Avedis Structure is sharing highlights of its gives, campaigns, as well as collaborations from 2022, the year which noted the Structure’s 10th wedding anniversary. Because being developed in 2012, the Shawnee-based structure has actually given greater than $58 million in Pottawatomie Area as well as its surrounding neighborhoods, concentrating on locations of wellness as well as health, social solutions, arts as well as society, public as well as neighborhood campaigns, as well as education and learning.
Board Chair Mike Warwick mentioned, “Avedis moneyed almost $4 million in campaigns, gives as well as honors for our neighborhood in 2022 as component of the Structure’s objective to boost the lifestyle for the neighborhoods we offer.”
Emphasizes from 2022
Structure Marks ten years of Solution to Pottawatomie Area
Avedis Structure commemorated its 10th wedding anniversary in 2022, noting the turning point by holding neighborhood occasions as well as creating a collection of limelight video clips to record both the Structure’s background as well as its emphasis locations. (Limelight video clips might be accessed at www.avedisfoundation.org)
” We began our 10th wedding anniversary year-long event by creating a collection of video clips that perfectly catch that Avedis is as well as the extent of our job,” mentioned Avedis Structure head of state as well as chief executive officer Dr. Kathy Laster. “Along with a thorough retrospective called ‘The Avedis Tale: We’re Below completely,’ we developed a whole collection of video clips that highlight the impactful job that a lot of our neighborhood’s not-for-profit companies do daily to profit those they offer,” Laster proceeded.
In June, the Structure held a gala to praise its starting board participants, previous as well as existing board participants, as well as previous as well as existing personnel.
In October, Avedis held a neighborhood event to complete its wedding anniversary celebrations. “We desired a means to display as well as commemorate the companies that stand for the cutting edge of solution as well as their commitment to that solution,” included Audrey Seeliger, External Relations as well as Unique Occasions supervisor for Avedis. “Those companies as well as people are the ideas for every little thing we do as a structure,” Seeliger ended.
South Central Industries Gets Significant Give
Avedis granted a give of $500,000 to South Central Industries (SCI) in 2022 for the company’s “Better With each other: An Area Resurgence Effort.”
SCI has actually been critical in Pottawatomie, Seminole as well as Lincoln regions in fulfilling the requirements of grownups with intellectual as well as developing impairments (IDD) via staff-intensive vocational as well as domestic shows. “Much better With Each Other: An Area Resurgence Effort” intends to offer sources as well as chances for inexpensive IDD real estate as well as raised trade chances for people with impairments, a populace that has actually been overmuch influenced by the financial turmoil triggered by COVID-19.
Avedis Honors Give for 3D Bust Imaging Equipment
Identifying the expanding requirement to offer even more ladies that should drive longer ranges for bust treatment solutions, SSM St. Anthony Medical Facility– Shawnee Bust Treatment Facility started a growth as well as moving to a brand-new, stand-alone exclusive center area.
Avedis Structure granted a give of $465,650 for the acquisition of an extra 3D mammography equipment, which almost increased the Facility’s solution ability to 14,000 visits every year.
Avedis Grants Virtually $767K for New Amphitheater
Shawnee City Commissioners approved an Avedis give of almost $767,000 in June, 2022 for the building and construction of a phase as well as amphitheater at Timberland Veterans Park, developing a crucial possession for Shawnee’s historic midtown location, as well as changing the park’s worn out band covering that was eliminated in 2015.
” The City of Shawnee as well as Avedis have actually partnered on neighborhood jobs for almost a years,” the City kept in mind in its conference program. “Because time, Avedis has actually granted over $3.2 million in give assistance to the City of Shawnee for a variety of quality-of-life jobs.”
Structure Identifies First Receiver of Solution Honor
The inaugural Michelle Briggs ‘We’re Below completely’ Solution Honor, which acknowledges a person that has actually given excellent solution to the neighborhood, existed to Jeff Madison in February, 2022, complying with a public election procedure. Called for the Structure’s very first head of state as well as chief executive officer, Michelle Briggs, that led Avedis from its facility in 2012 up until her retired life in 2018, the honor consisted of a $5,000 optional give to a neighborhood not-for-profit, assigned by Madison, that picked Goal Shawnee, a not-for-profit company whose objective is to “inform as well as furnish people via mentoring connections rooted in the love of Christ.”
Structure Names New Board Chair; Invites New Board Members
The Structure’s board of supervisors called Michael P. Warwick board chair in March, 2022, as well as invited 2 brand-new board participants in 2015: Nick Atwood as well as Jeff Madison. Warwick, a neighborhood lawyer, has actually belonged to the Avedis Structure board considering that the Structure’s beginning in 2012. Prior to taking the reins as board chair, Warwick offered on the Administration board, Audit board, Financing board, Payment board, and also as the board assistant.
Shawnee indigenous Nick Atwood matured in Shawnee, finishing from Shawnee Secondary school in 1997. He gained a bachelor’s degree level from St. Mary’s College in 2001, prior to getting a Juris Physician from Oklahoma City College Institution of Legislation in 2008. Atwood is a lawyer as well as companion at Ritchie Rock & & Atwood.
