DALLAS -As part of a giant baby shower to benefit two local charities, Little Angels and the American Heart Association, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Tom Brower, Drive’s president and CEO, competed before a cheering crowd of more than 500 Drive associates to see who could diaper and dress a baby doll, make two baskets and speed across the finish line in an indoor race kart first.
No baby shower would be complete without gifts, so Little Angels, a nonprofit group who works each month to provide clothing, diapers, and other necessary items to more than 1,200 needy babies received a cargo van full of new baby supplies.

Associates who donated baby items were entered into a drawing for a chance to meet Mark Cuban. Ten were selected to attend a 20-minute reception and autograph session with the Dallas Mavericks’ owner. “Mark Cuban has a reputation for giving back to his community,” said Brower. “We hoped that his generosity would inspire our associates to reach into their own pocketbooks—and it worked!”

Since more children die from congenital heart disease than from all childhood cancers combined, Ron Haddock, the Heart Association’s chair-elect for the Dallas Division Board, was on hand to raise awareness for congenital heart disease, our nation’s most common birth defect. He also helped Drive kick-off its fund raising efforts for the 2002 Heart Walk by accepting a giant $10,000 check.

Drive Financial Services, a Dallas-based affiliate of the Bank of Scotland, is a national consumer finance company that operates in the automobile financing sector.

Mark Cuban participated in a race to see who could dress a baby doll the fastest. Sara Besser/dallasmavericks.com

Cuban and Drive Financial hosted a baby shower on July 11. Sara Besser/dallasmavericks.com

Mark helps to present a check to the American Heart Association. Sara Besser/dallasmavericks.com

The employees of Drive Financial with Mavs Man. Sara Besser/dallasmavericks.com

Mavs Man was on hand to help pump up the crowd. Sara Besser/dallasmavericks.com