Meeting with Mayor Nichols and City of Tulsa Staff

Erran Persley, Bob Lieser, Mayor Monroe Nichols, Micah Keyan, Eileen Schaumleffle (📸: Dana Walton) 

Happy New Year! This is our first newsletter from our new platform, and we hope this email finds you well!

On January 8th, TGA staff was honored to meet with Mayor Monroe Nichols IV, Deputy Chief of Staff, Dana Walton, and the City of Tulsa's Chief Economic Development Director and new TGA Board member, Erran Persley, to discuss TGA's rich history, mission, and programs!

🎉 Global Vision 2025 - Thursday, April 3, 2025 🥂

Join us for our annual Global Vision Awards Gala on Thursday, April 3rd, 2025. Every year, TGA recognizes and honors outstanding organizations and individuals for significant and lasting contributions to citizen diplomacy, global understanding, international trade, or cooperative efforts to solve health, social or environmental challenges. Tickets will be available for purchase very soon! If you're interested in sponsoring Global Vision, please contact [email protected]

🇺🇸🎄🇩🇪 Tulsa-Celle Ornament Exchange!

Top: Ornaments from Celle. Bottom Left: Ornaments from Tulsa. Bottom Right: Celle's Mayor Jörg Nigge and staff

Elementary students from Tulsa's Riverfield Country Day School and our Sister City of Celle, Germany exchanged ornaments for the holidays! Special thanks to Tulsa-Celle Chair, Sandy Dizdar, the teachers of Riverfield, and our friends and colleagues in Celle for coordinating this heartwarming exchange!

🇯🇵🛫🇺🇸 Host a Student from Utsunomiya, Japan!

Want to host a ~14-year old student or one of their adult chaperones from our Japanese Sister City, Utsunomiya, from March 21-26th? Click the link below to learn more about our program and sign up! Thanks for supporting this Tulsa-Utsunomiya Sister City Partnership tradition!

Learn More + Sign Up!

🇺🇸🛬🇯🇵 Utsunomiya Travel Journal from Jael Rollocks!

TGA volunteer and ORU student, Jael Rollocks, recently visited Utsunomiya with TCC's Study Abroad group and wrote a travel journal full of wonderful videos and photos detailing her incredible, life-changing experience!

Read Jael's Journal from Japan!

🇲🇽⛲️🇺🇸 Caja de Agua Update!

Tulsa's first Sister City, San Luis Potosí, gifted Tulsa a replica of their landmark Caja de Agua. Tulsa Botanic Garden has agreed to host this beautiful fountain, and we're seeking help to fundraise for its construction! View Fox 23's new story about the project here.

Learn More + Donate!

As mentioned in our previous newsletter, TGA is transitioning from a membership-based model to a general contribution model. Our new donor platform, Givebutter, allows for recurring gifts and a streamlined user experience. 

You can support TGA via the following:

• Credit or Debit Card (Including Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and Venmo)
• NEW! Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)
• U.S. Bank (ACH)
• Mail-in Check

This shift allows us to increase our impact, and your support helps us reach our goals. We sincerely appreciate your support, and thank you for being a part of our global community!

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