During each of the Mavericks’ In-Season Tournament games, cast a vote for your favorite nonprofit and you’ll be entered to win an exciting trip to Las Vegas, complete with tickets to the NBA’s first In-Season Tournament Championship game! Vote once per day for more chances to win!
Plus, the winning nonprofit from each game* will receive a $25,000 grant from the Mavs Foundation!
Please select a nonprofit for each game below.
Vote Once Per Day!
*The winning nonprofits will be announced during their respective broadcasts.
March to the Polls’s mission is to substantially increase electoral participation by underrepresented communities, primarily youth and people of color, and cultivate a lifelong commitment to voting and civic engagement in those communities.
www.marchtothepolls.org
The Mission of The Dallas 24 Hour Club is to provide transitional living, support services, and essential life skills for homeless alcoholics and addicts, so they can embrace long-term sobriety and become contributing and self-supporting members of the community.
www.dallas24hourclub.org
Abide Women’s Health Services (AWHS) is dedicated to reducing maternal motality and improving maternal health, particularly among Black women in South Dallas.
www.abidewomen.org
Austin Street Center provides safe shelter and meets the basic needs of the most vulnerable homeless.
www.austinstreet.org
The mission of TBPP is to bring JOY to children experiencing homelessness through the MAGIC of a birthday celebration. TBPP partners with homeless shelters and transitional living agencies to throw monthly themed birthday parties for the children living there.
www.thebirthdaypartyproject.org
Brighter Bites is a nonprofit that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly into families’ hands. We teach them how to use it and track their behavior change. We make it fun. We make it free.
www.brighterbites.org
Carry The Load provides active ways to connect Americans to the sacrifices made daily by our military, veterans, first responders, and their families.
www.carrytheload.org
CitySquare exists to fight the causes and effects of poverty through service, advocacy, and friendship.
www.citysquare.org
The Concilio’s mission is to build stronger communities by unlocking opportunities for Latino families. They deliver holistic and bilingual services to parents and children, giving families the necessary skills and resources to break the cycle of poverty and live healthier lives.
www.theconcilio.org
The mission of Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center is to improve the lives of abused children in Dallas County and provide national leadership on child abuse issues.
www.dcac.org
The DEC Network is a 501c3 nonprofit organization driving parity and economic impact by helping entrepreneurs start, build and grow their businesses.
www.thedec.co
Educational First Steps (EFS) creates and supports high-quality early learning environments that ignite the minds of children from birth to age five.
www.educationalfirststeps.org
The mission of Girls Inc. Dallas is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. One way that we accomplish this mission is through our partner-based programs.
www.girlsincdallas.org
Hope Cottage’s mission is to transform lives with the love of family through adoption, foster care, education and parenting support.
www.hopecottage.org
HCC’s mission is to prevent homelessness and to stabilize those at risk in decent, affordable, and permanent housing, and to empower these groups to solve their own housing problems in the future.
www.hccdallas.org
Ronald McDonald House of Ft. Worth offers a supportive home-like community that eases burdens for seriously ill children and their families.
www.rmhfw.org
March to the Polls’s mission is to substantially increase electoral participation by underrepresented communities, primarily youth and people of color, and cultivate a lifelong commitment to voting and civic engagement in those communities.
www.marchtothepolls.org
Operation Finally Home provides mortgage-free homes, home modifications and transitional housing to wounded, ill and injured military veterans, first responders and their families in honor of their service and sacrifice to country and community.
www.operationfinallyhome.org
The mission of the Military Order of the Purple Heart is to foster an environment of goodwill and camaraderie among combat wounded veterans, promote patriotism, support necessary legislative initiatives, and most importantly, provide service to all veterans and their families.
www.purpleheart.org
Team Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian organization that serves global communities before, during, and after disasters and crises.
www.teamrubiconusa.org
To honor and empower wounded warriors through direct programs in mental health, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care, along with advocacy efforts, to improve the lives of warriors and their families.
www.woundedwarriorproject.org
Nonprofits up for the Play It Forward vote are eligible based on their previous Mavs Foundation grant application.
Don’t see your favorite nonprofit? Learn more about grant recipients and apply for Mavs Foundation grants at www.MavsFoundation.com.
The NBA In-Season Tournament is a new annual competition for all 30 teams that will debut in the 2023-24 season.
The In-Season Tournament will provide players and teams with another competition to win, engage fans in a new way and drive additional interest in the early portion of the regular-season schedule.
Before the Group Play draw, each team was placed into a “pot” based on its record from the prior regular season (2022-23). In each conference, one team from each pot was randomly selected into each of the three groups in that conference. Pot 1 had the teams with the three best prior-season records in a conference, Pot 2 had the teams with the fourth- through sixth-best prior-season records in a conference, and so on through Pot 5.
Eight teams will advance to the Knockout Rounds: the team with the best standing in Group Play games in each of the six groups and one “wild card” team from each conference. The wild card will be the team from each conference with the best record in Group Play games that finished second in its group.
Every team will still play an 82-game regular season. All In-Season Tournament games will count toward the regular-season standings except the Championship, which will sit outside the regular season.
Every team will play two regular-season games (including the In-Season Tournament Quarterfinals and Semifinals for qualifying teams) during the week of Dec. 4. The 22 teams that do not qualify for the Knockout Rounds will play two regular-season games during tournament off nights that week (Dec. 6 & 8). The four teams that lose in the Quarterfinals will play a regular-season game on Dec. 8.
