As an element of the '˜No Regrets' day long celebration of basketball on June 7^th 2008, the Quinn Keast Foundation chose to support another basketball related charity that reaches far beyond the borders of the North Shore.  

Hoops 4 Hope is a not-for-profit organization that supports youth development in Zimbabwe and South Africa by providing the most basic tools young people need to play team sports and face the many challenges of growing up in communities plagued with poverty, crime, and HIV/AIDS. They build basketball courts, organize leagues, distribute athletic equipment collected from around the world, run coaching clinics, organize tournaments, supply financial assistance for team travel, host international basketball coaches and players, and provide children with a safe, nurturing environment in which they develop more than just skills for the court, they develop SKILLS 4 LIFE!

Over the course of various events on June 7th, participants were encouraged to bring along their used basketball and soccer shoes to the various participating venues.  This equipment was donated to Hoops 4 Hope and sent to South Africa and Zimbabwe for use in their programs. The mission for the weekend was to collect enough basketball shoes to 'Ring the Gym' at  Capilano College.

A crew of volunteers went out into the community about a month before the event placing posters and boxes in North Shore schools to collect the shoes. By the time the shooting ended at 3 p.m. on June 7th, there were over 1,000 pairs of shoes in hand. A team was assembled to 'Ring the Gym' and, at halftime of the 2004 re-play game, the crew of kids dragged out bags and bags of shoes to lay them out around the perimeter of the basketball court in an attempt to create a rectangle of shoes symbolic of the teamwork that will emanate from the North Shore all the way to kids in Africa.

The shoes were then stuffed into a shipping container generously donated by Western Stevedoring, and sent to Africa. Quinn's twin sister Jamie travelled to South Africa in the summer of 2009 and participated in the open of the container and the distribution of the shoes and other gear to needy athletes.