2026 Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards Winners Announced
OKLAHOMA (April 20, 2026) – The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits is pleased to announce winners for the 2026 Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards, an annual recognition series dedicated to honoring the outstanding work of Oklahoma’s nonprofit workforce. The Center hosted a celebratory gala Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
The ONE Awards were established in 2008 by the late J. Jerry Dickman, a trustee of Oklahoma’s Chapman Foundation, and Joe Moran, an Oklahoma businessman and philanthropist. Through the ONE Awards, the Center has awarded more than $2 million to support the missions of exemplary Oklahoma nonprofits.
“This year’s ONE Awards honorees exemplify excellence, both in terms of impact but also in terms of operations,” said Jim Farrell, who co-chaired this year’s ONE Committee alongside his wife, Alyssa. “These nonprofits are doing important, measurable work for Oklahomans, following best practices and leading the nonprofit sector and Oklahoma’s workforce in the process.”
Eighteen nonprofit organizations were recognized in six categories. Each category’s winners received a $7,500 grant, and finalists each received $5,000. The ‘overall’ winner of the evening, Our Daily Bread, based in Stillwater, Okla., was the recipient of the J. Jerry Dickman Award for Excellence, receiving a $10,000 grant.
The 2026 winner and finalist organizations are:
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Arts Council of Oklahoma City – Category Winner
Leonardo’s Children’s Museum (Enid)
Oklahoma Humanities (OKC)
COMMUNITY
The Uma Center (Tulsa) – Category Winner
Hope for the Future (OKC)
Oklahoma Mural Syndicate (OKC)
EDUCATION
Oklahoma Single Parent Scholarship Program (OKC) – Category Winner
Oklahoma Association for Infant Mental Health (Tulsa)
Trinity School (OKC)
GENERAL IMPACT
The Opportunity Project (Tulsa) – Category Winner
Emergency Infant Services (Tulsa)
Youth Services of Bryan County (Durant)
HEALTH
Pregnancy Center of Bryan County (Durant) – Category Winner
ITN Central Oklahoma (OKC)
Modus (Tulsa)
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Our Daily Bread (Stillwater) – Category Winner and Overall Winner
City Rescue Mission (OKC)
Tulsa Day Center (Tulsa)
"Oklahoma's charitable institutions have helped see our state through some of its most challenging times, and the Center has endeavored to recognize and support them for the last 45 years," said Marnie Taylor, the Center's President & CEO. "For the last nearly 20 years, one of the ways we have done that is through the ONE Awards. These outstanding organizations demonstrate a commitment to excellence in all they do, and, on behalf of the nearly 1,000 fellow nonprofits that comprise the Center's membership, we offer our most sincere congratulations."
Next year, the Center will celebrate 20 years of the ONE Awards April 10, 2027 at the Arvest Convention Center in downtown Tulsa. For information about this event and other statewide offerings from the Center, visit www.okcnp.org.
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