By Ashley Van Horne, Chief Communications Officer At the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation, we are hands-on with entrepreneurs every single day. Whether we are working with budding entrepreneurs in the Tulsa StartUp Series pitch competition, culinary dreamers in the Kitchen 66 Launch Program, future business moguls...
By Natalie Deuschle, LTFF Director of Grants & Impact After spending a year working for a social enterprise that supported survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia, I was eager to explore the root causes of poverty and inequity from a systems level view. I also returned...
By Casey Allen, Kiva Tulsa Lead Growing up, I always loved giving away my parents’ money. Any time we passed a table of Girl Scouts selling cookies or animal shelter volunteers asking for donations, I would scrounge around in the bottom of my mom’s purse for...
By Elizabeth Frame Ellison, CEO Driving my kids home from school last week, the song “Humble” by Kendrick Lamar came on from my Spotify playlist. (Side note, this song is not at all appropriate for young children, please don’t report me to the parenting police). My...
The seven budding food businesses will partake in an educational program over the next four month By Scott Cherry Tulsa World Sep 7, 2017 Kitchen 66 has announced seven new food businesses selected for the fall launch program, according to a news release. The diverse, eclectic group of budding...
Split Log Farms aims for retail market By Chloe Moores Tulsa World Sep 9, 2017 Updated Sep 9, 2017 Robert Little has turned his childhood cheese memories into full-fledged business with the help of Kitchen 66. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, Little would deliver logs of smoked cheddar...
Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation announces plans for $5.5 million Mother Road Market Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation announces homegrown market By Rhett Morgan Tulsa World This article originally appeared in the Tulsa World on July 26, 2017. Read the original here. Start with a sliver of historic Route 66, add...
StartUp winner T-Town Tacos gives young people in transition a hand up T-Town Tacos focuses on employment of homeless and transitional young adults By Rhett Morgan Tulsa World This story originally appeared in the Tulsa World on July 25, 2017. You can read the original story, here. Kelly Blanke...
The Saloon: Let me explain how ‘social enterprise’ can change the world – and Tulsa, too By FOR THE FRONTIER, NATALIE DEUSCHLE| JULY 17, 2017 This article originally appeared on The Frontier - you can read the original by clicking here. Disclaimer: The Saloon is The Frontier’s home...
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Tulsa The Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation Written by Natalie Deuschle One February 23rd & 24th, the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation (LTFF) hosted a series of events on women’ economic development and entrepreneurship. The first of the three events was a public...