CHARITIES

There are 500,000 Oklahomans at risk of hunger every day, including one in five of all children in the state. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma distributes enough food to feed more than 63,000 hungry Oklahomans each week through 700 charitable feeding programs and elementary schools in Oklahoma. The majority of those helped by the Regional Food Bank are children, senior citizens on fixed incomes, working families who cannot make ends meet, homeless families and individuals, indigent people working to recover from mental illness or drug/alcohol addictions and victims of domestic violence. The Food bank accomplishes all this through programs like, Food 4 Kids, a program designed especially for chronically hungry elementary age children who receive backpacks filled with non-perishable, kid- friendly food to sustain them over weekends and holidays when school meal programs are not available. The Regional Delivery System delivers food throughout the Regional Food Bank’s 53 county service area, making 51 urban deliveries and 52 food deliveries monthly to 32 communities in rural Oklahoma. The Central Oklahoma Humane Society is a nonprofit animal welfare organization that exists to enrich the communities it serves by promoting the well-being of animals. The Central Oklahoma Humane Society provides pet adoptions, spay/neuter information as well as a low-cost spay/neuter clinic to Oklahomans for their pets. The OK Humane Place Clinic employs two veterinarians and a full support staff. The goal of the clinic is to perform 15,000 each year following and the clinic is open to the public as well as local rescue groups. The Central Oklahoma Humane Society also works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for sensible public policies, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about animal issues, joining with corporations on behalf of animal-friendly policies, and conducting hands-on programs that make ours a more humane world. OK Humane is funded solely by donations, grants, and bequests. The Work Activity Center of Moore, Oklahoma; is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing disabled adults with the tools they need to achieve fuller liveser particularly strives to help and advocate for those who have no other opportunities available to them. The Work Activity Center believes everyone needs an opportunity to achieve his or her fullest potential and they seek to empower their Clients with work-related skills, training and opportunities to enhance their quality of life. Everyone is happier when they are productive. Everyone benefits when they have useful work. The Work Activity Center is dedicated and committed to the philosophy that disabled adults can be productive citizens, develop degrees of independent living, learn new skills & contribute to The Work Activity Center of Moore, Oklahoma; is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing disabled adults with the tools they need to achieve fuller lives. The Center particularly strives to help and advocate for those who have no other opportunities available to them. The Work Activity Center believes everyone needs an opportunity to achieve his or her fullest potential and they seek to empower their Clients with work-related skills, training and opportunities to enhance their quality of life. Everyone is happier when they are productive. Everyone benefits when they have useful work. The Work Activity Center is dedicated and committed to the philosophy that disabled adults can be productive citizens, develop degrees of independent living, learn new skills & contribute to society & industry. F7 Shawnee Work Activity Center F7 Work Activity Center was established in 1957 as part of the Shawnee Public Schools. In 1963 F7 separated from the school system and was established at the current location as a sheltered workshop for adults with developmental disabilities. F7 is named after the NASA spacecraft, Faith, after Gordon Cooper, a Shawnee native who piloted the craft. Today F7 has a workforce of 25 disabled employees. F7 Work Acivity Center goals are to: To Improve Vocational Skills To engage in social interaction and learning by discovery To support community inclusion whenever possible To foster independence and provide a safe, nurturing environment The F7 Activity Center provides social interaction for adult clients, facilitates their sense of accompishment with appropriate work tasks and provides quality services for their customers. They are not funded or associated with any other organization.