Inspiration in an unlikely place

This past week I attended the Southwest Regional Leadership Forum hosted by the Sarkey’s Foundation in Norman, OK. I honestly didn’t expect to come back completely re-energized and inspired to take on the world… but I did. One thing I’ve learned recently from the book Made to Stick by the Dan Heath and Chip Heath [...]

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Fablab in KW Neighborhood

So, awhile back we posted about our experience at the Boston Fablab and how we might work to bring one to Tulsa. Well, fast forward and Kendall Whittier Inc is seriously pursuing the idea of putting one in the KW neighborhood. There will be a community presentation on Oct 5 at 7pm at Educare at [...]

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Challenges, Social Connections, and Early Childhood

We here in the Innovation Lab recently launched our second “Innovation Challenge” to CAP employees. These challenges are meant to leverage the creativity of all of our staff so that we can identify problems and solutions that would never have occurred to us in the safety of the group cube. Our last challenge sought ideas [...]

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Moveable Oases for the Food Desert

Some of the innovation gang headed over to a local taco stand for lunch to enjoy the weather and much talked about experience by the local media of late. When we came back, I had an a-ha moment of why doesn’t Tulsa introduce some sort of traveling fruit and vegetable truck in our food deserts? Since [...]

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Innovation in Flyover Territory

Just last week the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Center for Social Innovation hosted a roundtable for the newly-created White House Office on Social Innovation.  Headed by Sonal Shah, formerly of Google, the Office of Social Innovation seeks to develop new funding for social innovation, expand national service, increase civic participation through new media, and develop [...]

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How Work is Like Biking

I am a cyclist.  In cycling, as odd as it sounds, having a good team around you is critically important if you want to perform at your best.  Team members not only encourage you and challenge you to go faster, but they also can ride in front of you, or alongside you, and block you [...]

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I like school better with Grandmas and Grandpas – Liam

This month’s Edutopia magazine featured none other than our very own Jenks.  With a title of “Senior Citizens Help Young Children with Reading – and Relationships” I was pretty sure where the article was going, but was I in for a surprise…
In 1998, Don Greiner started construction of a nursing home in Jenks next [...]

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Out and About

So, this post is a shout-out to Tulsa’s unofficial Young Non-Profit Professionals group or “Non-Pros.” Courtesy of Facebook, this group recently came to the attention of some of us of a certain age demographic here at CAP. This group informally meets once a month at the Community Food Bank’s headquarters where, Director of Culinary Arts, Jonathan Haring [...]

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Imagination Joined to Common Purpose

Sorry for the quiet this week. Offices were closed Monday and Tuesday, in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Inauguration Day. Lots to catch up on after the two-day holiday.
CAP had a watch party for the inauguration, generously hosted by Union Public Schools at their Multipurpose Activity Center. It was a great group [...]

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Social Innovation Camp

For those of you that know me, you can probably picture my excitement and bulging of eyes as  I saw these three beautiful words. One of my favorite and inspiring sites to check in on every once in awhile is launchpad a project of the Young Foundation headquartered in London. The Young Foundation specifically focuses on social innovation and [...]

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