UPDATED: Bracket released.
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Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation’s 2010 installment of March Gladness is ready to roll out.
March Gladness combines two of our favorite things — Making Poverty History and the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Here’s how it works. Like your regular NCAA pool, you fill out your tournament bracket — picking each game in the field of 65 right up to the championship game. Like your regular pool it costs a little to get in. Like your regular pool, the people who do the best picking the games win the pot.
…with this great catch:
*Instead of the winners taking home the pot, all money raised will be given to the designated MDG-related organizations. [Your org of choice has to be a registered 501(c)3 -ed.]
*At the end of the tournament, all money donated will be given to MDG-related nonprofits with the following distribution:
1st place – 50%
2nd place – 25%
3rd place – 15%
4th place – 10%
To opt in for play, mark yourself as “attending” on the March Gladness Facebook event page. Instructions will follow.
Not on Facebook? Send an email to egrmarchgladness@gmail.com.
The road to the Final Four begins in earnest today, with the 65 teams competing for the title of NCAA basketball champ being announced at 6 p.m. EDT.