Gala 2025
Gala 2025

Annual Gala 2025!

We will host our 78th Annual Awards and Fundraising Gala on Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Location

OKANA Resort

DRESS CODE: Cocktail or Black Tie Optional Attire, No jeans or tennis shoes (dress code enforced)

 

Date/Time

June 21, 2025
Live Entertainment!

Sponsorship Levels
  • Legend | $25,000 - $30,000
    • Naming rights for the event (i.e., The 78th Annual Gala Presented by…)
    • Special role in the awards presentation
    • Company logo in back cover of annual report
    • Full-page ad in the annual report with prime positioning
    • Digital billboard ads (located at NE 36th and Martin Luther King, Ave. from February to June 2025, with individual company ad)
    • Frontpage recognition on Urban League website
    • Prime recognition and positioning on event PowerPoint presentation (Company logo on each slide during vent)
    • VIP meet and greet with Gala entertainment
    • Verbal recognition during the program
    • Website listing of company logo and link to the website
    • Social media recognition
    • Two tables of 10 at the event (prime positioning to stage)
  • Icon | $20,000
    • Full-page advertisement in the annual report
    • Digital billboard ads (located at NE 36th and Martin Luther King, Ave. from February to June 2025, with individual company ad)
    • Frontpage recognition on Urban League website
    • Prime positioning on event PowerPoint presentation
    • VIP meet and greet with Gala entertainment
    • Verbal recognition during the program
    • Social Media recognition
    • Two tables of 10 at the event (prime positioning to stage
  • Hall of Fame | $15,000
    • Full page advertisement in the annual report
    • Digital billboard ads (located at NE 36th and Martin Luther King, Ave. from February to June 2025, with individual company ad)
    • Frontpage recognition on Urban League website
    • Recognition in PowerPoint presentation
    • VIP meet and greet with Gala entertainment
    • Verbal recognition during program
    • Social Media recognition
    • One table of 10 at the event (prime positioning to stage)
  • Super Star | $10,000
    • Half page advertisement in the annual report
    • Recognition as Gala sponsor in digital billboard (located at NE 36th and Martin Luther King, Ave.)
    • Website listing of company logo
    • Social Media recognition
    • One table of 10 at the event
  • Rising Star | $7,500
    • Recognition as Gala sponsor in digital billboard (located at NE 36th and Martin Luther King, Ave.)
    • Quarter page advertisement in the annual report
    • Website listing of company logo
    • One table of 10 at the event
  • Classic | $5,000
    • Quarter page advertisement in the annual report
    • One table of 10 at the event
  • Friends of the League | $2,500
    • One table of 10 at the event
  • Individual Ticket | $250
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  • Performance Tickets Only

    Doug E. Fresh Performance Tickets Only

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Awardees 2025

Kevin Maxwell

Volunteer of the Year

Jake Whitmore

Board Member of the Year

A’mani Rashidi

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

D. Gayle Maxwell

Marian Beard-Dobberteen Award

Locke Supply Co.

Jay Galt Corporate Partner Award

Dean Riley

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

Photo Gallery 2025
Hall of Fame
Super Star
Rising Star
Classic
Stage Sponsor
Friends of the League

Previous Years
Awardees 2024

Vilona P. Cutler Award

Cliff and Leslie Hudson

 

Board Member of the Year

Kelly Kinser

Crowe & Dunlevy

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

Shani Nealy

Sr. Vice President of Administration

Volunteer of the Year

Keyatta Conner

Loves Travel Stops & Country Stores/Gemini Motor Transport

Jay Galt Corporate Partner Award

Medley Equipment Company
Gallery 2024
Awardees 2023

Vilona P. Cutler Award

Barry Lofton

University of Central Oklahoma

Marian Beard-Dobberteen Award

Andre Caldwell

The Boeing Company

Board Member of the Year

Chelsey McKnight

VI Marketing and Branding

Jay Galt Corporate Partner Award

Community Health Centers of Oklahoma

Special Recognition

Carrie Smith

Community Health Centers of Oklahoma

Volunteer of the Year

Melissa Brooks

Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

Lonnetta Smith

Vice President of Programs

Special Staff Recognition

Keitano Roberts

Health Navigator

 

2023 Gallery
Gala 2022
Photos from 2022
2022 Awardees

Lecia D. Swain

Attorney Lorenzo Banks

Vilona P. Cutler Award

Florence’s Restaurant

Jay Galt Corporate Partner Award

OG&E – Davis H. Elliot

Volunteer of the Year

Ogletree Deakins

Board member of the Year

Leslie Johnson

Marian Beard-Dobberteen Award

Erin Wilcox

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

Shenice L. Huff

Janice Scott-Lee Employee of the Year

Skyla Parker