We are profoundly honored to share that UMA Center of Tulsa has been named the 2026 recipient of the Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Award in the Community category, presented by the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits.

This recognition belongs to every promotora, every family we’ve walked alongside, every partner who opened a door, and every donor who believed that East Tulsa deserves a community health hub built by and for its people. It belongs to our founder, Dr. Martha Zapata, whose vision made UMA possible, and to the board, staff, and volunteers who carry that vision forward every day.

The ONE Awards celebrate the organizations shaping Oklahoma’s nonprofit sector, and to be chosen in the Community category — the category that honors the work of showing up, listening, and building trust block by block — is a recognition of exactly what UMA was created to do: meet people where they are, in the language they speak, with the respect they deserve.

We extend our deepest gratitude to the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation and The Inasmuch Foundation, whose sponsorship of the Community category makes this recognition possible and whose decades of leadership have shaped what community-centered philanthropy looks like in Oklahoma. We are grateful to stand in a tradition they have helped build.

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And to our East Tulsa neighbors: this is your award.

Gracias por confiar en nosotros.

The work continues.