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BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS

Dignity. Compassion. Empower.

aka BAN   |   Broken Arrow, OK   |  www.BAneighbors.org

Mission

To provide basic needs assistance with dignity and compassion to neighbors in need, through a cooperative community effort. Assistance with Dignity. Serve with Compassion. Empower the Future.

Ruling year info

1984

Executive Director

Mrs. Megan Quickle

Main address

315 W College Street

Broken Arrow, OK 74012 USA

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EIN

73-1195548

NTEE code info

Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash) (P60)

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Programs and results

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Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Food Assistance

Helping our neighbors in need through our client-choice food pantry. We offer shelf stable items, as well fresh produce, fruit and meats from our 26 Feeding America partners, including Costco, WalMart's, Aldi, Sprouts, Akins and Dollar General.
We also proudly offer gluten free, nut allergy and suger free option, when available!

Population(s) Served
Children and youth

We are able to help clients with utility bills that have a disconnection notice. Each individual bill is looked at on a case-by-case basis, and able to help each family once per calendar year with a bill.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people

We are able to help clients with rental assistance that have an eviction notice. Each individual lease is looked at on a case-by-case basis, and able to help each family once per calendar year with a bill.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people

Joy for your Neighbors is our holiday assistance program that is both a Thanksgiving meal and gift assistance for December holidays.

Families can request to be added to both programs, or just one.

Our gift assistance allows for children ages 15 and under to register with us that live in Broken Arrow or Coweta, OK or attend Broken Arrow Public Schools or Union Public Schools.
Each child's family (guardians) fill out their want, their need and their read.
What do they want? (toys, etc.)
What do they need? (a new coat, shoes, underwear, bedding)
What do they like to read? (we are passionate to make sure each child has a book to call their own)

Population(s) Served
Adults
Children and youth
Economically disadvantaged people

Jump Start is our job mentorship program, offering our clients a road map to overcoming obstacles in their life that may prevent them from finding gainful employment. We are wanting to end the generational need on our organization and hoping to end generational poverty in our community.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Economically disadvantaged people
Adults
Economically disadvantaged people

Where we work

Awards

Gold Award 1997

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1996

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1995

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1994

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1993

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1992

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1991

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1990

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1989

Tulsa Area United Way

Award of Excellence 1988

Tulsa Area United Way

Non-Profit of the Year 2021

Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce

Affiliations & memberships

United Way Member Agency 1988

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Average number of service recipients per month

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Seniors, At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Unemployed people

Related Program

Food Assistance

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of low-income households who have received utilities assistance

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Economically disadvantaged people, Retired people, Unemployed people

Related Program

Utility Assistance

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Total dollar value of produce distributed

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Food Assistance

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of food donation partners

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Food Assistance

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Feeding America Partners

Pounds of produce distributed

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Food Assistance

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Total dollars distributed for utilities assistance

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Utility Assistance

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Pounds of fresh produce distributed per year

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Food Assistance

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

The Mission of Broken Arrow Neighbors is to provide services today, to encourage self-sufficiency tomorrow. We achieve this goal through our Mission of providing basic needs assistance with dignity and compassion to neighbors in need through a cooperative community effort. We believe that the Social Services Safety Net can only be effective with multiple community partners including foundations, United Way, area churches/businesses, local schools/government, individuals and others providing emergency assistance and extended services to those in need.

Our Vision: Assistance with Dignity. Serve with Compassion. Empower the Future.

Monday thru Thursday each week we have our client-choice food pantry with our Neighborhood Curb-side Pickup option open for appointments. We moved to creating appointments in 2020, first for safety purposes, but also allowing our clients to be responsible for their appointment time to come up here and receive their groceries. In addition to our food pantry, we offer financial assistance (utilities, rent, prescriptions and transportation), our holiday assistance program, Joy for your Neighbors, and our newest program, Jump Start. This job mentorship program allows us to meet our clients where they are at in their lives, help them overcome any barriers to finding gainful employment and help them end the generational need for our services.

Our Outreach services include taking fresh produce from our 25 Feeding America partners to low and fixed income senior living facilities in our area once a week. We have also partnered with our local Senior Activity Center to offer a "need one, take one" bag of groceries to help them until they can come to BA Neighbors for an appointment.

In 2021 we implemented a new online database, AssistOK at BA Neighbors. This has allowed us to collaborate with 5 of the other largest basic needs agencies in our area. Their information is in one place, we can make sure we are serving them to the best of our abilities, while also making sure no overlap is happening in funding services.
We have also expanded our service area to Coweta, OK in 2020 to make sure there is not a gap in services for our clients who may live in a very close, but rural area of the Broken Arrow community.
In the past several years we have also expanded our staff team from 3 to 6.5 currently. We have seen tremendous growth in not only need in our area, but the amount of food we are able to pick up weekly. We went from 14 to 25 Feeding America partners in just 2 years, which is a total of 52 individual pickups each week. This allows us to serve more fresh fruits and vegetables, take more to our Outreach client, and have amazing partnerships in the community as well.

By creating new programs, expanding our services, offering more fresh options instead of just shelf-stable items, and by having our dietary restrictions shelf (offering gluten-free, sugar-free, nut-free and dairy-free options), we are serving our clients not only with dignity, but with compassion and respect.

Allowing self-sufficiency and some responsibility on their part for our appointment based system, while also giving them not only a hand out, but a hand up and out of the "system" with our Jump Start program, we hope to see the generational need of our organization diminish. We will always be here to offer emergency basic needs, but encourage a way out as well.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • Who are the people you serve with your mission?

    Our clients are anyone in our community that is need of basic needs assistance in Broken Arrow or Coweta, OK.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • What significant change resulted from feedback?

    The availability of being able to create appointments either online, by phone or walk-in to our organization.

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS

Board of directors
as of 05/09/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Marshall Dyer

Marshall Dyer, Attorney at Law

Term: 2022 - 2023

Marshall Dyer

Attorney at Law

Debbie Brown

American Electric Power/Public Service Co of Oklahoma

Lisa Ford

Broken Arrow City Council

Elvis Wright

Bank of Cherokee Co.

Jared Lamb

Barracuda

Kelli Sowell

AVB Bank

Shelley Almeida

Crossland Construction

Ademole "Dee" Adeyemi

Community HigherED

Sharon Elich

Community Volunteer - Retired

Michael Facundo

Northside Christian Church

Amber Miller

Broken Arrow Economic Development Corp.

Josephine Nelms

Atento Capital, LLC

Bruce Phillips

First National Bank of Broken Arrow

Andrea Tucker

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • 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? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 11/9/2022

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Person with a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/09/2022

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.