1. To employ an executive director and other employees and agents and fix their compensation;

2. To cooperate with individuals and state, local, and other agencies, both public and private, including agencies of the federal government and other states and municipalities;

3. To accept gifts, bequests, grants, or other payments, public or private, to help finance its activities;

4. To receive, initiate, investigate, and seek to conciliate complaints alleging violations of Section 1101 et seq. of this title or of an ordinance prohibiting discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information or legislation establishing the commission;

5. To make studies appropriate to effectuate its purposes and policies and to make the results thereof available to the public; and

6. To render at least annually a report, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission.