Our Work

The Hoops For Youth Foundation supports at-risk kids in the DC-Metro community, providing the basic tools that young people need to help them play team sports and face the many challenges of growing up in communities plagued by poverty and crime.  Created in September 1999 with the mission of creating opportunities for at-risk kids through basketball, Hoops for Youth teaches kids that the skills they use on the basketball court can be used in everyday life to help them succeed.  Basketball and other team sports provide an infrastructure where social skills can develop and it encourages more than healthy competition; it helps erase racial and economic boundaries.  Basketball is the essential vehicle for getting at-risk kids off the streets, onto the courts, and into the programs charitable partners support. 

Hoops for Youth Goals:

• Provide leadership to at risk kids
• Provide financial support to at risk kids
• Provide mentoring to at risk kids
• Provide educational opportunities to at risk kids
• Empower at risk kids to become leaders
• Provide at risk kids with a chance

The Oasis Foundation is a proud supporter of the annual Hoops For Youth Foundation's Congressional Basketball Tournament.  For more information on Hoops for Youth, please visit: http://www.hoopsforyouthfoundation.org/.