Caylee Dodson leads RestoreOKC, a place-based community-development organization in Northeast Oklahoma City that grew from a grassroots ministry into a Purpose Built Communities network member. RestoreOKC ran $5.7M in revenue last fiscal year, holds a 4-star Charity Navigator rating, and received $2M in unrestricted capital through MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving Open Call. Caylee herself was named USA Today’s Oklahoma Woman of the Year for leadership in community development, economic mobility, and restorative justice. Caylee put Granted through the workflow a sophisticated grants team would run — vault uploads, deep research across multiple funders, parallel LOIs. Granted’s AI drafted a tailored triage question that named her four pillars and the Homeland Stores grocery acquisition by name, then waited for a synchronous answer that a leader running an org of her scale was never going to give in the moment. What she shaped at Granted: the async layer that lets a multi-program leader answer the AI’s questions on their own time, and the LOI contact-data validation that orgs at her scale assume is already there. Both are on the roadmap because of her session.
With so many strong programs across your four pillars, what specific initiative or outcome do you want this proposal to center on — is there a particular program area or expansion (e.g., the Homeland Stores acquisition, workforce development, school stabilization) that best fits what you’d want a reviewer to remember?
