Tulsa Global Alliance Featured in Vision Tulsa 2025

Vision Tulsa 2025

TGA is honored to be included in Vision Tulsa 2025, a publication of Tulsa City Council and the City of Tulsa. Copies are available at select locations, including City Hall and Tulsa International Airport, but you can enjoy the digital edition here. TGA is featured on magazine page 4 (PDF page 6).

Tulsa Global Alliance Vision Tulsa 2025 Writeup:

As the international arm of the City of Tulsa since 1976, we know firsthand how Tulsans come together to think, act and connect globally. Tulsa Global Alliance was formed when Sister Cities International of Tulsa and the International Council of Tulsa merged into a single entity to support the City of Tulsa's broader educational, cultural and economic goals.

Now an award-winning nonprofit focused on building global community, TGA facilitates Tulsa's nine Sister City partnerships, hosts international professionals and students, supports global education and exchanges, and promotes international business development.

Each Tulsa City Councilor serves as an Honorary Ambassador for one of our Sister Cities. Alongside TGA staff and a volunteer chairperson for each partnership, they support educational exchanges, cultural enrichment, dignitary visits and economic development opportunities.

Tulsa's Sister Cities are Amiens, France; Beihai, China; Celle, Germany; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Mwanza, Tanzania; San Luis Potosí, Mexico; Tiberias, Israel; Utsunomiya, Japan; and Zelenograd, Russia.

Our programs focus on connecting Tulsa to the world while promoting the concept and principles of citizen diplomacy. Through mutual respect and understanding, open dialogue, cultural exchange, collaboration, volunteerism, service, and education, all Tulsans share a responsibility to help shape our global community and promote global goodwill.

TGA celebrated the following programming highlights in 2024:

• Mwanza, Tanzania became Tulsa's ninth Sister City. Mwanza is our first new Sister City in nearly 20 years and our first in Africa.

• TGA facilitated programming for nearly 300 visiting international professionals and students representing 56 different countries.
  This includes program participants from the U.S. State Department and the Congressional Office of International Leadership. Through professional meetings, home hospitality with local families, cultural activities and volunteer opportunities, these future leaders learn about the American way of life while sharing their business practices and culture with the people of northeastern Oklahoma. Many go on to become leaders in their community and even heads of state.

• World in a Box Day, our premier global education event hosted in partnership with Tulsa City-County Library, welcomed over 1,100 students and family members. This immersive festival lets students take a virtual trip around the world to enjoy craft making, artifacts, food and entertainment from several different cultures.

• With TGA's support, over 50 Tulsa Public Schools students expanded their worldview and sense of global connection by visiting partner schools in Costa Rica, France and Spain.

It's our pleasure to welcome you to our globally engaged city, and we invite you to join us as fellow citizen diplomats as we work together to build global community between Tulsa and our friends around the world!

To learn more, stay connected, get involved and support our work, visit tulsaglobalalliance.org.

Your contributions make our programming possible. Thank you very much for your support!