Retired Military Colonel Jeff Madison was birthed as well as increased in Oklahoma. He is a 1985 grad of Harrah Secondary school as well as gained a Bachelor of Organization Management from East Central College in 1989. In 1997, he gained a master of company management from Syracuse College. His solution in the united state Military covered 25 years from 1990-2015. In 2014, while still offering on active service, Madison was chosen to come to be the very first owner/operator of Chick-Fil-A Shawnee, leading about 60 staff member.
Warwick observed, “Much of the Structure’s success are rooted in its devoted board of supervisors. Understanding that Nick as well as Jeff bring a solid dedication to offering our neighborhood via the Avedis board, we’re a lot more hopeful regarding the Structure’s future.”
Blue Areas Job ® Pottawatomie Area ends up being POGO
With its focus on health as well as neighborhood cooperation, Blue Areas Job ® was determined by Avedis Structure in 2017 as an all-natural suitable for financial investment, broadening the Structure’s recurring assistance of a much healthier atmosphere. Powered by volunteer leaders as well as underwritten by Avedis’ sponsorship, Shawnee ended up being Oklahoma’s very first licensed Blue Areas ® Area in 2020, involving regional dining establishments, colleges, faith-based companies, supermarket, worksites, as well as policymakers that have actually made concrete health as well as ecological enhancements, making use of some 200 research-based techniques.
Last springtime, Avedis Structure as well as Blue Areas Job ® Pottawatomie Area started involving essential stakeholders by creating a wellness union of neighborhood leaders, agents from location nonprofits as well as various other stakeholders, to work as consultants in developing a sustainability strategy to assist Blue Areas Job ® Pottawatomie Area to increase its solution location with an extra regional emphasis.
In October, 2022, Blue Areas Job ® Pottawatomie Area revealed a brand-new brand name identification, presenting the health renovation campaign as Pottawatomie Go, or “Pogo.”
” By broadening our system as well as solution location as a program of Avedis Structure, Pogo can proceed the transformative job of Blue Areas Job Pottawatomie Area,” kept in mind John Bobb-Semple, Pogo Exec Supervisor.
Structure Proceeds Assistance of Trademark Projects
Avedis Audio Speaker Collection
In February, 2022, Avedis Structure invited Wes Moore, a New york city Times very successful writer, fight expert, previous chief executive officer of the Altruistic Structure as well as the recently chosen guv of Maryland as component of the Structure’s Audio speaker Collection.
Moore matured in Baltimore as well as the Bronx, where he was increased by a solitary mom complying with the fatality of his papa. Regardless of youth obstacles, he finished Phi Theta Kappa from Valley Forge Armed Force University in 1998 as well as Phi Theta Kappa from Johns Hopkins College in 2001. He gained an MLitt in International Relations from Oxford College as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Moore after that worked as a captain as well as paratrooper with the united state Military’s 82nd Airborne, consisting of fight release to Afghanistan. He later on worked as a White Residence Other to Assistant of State Condoleeza Rice. In November, 2022, Moore was chosen guv of Maryland.Health Week ’22
Avedis Structure offered its yearly Wellness Week, Might 21-27, 2022, in Shawnee, including family-friendly occasions throughout Shawnee for every age teams. The week’s tasks advertised healthy and balanced practices as well as energetic way of lives.
Amongst the included highlights of the week were healthy and balanced food preparation demos, water safety and security courses for moms and dads as well as caretakers, National Healthy and balanced Youngsters Day at The Y, Elder Fitness And Health Day, as well as the preferred Neon Dancing Celebration at Sprinkle.
The week completed with an unique discussion by R. Murali Krishna, MD, DLFAPA, a well-respected elderly psychoanalyst in Oklahoma City that shared his understandings on growing mind/brain abilities to advertise durability for today’s demanding life.
Wellness Week ’22 stood for a collaboration with Shawnee Parks as well as Leisure, Shawnee Elder Leisure Facility, Blue Areas Job ®, Person Potawatomi Country, SSM Health And Wellness– Shawnee, Shawnee Pet Sanctuary, as well as the Shawnee YMCA.
Commemorate Educators ’22
Avedis Structure held its yearly “Commemorate Educators” in August, inviting greater than 1,800 instructors from Pottawatomie Area as well as nearby college areas of Seminole, Prague, Meeker, Chandler as well as Little Axe. The one-day specialist growth occasion combines public college instructors, sustain personnel as well as managers within the Avedis solution location as component of the Structure’s recurring dedication to acknowledge, motivate as well as inspire instructors via a countywide education and learning campaign.
The 2022 occasion started at Firelake Field with a discussion by keynote audio speaker Dr. Manny Scott, whose tale is informed, partially, in the 2007 hit flick, Flexibility Writers. Throughout his statements, Dr. Scott stated the battles of his youth, explaining himself as really feeling helpless, mad, as well as shed. It was an English instructor, Erin Gruwell, whose impact altered the trajectory of Scott’s life: he ended up being the very first in his family members to finish from senior high school, go to university as well as, eventually, to gain a Ph.D.
