Come join us and the Drillers at the ballpark for a fun family-friendly festival to mark the end of summer and kick off the 2025-2026 back-to-school season! Complimentary backpacks, school supplies, and other resources for school-aged children in need (while supplies last).
The annual Back-to-School Festival is part of the Firm’s ongoing commitment to the Tulsa Community we serve. Our goal is to help alleviate the financial burden often associated with the back-to-school season by offering complimentary backpacks, school supplies, and other resources to school-aged children in need throughout the greater Tulsa area. Through partnerships with valued local organizations and businesses, the Festival also fosters collaborative opportunities in support of a common community cause.
For more real-time event information, check back here for updates or follow @GravesMcLain on Facebook and Instagram.
Looking for active ways to make in a difference in our community? There are multiple ways to help support the 2025 Back-to-School Festival:
If you have time and are willing to help, we have plenty of tasks to go around! Volunteers are needed on Sunday, August 10 for the following:
Sign up for a volunteer shift at bit.ly/4k9YmYJ or download the Volunteer Flier for more information.
Many areas / shifts require multiple people – so grab a friend or two and come out to help our community! Please note: All Sunday shifts will be outside at the ballpark. Wear sunscreen and dress accordingly.
Download the Get Involved Flier, or contact Janina Dorman, Graves McLain Injury Lawyers Marketing Specialist, at [email protected] or (918) 359-6600.
For many families in Tulsa, the back-to-school season can be financially challenging. Buying backpacks, school supplies, and new clothes can quickly become expensive, especially for families with more than one child.
At Graves McLain Injury Lawyers, we want to make a difference in a big way in our local community. In 2016, we started the Free Backpack Program with the mission to donate a free, brand new backpack to students at as many Tulsa Public Schools as possible at the beginning of each school year. The goal is for each of these backpacks to include necessary school supplies to try to avoid the financial burdens placed on families.
The Oklahoma Association for Justice (OAJ) and it’s 500+ trial lawyer membership around the State of Oklahoma support and help fund the Backpack Program. It is spearheaded and executed by Graves McLain Injury Lawyers in Tulsa and Maples Nix & Diesselhorst in Oklahoma City and Edmond.
This important and powerful annual initiative has been supported by many organizations, including the Oklahoma Association for Justice, the Tulsa Police Department, Tulsa Public Schools, Partners in Education, All Souls Church, and Gatesway Foundation.
The 2021 school year kickoff was a huge success. We donated free, brand-new backpacks to every student at Dolores Huerta Elementary, McClure Elementary, Unity Learning Academy, Springdale Elementary, and Emerson Elementary.
Our goal for 2021 was to give away over 2,000 free backpacks, and we reached this goal. Gatesway Foundation was gracious enough to offer up one of its buildings and made it a dedicated space for packing backpacks to achieve this goal.
“The demand is much more than we can serve. If we could do ten schools and 4,000 backpacks, there would still be more kids that needed backpacks and supplies,” said Chad McLain. “This is the community we serve, and we try to protect this community and to give back in this way to a needy population. I can’t think of something that exemplifies that more.”
This is an annual initiative, so we are actively looking for new sponsors to keep this important initiative going forward. If you would like to become a proud supporter of the Graves McLain Injury Lawyers Free Backpack Program, please fill out the form below, and someone will contact you with more information.
A fun family-friendly festival to mark the end of summer and kick off the 2024-2025 back-to-school season! Complimentary school supplies, backpacks, and other resources for school-aged children in need (while supplies last). Additional wraparound resources and activities made possible by our valued community partners:
The Graves McLain Injury Lawyers 2024 Back-to-School Festival is part of the Firm’s ongoing commitment to the Tulsa Community we serve. Our goal is to help alleviate the financial burden often associated with the back-to-school season by offering complimentary school supplies, backpacks, and other resources to school-aged children in need throughout the greater Tulsa area. Through partnerships with valued local organizations and businesses, the Festival also fosters collaborative opportunities in support of a common community cause.
For more real-time event information, check back here for updates or follow @GravesMcLain on Facebook and Instagram.
Looking for active ways to make in a difference in our community? There are multiple ways to help support the 2024 Back-to-School Festival:
If you have time and are willing to help, we have plenty of tasks to go around! Sign up for a volunteer shift (or two!) at https://bit.ly/3xIn7ZS.
Volunteers are needed:
Many areas / shifts require multiple people – so grab a friend or two and come out to help our community! Please note: All Saturday shifts will be outside with limited shade. Wear sunscreen and dress accordingly.
Download the Get Involved Flier, or contact Janina Dorman, Graves McLain Injury Lawyers Marketing Specialist, at [email protected] or (918) 359-6600.
