Creative Oklahoma: A Unique and Vital Way to Keep Talent in Oklahoma
Posted on Jul 31, 2016
What is Creative Oklahoma? An animated Dave Evans, at left, Executive Director of Creative Oklahoma, and an Edmond Summit Rotarian, explained the organization to the club at the July 26th meeting.
Formed in 2006, Creative Oklahoma is a statewide non-profit organization advancing Oklahoma’s economy through creativity and innovation based initiatives in education,
commerce and culture. The mission of Creative Oklahoma is to develop, promote and celebrate Oklahoma’s creativity and innovation in education, commerce and culture.
With strategic counsel provided by national advisor Sir Ken Robinson, Creative Oklahoma became the first non-profit organization in the U.S. with a statewide strategy to encourage and support the development of creativity and innovation in the sectors of education, commerce, and culture. Creative Oklahoma served as a catalyst for the development of the National Creativity Network and is the only North American region member of the international Districts of Creativity Network.Creative Oklahoma encourages all individuals to nurture their creative talents and ideas to impact their home, school, work and community environments. Creativity and innovation drive solutions to our global economic and societal issues. They believe that regions intentionally developing environments that encourage and nurture creativity will be those in which young people will want to live, all citizens will experience quality of life and will thrive economically.
Funded by interest from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Trust, Creative Oklahoma has been able to keep many high tech jobs in Oklahoma that would otherwise have left to Silicone Valley etc.
Their meeting places primarily are coffee houses, One Million Cup meetings, and other low key events that "introvert genius" types might frequent. More information on Creative Oklahoma can be obtained at http://stateofcreativity.com/about/