News & Events

Co-Founders visit with Amazing Achiever, former Senator Bob Dole, in his Washington D.C. Office. He left us with the quote, "it must start somewhere", and gave the Institute an unsolicited gift to endow a scholarship for students with disabilities. Click here to read press release.

The DREAM Institute announces the 2005 Scholarship Award Winners. The Institute received over 150 applications this year. A selection committee made up of a variety of professionals in communities across Oklahoma was selected to review the applications and select this years scholar winners. To read more, click here.

Honoring the 2005 Scholar Award Winners, Power to Dream Achiever Award Honoree - World Renown Artist Greg Burns, and the Trustee Award for Excellence Honoree - OU Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment. The keynote speaker was nationally known Cliff Taulbert. To read more about this great event, click here.

(Tulsa, OK) The DREAM Institute honored Jim Stovall with the “1st Annual Power to DREAM Achievers Award” in addition to honoring the Institute's first Scholars, and awarded the Tulsa Community Foundation with the DREAM Institute Trustee Award for Excellence. To read more, click here.

The DREAM Institute receives the A.C.C.E.S.S. Award On behalf of the DREAM Institute, the co-founders, Kristy Long and Rodney Bryan Pratz received the A.C.C.E.S.S. Award from OK-AHEAD (Oklahoma Association for Higher Education and Disability) on Thursday April 29, 2004 at their Spring Conference in Shawnee, OK. This annual award stands for Advocacy, Cooperation, and Concern for Encouraging Student Success and is given to individuals or organizations in the community that encourage and advocate for student success. Others who have received this award in the past are: former Tulsa Community College President, Dean Van Trease; Oklahoma State Senator Bernest Cain, Jr. and the General Counsel of the Okalahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Ned Bastow. To read press release, click here. LAUNCHING OF THE DREAM INSTITUTE On November 13, 2003 The DREAM Institute was introduced to a standing room only crowd at OU/Tulsa Schusterman Campus. Motivational Speakers spoke on their personal stories of overcoming adversity. Co-Founders Kristy Long and Rodney Bryan Pratz introduced the Amazing Achievers present, they include, Nate Waters, Rosemary Roberson, Stacy Schusterman on behalf of her father Charles Schusterman, and Jim Stovall. The keynote address was given by Keller Johnson Thompson, great great niece of Helen Keller. Co-Founders Kristy Long and Rodney Bryan Pratz with featured Amazing Achiever, Nate Waters.

The DREAM Institute P.O. Box 52785 Tulsa, OK 74152-0785 918-588-3600 dream@dreaminstitute.org