We would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors. With their support we are able to provide quality programming and a safe space for our student-athletes to achieve their full potential both on and off the court.
If you would like to become a sponsor, please contact our Sponsorship Coordinator for sponsorship opportunities. We appreciate your support
on behalf of our student-athletes.
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First Hoops Network | www.firsthoops.org |
MABC is a member of the First Hoops Network, a coalition founded in 2006, of six grassroots,
volunteer-led youth basketball organizations united behind the goal of using basketball to
achieve positive youth development outcomes for kids. These groups, headed up by longtime
Boston residents, collectively serve over 500 of Boston’s youth annually, concentrating on the
neighborhoods of Dorchester, Roxbury, Mission Hill, South Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan and
Hyde Park. The majority of the participants are boys and young men in the critical ages of 10-16;
there is a small yet growing number of young women and girls also benefiting from FHN’s
basketball as youth development programming.
The goals of the First Hoops Network collaboration are to strengthen its member organizations
programmatically, by improving and supporting academic and life skills programming that
complements basketball skill development, and
organizationally, by providing capacity building through technical support, connection to
resources and sharing of best practices.