OUR MISSION is to use basketball as a common language to build self esteem within Crow Native American youth, to inspire them to believe in their own limitless potential, and to empower them to create a more just and unified world. 

We provide our Empowerment Program, a basketball and social justice centered educational experience that is carried out within a cultural context for youth on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, an area of extreme poverty and with a great love for basketball.  To learn more about us and our upcoming 2012 summer programs please read Our Story.

2012 Empowerment Program Sessions Announced!

(May 16, 2012) - With a larger volunteer staff and an improved curriculum, Unity Hoops will host 4 weeks of free Empowerment Programs this summer in Crow Agency, Montana, on Gas Cap Hill.  Program dates are July 9th to August 3rd. We intend to integrate basketball with a social justice centered and culturally relevant education that will build self esteem within our students and help them develop skills to create positive change within their own lives and in the greater world... MORE

"Anyone Can Serve" - An Article about Service and Living with Meaning

Sandy Spring, MD (post published February 7, 2012) - Anyone can serve.  To do the world's most important work, you need no extensive resume.  On December 3, 2011 students from a Native American History class at Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland prepared and put on a Unity Hoops fundraiser and awareness-spreading event for their entire school community.  They collected donations, sold t-shirts and spoke about the unparalleled socio-economic hardship experienced by reservation youth.  Read this article about service and living a life, not of simply of selflessness, but of meaningful, shared liberation... MORE
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