MADNESS on a MISSION
Make your bracket picks count for the kids!
Join us, make a donation of any amount, make your picks and compete for prizes and bragging rights!
Brackets are now closed - but you still have time to make that CLUTCH SHOT for our KIDS!
Become a MONTHLY PARTNER TODAY!
Be CLUTCH.
Will you step-up in the big moments for our kids and become a Monthly Parnter? Just $12 per month supports ALL of the activities for 1 child in our after school programing!
Each March, we host the best Bracket Challenge around!
MADNESS on a MISSION combines your generosity with your college basketball tournament picks to create support our work with our neighors in Lewiston and Portland.
Not into making bracket picks? No worries - we need you too!
Last year, you raised over $31,000 to replace our roof in Lewiston and an HVAC unit in Portland!
We are kicking off our 40th Anniversary year with a bit of MADNESS and asking you to join us where we started - with our amazing kids!
In 1984 a group of volunteers opened the doors of a local church basement for Portland neighborhood youth, offering a space to discover the good life offered by God in the midst of the MADNESS around them.
So for MADNESS on a MISSION 2024, we are asking you to sponsor a kid! Rooted After-School Mentoring in Portland & Lewiston, serves more than 350 elementary children each year!
Your gift will fund activities like art, sewing skill building, science, and cooking. Weekly field trips include hiking, fishing, swimming and skiing. Trained mentors build transformational relationships with each child, guiding their growth in faith, knowledge and truth.
It only costs $12 per month to provide this incredible program for kids like amazing kids!
Will you join the MADNESS today? Your bracket picks have never meant more than they do today.
Complete for prizes, make your picks, try to beat my bracket - and sponsor one of our amazing kids for a full year of incredible, potentially life changing programing through The Root Cellar.
That means to accomplish this goal and cut down the nets, we are asking and praying for YOU to join us by making a one time donation or becoming a monthly partner to sponsor one of our kids as they discover all that God has for them!
From today through the national championship game on April 3rd, we will be sharing more about these amazing kids and the impact of your gift!
To join, simply make a donation of any amount and you will automatically receive an email to join MADNESS on a MISSION bracket group! The brackets will go live around 6pm on Sunday night, 3/17/24 and must be completed by the tip-off of the first game on Thursday 3/21/2024 around 12 noon EST.
Do you have to fill out a bracket join? Not at all - we will be raising funds April 8th!
I hope you will join us for MADNESS on a MISSION!
- Joel Furrow, Executive Director
Final 4 prizes!
The bracket with the most points will have their choice of prizes prizes! The Runner Up, 3rd and 4th Place Brackets will win the remaining awesome prizes!
2 Tickets to any sporting event of your choice, up to a $250 value!
A jersey of your choice - from any team in any sport!
A $250 Amazon Gift Card!
Maine Prize Package!
EVERYONE who enters will be eligible to be picked for our weekly random drawings for prizes throughout the tournament! We have some great GiftsCards, Maine Made Gear and Root Cellar SWAG and so much more!
New this year - Everyone can enter 2 brackets
Stay tuned and check your email!