Oklahoma Center for Non-profit announces finalists for ONE Awards
TULSA – The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits has announced the finalists for the 2023 Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards. The ONE Awards is the only program in the state honoring excellence in nonprofit service and awarding each finalist a grant.
“The ONE Award recipients are selected not only for the excellence of their program delivery and internal management,” said Phil Lakin, Jr.,Chairman of the ONE
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Awards Selection Commission, “but also for their innovation, leadership in the sector and response from the communities they serve.”
The 2023 finalist organizations are:
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
■ Duncan Little Theatre; Duncan
■ First Americans Museum; OKC
■ Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival; Durant
COMMUNITY
■ Oklahoma Zoological Foundation; OKC
■ R & G Family Grocers; Tulsa
■ Scissortail Park Foundation; OKC
EDUCATION
■ ASTEC Charter Schools; OKC
■ Coffee Bunker; Tulsan
■ Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance; Tulsa
GENERAL IMPACT
■ Altus Animal Welfare Association; Altus
■ Oklahoma Innocence Project; OKC
■ YWCA Tulsa; Tulsa
HEALTH
■ Good Shepherd Community Clinic; Ardmore
■ GRAND Mental Health; Nowata
■ Transition House; Norman
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
■ Crisis Control Center; Durant
■ Focus on Home; OKC
■ Housing Solutions; Tulsa
YOUTH
■ Building All Children; Tulsa
■ Teen Court; Lawton
■ Youth Services for Choctaw, Pushmataha and McCurtain Counties; Hugo
The ONE Awards were established in 2008 by the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits with guidance from late Chapman Foundation trustee J. Jerry Dickman and Tulsa businessman Joe Moran to draw attention to those nonprofit organizations that employ the tenets of excellence in their operations. Since its beginning, the program has awarded grants between $5,000 and $10,000 to exceptional Oklahoma nonprofits. As of 2022, the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits has given more than $2 million to more than 200 Oklahoma nonprofits through the ONE Awards.