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!
Each year, we hold the best bracket challenge around! Because it’s not just about college basketball, the one shining moment, the cinderella story, or the buzzer beaters. This bracket challenge has a mission, a purpose - to invest in the next generation of leaders in Portland and Lewiston through Rooted Mentoring!
Join us today with a gift of any amount and make your pick’s count!
Be CLUTCH.
Will you step-up in the big moments for our kids and become a Month Partner? 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!
For MADNESS on a MISSION 2025, 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 7th, we will be sharing more about these amazing kids and the impact of your gift!
RULES
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 THIS SUNDAY night, 3/18/25 and must be completed by the tip-off of the first game on Thursday 3/20/2025 around 12 noon EST.
Each person may create 2 brackets, just to increase your chances of winning it all!
Do you have to fill out a bracket join? Not at all - we will be raising funds through April 8th!
I hope you will join us for MADNESS on a MISSION!
- Joel Furrow, Executive Director
WINNER TAKES ALL!
The bracket with the most points will have their choice of the below prizes! The Runner Up will receive a special gift package from our team!
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!
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