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Events

Thankful Thanksgiving Event

At our Thankful Thanksgiving Event, we identify 10 families in need of some extra love for the holiday season. We bring the families together and cater a great Thanksgiving meal for the families and their loved ones. Our youth basketball team helps serve the families as part of their community service requirement for participating in our youth basketball program. This will be our first year holding this event.

Mike James Elite Coat Drive

We created our Mike James Elite Coat Drive to receive coats, hats, and socks from people who wish to donate. Through this event, we also purchase items to give to the homeless for the rainy and cold winters. This is our first year holding this event.

Fun Day With Santa

Fun Day with Santa is a community event for all youth to experience the joy and magic of Christmas. Toys 4 Tots donates toys for us to give to the kids for free and our Director of Community Relations dresses up as Santa to take pictures with the kids. We have drinks and food available and have had 4 successful years holding this event.

Easter Egg

Enjoy our Easter Egg Hunt where we plan an easter egg scavenger hunt at a local Portland park. We hide eggs around the park with candy and prizes inside and allow kids and toddlers to roam around and collect as many eggs as they can find.

Mother’s Day Brunch

We wanted to create a space to bring together mothers in the community and celebrate them. Raising kids is a tough job and on their special day we want to provide them with an event to come and enjoy all the festivities that mothers enjoy including an open bar, food, raffle prizes and live music.

Father’s Day Lunch

Fathers are important pillars of the community and we wanted to create an event that would celebrate how important they are. At our event, we take a moment and celebrate fathers with the things men like.

Mike James Basketball Camp

This will be the 6th basketball camp we have put together which will take place August 4th – 8th of 2025 in Portland, Oregon. The basketball camp is for high school boys only with a big emphasis on letting them be free. We want the boys to be able to come enjoy themselves and learn about life outside of basketball as well.

Bowling Charity Event

55 Strikes. Our Bowling Charity Event on August 8th, 2025 will be a competition-style event with the winner taking half the proceeds home and the rest donated back into the foundation.

Celebrity Softball

This will be our second year participating in the Celebrity Softball event. It costs 5 dollars to attend and free to kids 17 and under. All proceeds go to BASE 55. Our first game included names like John Wall, Kevin Durant, Rotimi and Mike James.

Next Level Backpack Giveaway

This is our 8th year holding this event. We added a youth basketball game to this event to give kids a chance to play in front of their friends and family for bragging rights. We serviced 407 kids last year with backpacks and school supples while also providing food, drinks, and haircuts. We have a new event scheduled in Portland Oregon for August 10th and we are hoping to hold one in Port Arthur, Texas and Houston, Texas in July.