Hooping for Hope: The Power of Purpose in Motion

In Dallas, basketball isn’t just a game. It’s a lifeline. It’s where discipline meets opportunity and where community pride finds its rhythm. Hooping for Hope is the heartbeat of that mission, uniting the New Dallas semi-professional basketball team with the neighborhoods, businesses, and youth who believe in something bigger than the scoreboard.

Founded by Shanandiss Hampton and Kevin Harris, New Dallas represents a bold new era for the city, one where sports and service work hand in hand. The team is led by a powerhouse coaching staff with deep Dallas roots and professional pedigree: Anthony Smith, who coached in The Basketball League (TBL), and fellow TBL veterans Kevin Harris and Chad Bowers, both proud sons of Dallas who returned home to lead by example.

Across the nation, nearly 70 percent of young athletes from underserved communities leave organized sports before age sixteen due to financial barriers and lack of mentorship. Meanwhile, sports-based community programs have been proven to reduce neighborhood crime by up to 30 percent and increase academic engagement by nearly 40 percent. New Dallas is stepping up to rewrite those numbers through mentorship, community engagement, and professional-level representation that inspires youth to believe again, but first it starts with building a foundation of leaders within our New Dallas players.

When these young men take the court, they play for more than themselves. They play for every kid who ever dreamed of making it out and giving back. Off the court, they pour back into the same communities that raised them, volunteering at local events, teaching basketball clinics, mentoring youth, and modeling what leadership looks like through action. Every clinic becomes a classroom. Every huddle becomes a lesson in teamwork, accountability, and hope.

Hooping for Hope isn’t just a fundraiser. It’s an investment in people. Each dollar donated helps us provide player development, mentorship programs, and community clinics that empower the next generation. For corporations, it’s a chance to align with a team that represents grit, equity, and transformation, the very values driving the future of Dallas. For community members, it’s an opportunity to build something lasting, something local, something legendary.

When you support New Dallas, you’re not just supporting basketball. You’re helping young men develop into leaders, helping businesses build community impact, and helping a city remember its power to come together.

How Your Support Powers the Mission

Player Development & Empowerment

Your support keeps our players focused on greatness. This funding covers stipends for our semi-pro athletes, skill development, professional training, and life coaching. It helps transform talented young men into leaders, mentors, and role models for Dallas youth.

Impact: Every $500 donated funds one week of training and community service for a New Dallas player.

Coaching Excellence & Leadership

Behind every great team is elite leadership. Our coaching staff — Anthony Smith, Kevin Harris, and Chad Bowers — bring experience from The Basketball League (TBL) and deep local roots in Dallas. This investment ensures their expertise continues shaping athletes into disciplined professionals and respected community leaders.

Impact: Every $1,000 helps keep experienced Dallas-born coaches employed, mentoring, and teaching the next generation.

Community Outreach & Youth Clinics

Basketball is our language. Mentorship is our message. These funds allow us to host free and low-cost youth clinics, provide equipment, and engage directly with neighborhoods that need us most. Each clinic becomes a safe space for mentorship, teamwork, and belonging.

Impact: Every $250 gives 10 local kids access to a basketball clinic, mentorship, and a day of hope.

Game Day & Operations

Game days bring Dallas together families, fans, and local vendors under one roof. This funding ensures professional-grade facilities, referees, uniforms, insurance, and travel. It also supports the creation of safe, family-friendly events that bring pride and joy to the city.

Impact: Every $1,500 covers one home game experience that brings hundreds of Dallas residents together.

Marketing, Media & Partnerships

Visibility fuels growth. These funds drive video production, digital storytelling, livestreams, and sponsor activations — turning our local story into a Dallas-wide movement. Your brand becomes part of that narrative of impact, inclusion, and transformation.

Impact: Every $2,500 helps us produce and promote a story that reaches thousands across Dallas.

Operations & Administration

Behind every win on the court is a team off the court. These funds cover logistics, accounting, insurance, technology, and administrative needs — ensuring every program runs efficiently, transparently, and professionally.

Impact: Every $100 helps us maintain strong systems that support sustainable community programs.

Future Growth & Reserve Fund

This ensures long-term stability and readiness for expansion opportunities, like developing youth leagues and new mentorship partnerships across Dallas.

Your ROI: Real Outcomes, Real Change

Investment Area	Community Impact
Player & Coach Pay	Creates 25+ seasonal jobs and mentorship roles
Youth Clinics	Reaches 500+ kids annually in underserved communities
Game Days	Generates over $150,000 in local vendor and small business revenue
Marketing	Expands visibility to 10,000+ Dallas residents and corporate partners
Operations	Builds a sustainable, accountable, Black-owned sports organization

Join us. Partner with purpose.
Support Hooping for Hope and help us keep Dallas moving forward, together.

For partnerships, sponsorships, or one-time donations, contact 469-949-6200 or visit NewDallas.Team.
Because in New Dallas, we don’t just play basketball. We play for the city.

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