” Dr. Scott’s tale emphasizes the considerable, favorable impact that a dedicated instructor brings right into the class daily,” mentioned Dr. Kathy Laster. “The ‘Commemorate Educators’ occasion takes its name from the thankfulness we really feel for our instructors’ commitment to their occupation, to their trainees, as well as to culture all at once,” Laster ended.
SUSTAIN Effort
Presented by Avedis Structure in 2019, the SUSTAIN Effort is a program of Influence City, established to develop a flourishing environment for social pioneers. Operate in Shawnee is led by Influence City creator as well as serial business owner, Salah Boukadoum, as well as tenured not-for-profit fund raiser as well as chief executive officer Jennifer Ware.
In June, 2022, the SUSTAIN Effort commemorated the effective conclusion of its three-year program developed to assist not-for-profit companies change their earnings design from dependence on gives to lasting gained revenue.
Because 2019, leaders from for 4 nonprofits, Area Market, Area Revival, Heritage Parenting Facility, as well as South Central Industries have actually functioned together with lots of participants from the better Shawnee location to develop, examination as well as pilot brand-new company concepts for 4 future Shawnee companies:
Area Market of Pottawatomie Area– Usual Culinary is a common industrial kitchen area. Open up daily, the kitchen area will certainly offer business owners, food vehicles, as well as regional nonprofits. It will certainly likewise breed brand-new regional food companies.
Area Revival of Pottawatomie Area– Envest allows occupants to cooperate the worth of the house they stay in– aiding people to develop properties as well as neighborhoods to reinforce communities. Business likewise supplies a chance to spread out Area Revival’s objective throughout the nation.
Heritage Parenting Facility– Laynie’s Treehouse is a 3,200 square-foot interior climbing, play, as well as journey facility readied to increase to 6,000+ square feet in 2023. The center supplies chances for exploration, education and learning, as well as family members time– tailored to develop more powerful, much healthier family members.
South Central Industries– Invite Residence is a property growth solution concentrating on real estate as well as program centers for nonprofits as well as communities. Business brings competence in tax obligation credit scores as well as various other specific economic devices.
Various Other Neighborhood Grants:
Avedis Structure granted gives to a number of regional companies in 2022, consisting of:
Central Oklahoma Area Activity Firm to offer a neighborhood give author that aids regional nonprofits with study, prep work as well as entry of give applications.
City of Chandler for Safe as well as Healthy And Balanced Courses to Schools as well as Area Stage II.
Area Market of Pottawatomie Area to sustain its network of solutions for regional citizens that are encountering food instability.
Area Revival of Pottawatomie Area to sustain rejuvenated, linked as well as caring community areas throughout Pottawatomie Area.
Lady Precursors Western Oklahoma to assist increase employment initiatives as well as offer devices required for an effective program.
Baby Dilemma Providers to offer financing for BabyMobile website sees in Pottawatomie as well as Seminole regions.
Junior Success of Oklahoma for educational program assistance of electronic economic proficiency systems in Pottawatomie Schools.
Heritage Parenting Facility for the growth of the Facility’s “Earn While You Discover” Moms and dad Education and learning program.
Dishes On Tires of Norman to prolong dish shipment solutions to an underserved populace of senior citizens in Little Axe.
Goal Shawnee to sustain center restorations.
NewView Oklahoma to sustain important solutions for low-vision people in Pottawatomie Area as well as bordering location.
Nonprofit Management Institute to offer source gives (not-for-profit “device packages”) for 11 location not-for-profit companies.
Oklahoma Arts Institute to offer program scholarships for Shawnee-area trainees as well as instructors.
Oklahoma Baptist College to enhance the variety of totally licensed instructors in class throughout Pottawatomie area.
Leader Collection System Structure to sustain its wellness as well as nourishment program for Indigenous Americans.
Job: SAFE to offer crucial solutions for those in requirement.
Redemption Military Shawnee Boys as well as Girls Club to sustain regional after-school programs that advertise excellent personality, healthy and balanced way of lives as well as scholastic success.
Redemption Military Shawnee Emergency situation Sanctuary to assist offer emergency situation sanctuary for people as well as family members in requirement.
Shawnee Bridges out of Hardship to sustain academic shows as well as programs targeted at damaging the cycle of hardship.
Community of Meeker to sustain Safe Routes to Schools.
Regarding Avedis
Avedis Structure is a personal structure with 501( c) 3, not-for-profit standing, developed in June, 2012. As one of Oklahoma’s bigger structures, Avedis was developed to buy the area via gives that sustain jobs as well as advantage not-for-profit companies within the structure’s approving location.
The name “Avedis” suggests “one that brings pleased tidings,” or “the holder of excellent information,” a relevance inherent to the structure’s objective, “to measurably boost the wellness, health as well as lifestyle for individuals of Pottawatomie Area as well as its surrounding neighborhoods.” To highlight the importance of the name as well as the structure’s duty as a benefactor to the neighborhood, Avedis Structure can likewise be acknowledged by its trademark declaration, “We’re right here completely.”
The Avedis Structure’s workplace goes to 1500 E. Freedom in Shawnee.
Discover More regarding Avedis Structure as well as see limelight video clips at www.avedisfoundation.org.
