Restoring Ecosystems That Help Neighborhoods flourish.

We work with our neighbors to rebuild the systems that shape daily life.
to create lasting pathways out of generational poverty in Northeast OKC.

About Us

RestoreOKC is an asset-based community development ministry that is focused on rebuilding the systems that shape life in Northeast Oklahoma City.

Working alongside neighbors, we align health, education, residential housing, and economic opportunities that create lasting pathways out of generational poverty.

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Our process

RestoreOKC is a place where friendship can be cultivated across “dividing lines” so that we can see a more just, merciful & reconciled community. We aren’t relief (though we have some great partners who are), we are relationship based, community-driven redevelopment based on the principals of CCDA focused in Northeast Oklahoma City a place of great beauty, history & also injustice.

1. STABILIZE

Assistance with housing, food, and healthcare.

2. Grow

Gain education, job training, and financial literacy.

3. FLOURISH

Support finding new jobs, affordable housing, homeownership pathways, and strengthening families.

Our Programs

As a place-based organization, everything we do is informed by relationships with our neighbors HERE in Northeast OKC.

As a place-based organization, everything we do is informed by relationships with our neighbors HERE in Northeast OKC.

We believe that communities flourish when the whole ecosystem is restored. That’s why we don’t treat challenges like housing, education, health, or employment as separate issues, but as interconnected systems that must be rebuilt together to avoid an expensive game of “whack a mole”

Through Restore Health, Restore Education, Restore Residences, and Restore Employment, we are restoring the foundations that make thriving possible so that families can experience stability today and opportunity for generations.

This work is led by leaders from the community and shaped by the voices of neighbors, because real change happens when those closest to the work are leading it.

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Impact

Since we began, we have watched neighbors, volunteers, partners & community leaders work together to see the impossible made possible. We have opened a community-owned & led grocery store in a former food desert with an 18-year life discrepancy rooted in food insecurity. And, it is supplied by our very own Urban Farm. Our community schools have been resourced & supported – moving teacher retention from less than 6% to more than 80%. We have seen homes transformed into affordable rentals or transitional housing.

We have built businesses that have employed hundreds of neighbors. And, above all else, experience the true joy of belonging to a resilient & beautiful community that shows up big & rejoices bigger! When all of these arms work together, we believe the result is pretty profound: WHOLE FAMILIES BREAKING WHOLE CYCLES & FLOURISHING ACROSS THEIR WHOLE LIVES & FOR THE GOOD OF OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY.

of revenue generated across our three social enterprise businesses