Reliable information can be the difference between finding help and hitting another dead end

When someone needs food, housing, health care, transportation, or another essential service, finding a program is only the beginning. If the information is outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate, a person may call a disconnected number, arrive after services have ended, or discover that they were never eligible in the first place.

Every dead end costs time, energy, and trust, often when someone has very little of any of those left.

Oklahoma Resource Access Network, Inc. is working to strengthen the systems behind resource access by improving how community resource information is researched, verified, maintained, and connected across organizations. Better systems help people find more reliable pathways to support while giving providers and community partners greater confidence in the information they share.

We now have an important opportunity to accelerate this work.

Oklahoma Resource Access Network has been approved to host a full-time AmeriCorps Capacity Building Coordinator through Red River Community Corps’ Oklahoma Opportunities Program. This role will help strengthen resource verification, partner outreach, volunteer engagement, and the internal tools and processes needed to maintain reliable resource information over time.

With this added capacity, we can engage more community partners, improve the quality of resource information, and build a stronger foundation for connecting Oklahomans to essential services.

Our first milestone is $3,600

Hosting this AmeriCorps role requires Oklahoma Resource Access Network to provide a $14,400 host-site match, paid in four quarterly installments of $3,600.

Our immediate goal is to secure the first $3,600 payment before the AmeriCorps enrollment deadline on September 14. Reaching this milestone will help us move forward responsibly while continuing to build support for the full match commitment.

Every gift brings us closer. Whether you give $50, $100, or another amount that is meaningful and manageable for you, your support will help make this capacity building opportunity possible.

What your support will help advance

The AmeriCorps Capacity Building Coordinator will help Oklahoma Resource Access Network:

Strengthen resource verification and data maintenance workflows
Improve partner outreach, contact tracking, and follow-up processes
Develop volunteer onboarding, training, and support systems
Create reusable procedures, reporting tools, and performance measures

These systems will help us engage more partners, support volunteers more effectively, improve the quality of resource information, and build capacity that continues beyond the AmeriCorps service term.

Help us meet the match

A gift today will help us reach our first $3,600 milestone and move closer to securing the full $14,400 host-site match.

If you are unable to give, sharing this campaign with a friend, colleague, business, foundation, civic organization, or community partner is another meaningful way to help.

Oklahoma Resource Access Network, Inc. is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. EIN: 42-2066026. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Contributions to this campaign will support the required AmeriCorps host-site match. If the placement cannot move forward, remaining campaign funds will support closely related capacity building needs that advance Oklahoma Resource Access Network’s charitable mission.

Building Capacity for Stronger Resource Access

Help us reach our $14,400 match goal to host a full-time AmeriCorps Capacity Building Coordinator.