Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our goal is to help children be successful in life and learn to make good choices. We give kids a safe place to go. We teach life skills using the game of golf. We provide mentoring, help with reading and math, teach STEM, and provide ACT test preparation classes. Everything offered by First Tee of Tulsa is provided completely free of charge to the children.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Life Skills
First Tee of Tulsa teaches life skills and 9 core values (honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment). through the game of golf and 9 Healthy Habits: Physical (Play, Safety, Energy/making healthy food choices), Emotional (Vision, Mind, Family) and Social (Friends, School, Community).
Reading & Math Program
Professional educators teach reading and math to children who are struggling with their basic math skills and reading ability.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to reach as many disadvantaged Northeast Oklahoma youth to provide them educational programs that build character, instill life enhancing values, and promote healthy choices. We use the game of golf as the vehicle.
Through participation in the First Tee of Tulsa, children learn positive values such as honesty, integrity, self-discipline, perseverance and sportsmanship.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The First Tee of Tulsa headquarters/learning center is located near lower income areas of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We provide our program totally free of charge to the participants.
We have 2 satellite locations and 3 vans to transport children to and from the classes.
We teach the program to Physical Education teachers in public schools so we can reach and help more children.
We work in conjunction with organizations such as Boys and Girls Clubs, Salvation Army, Higher Esteem, YMCA, and Tulsa Housing Authority, to name a few.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a strong organization that has been steadily growing since inception in 2000.
Our staff is diverse and well trained by First Tee National. Several of our staff members are individuals who participated and progressed through First Tee of Tulsa as youngsters.
We have obtained funding to provide more staff members to work with the children and drive them to and from classes in our First Tee of Tulsa vans.
We have a solid group of volunteers who are dedicated to the program and the children.
We have been developing a social media platform to get the word out about the program.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since the program's inception in 2000, over 64,000 children have been touched by the First Tee of Tulsa program. We average participation of over 12,000 children per year.
We raised funding to construct a state-of-the-art junior headquarters building at Mohawk Park Golf Course as well as a practice driving range, chipping and putting green, and the re-routing of the back nine holes of Pecan Valley Golf Course at Mohawk Park for the First Tee of Tulsa program. The junior headquarters serves as a meeting place for junior golfers, includes a 3-stall indoor driving range, includes a computer learning center, provides classrooms in which to conduct educational programs, offers activities to develop participants' self-esteem, civic responsibility and confidence to broaden their goals in life, and teaches life skills to children.
We developed a mentoring program in 2005 to promote positive character development, develop leaders and further assist children who participate in the program.
We offer a program called, DRIVE (Develops Rewarding Inspiring Values for Everyone). Through this after school program we offer First Tee classes at junior high and high schools located in low socio-economic areas.
A long-time First Tee of Tulsa sponsor, Hille Foundation, offers college scholarships to program participants.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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FIRST TEE OF TULSA INC
Board of directorsas of 8/26/2019
Mr. Nicholas "Nick" Sidorakis
Southern Hills Country Club
Term: 2000 -
Kathie Coyle
Conner & Winters LLP
Christian Clark, MD
Adult Gastroenterology Associates
Gil Cloud
Tulsa Public Schools
Brian Davis
South Central Section PGA
Lucy Dolman
Tulsa Parks Department
Tyler Evans
The Williams Companies
Norm Fisher
UBS Financial Services
Joseph Flewellen
Tulsa Housing Authority
Parker Foster
The Barkley Law Firm
Janice Gibson
The First Tee of Tulsa
Mary Ann Hille
Hille Foundation
John Holcomb
KOTV-Channel 6
Ken McLeod
Golf Oklahoma
Nick Sidorakis
Southern Hills Country Club
Mark Southard
Southern Hills Country Club
Cleve Stubblefield
Cedar Ridge Country Club
Will Woodring
IBC Bank
Kajeer Yar
Yar Law Firm
Nancy Acton
Southern Hills Country Club
Mark Buntz
The WK Warren Foundation
Will Smith
WSS Holdings
Paula Marshall
The Bama Companies
Fred Daniel III
Fred Daniel & Sons, Inc.
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No