by Jake Lange | Nov 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
Garden Oaks Elementary School In 2021, the Alpha Community Foundation of Oklahoma purchased a vacant Oklahoma City Public School building with the goal of converting the facility into a community center. The former Garden Oaks Elementary School is now set to be...
by Rebecca Blaine | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
This summer the IQC (Institute for Quality Communities) partnered with Kay County TSET (Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust) and to host the first ever Oklahoma Towns: Walkability and Placemaking Summit. Due to COVID-19, the highly anticipated biennial Placemaking...
by admin | May 12, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
Two IQC project partners recently won nearly $150,000 in funding from Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) to enhance public spaces and walkability.Both of these IQC projects were made possible in part by sponsorship from the Oklahoma Municipal League,...
by OU IQC | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Events, Featured Posts
This fall, we hosted a new program called the Quality Communities Retreat sponsored by the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Oklahoma Municipal League. Between two retreat sessions, we gathered representatives from eight Oklahoma communities, along with a...
by OU IQC | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog, Events, Featured Posts, Lectures
Support for this Program This event is supported by funding from the United States Conference of Mayors through the MICD Partnership. The Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a National Endowment for the Arts initiative in partnership with the United States...
by Shane Hampton | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, Featured Posts
Much of the world’s population is getting familiar with the term “social distancing” and what it means for daily life and personal well-being. This public health strategy in communities goes back a long time. More than 100 years ago, Oklahoma faced...
