Oklahoma, particularly those in the state’s care and those growing up amid poverty, violence, abuse and neglect, disparities, or other situations that put their lives and future at risk.
Address: 2915 N Classen Blvd, Ste 320
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
Phone: (405) 236-5437
Website: oica.org
Keep Oklahoma Beautiful
Empower Oklahoma citizens to preserve and enhance the state's natural beauty and ensure a healthy, sustainable environment.
Executive Director: Jeanette Nance | jeanette@keepoklahomabeautiful.com
Address: 720 W Wilshire Blvd, Suite 118
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Website: keepoklahomabeautiful.com
Latino Community Development Agency
Our mission is to improve the quality of life in the Latino community through education, leadership, services and advocacy.
President & CEO: Dr. Raul Font
Address: 420 SW 10th
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
Phone: (405) 236-0701
Fax: (405) 236-0737
Website: lcdaok.com
March for Our Lives
To harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives.
Website: marchforourlives.com/chapter/mfol-oklahoma-city/
NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness)
Improves the quality of life for individuals and families affected by mental illness through support, education, and advocacy.
President: Clark Grothe
Address: 3812 N Santa Fe Ave, Suite 305,
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Phone: 1-800-583-1264
Website: namioklahoma.org
Oklahoma Black Lives Matter
Our mission is to highligh racial disparities, injustices, & advocate for racial equity.
Website: blmokc.com
Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice
A group of organizations and individuals promoting reproductive justice in Oklahoma through education, empowerment, and advocacy.
Founder: Martha Skeeters
Address: P.O. Box 892381
Oklahoma City, OK 73189-2381
Website: ocrj.org/whatisrj
Oklahoma Policy
OK Policy is an independent non-profit. We advance equitable and fiscally responsible policies leading to expanded opportunity for all Oklahomans through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
Executive Director: David Blatt
Email: info@okpolicy.org
Address: Oklahoma Policy Institute
907 S Detroit Ave, Suite 1005
Tulsa, OK 74120-4265
Phone: (918) 794-3944
Website: okpolicy.org
Oklahoma Sierra Club
Our Statement of Purpose: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality ofthe natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Director: Johnson Bridgwater | johnson.bridgwater@sierraclub.org
Chapter Chair: Cheyenne Branscum | cheybranscum@gmail.com
Phone: (405) 902-2288
Website: sierraclub.org/oklahoma
Oklahoma Thunder Community
The Thunder Community Relations Department works to create programs and partnerships that make a positive impact on the greater Oklahoma City community. Our primary focus is on youth, with an emphasis on reading and literacy, health and fitness, and youth basketball.
Director: Erin Oldfield
Events Manager: Jennifer Watson
Programs Manager: Debbie Williams
Coordinator: Jackson Reber
Email: fans@okcthunder.com
Address: 208 Thunder Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Phone: (405) 208-4800
Website: nba.com/thunder/community
Oklahoma Women's Coalition
The Oklahoma Women’s Coalition is a statewide network of individuals and organizations working together to improve the lives of women and girls through education and advocacy. The Coalition promotes nonpartisan efforts, speaking with one voice, while addressing issues important to the progress of Oklahoma’s women and girls.
Executive Director: Liz Charles | director@okwc.org | (9180 850-6945
Address: 720 West Wilshire, Suite 101-D
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Phone: (405) 286-0356
Website: okwc.org
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform‘s mission is to serve as a catalyst for systemic change in Oklahoma’s criminal legal system to promote just and appropriate accountability while reducing mass incarceration and its generational harm to families.
Email: info@okjusticereform.org
Website: okjusticereform.org
Peace House Oklahoma City
The Peace House is an education and advocacy center for a wide variety of justice and peace issues, including human rights, economic justice, environmental sustainability, nonviolence, and peace.
Director: Nathaniel Batchelder
Address: 2912 N Robinson OKC, OK 73103
Phone: (405) 524-5577
Website: peacehouseok.org/about
Southwestern Urban Foundation
Make a difference and build strong, lasting relationships that work to improve the lives of African-Americans and other minorities in greater Oklahoma City.
Chairman: Willie B. Rogers
Email: info@swurbanfoundation.org
Address: 3017 N. Martin Luther King Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73111
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 17533
Oklahoma City, OK 73136-1533
Phone: (405) 424-2889
Website: swurbanfoundation.org
Student Training & Education in Public Service (STEPS)
STEPS experts are a community of public service specialists who are dedicated to helping students and future professionals find the information they need to pursue and advance careers in the public sector.
Volunteering in Public Service: How to Gain Experience Through Giving Back -https://www.publicservicedegrees.org/volunteering/
Student's Guide to Volunteering in College -https://www.publicservicedegrees.org/volunteering/in-college/
Teach For America
Teach For America catalyzes leadership to make educational equity a reality.
Contact: teachforamerica.org/contact-us
Website: teachforamerica.org
The Education and Employment Ministry (TEEM)
The Education and Employment Ministry, also known as TEEM, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking cycles of incarceration and poverty through education, personal development and work readiness training.
Executive Director: Kris Steele
Email: info@teem.org
Website: teem.org
The Spero Project
Our first and most important work is to create the most welcoming city to newly arriving refugees. We work to ensure every new neighbor is known and feels connected to the larger Oklahoma City community. It is our great joy to get to know new friends and share in hospitality together. In addition, we offer resources and learning opportunities that help in practical transition to Oklahoma.
Email: info@thesperoproject.com
Website: thesperoproject.com
Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City
Works to bring social and economic equality to impoverished citizens in our community.
President/CEO: Dr. Valerie Thompson
Address: 3900 N. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73111
Phone: (405) 424-5243
Fax: (405) 424-3382
Website: urbanleagueok.org
YWCA
Our Vision: Providing help and hope to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in central Oklahoma.
CEO: Janet Peery | jpeery@ywcaokc.org
COO: Gwen Lang | glang@ywcaokc.org
Address: 2460 NW 39th St.,
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Phone: (405) 948-1770
Fax: (405) 943-7177
Website: ywcaokc.org