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!
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Classic | $5,000
- Quarter page advertisement in the annual report
- One table of 10 at the event
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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
Purchase Tickets
Become a Sponsor! Purchase Tickets
Performance Only TicketsManual Invoicing: snealy@urbanleagueok.org
Gala Sponsorship deadline: May 10, 2025
Ad Specs
Full page: 7.75″w x 10″h – $1000
Half page: 7.75″w x 4.75″h – $750
Quarter page: 3.75″w x 4.75″h – $500
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
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
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
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