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EGR's March Gladness

Welcome to Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation's  March Gladness. Entries are closed, but keep checking back here to find out how your bracket is doing and which nonprofit that works for the MDGs will walk away with the cash.

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.

Here's where Madness turns to Gladness:

*Instead of an entry fee, there is a small donation ($10).

*Along with your bracket(s) you designate a nonprofit (must be an official 501(c)3) whose work contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals that you will be picking for.

*Instead of the winners taking home the pot, all money raised will be given to the designated MDG-related organizations.

*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%

Here's the Top Ten going into tonight's Championship Game
 

Here are some of the organizations that are being played for. Click on each to find out more about these excellent organizations working to Make Poverty History.

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation

Waters of Hope

FINCA International

Hannah Ministries Rwanda

Asha for Education

Orphans of Rwanda

Episcopal Diocese of Lui, Sudan

Oxfam International

Heifer International

Book Aid International

Episcopal Relief and Development

Kansas 2 Kenya

Habitat for Humanity International

United Nations Foundation

WaterAid

Turame 

Karen Emergency Relief Fund

Global Partners for Development

Doctors Without Borders

Central Asia Institute

Friends of Central Highlands Vietnam