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PrintLocal winners of the Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence Awards
The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits presented the awards on April 24 at its third annual recognition dinner described as the “Academy Awards of Nonprofits.”
Mental Health Association in Tulsa, Inc., overall winner and recipient of the Charles Schusterman Award for Excellence - Sandy Cardin (presenting) and Michael Brose, executive director (receiving), with Steve Turnbo, 2010 ONE event chair; Jerry Dickman, ONE Awards commission chair; and Bill McKamey, board chair of the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits.
And the winners are …
Top Nonprofit: Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc.; also winner of the George Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Health Services — Large
4,000
Number of individuals the MHAT Assistance Center helped in 2009.
387
Number of individuals who have a home after the completion of MHAT’s newest property, Yale Avenue Apartments, with the support of the State of Oklahoma.
800
Number people across Oklahoma who received education and training through MHAT’s annual Zarrow Mental Health Symposium and the Charles P. Seger Seminar on Suicide and Depression.
2
Number of adolescent suicide prevention programs — SafeTeam and Columbia TeenScreen — offered to area youth and their parents.
The Barnett Family Foundation Award for Arts & Humanities: Gilcrease Museum
3.2 million
The approximate number of cars in Oklahoma with license plates bearing the image of Sacred Rain Arrow, the sculpture by Allan Houser that permanently resides at the museum’s entrance.
12,000
The age of the oldest artifacts in the museum’s collection: Clovis spear points. Gilcrease has an extensive anthropological materials collection.
23
The number of acres used — out of a total of 460 — for themed gardens on Gilcrease Museum’s grounds. Pre-Columbian, pioneer, colonial, Victorian, and rock gardens enhance the museum’s collections by reflecting gardening styles and techniques from the American West.
1
Ranking Gilcrease Museum received among art museum in America in True West magazine’s May 2010 issue. The magazine cited The University of Tulsa’s recent acquisition of the Charles Russell Research Collection (13,000 personal effects) for the benefit of the museum as one of the major factors in the museum’s selection.
99,996
The number of visitors to Gilcrease Museum during fiscal year 2009.
H.A. and Mary K. Chapman Charitable Trusts Award for Community Health Services: Iron Gate
365
Today, Iron Gate feeds approximately 400 people 365 days a year and provides 100 grocery bags of food a week, or 5,200 a year, to those it serves.
1
Large pizza can feed a family of four for three days at Iron Gate.
400
Average number of people fed daily.
87 cents
The amount spent on programming from every dollar donated.
1,591,500
Meals Debra Dixon has cooked in her nine years as Iron Gate chef. (That’s more than twice the population of Tulsa County.)
Chesapeake Energy Corp. Award for Self Sufficiency: Family & Children’s Services
1 in 6
In 2009, Family & Children Services (F&CS) provided life-changing services to one in six Tulsans, becoming the largest outpatient provider of mental health services in the state of Oklahoma, serving more than 16,000 children and adults.
108,000
Number of people experiencing family crisis, mental illness and addiction problems who have received help from F&CS.
13,000
Number of families strengthened through counseling, education and relationship building in 2009.
10,000
Number of adults with serious mental illness F&CS has assisted to improve their quality of life.
7,000
Number of children F&CS has helped to improve their emotional and behavioral well-being and achieve school success.
