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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development
Mission: The organization is committed to improving math literacy by designing and distributing fun, innovative, and effective educational tools that harness the power of basketball. The organization targets the most challenged populations of students in middle schools around the united states. The organization harnesses the competitive fun of a game in order to develop students proficiency in arithmetic, decision-making, and pattern identification. By providing this experience within the culturally relevant context of basketball and the nba, the organization helps to build students appreciation for the real world application of mathematics.
Programs: The organization provided 17,438 games and educational curriculum to teachers to use with the students in their classrooms.